% rclone(1) User Manual
% Nick Craig-Wood
% Jul 31, 2026

# NAME

rclone - manage files on cloud storage

# SYNOPSIS

```
Usage:
  rclone [flags]
  rclone [command]

Available commands:
  about       Get quota information from the remote.
  archive     Perform an action on an archive.
  authorize   Remote authorization.
  backend     Run a backend-specific command.
  bisync      Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.
  cat         Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.
  check       Checks the files in the source and destination match.
  checksum    Checks the files in the destination against a SUM file.
  cleanup     Clean up the remote if possible.
  completion  Output completion script for a given shell.
  config      Enter an interactive configuration session.
  convmv      Convert file and directory names in place.
  copy        Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.
  copyto      Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.
  copyurl     Copy the contents of the URL supplied content to dest:path.
  cryptcheck  Cryptcheck checks the integrity of an encrypted remote.
  cryptdecode Cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names.
  dedupe      Interactively find duplicate filenames and delete/rename them.
  delete      Remove the files in path.
  deletefile  Remove a single file from remote.
  gendocs     Output markdown docs for rclone to the directory supplied.
  gitannex    Speaks with git-annex over stdin/stdout.
  gui         Open the web based GUI.
  hashsum     Produces a hashsum file for all the objects in the path.
  help        Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
  link        Generate public link to file/folder.
  listremotes List all the remotes in the config file and defined in environment variables.
  ls          List the objects in the path with size and path.
  lsd         List all directories/containers/buckets in the path.
  lsf         List directories and objects in remote:path formatted for parsing.
  lsjson      List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.
  lsl         List the objects in path with modification time, size and path.
  md5sum      Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path.
  mkdir       Make the path if it doesn't already exist.
  mount       Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.
  move        Move files from source to dest.
  moveto      Move file or directory from source to dest.
  ncdu        Explore a remote with a text based user interface.
  nfsmount    Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.
  obscure     Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.
  purge       Remove the path and all of its contents.
  rc          Run a command against a running rclone.
  rcat        Copies standard input to file on remote.
  rcd         Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.
  rmdir       Remove the empty directory at path.
  rmdirs      Remove empty directories under the path.
  selfupdate  Update the rclone binary.
  serve       Serve a remote over a protocol.
  settier     Changes storage class/tier of objects in remote.
  sha1sum     Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path.
  size        Prints the total size and number of objects in remote:path.
  sync        Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.
  test        Run a test command
  touch       Create new file or change file modification time.
  tree        List the contents of the remote in a tree like fashion.
  version     Show the version number.

Use "rclone [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Use "rclone help flags" for to see the global flags.
Use "rclone help backends" for a list of supported services.

```
# Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

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- [About rclone](#about)
- [What can rclone do for you?](#what)
- [What features does rclone have?](#features)
- [What providers does rclone support?](#providers)
- [Download](https://rclone.org/downloads/)
- [Install](https://rclone.org/install/)
- [Donate.](https://rclone.org/donate/)

## About rclone {#about}

Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It
is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage
interfaces. [Over 70 cloud storage products](#providers) support
rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage
services, as well as standard transfer protocols.

Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the unix commands rsync, cp,
mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and cat. Rclone's familiar syntax
includes shell pipeline support, and `--dry-run` protection. It is
used at the command line, in scripts or via its [API](/rc).

Users call rclone *"The Swiss army knife of cloud storage"*, and
*"Technology indistinguishable from magic"*.

Rclone really looks after your data. It preserves timestamps and
verifies checksums at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth;
intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from
the last good file transferred. You can
[check](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_check/) the integrity of your files. Where
possible, rclone employs server-side transfers to minimise local
bandwidth use and transfers from one provider to another without
using local disk.

Virtual backends wrap local and cloud file systems to apply
[encryption](https://rclone.org/crypt/),
[compression](https://rclone.org/compress/),
[chunking](https://rclone.org/chunker/),
[hashing](https://rclone.org/hasher/) and
[joining](https://rclone.org/union/).

Rclone [mounts](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) any local, cloud or
virtual filesystem as a disk on Windows,
macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over
[SFTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/),
[HTTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_http/),
[WebDAV](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/),
[FTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/) and
[DLNA](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/).

Rclone is mature, open-source software originally inspired by rsync
and written in [Go](https://golang.org). The friendly support
community is familiar with varied use cases. Official Ubuntu, Debian,
Fedora, Brew and Chocolatey repos. include rclone. For the latest
version [downloading from rclone.org](https://rclone.org/downloads/) is recommended.

Rclone is widely used on Linux, Windows and Mac. Third-party
developers create innovative backup, restore, GUI and business
process solutions using the rclone command line or API.

Rclone does the heavy lifting of communicating with cloud storage.

## What can rclone do for you? {#what}

Rclone helps you:

- Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage
- Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage
- Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally
- Migrate data to the cloud, or between cloud storage vendors
- Mount multiple, encrypted, cached or diverse cloud storage as a disk
- Analyse and account for data held on cloud storage using [lsf](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/),
  [ljson](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsjson/), [size](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_size/), [ncdu](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/)
- [Union](https://rclone.org/union/) file systems together to present multiple local and/or cloud
  file systems as one

## Features {#features}

- Transfers
  - MD5, SHA1 hashes are checked at all times for file integrity
  - Timestamps are preserved on files
  - Operations can be restarted at any time
  - Can be to and from network, e.g. two different cloud providers
  - Can use multi-threaded downloads to local disk
- [Copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) new or changed files to cloud storage
- [Sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/) (one way) to make a directory identical
- [Bisync](https://rclone.org/bisync/) (two way) to keep two directories in sync bidirectionally
- [Move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/) files to cloud storage deleting the local after
  verification
- [Check](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_check/) hashes and for missing/extra files
- [Mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) your cloud storage as a network disk
- [Serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/) local or remote files over [HTTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_http/)/[WebDav](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/)/[FTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/)/[SFTP](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/)/[DLNA](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/)
- Experimental [Web based GUI](https://rclone.org/gui/)

## Supported providers {#providers}

(There are many others, built on standard protocols such as
WebDAV or S3, that work out of the box.)

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- Akamai Netstorage
- Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS)
- Amazon S3
- Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage
- Backblaze B2
- Box
- Ceph
- China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)
- Arvan Cloud Object Storage (AOS)
- Citrix ShareFile
- Cloudflare R2
- Cloudinary
- Cubbit DS3
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- Digi Storage
- Dreamhost
- Drime
- Dropbox
- Enterprise File Fabric
- Exaba
- Fastly Object Storage
- Fastmail Files
- FileLu Cloud Storage
- FileLu S5 (S3-Compatible Object Storage)
- Filen
- Files.com
- FlashBlade
- FTP
- Gofile
- Google Cloud Storage
- Google Drive
- Google Photos
- HDFS
- Hetzner Object Storage
- Hetzner Storage Box
- HiDrive
- Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
- HTTP
- Huawei Drive
- Huawei OBS
- iCloud Drive
- ImageKit
- Internet Archive
- Internxt
- Jottacloud
- IBM COS S3
- IDrive e2
- Impossible Cloud
- Intercolo Object Storage
- IONOS Cloud
- Koofr
- Leviia Object Storage
- Liara Object Storage
- Linkbox
- Linode Object Storage
- Magalu
- Mail.ru Cloud
- Memset Memstore
- MEGA
- MEGA S4
- Memory
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Microsoft Azure Files Storage
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Minio
- Nextcloud
- Blomp Cloud Storage
- OpenDrive
- OpenStack Swift
- Oracle Cloud Storage Swift
- Oracle Object Storage
- Outscale
- OVHcloud Object Storage (Swift)
- OVHcloud Object Storage (S3-compatible)
- ownCloud
- pCloud
- Petabox
- PikPak
- Pixeldrain
- premiumize.me
- put.io
- Proton Drive
- QingStor
- Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo)
- Quatrix by Maytech
- Rabata Cloud Storage
- RackCorp Object Storage
- Rackspace Cloud Files
- Rclone Serve S3
- rsync.net
- Scaleway
- Scality (RING / ARTESCA)
- Seafile
- Seagate Lyve Cloud
- SeaweedFS
- Selectel
- Servercore Object Storage
- SFTP
- Shade
- Sia
- SMB / CIFS
- Spectra Logic
- Storj
- Synology
- SugarSync
- Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)
- Uloz.to
- US3
- Wasabi
- WebDAV
- Yandex Disk
- Zadara Object Storage
- Zero Services (ZERO-Z3)
- Zoho WorkDrive
- Zata
- The local filesystem


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## Virtual providers

These backends adapt or modify other storage providers:

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- Alias: Rename existing remotes
- Archive: Read archive files
- Cache: Cache remotes (DEPRECATED)
- Chunker: Split large files
- Combine: Combine multiple remotes into a directory tree
- Compress: Compress files
- Crypt: Encrypt files
- Hasher: Hash files
- Union: Join multiple remotes to work together

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## Links

- [Home page](https://rclone.org/)
- [GitHub project page for source and bug tracker](https://github.com/rclone/rclone)
- [Rclone Forum](https://forum.rclone.org)
- [Downloads](https://rclone.org/downloads/)

# Install

Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.

## Quickstart

- [Download](https://rclone.org/downloads/) the relevant binary.
- Extract the `rclone` executable, `rclone.exe` on Windows, from the archive.
- Run `rclone config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](https://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.
- Optionally configure [automatic execution](#autostart).

See below for some expanded Linux / macOS / Windows instructions.

See the [usage](https://rclone.org/docs/) docs for how to use rclone, or
run `rclone -h`.

Already installed rclone can be easily updated to the latest version
using the [rclone selfupdate](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_selfupdate/) command.

See [the release signing docs](https://rclone.org/release_signing/) for how to verify
signatures on the release.

## Script installation

To install rclone on Linux/macOS/BSD systems, run:

```console
sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
```

For beta installation, run:

```console
sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta
```

Note that this script checks the version of rclone installed first and
won't re-download if not needed.

## Linux installation {#linux}

### Precompiled binary {#linux-precompiled}

Fetch and unpack

```console
curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64
```

Copy binary file

```console
sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone
```

Install manpage

```console
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb
```

Run `rclone config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](https://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.

```console
rclone config
```

## macOS installation {#macos}

### Installation with brew {#macos-brew}

```console
brew install rclone
```

NOTE: This version of rclone will not support `mount` any more (see
[#5373](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/5373)). If mounting is wanted
on macOS, either install a precompiled binary or enable the relevant option
when [installing from source](#source).

Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone
developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

[![Homebrew package](https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/homebrew/rclone.svg)](https://repology.org/project/rclone/versions)

### Installation with MacPorts {#macos-macports}

On macOS, rclone can also be installed via [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org):

```console
sudo port install rclone
```

Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone
developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

[![MacPorts port](https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/macports/rclone.svg)](https://repology.org/project/rclone/versions)

More information on [macports.org](https://ports.macports.org/port/rclone/).

### Precompiled binary, using curl {#macos-precompiled}

To avoid problems with macOS gatekeeper enforcing the binary to be signed and
notarized it is enough to download with `curl`.

Download the latest version of rclone.

```console
cd && curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip
```

Unzip the download and cd to the extracted folder.

```console
unzip -a rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip && cd rclone-*-osx-amd64
```

Move rclone to your $PATH. You will be prompted for your password.

```console
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo mv rclone /usr/local/bin/
```

(the `mkdir` command is safe to run, even if the directory already exists).

Remove the leftover files.

```console
cd .. && rm -rf rclone-*-osx-amd64 rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip
```

Run `rclone config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](https://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.

```console
rclone config
```

### Precompiled binary, using a web browser  {#macos-precompiled-web}

When downloading a binary with a web browser, the browser will set the macOS
gatekeeper quarantine attribute. Starting from Catalina, when attempting to run
`rclone`, a pop-up will appear saying:

```text
"rclone" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.
```

The simplest fix is to run

```console
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine rclone
```

## Windows installation {#windows}

### Precompiled binary {#windows-precompiled}

Fetch the correct binary for your processor type by clicking on these
links. If not sure, use the first link.

- [Intel/AMD - 64 Bit](https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-windows-amd64.zip)
- [Intel/AMD - 32 Bit](https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-windows-386.zip)
- [ARM - 64 Bit](https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-windows-arm64.zip)

Open this file in the Explorer and extract `rclone.exe`. Rclone is a
portable executable so you can place it wherever is convenient.

Open a CMD window (or powershell) and run the binary. Note that rclone
does not launch a GUI by default, it runs in the CMD Window.

- Run `rclone.exe config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](https://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.
- Optionally configure [automatic execution](#autostart).

If you are planning to use the [rclone mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/)
feature then you will need to install the third party utility
[WinFsp](https://winfsp.dev/) also.

### Windows package manager (Winget) {#windows-chocolatey}

[Winget](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/) comes
pre-installed with the latest versions of Windows. If not, update the
[App Installer](https://www.microsoft.com/p/app-installer/9nblggh4nns1) package
from the Microsoft store.

To install rclone

```bat
winget install Rclone.Rclone
```

To uninstall rclone

```bat
winget uninstall Rclone.Rclone --force
```

### Chocolatey package manager {#windows-chocolatey}

Make sure you have [Choco](https://chocolatey.org/) installed

```bat
choco search rclone
choco install rclone
```

This will install rclone on your Windows machine. If you are planning
to use [rclone mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) then

```bat
choco install winfsp
```

will install that too.

Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone
developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

[![Chocolatey package](https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/chocolatey/rclone.svg)](https://repology.org/project/rclone/versions)

### Scoop package manager {#windows-scoop}

Make sure you have [Scoop](https://scoop.sh/) installed

```bat
scoop install rclone
```

Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone
developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

[![Scoop package](https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/scoop/rclone.svg)](https://repology.org/project/rclone/versions)

## Package manager installation {#package-manager}

Many Linux, Windows, macOS and other OS distributions package and
distribute rclone.

The distributed versions of rclone are often quite out of date and for
this reason we recommend one of the other installation methods if
possible.

You can get an idea of how up to date or not your OS distribution's
package is here.

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/rclone.svg?columns=3)](https://repology.org/project/rclone/versions)

## Docker installation {#docker}

The rclone developers maintain a [docker image for rclone](https://hub.docker.com/r/rclone/rclone).

**Note:** We also now offer a paid version of rclone with
enterprise-grade security and zero CVEs through our partner
[SecureBuild](https://securebuild.com/blog/introducing-securebuild).
If you are interested, check out their website and the [Rclone
SecureBuild Image](https://securebuild.com/images/rclone).

These images are built as part of the release process based on a
minimal Alpine Linux.

The `:latest` tag will always point to the latest stable release.  You
can use the `:beta` tag to get the latest build from master.  You can
also use version tags, e.g. `:1.49.1`, `:1.49` or `:1`.

```console
$ docker pull rclone/rclone:latest
latest: Pulling from rclone/rclone
Digest: sha256:0e0ced72671989bb837fea8e88578b3fc48371aa45d209663683e24cfdaa0e11
...
$ docker run --rm rclone/rclone:latest version
rclone v1.49.1
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.12.9
```

There are a few command line options to consider when starting an rclone Docker container
from the rclone image.

- You need to mount the host rclone config dir at `/config/rclone` into the Docker
  container. Due to the fact that rclone updates tokens inside its config file,
  and that the update process involves a file rename, you need to mount the whole
  host rclone config dir, not just the single host rclone config file.

- You need to mount a host data dir at `/data` into the Docker container.

- By default, the rclone binary inside a Docker container runs with UID=0 (root).
  As a result, all files created in a run will have UID=0. If your config and
  data files reside on the host with a non-root UID:GID, you need to pass these
  on the container start command line.

- If you want to access the RC interface (either via the API or the Web UI), it is
  required to set the `--rc-addr` to `:5572` in order to connect to it from outside
  the container. An explanation about why this is necessary can be found in an old
  [pythonspeed.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20200808071950/https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-connection-refused/)
  article.
  - NOTE: Users running this container with the docker network set to `host` should
    probably set it to listen to localhost only, with `127.0.0.1:5572` as the
    value for `--rc-addr`

- It is possible to use `rclone mount` inside a userspace Docker container, and expose
  the resulting fuse mount to the host. The exact `docker run` options to do that
  might vary slightly between hosts. See, e.g. the discussion in this
  [thread](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/9448).

  You also need to mount the host `/etc/passwd` and `/etc/group` for fuse to work
  inside the container.

Here are some commands tested on an Ubuntu 18.04.3 host:

```sh
# config on host at ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
# data on host at ~/data

# add a remote interactively
docker run --rm -it \
    --volume ~/.config/rclone:/config/rclone \
    --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    rclone/rclone \
    config

# make sure the config is ok by listing the remotes
docker run --rm \
    --volume ~/.config/rclone:/config/rclone \
    --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    rclone/rclone \
    listremotes

# perform mount inside Docker container, expose result to host
mkdir -p ~/data/mount
docker run --rm \
    --volume ~/.config/rclone:/config/rclone \
    --volume ~/data:/data:shared \
    --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    --volume /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro --volume /etc/group:/etc/group:ro \
    --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --security-opt apparmor:unconfined \
    rclone/rclone \
    mount dropbox:Photos /data/mount &
ls ~/data/mount
kill %1
```

## Snap installation {#snap}

[![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/rclone)

Make sure you have [Snapd installed](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd)

```console
sudo snap install rclone
```

Due to the strict confinement of Snap, rclone snap cannot access real
`/home/$USER/.config/rclone` directory, default config path is as below.

- Default config directory:
  - /home/$USER/snap/rclone/current/.config/rclone

Note: Due to the strict confinement of Snap, `rclone mount` feature is `not` supported.

If mounting is wanted, either install a precompiled binary or enable the relevant
option when [installing from source](#source).

Note that this is controlled by [community maintainer](https://github.com/boukendesho/rclone-snap)
not the rclone developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

[![rclone](https://snapcraft.io/rclone/badge.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/rclone)

## Source installation {#source}

Make sure you have git and [Go](https://golang.org/) installed.
Go version 1.25 or newer is required, the latest release is recommended.
You can get it from your package manager, or download it from
[golang.org/dl](https://golang.org/dl/). Then you can run the following:

```console
git clone https://github.com/rclone/rclone.git
cd rclone
go build
```

This will check out the rclone source in subfolder rclone, which you can later
modify and send pull requests with. Then it will build the rclone executable
in the same folder. As an initial check you can now run `./rclone version`
(`.\rclone version` on Windows).

Note that on macOS and Windows the [mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/)
command will not be available unless you specify an additional build tag `cmount`.

```console
go build -tags cmount
```

This assumes you have a GCC compatible C compiler (GCC or Clang) in your PATH,
as it uses [cgo](https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo). But on Windows, the
[cgofuse](https://github.com/winfsp/cgofuse) library that the cmount
implementation is based on, also supports building
[without cgo](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WindowsDLLs), i.e. by setting
environment variable CGO_ENABLED to value 0 (static linking). This is how the
official Windows release of rclone is being built, starting with version 1.59.
It is still possible to build with cgo on Windows as well, by using the MinGW
port of GCC, e.g. by installing it in a [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org)
distribution (make sure you install it in the classic mingw64 subsystem, the
ucrt64 version is not compatible).

Additionally, to build with mount on Windows, you must install the third party
utility [WinFsp](https://winfsp.dev/), with the "Developer" feature selected.
If building with cgo, you must also set environment variable CPATH pointing to
the fuse include directory within the WinFsp installation
(normally `C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\inc\fuse`).

You may add arguments `-ldflags -s` to omit symbol table and debug information,
making the executable file smaller, and `-trimpath` to remove references to
local file system paths. The official rclone releases are built with both of these.

```console
go build -trimpath -ldflags -s -tags cmount
```

If you want to customize the version string, as reported by
the `rclone version` command, you can set one of the variables `fs.Version`,
`fs.VersionTag` (to keep default suffix but customize the number),
or `fs.VersionSuffix` (to keep default number but customize the suffix).
This can be done from the build command, by adding to the `-ldflags`
argument value as shown below.

```console
go build -trimpath -ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=v9.9.9-test" -tags cmount
```

On Windows, the official executables also have the version information,
as well as a file icon, embedded as binary resources. To get that with your
own build you need to run the following command **before** the build command.
It generates a Windows resource system object file, with extension .syso, e.g.
`resource_windows_amd64.syso`, that will be automatically picked up by
future build commands.

```console
go run bin/resource_windows.go
```

The above command will generate a resource file containing version information
based on the fs.Version variable in source at the time you run the command,
which means if the value of this variable changes you need to re-run the
command for it to be reflected in the version information. Also, if you
override this version variable in the build command as described above, you
need to do that also when generating the resource file, or else it will still
use the value from the source.

```console
go run bin/resource_windows.go -version v9.9.9-test
```

Instead of executing the `go build` command directly, you can run it via the
Makefile. The default target changes the version suffix from "-DEV" to "-beta"
followed by additional commit details, embeds version information binary resources
on Windows, and copies the resulting rclone executable into your GOPATH bin folder
(`$(go env GOPATH)/bin`, which corresponds to `~/go/bin/rclone` by default).

```console
make
```

To include mount command on macOS and Windows with Makefile build:

```console
make GOTAGS=cmount
```

There are other make targets that can be used for more advanced builds,
such as cross-compiling for all supported os/architectures, and packaging
results into release artifacts.
See [Makefile](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/Makefile)
and [cross-compile.go](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/cross-compile.go)
for details.

Another alternative method for source installation is to download the source,
build and install rclone - all in one operation, as a regular Go package.
The source will be stored it in the Go module cache, and the resulting
executable will be in your GOPATH bin folder (`$(go env GOPATH)/bin`,
which corresponds to `~/go/bin/rclone` by default).

```console
go install github.com/rclone/rclone@latest
```

In some situations, rclone executable size might be too big for deployment
in very restricted environments when all backends with large SDKs are included.
To limit binary size unused backends can be commented out in `backends/all/all.go`
and unused commands in `cmd/all/all.go` before building with `go build` or `make`

## Ansible installation {#ansible}

This can be done with [Stefan Weichinger's ansible
role](https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone).

Instructions

1. `git clone https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone.git` into
   your local roles-directory
2. add the role to the hosts you want rclone installed to:

    ```yaml
    - hosts: rclone-hosts
      roles:
        - rclone
    ```

## Portable installation {#portable}

As mentioned [above](https://rclone.org/install/#quickstart), rclone is single
executable (`rclone`, or `rclone.exe` on Windows) that you can download as a
zip archive and extract into a location of your choosing. When executing different
commands, it may create files in different locations, such as a configuration file
and various temporary files. By default the locations for these are according to
your operating system, e.g. configuration file in your user profile directory and
temporary files in the standard temporary directory, but you can customize all of
them, e.g. to make a completely self-contained, portable installation.

Run the [config paths](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_paths/) command to see
the locations that rclone will use.

To override them set the corresponding options (as command-line arguments, or as
[environment variables](https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables)):

- [--config](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-string)
- [--cache-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#cache-dir-string)
- [--temp-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#temp-dir-string)

## Autostart

After installing and configuring rclone, as described above, you are ready to use
rclone as an interactive command line utility. If your goal is to perform *periodic*
operations, such as a regular [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), you
will probably want to configure your rclone command in your operating system's
scheduler. If you need to expose *service*-like features, such as
[remote control](https://rclone.org/rc/), [GUI](https://rclone.org/gui/),
[serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/) or [mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/),
you will often want an rclone command always running in the background, and
configuring it to run in a service infrastructure may be a better option. Below
are some alternatives on how to achieve this on different operating systems.

NOTE: Before setting up autorun it is highly recommended that you have tested
your command manually from a Command Prompt first.

### Autostart on Windows

The most relevant alternatives for autostart on Windows are:

- Run at user log on using the Startup folder
- Run at user log on, at system startup or at schedule using Task Scheduler
- Run at system startup using Windows service

#### Running in background

Rclone is a console application, so if not starting from an existing Command Prompt,
e.g. when starting rclone.exe from a shortcut, it will open a Command Prompt window.
When configuring rclone to run from task scheduler and windows service you are able
to set it to run hidden in background. From rclone version 1.54 you can also make
it run hidden from anywhere by adding option `--no-console` (it may still flash
briefly when the program starts). Since rclone normally writes information and any
error messages to the console, you must redirect this to a file to be able to see
it. Rclone has a built-in option `--log-file` for that.

Example command to run a sync in background:

```bat
c:\rclone\rclone.exe sync c:\files remote:/files --no-console --log-file c:\rclone\logs\sync_files.txt
```

#### User account

As mentioned in the [mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) documentation,
mounted drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts, not even
the account that was elevated as Administrator. By running the mount command as the
built-in `SYSTEM` user account, it will create drives accessible for everyone on
the system. Both scheduled task and Windows service can be used to achieve this.

NOTE: Remember that when rclone runs as the `SYSTEM` user, the user profile
that it sees will not be yours. This means that if you normally run rclone with
configuration file in the default location, to be able to use the same configuration
when running as the system user you must explicitly tell rclone where to find
it with the [`--config`](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-string) option,
or else it will look in the system users profile path (`C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile`).
To test your command manually from a Command Prompt, you can run it with
the [PsExec](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec)
utility from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which takes option `-s` to
execute commands as the `SYSTEM` user.

#### Start from Startup folder

To quickly execute an rclone command you can simply create a standard
Windows Explorer shortcut for the complete rclone command you want to run. If you
store this shortcut in the special "Startup" start-menu folder, Windows will
automatically run it at login. To open this folder in Windows Explorer,
enter path `%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup`,
or `C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp` if you want
the command to start for *every* user that logs in.

This is the easiest approach to autostarting of rclone, but it offers no
functionality to set it to run as different user, or to set conditions or
actions on certain events. Setting up a scheduled task as described below
will often give you better results.

#### Start from Task Scheduler

Task Scheduler is an administrative tool built into Windows, and it can be used to
configure rclone to be started automatically in a highly configurable way, e.g.
periodically on a schedule, on user log on, or at system startup. It can run
be configured to run as the current user, or for a mount command that needs to
be available to all users it can run as the `SYSTEM` user.
For technical information, see [Task Scheduler for developers](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/win32/taskschd/task-scheduler-start-page).

#### Run as service

For running rclone at system startup, you can create a Windows service that executes
your rclone command, as an alternative to scheduled task configured to run at startup.

##### Mount command built-in service integration

For mount commands, rclone has a built-in Windows service integration via the
third-party WinFsp library it uses. Registering as a regular Windows service
easy, as you just have to execute the built-in PowerShell command `New-Service`
(requires administrative privileges).

Example of a PowerShell command that creates a Windows service for mounting
some `remote:/files` as drive letter `X:`, for *all* users (service will be
running as the local system account):

```powershell
New-Service -Name Rclone -BinaryPathName 'c:\rclone\rclone.exe mount remote:/files X: --config c:\rclone\config\rclone.conf --log-file c:\rclone\logs\mount.txt'
```

The [WinFsp service infrastructure](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Service-Architecture)
supports incorporating services for file system implementations, such as rclone,
into its own launcher service, as kind of "child services". This has the additional
advantage that it also implements a network provider that integrates into
Windows standard methods for managing network drives. This is currently not
officially supported by Rclone, but with WinFsp version 2019.3 B2 / v1.5B2 or later
it should be possible through path rewriting as described in [#3340](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3340).

##### Third-party service integration

To Windows service running any rclone command, the excellent third-party utility
[NSSM](http://nssm.cc), the "Non-Sucking Service Manager", can be used.
It includes some advanced features such as adjusting process priority, defining
process environment variables, redirect to file anything written to stdout, and
customized response to different exit codes, with a GUI to configure everything from
(although it can also be used from command line ).

There are also several other alternatives. To mention one more,
[WinSW](https://github.com/winsw/winsw), "Windows Service Wrapper", is worth checking
out. It requires .NET Framework, but it is preinstalled on newer versions of Windows,
and it also provides alternative standalone distributions which includes necessary
runtime (.NET 5). WinSW is a command-line only utility, where you have to manually
create an XML file with service configuration. This may be a drawback for some, but
it can also be an advantage as it is easy to back up and reuse the configuration
settings, without having go through manual steps in a GUI. One thing to note is that
by default it does not restart the service on error, one have to explicit enable
this in the configuration file (via the "onfailure" parameter).

### Autostart on Linux

#### Start as a service

To always run rclone in background, relevant for mount commands etc,
you can use systemd to set up rclone as a system or user service. Running as a
system service ensures that it is run at startup even if the user it is running as
has no active session. Running rclone as a user service ensures that it only
starts after the configured user has logged into the system.

#### Run periodically from cron

To run a periodic command, such as a copy/sync, you can set up a cron job.

# Usage

Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage.
After [download](https://rclone.org/downloads/) and [install](/install), continue
here to learn how to use it: Initial [configuration](#configure),
what the [basic syntax](#basic-syntax) looks like, describes the
various [subcommands](#subcommands), the various [options](#options),
and more.

## Configure

First, you'll need to configure rclone.  As the object storage systems
have quite complicated authentication these are kept in a config file.
(See the [`--config`](#config-string) entry for how to find the config
file and choose its location.)

The easiest way to make the config is to run rclone with the config
option:

```console
rclone config
```

See the following for detailed instructions for

- [1Fichier](https://rclone.org/fichier/)
- [Akamai Netstorage](https://rclone.org/netstorage/)
- [Alias](https://rclone.org/alias/)
- [Archive](https://rclone.org/archive/)
- [Amazon S3](https://rclone.org/s3/)
- [Backblaze B2](https://rclone.org/b2/)
- [Box](https://rclone.org/box/)
- [Chunker](https://rclone.org/chunker/) - transparently splits large files for other remotes
- [Citrix ShareFile](https://rclone.org/sharefile/)
- [Compress](https://rclone.org/compress/)
- [Cloudinary](https://rclone.org/cloudinary/)
- [Combine](https://rclone.org/combine/)
- [Crypt](https://rclone.org/crypt/) - to encrypt other remotes
- [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://rclone.org/s3/#digitalocean-spaces)
- [Digi Storage](https://rclone.org/koofr/#digi-storage)
- [Drime](https://rclone.org/drime/)
- [Dropbox](https://rclone.org/dropbox/)
- [Enterprise File Fabric](https://rclone.org/filefabric/)
- [FileLu Cloud Storage](https://rclone.org/filelu/)
- [Filen](https://rclone.org/filen/)
- [Files.com](https://rclone.org/filescom/)
- [FTP](https://rclone.org/ftp/)
- [Gofile](https://rclone.org/gofile/)
- [Google Cloud Storage](https://rclone.org/googlecloudstorage/)
- [Google Drive](https://rclone.org/drive/)
- [Google Photos](https://rclone.org/googlephotos/)
- [Hasher](https://rclone.org/hasher/) - to handle checksums for other remotes
- [HDFS](https://rclone.org/hdfs/)
- [Hetzner Storage Box](https://rclone.org/sftp/#hetzner-storage-box)
- [HiDrive](https://rclone.org/hidrive/)
- [HTTP](https://rclone.org/http/)
- [Huawei Drive](https://rclone.org/huaweidrive/)
- [iCloud Drive](https://rclone.org/iclouddrive/)
- [Internet Archive](https://rclone.org/internetarchive/)
- [Internxt](https://rclone.org/internxt/)
- [Jottacloud](https://rclone.org/jottacloud/)
- [Koofr](https://rclone.org/koofr/)
- [Linkbox](https://rclone.org/linkbox/)
- [Mail.ru Cloud](https://rclone.org/mailru/)
- [Mega](https://rclone.org/mega/)
- [Memory](https://rclone.org/memory/)
- [Microsoft Azure Blob Storage](https://rclone.org/azureblob/)
- [Microsoft Azure Files Storage](https://rclone.org/azurefiles/)
- [Microsoft OneDrive](https://rclone.org/onedrive/)
- [OpenStack Swift / Rackspace Cloudfiles / Blomp Cloud Storage / Memset Memstore](https://rclone.org/swift/)
- [OpenDrive](https://rclone.org/opendrive/)
- [Oracle Object Storage](https://rclone.org/oracleobjectstorage/)
- [Pcloud](https://rclone.org/pcloud/)
- [PikPak](https://rclone.org/pikpak/)
- [Pixeldrain](https://rclone.org/pixeldrain/)
- [premiumize.me](https://rclone.org/premiumizeme/)
- [put.io](https://rclone.org/putio/)
- [Proton Drive](https://rclone.org/protondrive/)
- [QingStor](https://rclone.org/qingstor/)
- [Quatrix by Maytech](https://rclone.org/quatrix/)
- [rsync.net](https://rclone.org/sftp/#rsync-net)
- [Seafile](https://rclone.org/seafile/)
- [SFTP](https://rclone.org/sftp/)
- [Shade](https://rclone.org/shade/)
- [Sia](https://rclone.org/sia/)
- [SMB](https://rclone.org/smb/)
- [Storj](https://rclone.org/storj/)
- [SugarSync](https://rclone.org/sugarsync/)
- [Union](https://rclone.org/union/)
- [Uloz.to](https://rclone.org/ulozto/)
- [WebDAV](https://rclone.org/webdav/)
- [Yandex Disk](https://rclone.org/yandex/)
- [Zoho WorkDrive](https://rclone.org/zoho/)
- [The local filesystem](https://rclone.org/local/)

## Basic syntax

Rclone syncs a directory tree from one storage system to another.

Its syntax is like this

```console
rclone subcommand [options] <parameters> <parameters...>
```

A `subcommand` is an rclone operation required (e.g. `sync`,
`copy`, `ls`).

An `option` is a single letter flag (e.g. `-v`) or a group of single
letter flags (e.g. `-Pv`) or a long flag (e.g. `--progress`). No
options are required. Options can come after the `subcommand` or in
between parameters too or on the end, but only global options can be
used before the `subcommand`. Anything after a `--` option will not be
interpreted as an option so if you need to add a parameter which
starts with a `-` then put a `--` on its own first, eg

```console
rclone lsf -- -directory-starting-with-dash
```

A `parameter` is usually a file path or [rclone remote](#syntax-of-remote-paths),
eg `/path/to/file` or `remote:path/to/file` but it can be other things -
the `subcommand` help will tell you what.

Source and destination paths are specified by the name you gave the
storage system in the config file then the sub path, e.g.
"drive:myfolder" to look at "myfolder" in Google drive.

You can define as many storage paths as you like in the config file.

Please use the [`--interactive`/`-i`](#interactive) flag while
learning rclone to avoid accidental data loss.

## Subcommands

rclone uses a system of subcommands. For example

```console
rclone ls remote:path # lists a remote
rclone copy /local/path remote:path # copies /local/path to the remote
rclone sync --interactive /local/path remote:path # syncs /local/path to the remote
```

# rclone config

Enter an interactive configuration session.

## Synopsis

Enter an interactive configuration session where you can setup new
remotes and manage existing ones. You may also set or remove a
password to protect your configuration.

```
rclone config [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for config
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone config create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_create/)	 - Create a new remote with name, type and options.
* [rclone config delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_delete/)	 - Delete an existing remote.
* [rclone config disconnect](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_disconnect/)	 - Disconnects user from remote
* [rclone config dump](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_dump/)	 - Dump the config file as JSON.
* [rclone config edit](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_edit/)	 - Enter an interactive configuration session.
* [rclone config encryption](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption/)	 - set, remove and check the encryption for the config file
* [rclone config file](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_file/)	 - Show path of configuration file in use.
* [rclone config password](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_password/)	 - Update password in an existing remote.
* [rclone config paths](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_paths/)	 - Show paths used for configuration, cache, temp etc.
* [rclone config providers](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_providers/)	 - List in JSON format all the providers and options.
* [rclone config reconnect](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_reconnect/)	 - Re-authenticates user with remote.
* [rclone config redacted](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_redacted/)	 - Print redacted (decrypted) config file, or the redacted config for a single remote.
* [rclone config show](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_show/)	 - Print (decrypted) config file, or the config for a single remote.
* [rclone config string](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_string/)	 - Print connection string for a single remote.
* [rclone config touch](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_touch/)	 - Ensure configuration file exists.
* [rclone config unset](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_unset/)	 - Unset options in an existing remote.
* [rclone config update](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_update/)	 - Update options in an existing remote.
* [rclone config userinfo](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_userinfo/)	 - Prints info about logged in user of remote.


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# rclone copy

Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.

## Synopsis

Copy the source to the destination.  Does not transfer files that are
identical on source and destination, testing by size and modification
time or MD5SUM.  Doesn't delete files from the destination. If you
want to also delete files from destination, to make it match source,
use the [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/) command instead.

Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced,
not the directory itself. So when source:path is a directory, it's the
contents of source:path that are copied, not the directory name and
contents.

To copy single files, use the [copyto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyto/)
command instead.

If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents
go there.

For example

```sh
rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
```

Let's say there are two files in sourcepath

```text
sourcepath/one.txt
sourcepath/two.txt
```

This copies them to

```text
destpath/one.txt
destpath/two.txt
```

Not to

```text
destpath/sourcepath/one.txt
destpath/sourcepath/two.txt
```

If you are familiar with `rsync`, rclone always works as if you had
written a trailing `/` - meaning "copy the contents of this directory".
This applies to all commands and whether you are talking about the
source or destination.

See the [--no-traverse](https://rclone.org/docs/#no-traverse) option for controlling
whether rclone lists the destination directory or not.  Supplying this
option when copying a small number of files into a large destination
can speed transfers up greatly.

For example, if you have many files in /path/to/src but only a few of
them change every day, you can copy all the files which have changed
recently very efficiently like this:

```sh
rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse /path/to/src remote:
```

Rclone will sync the modification times of files and directories if
the backend supports it. If metadata syncing is required then use the
`--metadata` flag.

Note that the modification time and metadata for the root directory
will **not** be synced. See [issue #7652](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7652)
for more info.

**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

**Note**: Use the `--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag to test without
copying anything.

## Logger Flags

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match` and `--error`
flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or stdout if it is `-`)
supplied. What they write is described in the help below. For example
`--differ` will write all paths which are present on both the source and
destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The `--dest-after` flag writes a list file using the same format flags
as [`lsf`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis) (including [customizable options
for hash, modtime, etc.](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis))
Conceptually it is similar to rsync's `--itemize-changes`, but not identical
-- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the destination
after the command is finished.

When the `--no-traverse` flag is set, all logs involving files that exist only
on the destination will be incomplete or completely missing.

Note that these logger flags have a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:

- `--max-duration` / `CutoffModeHard`
- `--compare-dest` / `--copy-dest`
- server-side moves of an entire dir at once
- High-level retries, because there would be duplicates (use `--retries 1` to disable)
- Possibly some unusual error scenarios

Note also that each file is logged during execution, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID).

```
rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute                Put a leading / in front of path names
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after copy
      --csv                     Output in CSV format
      --dest-after string       Report all files that exist on the dest post-sync
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
  -d, --dir-slash               Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only               Only list directories
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
      --files-only              Only list files (default true)
  -F, --format string           Output format - see lsf help for details (default "p")
      --hash h                  Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                    help for copy
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
  -s, --separator string        Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --timeformat string       Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone sync

Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.

## Synopsis

Sync the source to the destination, changing the destination
only.  Doesn't transfer files that are identical on source and
destination, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM.
Destination is updated to match source, including deleting files
if necessary (except duplicate objects, see below). If you don't
want to delete files from destination, use the
[copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) command instead.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`i` flag.

```sh
rclone sync --interactive SOURCE remote:DESTINATION
```

Files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any errors at any
point. Duplicate objects (files with the same name, on those providers that
support it) are not yet handled. Files that are excluded won't be deleted
unless `--delete-excluded` is used. Symlinks won't be transferred or
deleted from local file systems unless `--links` is used.

It is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the
directory itself. So when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of
source:path that are copied, not the directory name and contents.  See
extended explanation in the [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) command if unsure.

If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents
go there.

It is not possible to sync overlapping remotes. However, you may exclude
the destination from the sync with a filter rule or by putting an
exclude-if-present file inside the destination directory and sync to a
destination that is inside the source directory.

Rclone will sync the modification times of files and directories if
the backend supports it. If metadata syncing is required then use the
`--metadata` flag.

Note that the modification time and metadata for the root directory
will **not** be synced. See <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7652>
for more info.

**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics

**Note**: Use the `rclone dedupe` command to deal with "Duplicate
object/directory found in source/destination - ignoring" errors.
See [this forum post](https://forum.rclone.org/t/sync-not-clearing-duplicates/14372)
for more info.

## Logger Flags

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match` and `--error`
flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or stdout if it is `-`)
supplied. What they write is described in the help below. For example
`--differ` will write all paths which are present on both the source and
destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The `--dest-after` flag writes a list file using the same format flags
as [`lsf`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis) (including [customizable options
for hash, modtime, etc.](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis))
Conceptually it is similar to rsync's `--itemize-changes`, but not identical
-- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the destination
after the command is finished.

When the `--no-traverse` flag is set, all logs involving files that exist only
on the destination will be incomplete or completely missing.

Note that these logger flags have a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:

- `--max-duration` / `CutoffModeHard`
- `--compare-dest` / `--copy-dest`
- server-side moves of an entire dir at once
- High-level retries, because there would be duplicates (use `--retries 1` to disable)
- Possibly some unusual error scenarios

Note also that each file is logged during execution, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID).

```
rclone sync source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute                Put a leading / in front of path names
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after sync
      --csv                     Output in CSV format
      --dest-after string       Report all files that exist on the dest post-sync
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
  -d, --dir-slash               Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only               Only list directories
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
      --files-only              Only list files (default true)
  -F, --format string           Output format - see lsf help for details (default "p")
      --hash h                  Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                    help for sync
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
  -s, --separator string        Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --timeformat string       Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Sync Options

Flags used for sync commands

```text
      --backup-dir string               Make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
      --delete-after                    When synchronizing, delete files on destination after transferring (default)
      --delete-before                   When synchronizing, delete files on destination before transferring
      --delete-during                   When synchronizing, delete files during transfer
      --fix-case                        Force rename of case insensitive dest to match source
      --ignore-errors                   Delete even if there are I/O errors
      --list-cutoff int                 To save memory, sort directory listings on disk above this threshold (default 1000000)
      --max-delete int                  When synchronizing, limit the number of deletes (default -1)
      --max-delete-size SizeSuffix      When synchronizing, limit the total size of deletes (default off)
      --suffix string                   Suffix to add to changed files
      --suffix-keep-extension           Preserve the extension when using --suffix
      --track-renames                   When synchronizing, track file renames and do a server-side move if possible
      --track-renames-strategy string   Strategies to use when synchronizing using track-renames hash|modtime|leaf (default "hash")
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone move

Move files from source to dest.

## Synopsis

Moves the contents of the source directory to the destination
directory. Rclone will error if the source and destination overlap and
the remote does not support a server-side directory move operation.

To move single files, use the [moveto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_moveto/)
command instead.

If no filters are in use and if possible this will server-side move
`source:path` into `dest:path`. After this `source:path` will no
longer exist.

Otherwise for each file in `source:path` selected by the filters (if
any) this will move it into `dest:path`.  If possible a server-side
move will be used, otherwise it will copy it (server-side if possible)
into `dest:path` then delete the original (if no errors on copy) in
`source:path`.

If you want to delete empty source directories after move, use the
`--delete-empty-src-dirs` flag.

See the [--no-traverse](https://rclone.org/docs/#no-traverse) option for controlling
whether rclone lists the destination directory or not.  Supplying this
option when moving a small number of files into a large destination
can speed transfers up greatly.

Rclone will sync the modification times of files and directories if
the backend supports it. If metadata syncing is required then use the
`--metadata` flag.

Note that the modification time and metadata for the root directory
will **not** be synced. See <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7652>
for more info.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

## Logger Flags

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match` and `--error`
flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or stdout if it is `-`)
supplied. What they write is described in the help below. For example
`--differ` will write all paths which are present on both the source and
destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The `--dest-after` flag writes a list file using the same format flags
as [`lsf`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis) (including [customizable options
for hash, modtime, etc.](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis))
Conceptually it is similar to rsync's `--itemize-changes`, but not identical
-- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the destination
after the command is finished.

When the `--no-traverse` flag is set, all logs involving files that exist only
on the destination will be incomplete or completely missing.

Note that these logger flags have a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:

- `--max-duration` / `CutoffModeHard`
- `--compare-dest` / `--copy-dest`
- server-side moves of an entire dir at once
- High-level retries, because there would be duplicates (use `--retries 1` to disable)
- Possibly some unusual error scenarios

Note also that each file is logged during execution, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID).

```
rclone move source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute                Put a leading / in front of path names
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after move
      --csv                     Output in CSV format
      --delete-empty-src-dirs   Delete empty source dirs after move
      --dest-after string       Report all files that exist on the dest post-sync
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
  -d, --dir-slash               Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only               Only list directories
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
      --files-only              Only list files (default true)
  -F, --format string           Output format - see lsf help for details (default "p")
      --hash h                  Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                    help for move
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
  -s, --separator string        Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --timeformat string       Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone delete

Remove the files in path.

## Synopsis

Remove the files in path.  Unlike [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/) it
obeys include/exclude filters so can be used to selectively delete files.

`rclone delete` only deletes files but leaves the directory structure
alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use
the [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/) command.

If you supply the `--rmdirs` flag, it will remove all empty directories along
with it. You can also use the separate command [rmdir](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdir/)
or [rmdirs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdirs/) to delete empty directories only.

For example, to delete all files bigger than 100 MiB, you may first want to
check what would be deleted (use either):

```sh
rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path
```

Then proceed with the actual delete:

```sh
rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path
```

That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MiB", hence
delete all files bigger than 100 MiB.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

```
rclone delete remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help     help for delete
      --rmdirs   rmdirs removes empty directories but leaves root intact
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone purge

Remove the path and all of its contents.

## Synopsis

Remove the path and all of its contents.  Note that this does not obey
include/exclude filters - everything will be removed.  Use the
[delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_delete/) command if you want to selectively
delete files. To delete empty directories only, use command
[rmdir](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdir/) or [rmdirs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdirs/).

The concurrency of this operation is controlled by the `--checkers` global flag.
However, some backends will implement this command directly, in which
case `--checkers` will be ignored.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

```
rclone purge remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for purge
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone mkdir

Make the path if it doesn't already exist.

```
rclone mkdir remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for mkdir
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone rmdir

Remove the empty directory at path.

## Synopsis

This removes empty directory given by path. Will not remove the path if it
has any objects in it, not even empty subdirectories. Use
command [rmdirs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdirs/) (or [delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_delete/)
with option `--rmdirs`) to do that.

To delete a path and any objects in it, use [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/) command.

```
rclone rmdir remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for rmdir
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone check

Checks the files in the source and destination match.

## Synopsis

Checks the files in the source and destination match.  It compares
sizes and hashes (MD5 or SHA1) and logs a report of files that don't
match.  It doesn't alter the source or destination.

For the [crypt](https://rclone.org/crypt/) remote there is a dedicated command,
[cryptcheck](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cryptcheck/), that are able to check
the checksums of the encrypted files.

If you supply the `--size-only` flag, it will only compare the sizes not
the hashes as well.  Use this for a quick check.

If you supply the `--download` flag, it will download the data from
both remotes and check them against each other on the fly.  This can
be useful for remotes that don't support hashes or if you really want
to check all the data.

If you supply the `--checkfile HASH` flag with a valid hash name,
the `source:path` must point to a text file in the SUM format.

If you supply the `--one-way` flag, it will only check that files in
the source match the files in the destination, not the other way
around. This means that extra files in the destination that are not in
the source will not be detected.

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match`
and `--error` flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or
stdout if it is `-`) supplied. What they write is described in the
help below. For example `--differ` will write all paths which are
present on both the source and destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The default number of parallel checks is 8. See the [--checkers](https://rclone.org/docs/#checkers-int)
option for more information.

```
rclone check source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -C, --checkfile string        Treat source:path as a SUM file with hashes of given type
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
      --download                Check by downloading rather than with hash
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
  -h, --help                    help for check
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
      --one-way                 Check one way only, source files must exist on remote
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Check Options

Flags used for check commands

```text
      --max-backlog int   Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone ls

List the objects in the path with size and path.

## Synopsis

Lists the objects in the source path to standard output in a human
readable format with size and path. Recurses by default.

E.g.

```console
$ rclone ls swift:bucket
    60295 bevajer5jef
    90613 canole
    94467 diwogej7
    37600 fubuwic
```

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this command.

There are several related list commands

- `ls` to list size and path of objects only
- `lsl` to list modification time, size and path of objects only
- `lsd` to list directories only
- `lsf` to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
- `lsjson` to list objects and directories in JSON format

`ls`,`lsl`,`lsd` are designed to be human-readable.
`lsf` is designed to be human and machine-readable.
`lsjson` is designed to be machine-readable.

Note that `ls` and `lsl` recurse by default - use `--max-depth 1` to stop the recursion.

The other list commands `lsd`,`lsf`,`lsjson` do not recurse by default -
use `-R` to make them recurse.

List commands prefer a recursive method that uses more memory but fewer
transactions by default. Use `--disable ListR` to suppress the behavior.
See [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for
remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs -
the bucket-based remotes).

```
rclone ls remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for ls
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone lsd

List all directories/containers/buckets in the path.

## Synopsis

Lists the directories in the source path to standard output. Does not
recurse by default.  Use the `-R` flag to recurse.

This command lists the total size of the directory (if known, -1 if
not), the modification time (if known, the current time if not), the
number of objects in the directory (if known, -1 if not) and the name
of the directory, E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsd swift:
      494000 2018-04-26 08:43:20     10000 10000files
          65 2018-04-26 08:43:20         1 1File
```

Or

```console
$ rclone lsd drive:test
          -1 2016-10-17 17:41:53        -1 1000files
          -1 2017-01-03 14:40:54        -1 2500files
          -1 2017-07-08 14:39:28        -1 4000files
```

If you just want the directory names use `rclone lsf --dirs-only`.

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this command.

There are several related list commands

- `ls` to list size and path of objects only
- `lsl` to list modification time, size and path of objects only
- `lsd` to list directories only
- `lsf` to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
- `lsjson` to list objects and directories in JSON format

`ls`,`lsl`,`lsd` are designed to be human-readable.
`lsf` is designed to be human and machine-readable.
`lsjson` is designed to be machine-readable.

Note that `ls` and `lsl` recurse by default - use `--max-depth 1` to stop the recursion.

The other list commands `lsd`,`lsf`,`lsjson` do not recurse by default -
use `-R` to make them recurse.

List commands prefer a recursive method that uses more memory but fewer
transactions by default. Use `--disable ListR` to suppress the behavior.
See [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for
remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs -
the bucket-based remotes).

```
rclone lsd remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help        help for lsd
  -R, --recursive   Recurse into the listing
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone lsl

List the objects in path with modification time, size and path.

## Synopsis

Lists the objects in the source path to standard output in a human
readable format with modification time, size and path. Recurses by default.

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsl swift:bucket
    60295 2016-06-25 18:55:41.062626927 bevajer5jef
    90613 2016-06-25 18:55:43.302607074 canole
    94467 2016-06-25 18:55:43.046609333 diwogej7
    37600 2016-06-25 18:55:40.814629136 fubuwic
```

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this command.

There are several related list commands

- `ls` to list size and path of objects only
- `lsl` to list modification time, size and path of objects only
- `lsd` to list directories only
- `lsf` to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
- `lsjson` to list objects and directories in JSON format

`ls`,`lsl`,`lsd` are designed to be human-readable.
`lsf` is designed to be human and machine-readable.
`lsjson` is designed to be machine-readable.

Note that `ls` and `lsl` recurse by default - use `--max-depth 1` to stop the recursion.

The other list commands `lsd`,`lsf`,`lsjson` do not recurse by default -
use `-R` to make them recurse.

List commands prefer a recursive method that uses more memory but fewer
transactions by default. Use `--disable ListR` to suppress the behavior.
See [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for
remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs -
the bucket-based remotes).

```
rclone lsl remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for lsl
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone md5sum

Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path.

## Synopsis

Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path.  This
is in the same format as the standard md5sum tool produces.

By default, the hash is requested from the remote.  If MD5 is
not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned.  With the
download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and
hashed locally enabling MD5 for any remote.

For other algorithms, see the [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/)
command. Running `rclone md5sum remote:path` is equivalent
to running `rclone hashsum MD5 remote:path`.

This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin),
by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path
when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally,
as a relative path).

```
rclone md5sum remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --base64               Output base64 encoded hashsum
  -C, --checkfile string     Validate hashes against a given SUM file instead of printing them
      --download             Download the file and hash it locally; if this flag is not specified, the hash is requested from the remote
  -h, --help                 help for md5sum
      --output-file string   Output hashsums to a file rather than the terminal
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone sha1sum

Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path.

## Synopsis

Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path.  This
is in the same format as the standard sha1sum tool produces.

By default, the hash is requested from the remote.  If SHA-1 is
not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned.  With the
download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and
hashed locally enabling SHA-1 for any remote.

For other algorithms, see the [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/)
command. Running `rclone sha1sum remote:path` is equivalent
to running `rclone hashsum SHA1 remote:path`.

This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin),
by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path
when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally,
as a relative path).

This command can also hash data received on STDIN, if not passing
a remote:path.

```
rclone sha1sum remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --base64               Output base64 encoded hashsum
  -C, --checkfile string     Validate hashes against a given SUM file instead of printing them
      --download             Download the file and hash it locally; if this flag is not specified, the hash is requested from the remote
  -h, --help                 help for sha1sum
      --output-file string   Output hashsums to a file rather than the terminal
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone size

Prints the total size and number of objects in remote:path.

## Synopsis

Counts objects in the path and calculates the total size. Prints the
result to standard output.

By default the output is in human-readable format, but shows values in
both human-readable format as well as the raw numbers (global option
`--human-readable` is not considered). Use option `--json`
to format output as JSON instead.

Recurses by default, use `--max-depth 1` to stop the
recursion.

Some backends do not always provide file sizes, see for example
[Google Photos](https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#size) and
[Google Docs](https://rclone.org/drive/#limitations-of-google-docs).
Rclone will then show a notice in the log indicating how many such
files were encountered, and count them in as empty files in the output
of the size command.

```
rclone size remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for size
      --json   Format output as JSON
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone version

Show the version number.

## Synopsis

Show the rclone version number, the go version, the build target
OS and architecture, the runtime OS and kernel version and bitness,
build tags and the type of executable (static or dynamic).

For example:

```console
$ rclone version
rclone v1.55.0
- os/version: ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 4.15.0-136-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.16
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
```

Note: before rclone version 1.55 the os/type and os/arch lines were merged,
      and the "go/version" line was tagged as "go version".

If you supply the --check flag, then it will do an online check to
compare your version with the latest release and the latest beta.

```console
$ rclone version --check
yours:  1.42.0.6
latest: 1.42          (released 2018-06-16)
beta:   1.42.0.5      (released 2018-06-17)
```

Or

```console
$ rclone version --check
yours:  1.41
latest: 1.42          (released 2018-06-16)
  upgrade: https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.42
beta:   1.42.0.5      (released 2018-06-17)
  upgrade: https://beta.rclone.org/v1.42-005-g56e1e820
```

If you supply the --deps flag then rclone will print a list of all the
packages it depends on and their versions along with some other
information about the build.

```
rclone version [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --check   Check for new version
      --deps    Show the Go dependencies
  -h, --help    help for version
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone cleanup

Clean up the remote if possible.

## Synopsis

Clean up the remote if possible.  Empty the trash or delete old file
versions. Not supported by all remotes.

```
rclone cleanup remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for cleanup
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone dedupe

Interactively find duplicate filenames and delete/rename them.

## Synopsis

By default `dedupe` interactively finds files with duplicate
names and offers to delete all but one or rename them to be
different. This is known as deduping by name.

Deduping by name is only useful with a small group of backends (e.g. Google Drive,
Opendrive) that can have duplicate file names. It can be run on wrapping backends
(e.g. crypt) if they wrap a backend which supports duplicate file
names.

However if `--by-hash` is passed in then dedupe will find files with
duplicate hashes instead which will work on any backend which supports
at least one hash. This can be used to find files with duplicate
content. This is known as deduping by hash.

If deduping by name, first rclone will merge directories with the same
name.  It will do this iteratively until all the identically named
directories have been merged.

Next, if deduping by name, for every group of duplicate file names /
hashes, it will delete all but one identical file it finds without
confirmation.  This means that for most duplicated files the
`dedupe` command will not be interactive.

`dedupe` considers files to be identical if they have the
same file path and the same hash. If the backend does not support
hashes (e.g. crypt wrapping Google Drive) then they will never be found
to be identical. If you use the `--size-only` flag then files
will be considered identical if they have the same size (any hash will be
ignored). This can be useful on crypt backends which do not support hashes.

Next rclone will resolve the remaining duplicates. Exactly which
action is taken depends on the dedupe mode. By default, rclone will
interactively query the user for each one.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

Here is an example run.

Before - with duplicates

```console
$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:11.775000000 one.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:18:26.092000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two.txt
  1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two.txt
```

Now the `dedupe` session

```console
$ rclone dedupe drive:dupes
2016/03/05 16:24:37 Google drive root 'dupes': Looking for duplicates using interactive mode.
one.txt: Found 4 files with duplicate names
one.txt: Deleting 2/3 identical duplicates (MD5 "1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36")
one.txt: 2 duplicates remain
  1:      6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000, MD5 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
  2:       564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000, MD5 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> k
Enter the number of the file to keep> 1
one.txt: Deleted 1 extra copies
two.txt: Found 3 files with duplicate names
two.txt: 3 duplicates remain
  1:       564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000, MD5 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
  2:      6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000, MD5 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
  3:      1744073 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000, MD5 851957f7fb6f0bc4ce76be966d336802
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> r
two-1.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-2.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-3.txt: renamed from: two.txt
```

The result being

```console
$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two-1.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two-2.txt
  1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two-3.txt
```

Dedupe can be run non interactively using the `--dedupe-mode` flag
or by using an extra parameter with the same value

- `--dedupe-mode interactive` - interactive as above.
- `--dedupe-mode skip` - removes identical files then skips anything left.
- `--dedupe-mode first` - removes identical files then keeps the first one.
- `--dedupe-mode newest` - removes identical files then keeps the newest one.
- `--dedupe-mode oldest` - removes identical files then keeps the oldest one.
- `--dedupe-mode largest` - removes identical files then keeps the largest one.
- `--dedupe-mode smallest` - removes identical files then keeps the smallest one.
- `--dedupe-mode rename` - removes identical files then renames the rest to be different.
- `--dedupe-mode list` - lists duplicate dirs and files only and changes nothing.

For example, to rename all the identically named photos in your Google Photos
directory, do

```console
rclone dedupe --dedupe-mode rename "drive:Google Photos"
```

Or

```console
rclone dedupe rename "drive:Google Photos"
```

```
rclone dedupe [mode] remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --by-hash              Find identical hashes rather than names
      --dedupe-mode string   Dedupe mode interactive|skip|first|newest|oldest|largest|smallest|rename (default "interactive")
  -h, --help                 help for dedupe
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone about

Get quota information from the remote.

## Synopsis

Prints quota information about a remote to standard
output. The output is typically used, free, quota and trash contents.

E.g. Typical output from `rclone about remote:` is:

```text
Total:   17 GiB
Used:    7.444 GiB
Free:    1.315 GiB
Trashed: 100.000 MiB
Other:   8.241 GiB
```

Where the fields are:

- Total: Total size available.
- Used: Total size used.
- Free: Total space available to this user.
- Trashed: Total space used by trash.
- Other: Total amount in other storage (e.g. Gmail, Google Photos).
- Objects: Total number of objects in the storage.

All sizes are in number of bytes.

Applying a `--full` flag to the command prints the bytes in full, e.g.

```text
Total:   18253611008
Used:    7993453766
Free:    1411001220
Trashed: 104857602
Other:   8849156022
```

A `--json` flag generates conveniently machine-readable output, e.g.

```json
{
  "total": 18253611008,
  "used": 7993453766,
  "trashed": 104857602,
  "other": 8849156022,
  "free": 1411001220
}
```

Not all backends print all fields. Information is not included if it is not
provided by a backend. Where the value is unlimited it is omitted.

Some backends does not support the `rclone about` command at all,
see complete list in [documentation](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features).

```
rclone about remote: [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --full   Full numbers instead of human-readable
  -h, --help   help for about
      --json   Format output as JSON
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone archive

Perform an action on an archive.

## Synopsis

Perform an action on an archive. Requires the use of a
subcommand to specify the protocol, e.g.

    rclone archive list remote:file.zip

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

See [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/) for the
archive formats supported.


```
rclone archive <action> [opts] <source> [<destination>] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for archive
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/)	 - Archive source file(s) to destination.
* [rclone archive extract](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_extract/)	 - Extract archives from source to destination.
* [rclone archive list](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_list/)	 - List archive contents from source.


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# rclone archive create

Archive source file(s) to destination.

## Synopsis


Creates an archive from the files in source:path and saves the archive to
dest:path. If dest:path is missing, it will write to the console.

The valid formats for the `--format` flag are listed below. If
`--format` is not set rclone will guess it from the extension of dest:path.

| Format | Extensions |
|:-------|:-----------|
| zip    | .zip       |
| tar    | .tar       |
| tar.gz | .tar.gz, .tgz, .taz |
| tar.bz2| .tar.bz2, .tb2, .tbz, .tbz2, .tz2 |
| tar.lz | .tar.lz    |
| tar.lz4| .tar.lz4   |
| tar.xz | .tar.xz, .txz |
| tar.zst| .tar.zst, .tzst |
| tar.br | .tar.br    |
| tar.sz | .tar.sz    |
| tar.mz | .tar.mz    |

The `--prefix` and `--full-path` flags control the prefix for the files
in the archive.

If the flag `--full-path` is set then the files will have the full source
path as the prefix.

If the flag `--prefix=<value>` is set then the files will have
`<value>` as prefix. It's possible to create invalid file names with
`--prefix=<value>` so use with caution. Flag `--prefix` has
priority over `--full-path`.

Given a directory `/sourcedir` with the following:

    file1.txt
    dir1/file2.txt

Running the command `rclone archive create /sourcedir /dest.tar.gz`
will make an archive with the contents:

    file1.txt
    dir1/
    dir1/file2.txt

Running the command `rclone archive create --full-path /sourcedir /dest.tar.gz`
will make an archive with the contents:

    sourcedir/file1.txt
    sourcedir/dir1/
    sourcedir/dir1/file2.txt

Running the command `rclone archive create --prefix=my_new_path /sourcedir /dest.tar.gz`
will make an archive with the contents:

    my_new_path/file1.txt
    my_new_path/dir1/
    my_new_path/dir1/file2.txt


```
rclone archive create [flags] <source> [<destination>]
```

## Options

```
      --format string   Create the archive with format or guess from extension.
      --full-path       Set prefix for files in archive to source path
  -h, --help            help for create
      --prefix string   Set prefix for files in archive to entered value or source path
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone archive extract

Extract archives from source to destination.

## Synopsis



Extract the archive contents to a destination directory auto detecting
the format. See [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/)
for the archive formats supported.

For example on this archive:

```
$ rclone archive list --long remote:archive.zip
        6 2025-10-30 09:46:23.000000000 file.txt
        0 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/
        4 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/bye.txt
```

You can run extract like this

```
$ rclone archive extract remote:archive.zip remote:extracted
```

Which gives this result

```
$ rclone tree remote:extracted
/
├── dir
│   └── bye.txt
└── file.txt
```

The source or destination or both can be local or remote.

Filters can be used to only extract certain files:

```
$ rclone archive extract archive.zip partial --include "bye.*"
$ rclone tree partial
/
└── dir
    └── bye.txt
```

The [archive backend](https://rclone.org/archive/) can also be used to extract files. It
can be used to read only mount archives also but it supports a
different set of archive formats to the archive commands.


```
rclone archive extract [flags] <source> <destination>
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for extract
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone archive list

List archive contents from source.

## Synopsis


List the contents of an archive to the console, auto detecting the
format. See [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/)
for the archive formats supported.

For example:

```
$ rclone archive list remote:archive.zip
        6 file.txt
        0 dir/
        4 dir/bye.txt
```

Or with `--long` flag for more info:

```
$ rclone archive list --long remote:archive.zip
        6 2025-10-30 09:46:23.000000000 file.txt
        0 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/
        4 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/bye.txt
```

Or with `--plain` flag which is useful for scripting:

```
$ rclone archive list --plain /path/to/archive.zip
file.txt
dir/
dir/bye.txt
```

Or with `--dirs-only`:

```
$ rclone archive list --plain --dirs-only /path/to/archive.zip
dir/
```

Or with `--files-only`:

```
$ rclone archive list --plain --files-only /path/to/archive.zip
file.txt
dir/bye.txt
```

Filters may also be used:

```
$ rclone archive list --long archive.zip --include "bye.*"
        4 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/bye.txt
```

The [archive backend](https://rclone.org/archive/) can also be used to list files. It
can be used to read only mount archives also but it supports a
different set of archive formats to the archive commands.


```
rclone archive list [flags] <source>
```

## Options

```
      --dirs-only    Only list directories
      --files-only   Only list files
  -h, --help         help for list
      --long         List extra attributtes
      --plain        Only list file names
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone authorize

Remote authorization.

## Synopsis

Remote authorization. Used to authorize a remote or headless
rclone from a machine with a browser. Use as instructed by rclone config.
See also the [remote setup documentation](/remote_setup).

The command requires 1-3 arguments:

- Name of a backend (e.g. "drive", "s3")
- Either a base64 encoded JSON blob obtained from a previous rclone config session
- Or a client_id and client_secret pair obtained from the remote service

Use --auth-no-open-browser to prevent rclone to open auth
link in default browser automatically.

Use --template to generate HTML output via a custom Go template. If a blank
string is provided as an argument to this flag, the default template is used.

```
rclone authorize <backendname> [base64_json_blob | client_id client_secret] [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --auth-no-open-browser   Do not automatically open auth link in default browser
  -h, --help                   help for authorize
      --template string        The path to a custom Go template for generating HTML responses
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone backend

Run a backend-specific command.

## Synopsis

This runs a backend-specific command. The commands themselves (except
for "help" and "features") are defined by the backends and you should
see the backend docs for definitions.

You can discover what commands a backend implements by using

```console
rclone backend help remote:
rclone backend help <backendname>
```

You can also discover information about the backend using (see
[operations/fsinfo](https://rclone.org/rc/#operations-fsinfo) in the remote control docs
for more info).

```console
rclone backend features remote:
```

Pass options to the backend command with -o. This should be key=value or key, e.g.:

```console
rclone backend stats remote:path stats -o format=json -o long
```

Pass arguments to the backend by placing them on the end of the line

```console
rclone backend cleanup remote:path file1 file2 file3
```

Note to run these commands on a running backend then see
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command) in the rc docs.

```
rclone backend <command> remote:path [opts] <args> [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help                 help for backend
      --json                 Always output in JSON format
  -o, --option stringArray   Option in the form name=value or name
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone bisync

Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.

## Synopsis

Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.

[Bisync](https://rclone.org/bisync/) provides a
bidirectional cloud sync solution in rclone.
It retains the Path1 and Path2 filesystem listings from the prior run.
On each successive run it will:

- list files on Path1 and Path2, and check for changes on each side.
  Changes include `New`, `Newer`, `Older`, and `Deleted` files.
- Propagate changes on Path1 to Path2, and vice-versa.

Bisync is considered an **advanced command**, so use with care.
Make sure you have read and understood the entire [manual](https://rclone.org/bisync)
(especially the [Limitations](https://rclone.org/bisync/#limitations) section)
before using, or data loss can result. Questions can be asked in the
[Rclone Forum](https://forum.rclone.org/).

See [full bisync description](https://rclone.org/bisync/) for details.


```
rclone bisync remote1:path1 remote2:path2 [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --backup-dir1 string                   --backup-dir for Path1. Must be a non-overlapping path on the same remote.
      --backup-dir2 string                   --backup-dir for Path2. Must be a non-overlapping path on the same remote.
      --check-access                         Ensure expected RCLONE_TEST files are found on both Path1 and Path2 filesystems, else abort.
      --check-filename string                Filename for --check-access (default: RCLONE_TEST)
      --check-sync string                    Controls comparison of final listings: true|false|only (default: true) (default "true")
      --compare string                       Comma-separated list of bisync-specific compare options ex. 'size,modtime,checksum' (default: 'size,modtime')
      --conflict-loser ConflictLoserAction   Action to take on the loser of a sync conflict (when there is a winner) or on both files (when there is no winner): , num, pathname, delete (default: num)
      --conflict-resolve string              Automatically resolve conflicts by preferring the version that is: none, path1, path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default: none) (default "none")
      --conflict-suffix string               Suffix to use when renaming a --conflict-loser. Can be either one string or two comma-separated strings to assign different suffixes to Path1/Path2. (default: 'conflict')
      --create-empty-src-dirs                Sync creation and deletion of empty directories. (Not compatible with --remove-empty-dirs)
      --download-hash                        Compute hash by downloading when otherwise unavailable. (warning: may be slow and use lots of data!)
      --filters-file string                  Read filtering patterns from a file
      --force                                Bypass --max-delete safety check and run the sync. Consider using with --verbose
  -h, --help                                 help for bisync
      --ignore-listing-checksum              Do not use checksums for listings (add --ignore-checksum to additionally skip post-copy checksum checks)
      --max-lock Duration                    Consider lock files older than this to be expired (default: 0 (never expire)) (minimum: 2m) (default 0s)
      --no-cleanup                           Retain working files (useful for troubleshooting and testing).
      --no-slow-hash                         Ignore listing checksums only on backends where they are slow
      --recover                              Automatically recover from interruptions without requiring --resync.
      --remove-empty-dirs                    Remove ALL empty directories at the final cleanup step.
      --resilient                            Allow future runs to retry after certain less-serious errors, instead of requiring --resync.
  -1, --resync                               Performs the resync run. Equivalent to --resync-mode path1. Consider using --verbose or --dry-run first.
      --resync-mode string                   During resync, prefer the version that is: path1, path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default: path1 if --resync, otherwise none for no resync.) (default "none")
      --slow-hash-sync-only                  Ignore slow checksums for listings and deltas, but still consider them during sync calls.
      --workdir string                       Use custom working dir - useful for testing. (default: $HOME/.cache/rclone/bisync)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Sync Options

Flags used for sync commands

```text
      --backup-dir string               Make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
      --delete-after                    When synchronizing, delete files on destination after transferring (default)
      --delete-before                   When synchronizing, delete files on destination before transferring
      --delete-during                   When synchronizing, delete files during transfer
      --fix-case                        Force rename of case insensitive dest to match source
      --ignore-errors                   Delete even if there are I/O errors
      --list-cutoff int                 To save memory, sort directory listings on disk above this threshold (default 1000000)
      --max-delete int                  When synchronizing, limit the number of deletes (default -1)
      --max-delete-size SizeSuffix      When synchronizing, limit the total size of deletes (default off)
      --suffix string                   Suffix to add to changed files
      --suffix-keep-extension           Preserve the extension when using --suffix
      --track-renames                   When synchronizing, track file renames and do a server-side move if possible
      --track-renames-strategy string   Strategies to use when synchronizing using track-renames hash|modtime|leaf (default "hash")
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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# rclone cat

Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.

## Synopsis

Sends any files to standard output.

You can use it like this to output a single file

```sh
rclone cat remote:path/to/file
```

Or like this to output any file in dir or its subdirectories.

```sh
rclone cat remote:path/to/dir
```

Or like this to output any .txt files in dir or its subdirectories.

```sh
rclone --include "*.txt" cat remote:path/to/dir
```

Use the `--head` flag to print characters only at the start, `--tail` for
the end and `--offset` and `--count` to print a section in the middle.
Note that if offset is negative it will count from the end, so
`--offset -1 --count 1` is equivalent to `--tail 1`.

Use the `--separator` flag to print a separator value between files. Be sure to
shell-escape special characters. For example, to print a newline between
files, use:

- bash:

  ```sh
  rclone --include "*.txt" --separator $'\n' cat remote:path/to/dir
  ```

- powershell:

  ```powershell
  rclone --include "*.txt" --separator "`n" cat remote:path/to/dir
  ```

```
rclone cat remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --count int          Only print N characters (default -1)
      --discard            Discard the output instead of printing
      --head int           Only print the first N characters
  -h, --help               help for cat
      --offset int         Start printing at offset N (or from end if -ve)
      --separator string   Separator to use between objects when printing multiple files
      --tail int           Only print the last N characters
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone checksum

Checks the files in the destination against a SUM file.

## Synopsis

Checks that hashsums of destination files match the SUM file.
It compares hashes (MD5, SHA1, etc) and logs a report of files which
don't match.  It doesn't alter the file system.

The sumfile is treated as the source and the dst:path is treated as
the destination for the purposes of the output.

If you supply the `--download` flag, it will download the data from the remote
and calculate the content hash on the fly.  This can be useful for remotes
that don't support hashes or if you really want to check all the data.

Note that hash values in the SUM file are treated as case insensitive.

If you supply the `--one-way` flag, it will only check that files in
the source match the files in the destination, not the other way
around. This means that extra files in the destination that are not in
the source will not be detected.

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match`
and `--error` flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or
stdout if it is `-`) supplied. What they write is described in the
help below. For example `--differ` will write all paths which are
present on both the source and destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The default number of parallel checks is 8. See the [--checkers](https://rclone.org/docs/#checkers-int)
option for more information.

```
rclone checksum <hash> sumfile dst:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
      --download                Check by hashing the contents
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
  -h, --help                    help for checksum
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
      --one-way                 Check one way only, source files must exist on remote
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone completion

Output completion script for a given shell.

## Synopsis

Generates a shell completion script for rclone.
Run with `--help` to list the supported shells.

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for completion
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone completion bash](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion_bash/)	 - Output bash completion script for rclone.
* [rclone completion fish](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion_fish/)	 - Output fish completion script for rclone.
* [rclone completion powershell](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion_powershell/)	 - Output powershell completion script for rclone.
* [rclone completion zsh](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion_zsh/)	 - Output zsh completion script for rclone.


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# rclone completion bash

Output bash completion script for rclone.

## Synopsis

Generates a bash shell autocompletion script for rclone.

By default, when run without any arguments,

```console
rclone completion bash
```

the generated script will be written to

```console
/etc/bash_completion.d/rclone
```

and so rclone will probably need to be run as root, or with sudo.

If you supply a path to a file as the command line argument, then
the generated script will be written to that file, in which case
you should not need root privileges.

If output_file is "-", then the output will be written to stdout.

If you have installed the script into the default location, you
can logout and login again to use the autocompletion script.

Alternatively, you can source the script directly

```console
. /path/to/my_bash_completion_scripts/rclone
```

and the autocompletion functionality will be added to your
current shell.

```
rclone completion bash [output_file] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for bash
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone completion](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion/)	 - Output completion script for a given shell.


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# rclone completion fish

Output fish completion script for rclone.

## Synopsis

Generates a fish autocompletion script for rclone.

This writes to /etc/fish/completions/rclone.fish by default so will
probably need to be run with sudo or as root, e.g.

```console
sudo rclone completion fish
```

Logout and login again to use the autocompletion scripts, or source
them directly

```console
. /etc/fish/completions/rclone.fish
```

If you supply a command line argument the script will be written
there.

If output_file is "-", then the output will be written to stdout.

```
rclone completion fish [output_file] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for fish
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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* [rclone completion](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion/)	 - Output completion script for a given shell.


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# rclone completion powershell

Output powershell completion script for rclone.

## Synopsis

Generate the autocompletion script for powershell.

To load completions in your current shell session:

```console
rclone completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
```

To load completions for every new session, add the output of the above command
to your powershell profile.

If output_file is "-" or missing, then the output will be written to stdout.

```
rclone completion powershell [output_file] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for powershell
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone completion](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_completion/)	 - Output completion script for a given shell.


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# rclone completion zsh

Output zsh completion script for rclone.

## Synopsis

Generates a zsh autocompletion script for rclone.

This writes to /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_rclone by default so will
probably need to be run with sudo or as root, e.g.

```console
sudo rclone completion zsh
```

Logout and login again to use the autocompletion scripts, or source
them directly

```console
autoload -U compinit && compinit
```

If you supply a command line argument the script will be written
there.

If output_file is "-", then the output will be written to stdout.

```
rclone completion zsh [output_file] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for zsh
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone config create

Create a new remote with name, type and options.

## Synopsis

Create a new remote of `name` with `type` and options.  The options
should be passed in pairs of `key` `value` or as `key=value`.

For example, to make a swift remote of name myremote using auto config
you would do:

```sh
rclone config create myremote swift env_auth true
rclone config create myremote swift env_auth=true
```

So for example if you wanted to configure a Google Drive remote but
using remote authorization you would do this:

```sh
rclone config create mydrive drive config_is_local=false
```

Note that if the config process would normally ask a question the
default is taken (unless `--non-interactive` is used).  Each time
that happens rclone will print or DEBUG a message saying how to
affect the value taken.

If any of the parameters passed is a password field, then rclone will
automatically obscure them if they aren't already obscured before
putting them in the config file.

**NB** If the password parameter is 22 characters or longer and
consists only of base64 characters then rclone can get confused about
whether the password is already obscured or not and put unobscured
passwords into the config file. If you want to be 100% certain that
the passwords get obscured then use the `--obscure` flag, or if you
are 100% certain you are already passing obscured passwords then use
`--no-obscure`.  You can also set obscured passwords using the
`rclone config password` command.

The flag `--non-interactive` is for use by applications that wish to
configure rclone themselves, rather than using rclone's text based
configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask
the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in
it.

This will look something like (some irrelevant detail removed):

```json
{
  "State": "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,,",
  "Option": {
    "Name": "config_is_local",
    "Help": "Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?\n * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use\n * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access\nIf not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.\n",
    "Default": true,
    "Examples": [
      {
        "Value": "true",
        "Help": "Yes"
      },
      {
        "Value": "false",
        "Help": "No"
      }
    ],
    "Required": false,
    "IsPassword": false,
    "Type": "bool",
    "Exclusive": true,
  },
  "Error": "",
}
```

The format of `Option` is the same as returned by `rclone config
providers`. The question should be asked to the user and returned to
rclone as the `--result` option along with the `--state` parameter.

The keys of `Option` are used as follows:

- `Name` - name of variable - show to user
- `Help` - help text. Hard wrapped at 80 chars. Any URLs should be clicky.
- `Default` - default value - return this if the user just wants the default.
- `Examples` - the user should be able to choose one of these
- `Required` - the value should be non-empty
- `IsPassword` - the value is a password and should be edited as such
- `Type` - type of value, eg `bool`, `string`, `int` and others
- `Exclusive` - if set no free-form entry allowed only the `Examples`
- Irrelevant keys `Provider`, `ShortOpt`, `Hide`, `NoPrefix`, `Advanced`

If `Error` is set then it should be shown to the user at the same
time as the question.

```sh
rclone config update name --continue --state "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,," --result "true"
```

Note that when using `--continue` all passwords should be passed in
the clear (not obscured). Any default config values should be passed
in with each invocation of `--continue`.

At the end of the non interactive process, rclone will return a result
with `State` as empty string.

If `--all` is passed then rclone will ask all the config questions,
not just the post config questions. Any parameters are used as
defaults for questions as usual.

Note that `bin/config.py` in the rclone source implements this protocol
as a readable demonstration.

```
rclone config create name type [key value]* [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --all               Ask the full set of config questions
      --continue          Continue the configuration process with an answer
  -h, --help              help for create
      --no-obscure        Force any passwords not to be obscured
      --no-output         Don't provide any output
      --non-interactive   Don't interact with user and return questions
      --obscure           Force any passwords to be obscured
      --result string     Result - use with --continue
      --state string      State - use with --continue
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config delete

Delete an existing remote.

```
rclone config delete name [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for delete
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config disconnect

Disconnects user from remote

## Synopsis

This disconnects the remote: passed in to the cloud storage system.

This normally means revoking the oauth token.

To reconnect use "rclone config reconnect".

```
rclone config disconnect remote: [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for disconnect
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config dump

Dump the config file as JSON.

```
rclone config dump [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for dump
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config edit

Enter an interactive configuration session.

## Synopsis

Enter an interactive configuration session where you can setup new
remotes and manage existing ones. You may also set or remove a
password to protect your configuration.

```
rclone config edit [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for edit
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config encryption

set, remove and check the encryption for the config file

## Synopsis

This command sets, clears and checks the encryption for the config file using
the subcommands below.

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for encryption
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone config](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config/)	 - Enter an interactive configuration session.
* [rclone config encryption check](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_check/)	 - Check that the config file is encrypted
* [rclone config encryption remove](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_remove/)	 - Remove the config file encryption password
* [rclone config encryption set](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_set/)	 - Set or change the config file encryption password


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# rclone config encryption check

Check that the config file is encrypted

## Synopsis

This checks the config file is encrypted and that you can decrypt it.

It will attempt to decrypt the config using the password you supply.

If decryption fails it will return a non-zero exit code if using
`--password-command`, otherwise it will prompt again for the password.

If the config file is not encrypted it will return a non zero exit code.

```
rclone config encryption check [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for check
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone config encryption](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption/)	 - set, remove and check the encryption for the config file


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# rclone config encryption remove

Remove the config file encryption password

## Synopsis

Remove the config file encryption password

This removes the config file encryption, returning it to un-encrypted.

If `--password-command` is in use, this will be called to supply the old config
password.

If the config was not encrypted then no error will be returned and
this command will do nothing.

```
rclone config encryption remove [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for remove
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config encryption set

Set or change the config file encryption password

## Synopsis

This command sets or changes the config file encryption password.

If there was no config password set then it sets a new one, otherwise
it changes the existing config password.

Note that if you are changing an encryption password using
`--password-command` then this will be called once to decrypt the
config using the old password and then again to read the new
password to re-encrypt the config.

When `--password-command` is called to change the password then the
environment variable `RCLONE_PASSWORD_CHANGE=1` will be set. So if
changing passwords programmatically you can use the environment
variable to distinguish which password you must supply.

Alternatively you can remove the password first (with `rclone config
encryption remove`), then set it again with this command which may be
easier if you don't mind the unencrypted config file being on the disk
briefly.

```
rclone config encryption set [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for set
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config file

Show path of configuration file in use.

```
rclone config file [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for file
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config password

Update password in an existing remote.

## Synopsis

Update an existing remote's password. The password
should be passed in pairs of `key` `password` or as `key=password`.
The `password` should be passed in in clear (unobscured).

For example, to set password of a remote of name myremote you would do:

```sh
rclone config password myremote fieldname mypassword
rclone config password myremote fieldname=mypassword
```

This command is obsolete now that "config update" and "config create"
both support obscuring passwords directly.

```
rclone config password name [key value]+ [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for password
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config paths

Show paths used for configuration, cache, temp etc.

```
rclone config paths [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for paths
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config providers

List in JSON format all the providers and options.

```
rclone config providers [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for providers
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config reconnect

Re-authenticates user with remote.

## Synopsis

This reconnects remote: passed in to the cloud storage system.

To disconnect the remote use "rclone config disconnect".

This normally means going through the interactive oauth flow again.

```
rclone config reconnect remote: [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for reconnect
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config redacted

Print redacted (decrypted) config file, or the redacted config for a single remote.

## Synopsis

This prints a redacted copy of the config file, either the
whole config file or for a given remote.

The config file will be redacted by replacing all passwords and other
sensitive info with XXX.

This makes the config file suitable for posting online for support.

It should be double checked before posting as the redaction may not be perfect.

```
rclone config redacted [<remote>] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for redacted
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config show

Print (decrypted) config file, or the config for a single remote.

```
rclone config show [<remote>] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for show
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config string

Print connection string for a single remote.

## Synopsis

Print a connection string for a single remote.

The [connection strings](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings) can be used
wherever a remote is needed and can be more convenient than using the
config file, especially if using the RC API.

Backend parameters may be provided to the command also.

Example:

```sh
$ rclone config string s3:rclone --s3-no-check-bucket
:s3,access_key_id=XXX,no_check_bucket,provider=AWS,region=eu-west-2,secret_access_key=YYY:rclone
```

**NB** the strings are not quoted for use in shells (eg bash,
powershell, windows cmd). Most will work if enclosed in "double
quotes", however connection strings that contain double quotes will
require further quoting which is very shell dependent.



```
rclone config string <remote> [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for string
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config touch

Ensure configuration file exists.

```
rclone config touch [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for touch
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config unset

Unset options in an existing remote.

## Synopsis

Remove one or more options from an existing remote. The options to
remove should be passed in as a list of key names.

For example, to remove the `client_id` and `client_secret` options from
a remote of name myremote you would do:

```sh
rclone config unset myremote client_id client_secret
```

This removes the keys from the config file entirely, which is different
from setting them to an empty string with `config update`. Removing a
key restores rclone's default behaviour for that option, whereas setting
it to an empty string overrides the default with an empty value.

You can't unset the `type` of a remote - use `config delete` to remove
the whole remote instead.

```
rclone config unset name [key]+ [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for unset
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config update

Update options in an existing remote.

## Synopsis

Update an existing remote's options. The options should be passed in
pairs of `key` `value` or as `key=value`.

For example, to update the env_auth field of a remote of name myremote
you would do:

```sh
rclone config update myremote env_auth true
rclone config update myremote env_auth=true
```

If the remote uses OAuth the token will be updated, if you don't
require this add an extra parameter thus:

```sh
rclone config update myremote env_auth=true config_refresh_token=false
```

Note that if the config process would normally ask a question the
default is taken (unless `--non-interactive` is used).  Each time
that happens rclone will print or DEBUG a message saying how to
affect the value taken.

If any of the parameters passed is a password field, then rclone will
automatically obscure them if they aren't already obscured before
putting them in the config file.

**NB** If the password parameter is 22 characters or longer and
consists only of base64 characters then rclone can get confused about
whether the password is already obscured or not and put unobscured
passwords into the config file. If you want to be 100% certain that
the passwords get obscured then use the `--obscure` flag, or if you
are 100% certain you are already passing obscured passwords then use
`--no-obscure`.  You can also set obscured passwords using the
`rclone config password` command.

The flag `--non-interactive` is for use by applications that wish to
configure rclone themselves, rather than using rclone's text based
configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask
the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in
it.

This will look something like (some irrelevant detail removed):

```json
{
  "State": "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,,",
  "Option": {
    "Name": "config_is_local",
    "Help": "Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?\n * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use\n * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access\nIf not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.\n",
    "Default": true,
    "Examples": [
      {
        "Value": "true",
        "Help": "Yes"
      },
      {
        "Value": "false",
        "Help": "No"
      }
    ],
    "Required": false,
    "IsPassword": false,
    "Type": "bool",
    "Exclusive": true,
  },
  "Error": "",
}
```

The format of `Option` is the same as returned by `rclone config
providers`. The question should be asked to the user and returned to
rclone as the `--result` option along with the `--state` parameter.

The keys of `Option` are used as follows:

- `Name` - name of variable - show to user
- `Help` - help text. Hard wrapped at 80 chars. Any URLs should be clicky.
- `Default` - default value - return this if the user just wants the default.
- `Examples` - the user should be able to choose one of these
- `Required` - the value should be non-empty
- `IsPassword` - the value is a password and should be edited as such
- `Type` - type of value, eg `bool`, `string`, `int` and others
- `Exclusive` - if set no free-form entry allowed only the `Examples`
- Irrelevant keys `Provider`, `ShortOpt`, `Hide`, `NoPrefix`, `Advanced`

If `Error` is set then it should be shown to the user at the same
time as the question.

```sh
rclone config update name --continue --state "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,," --result "true"
```

Note that when using `--continue` all passwords should be passed in
the clear (not obscured). Any default config values should be passed
in with each invocation of `--continue`.

At the end of the non interactive process, rclone will return a result
with `State` as empty string.

If `--all` is passed then rclone will ask all the config questions,
not just the post config questions. Any parameters are used as
defaults for questions as usual.

Note that `bin/config.py` in the rclone source implements this protocol
as a readable demonstration.

```
rclone config update name [key value]+ [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --all               Ask the full set of config questions
      --continue          Continue the configuration process with an answer
  -h, --help              help for update
      --no-obscure        Force any passwords not to be obscured
      --no-output         Don't provide any output
      --non-interactive   Don't interact with user and return questions
      --obscure           Force any passwords to be obscured
      --result string     Result - use with --continue
      --state string      State - use with --continue
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone config userinfo

Prints info about logged in user of remote.

## Synopsis

This prints the details of the person logged in to the cloud storage
system.

```
rclone config userinfo remote: [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for userinfo
      --json   Format output as JSON
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone convmv

Convert file and directory names in place.

## Synopsis

convmv supports advanced path name transformations for converting and renaming
files and directories by applying prefixes, suffixes, and other alterations.

| Command | Description |
|------|------|
| `--name-transform prefix=XXXX` | Prepends XXXX to the file name. |
| `--name-transform suffix=XXXX` | Appends XXXX to the file name after the extension. |
| `--name-transform suffix_keep_extension=XXXX` | Appends XXXX to the file name while preserving the original file extension. |
| `--name-transform trimprefix=XXXX` | Removes XXXX if it appears at the start of the file name. |
| `--name-transform trimsuffix=XXXX` | Removes XXXX if it appears at the end of the file name. |
| `--name-transform regex=pattern/replacement` | Applies a regex-based transformation. |
| `--name-transform replace=old:new` | Replaces occurrences of old with new in the file name. |
| `--name-transform date={YYYYMMDD}` | Appends or prefixes the specified date format. |
| `--name-transform truncate=N` | Truncates the file name to a maximum of N characters. |
| `--name-transform truncate_keep_extension=N` | Truncates the file name to a maximum of N characters while preserving the original file extension. |
| `--name-transform truncate_bytes=N` | Truncates the file name to a maximum of N bytes (not characters). |
| `--name-transform truncate_bytes_keep_extension=N` | Truncates the file name to a maximum of N bytes (not characters) while preserving the original file extension. |
| `--name-transform base64encode` | Encodes the file name in Base64. |
| `--name-transform base64decode` | Decodes a Base64-encoded file name. |
| `--name-transform encoder=ENCODING` | Converts the file name to the specified encoding (e.g., ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, Macintosh). |
| `--name-transform decoder=ENCODING` | Decodes the file name from the specified encoding. |
| `--name-transform charmap=MAP` | Applies a character mapping transformation. |
| `--name-transform lowercase` | Converts the file name to lowercase. |
| `--name-transform uppercase` | Converts the file name to UPPERCASE. |
| `--name-transform titlecase` | Converts the file name to Title Case. |
| `--name-transform ascii` | Strips non-ASCII characters. |
| `--name-transform url` | URL-encodes the file name. |
| `--name-transform nfc` | Converts the file name to NFC Unicode normalization form. |
| `--name-transform nfd` | Converts the file name to NFD Unicode normalization form. |
| `--name-transform nfkc` | Converts the file name to NFKC Unicode normalization form. |
| `--name-transform nfkd` | Converts the file name to NFKD Unicode normalization form. |
| `--name-transform command=/path/to/my/programfile names.` | Executes an external program to transform. |

Conversion modes:

```text
none
nfc
nfd
nfkc
nfkd
replace
prefix
suffix
suffix_keep_extension
trimprefix
trimsuffix
index
date
truncate
truncate_keep_extension
truncate_bytes
truncate_bytes_keep_extension
base64encode
base64decode
encoder
decoder
ISO-8859-1
Windows-1252
Macintosh
charmap
lowercase
uppercase
titlecase
ascii
url
regex
command
```

Char maps:

```text
IBM-Code-Page-037
IBM-Code-Page-437
IBM-Code-Page-850
IBM-Code-Page-852
IBM-Code-Page-855
Windows-Code-Page-858
IBM-Code-Page-860
IBM-Code-Page-862
IBM-Code-Page-863
IBM-Code-Page-865
IBM-Code-Page-866
IBM-Code-Page-1047
IBM-Code-Page-1140
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-6
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
ISO-8859-9
ISO-8859-10
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-16
KOI8-R
KOI8-U
Macintosh
Macintosh-Cyrillic
Windows-874
Windows-1250
Windows-1251
Windows-1252
Windows-1253
Windows-1254
Windows-1255
Windows-1256
Windows-1257
Windows-1258
X-User-Defined
```

Encoding masks:

```text
Asterisk
BackQuote
BackSlash
Colon
CrLf
Ctl
Del
Dollar
Dot
DoubleQuote
Exclamation
Hash
InvalidUtf8
LeftCrLfHtVt
LeftPeriod
LeftSpace
LeftTilde
LtGt
None
Percent
Pipe
Question
Raw
RightCrLfHtVt
RightPeriod
RightSpace
Semicolon
SingleQuote
Slash
SquareBracket
```

Examples:

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,uppercase"
// Output: STORIES/THE QUICK BROWN FOX!.TXT
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,replace=Fox:Turtle" --name-transform "all,replace=Quick:Slow"
// Output: stories/The Slow Brown Turtle!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,base64encode"
// Output: c3Rvcmllcw==/VGhlIFF1aWNrIEJyb3duIEZveCEudHh0
```

```console
rclone convmv "c3Rvcmllcw==/VGhlIFF1aWNrIEJyb3duIEZveCEudHh0" --name-transform "all,base64decode"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt" --name-transform "all,nfc"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt" --name-transform "all,nfd"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,ascii"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown  Fox!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,trimsuffix=.txt"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox!
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,prefix=OLD_"
// Output: OLD_stories/OLD_The Quick Brown Fox!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt" --name-transform "all,charmap=ISO-8859-7"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown _ Fox Went to the Caf_!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox: A Memoir [draft].txt" --name-transform "all,encoder=Colon,SquareBracket"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox： A Memoir ［draft］.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox Went to the Café!.txt" --name-transform "all,truncate=21"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown 🦊 Fox
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,command=echo"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!" --name-transform "date=-{YYYYMMDD}"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox!-20260731
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!" --name-transform "date=-{macfriendlytime}"
// Output: stories/The Quick Brown Fox!-2026-07-31 0340PM
```

```console
rclone convmv "stories/The Quick Brown Fox!.txt" --name-transform "all,regex=[\\.\\w]/ab"
// Output: ababababababab/ababab ababababab ababababab ababab!abababab
```

The regex command generally accepts Perl-style regular expressions, the exact
syntax is defined in the [Go regular expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/).
The replacement string may contain capturing group variables, referencing
capturing groups using the syntax `$name` or `${name}`, where the name can
refer to a named capturing group or it can simply be the index as a number.
To insert a literal $, use $$.

Multiple transformations can be used in sequence, applied
in the order they are specified on the command line.

The `--name-transform` flag is also available in `sync`, `copy`, and `move`.

## Files vs Directories

By default `--name-transform` will only apply to file names. The means only the
leaf file name will be transformed. However some of the transforms would be
better applied to the whole path or just directories. To choose which which
part of the file path is affected some tags can be added to the `--name-transform`.

| Tag | Effect |
|------|------|
| `file` | Only transform the leaf name of files (DEFAULT) |
| `dir` | Only transform name of directories - these may appear anywhere in the path |
| `all` | Transform the entire path for files and directories |

This is used by adding the tag into the transform name like this:
`--name-transform file,prefix=ABC` or `--name-transform dir,prefix=DEF`.

For some conversions using all is more likely to be useful, for example
`--name-transform all,nfc`.

Note that `--name-transform` may not add path separators `/` to the name.
This will cause an error.

## Ordering and Conflicts

- Transformations will be applied in the order specified by the user.
  - If the `file` tag is in use (the default) then only the leaf name of files
    will be transformed.
  - If the `dir` tag is in use then directories anywhere in the path will be
    transformed
  - If the `all` tag is in use then directories and files anywhere in the path
    will be transformed
  - Each transformation will be run one path segment at a time.
  - If a transformation adds a `/` or ends up with an empty path segment then
    that will be an error.
- It is up to the user to put the transformations in a sensible order.
  - Conflicting transformations, such as `prefix` followed by `trimprefix` or
    `nfc` followed by `nfd`, are possible.
  - Instead of enforcing mutual exclusivity, transformations are applied in
    sequence as specified by the user, allowing for intentional use cases
    (e.g., trimming one prefix before adding another).
  - Users should be aware that certain combinations may lead to unexpected
    results and should verify transformations using `--dry-run` before execution.

## Race Conditions and Non-Deterministic Behavior

Some transformations, such as `replace=old:new`, may introduce conflicts where
multiple source files map to the same destination name. This can lead to race
conditions when performing concurrent transfers. It is up to the user to
anticipate these.

- If two files from the source are transformed into the same name at the
  destination, the final state may be non-deterministic.
- Running rclone check after a sync using such transformations may erroneously
  report missing or differing files due to overwritten results.

To minimize risks, users should:

- Carefully review transformations that may introduce conflicts.
- Use `--dry-run` to inspect changes before executing a sync (but keep in mind
  that it won't show the effect of non-deterministic transformations).
- Avoid transformations that cause multiple distinct source files to map to the
  same destination name.
- Consider disabling concurrency with `--transfers=1` if necessary.
- Certain transformations (e.g. `prefix`) will have a multiplying effect every
  time they are used. Avoid these when using `bisync`.

```
rclone convmv dest:path --name-transform XXX [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after move
      --delete-empty-src-dirs   Delete empty source dirs after move
  -h, --help                    help for convmv
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone copyto

Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.

## Synopsis

If source:path is a file or directory then it copies it to a file or
directory named dest:path.

This can be used to copy a single file to a destination with a name
different from its source - for example, uploading and renaming in one
step. If the source is a directory then it acts exactly like the
[copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) command.

So

```console
rclone copyto src dst
```

where src and dst are rclone paths, either `remote:path` or
`/path/to/local` or `C:\windows\path\if\on\windows`.

This will:

```text
if src is file
    copy it to dst, overwriting an existing file if it exists
if src is directory
    copy it to dst, overwriting existing files if they exist
    see copy command for full details
```

This doesn't transfer files that are identical on src and dst, testing
by size and modification time or MD5SUM.  It doesn't delete files from
the destination.

*If you are looking to copy just a byte range of a file, please see
`rclone cat --offset X --count Y`.*

**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view
real-time transfer statistics.

## Logger Flags

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match` and `--error`
flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or stdout if it is `-`)
supplied. What they write is described in the help below. For example
`--differ` will write all paths which are present on both the source and
destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The `--dest-after` flag writes a list file using the same format flags
as [`lsf`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis) (including [customizable options
for hash, modtime, etc.](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis))
Conceptually it is similar to rsync's `--itemize-changes`, but not identical
-- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the destination
after the command is finished.

When the `--no-traverse` flag is set, all logs involving files that exist only
on the destination will be incomplete or completely missing.

Note that these logger flags have a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:

- `--max-duration` / `CutoffModeHard`
- `--compare-dest` / `--copy-dest`
- server-side moves of an entire dir at once
- High-level retries, because there would be duplicates (use `--retries 1` to disable)
- Possibly some unusual error scenarios

Note also that each file is logged during execution, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID).

```
rclone copyto source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute                Put a leading / in front of path names
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --csv                     Output in CSV format
      --dest-after string       Report all files that exist on the dest post-sync
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
  -d, --dir-slash               Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only               Only list directories
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
      --files-only              Only list files (default true)
  -F, --format string           Output format - see lsf help for details (default "p")
      --hash h                  Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                    help for copyto
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
  -s, --separator string        Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --timeformat string       Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone copyurl

Copy the contents of the URL supplied content to dest:path.

## Synopsis

Download a URL's content and copy it to the destination without saving
it in temporary storage.

Setting `--auto-filename` will attempt to automatically determine the
filename from the URL (after any redirections) and used in the
destination path.

With `--header-filename` in addition, if a specific filename is
set in HTTP headers, it will be used instead of the name from the URL.
With `--print-filename` in addition, the resulting file name will be
printed.

Setting `--no-clobber` will prevent overwriting file on the
destination if there is one with the same name.

Setting `--stdout` or making the output file name `-`
will cause the output to be written to standard output.

Setting `--urls` allows you to input a CSV file of URLs in format: URL,
FILENAME. If `--urls` is in use then replace the URL in the arguments with the
file containing the URLs, e.g.:
```sh
rclone copyurl --urls myurls.csv remote:dir
```
Missing filenames will be autogenerated equivalent to using `--auto-filename`.
Note that `--stdout` and `--print-filename` are incompatible with `--urls`.
This will do `--transfers` copies in parallel. Note that if `--auto-filename`
is desired for all URLs then a file with only URLs and no filename can be used.

Each FILENAME in the CSV file can start with a relative path which will be appended
to the destination path provided at the command line. For example, running the command
shown above with the following CSV file will write two files to the destination: 
`remote:dir/local/path/bar.json` and `remote:dir/another/local/directory/qux.json`
```csv
https://example.org/foo/bar.json,local/path/bar.json
https://example.org/qux/baz.json,another/local/directory/qux.json
```

## Troubleshooting

If you can't get `rclone copyurl` to work then here are some things you can try:

- `--disable-http2` rclone will use HTTP2 if available - try disabling it
- `--bind 0.0.0.0` rclone will use IPv6 if available - try disabling it
- `--bind ::0` to disable IPv4
- `--user agent curl` - some sites have whitelists for curl's user-agent - try that
- Make sure the site works with `curl` directly

```
rclone copyurl https://example.com dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -a, --auto-filename     Get the file name from the URL and use it for destination file path
      --header-filename   Get the file name from the Content-Disposition header
  -h, --help              help for copyurl
      --no-clobber        Prevent overwriting file with same name
  -p, --print-filename    Print the resulting name from --auto-filename
      --stdout            Write the output to stdout rather than a file
      --urls              Use a CSV file of links to process multiple URLs
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone cryptcheck

Cryptcheck checks the integrity of an encrypted remote.

## Synopsis

Checks a remote against an [encrypted](https://rclone.org/crypt/) remote. This is the equivalent
of running rclone [check](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_check/), but able to check the
checksums of the encrypted remote.

For it to work the underlying remote of the cryptedremote must support
some kind of checksum.

It works by reading the nonce from each file on the cryptedremote: and
using that to encrypt each file on the remote:.  It then checks the
checksum of the underlying file on the cryptedremote: against the
checksum of the file it has just encrypted.

Use it like this

```console
rclone cryptcheck /path/to/files encryptedremote:path
```

You can use it like this also, but that will involve downloading all
the files in `remote:path`.

```console
rclone cryptcheck remote:path encryptedremote:path
```

After it has run it will log the status of the `encryptedremote:`.

If you supply the `--one-way` flag, it will only check that files in
the source match the files in the destination, not the other way
around. This means that extra files in the destination that are not in
the source will not be detected.

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match`
and `--error` flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or
stdout if it is `-`) supplied. What they write is described in the
help below. For example `--differ` will write all paths which are
present on both the source and destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The default number of parallel checks is 8. See the [--checkers](https://rclone.org/docs/#checkers-int)
option for more information.

```
rclone cryptcheck remote:path cryptedremote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
  -h, --help                    help for cryptcheck
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
      --one-way                 Check one way only, source files must exist on remote
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Check Options

Flags used for check commands

```text
      --max-backlog int   Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone cryptdecode

Cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names.

## Synopsis

Returns unencrypted file names when provided with a list of encrypted file
names. List limit is 10 items.

If you supply the `--reverse` flag, it will return encrypted file names.

use it like this

```console
rclone cryptdecode encryptedremote: encryptedfilename1 encryptedfilename2
rclone cryptdecode --reverse encryptedremote: filename1 filename2
```

Another way to accomplish this is by using the `rclone backend encode` (or `decode`)
command. See the documentation on the [crypt](https://rclone.org/crypt/) overlay for more info.

```
rclone cryptdecode encryptedremote: encryptedfilename [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help      help for cryptdecode
      --reverse   Reverse cryptdecode, encrypts filenames
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone deletefile

Remove a single file from remote.

## Synopsis

Remove a single file from remote.  Unlike `delete` it cannot be used to
remove a directory and it doesn't obey include/exclude filters - if the
specified file exists, it will always be removed.

```
rclone deletefile remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for deletefile
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

## See Also

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# rclone gendocs

Output markdown docs for rclone to the directory supplied.

## Synopsis

This produces markdown docs for the rclone commands to the directory
supplied.  These are in a format suitable for hugo to render into the
rclone.org website.

```
rclone gendocs output_directory [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for gendocs
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone gitannex

Speaks with git-annex over stdin/stdout.

## Synopsis

Rclone's `gitannex` subcommand enables [git-annex] to store and retrieve content
from an rclone remote. It is meant to be run by git-annex, not directly by
users.

[git-annex]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/

## Installation on Linux

1. Skip this step if your version of git-annex is [10.20240430] or newer.
   Otherwise, you must create a symlink somewhere on your PATH with a particular
   name. This symlink helps git-annex tell rclone it wants to run the "gitannex"
   subcommand.

   Create the helper symlink in "$HOME/bin":

   ```console
   ln -s "$(realpath rclone)" "$HOME/bin/git-annex-remote-rclone-builtin"

   Verify the new symlink is on your PATH:

   ```console
   which git-annex-remote-rclone-builtin
   ```

   [10.20240430]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/news/version_10.20240430/

2. Add a new remote to your git-annex repo. This new remote will connect
   git-annex with the `rclone gitannex` subcommand.

   Start by asking git-annex to describe the remote's available configuration
   parameters.

   If you skipped step 1:

   ```console
   git annex initremote MyRemote type=rclone --whatelse
   ```

   If you created a symlink in step 1:

   ```console
   git annex initremote MyRemote type=external externaltype=rclone-builtin --whatelse
    ```

   > **NOTE**: If you're porting an existing [git-annex-remote-rclone] remote to
   > use `rclone gitannex`, you can probably reuse the configuration parameters
   > verbatim without renaming them. Check parameter synonyms with `--whatelse`
   > as shown above.
   >
   > [git-annex-remote-rclone]: https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone

   The following example creates a new git-annex remote named "MyRemote" that
   will use the rclone remote named "SomeRcloneRemote". That rclone remote must
   be one configured in your rclone.conf file, which can be located with `rclone
   config file`.

   ```console
   git annex initremote MyRemote         \
       type=external                     \
       externaltype=rclone-builtin       \
       encryption=none                   \
       rcloneremotename=SomeRcloneRemote \
       rcloneprefix=git-annex-content    \
       rclonelayout=nodir
   ```

3. Before you trust this command with your precious data, be sure to **test the
   remote**. This command is very new and has not been tested on many rclone
   backends. Caveat emptor!

   ```console
   git annex testremote MyRemote
   ```

Happy annexing!

```
rclone gitannex [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for gitannex
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone gui

Open the web based GUI.

## Synopsis

This command starts an embedded web GUI for rclone and opens it in
your default browser.

This starts an RC API server and a GUI server on separate localhost
ports, generates login credentials automatically unless --no-auth
is specified, and opens the browser already authenticated.

    rclone gui

By default rclone gui serves the web GUI that was embedded into the
rclone binary at build time from https://github.com/rclone/rclone-web/
You can override this by passing a path to either an unpacked GUI
directory or a dist.zip archive (e.g. one downloaded from the
rclone-web releases page):

    rclone gui ./my-dist/
    rclone gui ./dist.zip

This is useful for iterating on the GUI locally without rebuilding
rclone, or for serving a different GUI release than the one embedded.

Use --no-open-browser to skip opening the browser automatically:

    rclone gui --no-open-browser

Use --addr to bind the GUI to a specific address:

    rclone gui --addr localhost:5580

Use --user and --pass to set specific credentials:

    rclone gui --user admin --pass secret

Use --no-auth to disable authentication entirely:

    rclone gui --no-auth

For more help see [the GUI docs](https://rclone.org/gui/).


```
rclone gui [path] [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray       IPaddress:Port for the GUI server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --api-addr stringArray   IPaddress:Port for the RC API server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --enable-metrics         Enable OpenMetrics/Prometheus compatible endpoint at /metrics
  -h, --help                   help for gui
      --no-auth                Don't require auth for the RC API
      --no-open-browser        Skip opening the browser automatically
      --pass string            Password for RC authentication
      --user string            User name for RC authentication
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### RC Options

Flags to control the Remote Control API

```text
      --rc                                 Enable the remote control server
      --rc-addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default localhost:5572)
      --rc-allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --rc-baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --rc-cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --rc-client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --rc-enable-metrics                  Enable the Prometheus metrics path at the remote control server
      --rc-files string                    Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server
      --rc-htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --rc-job-expire-duration Duration    Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s)
      --rc-job-expire-interval Duration    Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s)
      --rc-key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --rc-max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --rc-min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --rc-no-auth                         Don't require auth for certain methods
      --rc-pass string                     Password for authentication
      --rc-realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --rc-response-header stringArray     Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --rc-salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --rc-serve                           Enable the serving of remote objects
      --rc-serve-no-modtime                Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
      --rc-server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-template string                 User-specified template
      --rc-user string                     User name for authentication
      --rc-user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
      --rc-web-fetch-url string            URL to fetch the releases for webgui (default "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest")
      --rc-web-gui                         Launch WebGUI on localhost
      --rc-web-gui-force-update            Force update to latest version of web gui
      --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser         Don't open the browser automatically
      --rc-web-gui-update                  Check and update to latest version of web gui
```

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# rclone hashsum

Produces a hashsum file for all the objects in the path.

## Synopsis

Produces a hash file for all the objects in the path using the hash
named.  The output is in the same format as the standard
md5sum/sha1sum tool.

By default, the hash is requested from the remote.  If the hash is
not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned.  With the
download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and
hashed locally enabling any hash for any remote.

For the MD5 and SHA1 algorithms there are also dedicated commands,
[md5sum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_md5sum/) and [sha1sum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sha1sum/).

This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin),
by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path
when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally,
as a relative path).

Run without a hash to see the list of all supported hashes, e.g.

```console
$ rclone hashsum
Supported hashes are:
- md5
- sha1
- whirlpool
- crc32
- sha256
- sha512
- blake3
- xxh3
- xxh128
```

Then

```console
rclone hashsum MD5 remote:path
```

Note that hash names are case insensitive and values are output in lower case.

```
rclone hashsum [<hash> remote:path] [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --base64               Output base64 encoded hashsum
  -C, --checkfile string     Validate hashes against a given SUM file instead of printing them
      --download             Download the file and hash it locally; if this flag is not specified, the hash is requested from the remote
  -h, --help                 help for hashsum
      --output-file string   Output hashsums to a file rather than the terminal
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

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# rclone link

Generate public link to file/folder.

## Synopsis

Create, retrieve or remove a public link to the given file or folder.

```console
rclone link remote:path/to/file
rclone link remote:path/to/folder/
rclone link --unlink remote:path/to/folder/
rclone link --expire 1d remote:path/to/file
```

If you supply the --expire flag, it will set the expiration time
otherwise it will use the default (100 years). **Note** not all
backends support the --expire flag - if the backend doesn't support it
then the link returned won't expire.

Use the --unlink flag to remove existing public links to the file or
folder. **Note** not all backends support "--unlink" flag - those that
don't will just ignore it.

If successful, the last line of the output will contain the
link. Exact capabilities depend on the remote, but the link will
always by default be created with the least constraints - e.g. no
expiry, no password protection, accessible without account.

```
rclone link remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --expire Duration   The amount of time that the link will be valid (default off)
  -h, --help              help for link
      --unlink            Remove existing public link to file/folder
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone listremotes

List all the remotes in the config file and defined in environment variables.

## Synopsis

Lists all the available remotes from the config file, or the remotes matching
an optional filter.

Prints the result in human-readable format by default, and as a simple list of
remote names, or if used with flag `--long` a tabular format including
the remote names, types and descriptions. Using flag `--json` produces
machine-readable output instead, which always includes all attributes - including
the source (file or environment).

Result can be filtered by a filter argument which applies to all attributes,
and/or filter flags specific for each attribute. The values must be specified
according to regular rclone filtering pattern syntax.

By default filtering uses non-anchored matching, so `--type box` also
matches `dropbox`. Use `--exact` to match complete values only.

```
rclone listremotes [<filter>] [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --description string   Filter remotes by description
      --exact                Match filter strings exactly instead of using non-anchored glob matching
  -h, --help                 help for listremotes
      --json                 Format output as JSON
      --long                 Show type and description in addition to name
      --name string          Filter remotes by name
      --order-by string      Instructions on how to order the result, e.g. 'type,name=descending'
      --source string        Filter remotes by source, e.g. 'file' or 'environment'
      --type string          Filter remotes by type
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone lsf

List directories and objects in remote:path formatted for parsing.

## Synopsis

List the contents of the source path (directories and objects) to
standard output in a form which is easy to parse by scripts.  By
default this will just be the names of the objects and directories,
one per line.  The directories will have a / suffix.

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsf swift:bucket
bevajer5jef
canole
diwogej7
ferejej3gux/
fubuwic
```

Use the `--format` option to control what gets listed.  By default this
is just the path, but you can use these parameters to control the
output:

```text
p - path
s - size
t - modification time
h - hash
i - ID of object
o - Original ID of underlying object
m - MimeType of object if known
e - encrypted name
T - tier of storage if known, e.g. "Hot" or "Cool"
M - Metadata of object in JSON blob format, eg {"key":"value"}
```

Some backends use composite IDs. In particular, Google Drive shortcuts are
normally dereferenced, and their "i" field contains the target object's ID
followed by the shortcut's ID, separated by a tab. This tab is part of the ID
field and is not changed by `--separator`. Use `--drive-skip-shortcuts` to omit
shortcut entries.

So if you wanted the path, size and modification time, you would use
`--format "pst"`, or maybe `--format "tsp"` to put the path last.

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsf  --format "tsp" swift:bucket
2016-06-25 18:55:41;60295;bevajer5jef
2016-06-25 18:55:43;90613;canole
2016-06-25 18:55:43;94467;diwogej7
2018-04-26 08:50:45;0;ferejej3gux/
2016-06-25 18:55:40;37600;fubuwic
```

If you specify "h" in the format you will get the MD5 hash by default,
use the `--hash` flag to change which hash you want.  Note that this
can be returned as an empty string if it isn't available on the object
(and for directories), "ERROR" if there was an error reading it from
the object and "UNSUPPORTED" if that object does not support that hash
type.

For example, to emulate the md5sum command you can use

```console
rclone lsf -R --hash MD5 --format hp --separator "  " --files-only .
```

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsf -R --hash MD5 --format hp --separator "  " --files-only swift:bucket
7908e352297f0f530b84a756f188baa3  bevajer5jef
cd65ac234e6fea5925974a51cdd865cc  canole
03b5341b4f234b9d984d03ad076bae91  diwogej7
8fd37c3810dd660778137ac3a66cc06d  fubuwic
99713e14a4c4ff553acaf1930fad985b  gixacuh7ku
```

(Though "rclone md5sum ." is an easier way of typing this.)

By default the separator is ";" this can be changed with the
`--separator` flag.  Note that separators aren't escaped in the path so
putting it last is a good strategy.

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsf  --separator "," --format "tshp" swift:bucket
2016-06-25 18:55:41,60295,7908e352297f0f530b84a756f188baa3,bevajer5jef
2016-06-25 18:55:43,90613,cd65ac234e6fea5925974a51cdd865cc,canole
2016-06-25 18:55:43,94467,03b5341b4f234b9d984d03ad076bae91,diwogej7
2018-04-26 08:52:53,0,,ferejej3gux/
2016-06-25 18:55:40,37600,8fd37c3810dd660778137ac3a66cc06d,fubuwic
```

You can output in CSV standard format.  This will escape things in "
if they contain,

E.g.

```console
$ rclone lsf --csv --files-only --format ps remote:path
test.log,22355
test.sh,449
"this file contains a comma, in the file name.txt",6
```

Note that the `--absolute` parameter is useful for making lists of files
to pass to an rclone copy with the `--files-from-raw` flag.

For example, to find all the files modified within one day and copy
those only (without traversing the whole directory structure):

```console
rclone lsf --absolute --files-only --max-age 1d /path/to/local > new_files
rclone copy --files-from-raw new_files /path/to/local remote:path
```

The default time format is `'2006-01-02 15:04:05'`.
[Other formats](https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants) can be specified with
the `--time-format` flag. Examples:

```console
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format 'Jan 2, 2006 at 3:04pm (MST)'
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format '2006-01-02 15:04:05.000000000'
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format '2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00'
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format RFC3339
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format DateOnly
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format max
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format unix
rclone lsf remote:path --format pt --time-format unixnano
```

`--time-format max` will automatically truncate `2006-01-02 15:04:05.000000000`
to the maximum precision supported by the remote.

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this command.

There are several related list commands

- `ls` to list size and path of objects only
- `lsl` to list modification time, size and path of objects only
- `lsd` to list directories only
- `lsf` to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
- `lsjson` to list objects and directories in JSON format

`ls`,`lsl`,`lsd` are designed to be human-readable.
`lsf` is designed to be human and machine-readable.
`lsjson` is designed to be machine-readable.

Note that `ls` and `lsl` recurse by default - use `--max-depth 1` to stop the recursion.

The other list commands `lsd`,`lsf`,`lsjson` do not recurse by default -
use `-R` to make them recurse.

List commands prefer a recursive method that uses more memory but fewer
transactions by default. Use `--disable ListR` to suppress the behavior.
See [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for
remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs -
the bucket-based remotes).

```
rclone lsf remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute             Put a leading / in front of path names
      --csv                  Output in CSV format
  -d, --dir-slash            Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only            Only list directories
      --files-only           Only list files
  -F, --format string        Output format - see  help for details (default "p")
      --hash h               Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                 help for lsf
  -R, --recursive            Recurse into the listing
  -s, --separator string     Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --time-format string   Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone lsjson

List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.

## Synopsis

List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.

The output is an array of Items, where each Item looks like this:

```json
{
  "Hashes" : {
    "SHA-1" : "f572d396fae9206628714fb2ce00f72e94f2258f",
    "MD5" : "b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184",
    "DropboxHash" : "ecb65bb98f9d905b70458986c39fcbad7715e5f2fcc3b1f07767d7c83e2438cc"
  },
  "ID": "y2djkhiujf83u33",
  "OrigID": "UYOJVTUW00Q1RzTDA",
  "IsBucket" : false,
  "IsDir" : false,
  "MimeType" : "application/octet-stream",
  "ModTime" : "2017-05-31T16:15:57.034468261+01:00",
  "Name" : "file.txt",
  "Encrypted" : "v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338",
  "EncryptedPath" : "kja9098349023498/v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338",
  "Path" : "full/path/goes/here/file.txt",
  "Size" : 6,
  "Tier" : "hot",
}
```

The exact set of properties included depends on the backend:

- The property IsBucket will only be included for bucket-based remotes, and only
  for directories that are buckets. It will always be omitted when value is not true.
- Properties Encrypted and EncryptedPath will only be included for encrypted
  remotes, and (as mentioned below) only if the `--encrypted` option is set.

Different options may also affect which properties are included:

- If `--hash` is not specified, the Hashes property will be omitted. The
  types of hash can be specified with the `--hash-type` parameter (which
  may be repeated). If `--hash-type` is set then it implies `--hash`.
- If `--no-modtime` is specified then ModTime will be blank. This can
  speed things up on remotes where reading the ModTime takes an extra
  request (e.g. s3, swift).
- If `--no-mimetype` is specified then MimeType will be blank. This can
  speed things up on remotes where reading the MimeType takes an extra
  request (e.g. s3, swift).
- If `--encrypted` is not specified the Encrypted and EncryptedPath
  properties will be omitted - even for encrypted remotes.
- If `--metadata` is set then an additional Metadata property will be
  returned. This will have [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) in rclone standard format
  as a JSON object.

The default is to list directories and files/objects, but this can be changed
with the following options:

- If `--dirs-only` is specified then directories will be returned
  only, no files/objects.
- If `--files-only` is specified then files will be returned only,
  no directories.

If `--stat` is set then the output is not an array of items,
but instead a single JSON blob will be returned about the item pointed to.
This will return an error if the item isn't found, however on bucket based
backends (like s3, gcs, b2, azureblob etc) if the item isn't found it will
return an empty directory, as it isn't possible to tell empty directories
from missing directories there.

The Path field will only show folders below the remote path being listed.
If "remote:path" contains the file "subfolder/file.txt", the Path for "file.txt"
will be "subfolder/file.txt", not "remote:path/subfolder/file.txt".
When used without `--recursive` the Path will always be the same as Name.

The time is in RFC3339 format with up to nanosecond precision.  The
number of decimal digits in the seconds will depend on the precision
that the remote can hold the times, so if times are accurate to the
nearest millisecond (e.g. Google Drive) then 3 digits will always be
shown ("2017-05-31T16:15:57.034+01:00") whereas if the times are
accurate to the nearest second (Dropbox, Box, WebDav, etc.) no digits
will be shown ("2017-05-31T16:15:57+01:00").

The whole output can be processed as a JSON blob, or alternatively it
can be processed line by line as each item is written on individual lines
(except with `--stat`).

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this command.

There are several related list commands

- `ls` to list size and path of objects only
- `lsl` to list modification time, size and path of objects only
- `lsd` to list directories only
- `lsf` to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
- `lsjson` to list objects and directories in JSON format

`ls`,`lsl`,`lsd` are designed to be human-readable.
`lsf` is designed to be human and machine-readable.
`lsjson` is designed to be machine-readable.

Note that `ls` and `lsl` recurse by default - use `--max-depth 1` to stop the recursion.

The other list commands `lsd`,`lsf`,`lsjson` do not recurse by default -
use `-R` to make them recurse.

List commands prefer a recursive method that uses more memory but fewer
transactions by default. Use `--disable ListR` to suppress the behavior.
See [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for
remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs -
the bucket-based remotes).

```
rclone lsjson remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --dirs-only               Show only directories in the listing
      --encrypted               Show the encrypted names
      --files-only              Show only files in the listing
      --hash                    Include hashes in the output (may take longer)
      --hash-type stringArray   Show only this hash type (may be repeated)
  -h, --help                    help for lsjson
  -M, --metadata                Add metadata to the listing
      --no-mimetype             Don't read the mime type (can speed things up)
      --no-modtime              Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
      --original                Show the ID of the underlying Object
  -R, --recursive               Recurse into the listing
      --stat                    Just return the info for the pointed to file
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone mount

Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.

## Synopsis

Rclone mount allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to
mount any of Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with FUSE.

First set up your remote using `rclone config`. Check it works with `rclone ls`
etc.

On Linux and macOS, you can run mount in either foreground or background (aka
daemon) mode. Mount runs in foreground mode by default. Use the `--daemon` flag
to force background mode. On Windows you can run mount in foreground only,
the flag is ignored.

In background mode rclone acts as a generic Unix mount program: the main
program starts, spawns background rclone process to setup and maintain the
mount, waits until success or timeout and exits with appropriate code
(killing the child process if it fails).

On Linux/macOS/FreeBSD start the mount like this, where `/path/to/local/mount`
is an **empty** **existing** directory:

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files /path/to/local/mount
```

On Windows you can start a mount in different ways. See [below](#mounting-modes-on-windows)
for details. If foreground mount is used interactively from a console window,
rclone will serve the mount and occupy the console so another window should be
used to work with the mount until rclone is interrupted e.g. by pressing Ctrl-C.

The following examples will mount to an automatically assigned drive,
to specific drive letter `X:`, to path `C:\path\parent\mount`
(where parent directory or drive must exist, and mount must **not** exist,
and is not supported when [mounting as a network drive](#mounting-modes-on-windows)),
and the last example will mount as network share `\\cloud\remote` and map it to
an automatically assigned drive:

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files *
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:
rclone mount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount
rclone mount remote:path/to/files \\cloud\remote
```

When the program ends while in foreground mode, either via Ctrl+C or receiving
a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal, the mount should be automatically stopped.

When running in background mode the user will have to stop the mount manually:

```console
# Linux
fusermount -u /path/to/local/mount
#... or on some systems
fusermount3 -u /path/to/local/mount
# OS X or Linux when using nfsmount
umount /path/to/local/mount
```

The umount operation can fail, for example when the mountpoint is busy.
When that happens, it is the user's responsibility to stop the mount manually.

The size of the mounted file system will be set according to information retrieved
from the remote, the same as returned by the [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)
command. Remotes with unlimited storage may report the used size only,
then an additional 1 PiB of free space is assumed. If the remote does not
[support](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features) the about feature
at all, then 1 PiB is set as both the total and the free size.

## Installing on Windows

To run `rclone mount on Windows`, you will need to
download and install [WinFsp](https://winfsp.dev).

[WinFsp](https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp) is an open-source
Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space file
systems for Windows.  It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone
uses combination with [cgofuse](https://github.com/winfsp/cgofuse).
Both of these packages are by Bill Zissimopoulos who was very helpful
during the implementation of rclone mount for Windows.

### Mounting modes on windows

Unlike other operating systems, Microsoft Windows provides a different filesystem
type for network and fixed drives. It optimises access on the assumption fixed
disk drives are fast and reliable, while network drives have relatively high latency
and less reliability. Some settings can also be differentiated between the two types,
for example that Windows Explorer should just display icons and not create preview
thumbnails for image and video files on network drives.

In most cases, rclone will mount the remote as a normal, fixed disk drive by default.
However, you can also choose to mount it as a remote network drive, often described
as a network share. If you mount an rclone remote using the default, fixed drive
mode and experience unexpected program errors, freezes or other issues, consider
mounting as a network drive instead.

When mounting as a fixed disk drive you can either mount to an unused drive letter,
or to a path representing a **nonexistent** subdirectory of an **existing** parent
directory or drive. Using the special value `*` will tell rclone to
automatically assign the next available drive letter, starting with Z: and moving
backward. Examples:

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files *
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:
rclone mount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:
```

Option `--volname` can be used to set a custom volume name for the mounted
file system. The default is to use the remote name and path.

To mount as network drive, you can add option `--network-mode`
to your mount command. Mounting to a directory path is not supported in
this mode, it is a limitation Windows imposes on junctions, so the remote must always
be mounted to a drive letter.

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode
```

A volume name specified with `--volname` will be used to create the network share
path. A complete UNC path, such as `\\cloud\remote`, optionally with path
`\\cloud\remote\madeup\path`, will be used as is. Any other
string will be used as the share part, after a default prefix `\\server\`.
If no volume name is specified then `\\server\share` will be used.
You must make sure the volume name is unique when you are mounting more than one
drive, or else the mount command will fail. The share name will treated as the
volume label for the mapped drive, shown in Windows Explorer etc, while the complete
`\\server\share` will be reported as the remote UNC path by
`net use` etc, just like a normal network drive mapping.

If you specify a full network share UNC path with `--volname`, this will implicitly
set the `--network-mode` option, so the following two examples have same result:

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode
rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --volname \\server\share
```

You may also specify the network share UNC path as the mountpoint itself. Then rclone
will automatically assign a drive letter, same as with `*` and use that as
mountpoint, and instead use the UNC path specified as the volume name, as if it
were specified with the `--volname` option. This will also implicitly set
the `--network-mode` option. This means the following two examples have same result:

```console
rclone mount remote:path/to/files \\cloud\remote
rclone mount remote:path/to/files * --volname \\cloud\remote
```

There is yet another way to enable network mode, and to set the share path,
and that is to pass the "native" libfuse/WinFsp option directly:
`--fuse-flag --VolumePrefix=\server\share`. Note that the path
must be with just a single backslash prefix in this case.

*Note:* In previous versions of rclone this was the only supported method.

[Read more about drive mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_mapping)

See also [Limitations](#limitations) section below.

### Windows filesystem permissions

The FUSE emulation layer on Windows must convert between the POSIX-based
permission model used in FUSE, and the permission model used in Windows,
based on access-control lists (ACL).

The mounted filesystem will normally get three entries in its access-control list
(ACL), representing permissions for the POSIX permission scopes: Owner, group and
others. By default, the owner and group will be taken from the current user, and
the built-in group "Everyone" will be used to represent others. The user/group can
be customized with FUSE options "UserName" and "GroupName",
e.g. `-o UserName=user123 -o GroupName="Authenticated Users"`.
The permissions on each entry will be set according to [options](#options)
`--dir-perms` and `--file-perms`, which takes a value in traditional Unix
[numeric notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File-system_permissions#Numeric_notation).

The default permissions corresponds to `--file-perms 0666 --dir-perms 0777`,
i.e. read and write permissions to everyone. This means you will not be able
to start any programs from the mount. To be able to do that you must add
execute permissions, e.g. `--file-perms 0777 --dir-perms 0777` to add it
to everyone. If the program needs to write files, chances are you will
have to enable [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching) as well (see also
[limitations](#limitations)). Note that the default write permission have
some restrictions for accounts other than the owner, specifically it lacks
the "write extended attributes", as explained next.

The mapping of permissions is not always trivial, and the result you see in
Windows Explorer may not be exactly like you expected. For example, when setting
a value that includes write access for the group or others scope, this will be
mapped to individual permissions "write attributes", "write data" and
"append data", but not "write extended attributes". Windows will then show this
as basic permission "Special" instead of "Write", because "Write" also covers
the "write extended attributes" permission. When setting digit 0 for group or
others, to indicate no permissions, they will still get individual permissions
"read attributes", "read extended attributes" and "read permissions". This is
done for compatibility reasons, e.g. to allow users without additional
permissions to be able to read basic metadata about files like in Unix.

WinFsp 2021 (version 1.9) introduced a new FUSE option "FileSecurity",
that allows the complete specification of file security descriptors using
[SDDL](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/security-descriptor-string-format).
With this you get detailed control of the resulting permissions, compared
to use of the POSIX permissions described above, and no additional permissions
will be added automatically for compatibility with Unix. Some example use
cases will following.

If you set POSIX permissions for only allowing access to the owner,
using `--file-perms 0600 --dir-perms 0700`, the user group and the built-in
"Everyone" group will still be given some special permissions, as described
above. Some programs may then (incorrectly) interpret this as the file being
accessible by everyone, for example an SSH client may warn about "unprotected
private key file". You can work around this by specifying
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FA;;;OW)"`, which sets file all access (FA) to the
owner (OW), and nothing else.

When setting write permissions then, except for the owner, this does not
include the "write extended attributes" permission, as mentioned above.
This may prevent applications from writing to files, giving permission denied
error instead. To set working write permissions for the built-in "Everyone"
group, similar to what it gets by default but with the addition of the
"write extended attributes", you can specify
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FRFW;;;WD)"`, which sets file read (FR) and file
write (FW) to everyone (WD). If file execute (FX) is also needed, then change
to `-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FRFWFX;;;WD)"`, or set file all access (FA) to
get full access permissions, including delete, with
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FA;;;WD)"`.

### Windows caveats

Drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts,
not even an account that was elevated to Administrator with the
User Account Control (UAC) feature. A result of this is that if you mount
to a drive letter from a Command Prompt run as Administrator, and then try
to access the same drive from Windows Explorer (which does not run as
Administrator), you will not be able to see the mounted drive.

If you don't need to access the drive from applications running with
administrative privileges, the easiest way around this is to always
create the mount from a non-elevated command prompt.

To make mapped drives available to the user account that created them
regardless if elevated or not, there is a special Windows setting called
[linked connections](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/mapped-drives-not-available-from-elevated-command#detail-to-configure-the-enablelinkedconnections-registry-entry)
that can be enabled.

It is also possible to make a drive mount available to everyone on the system,
by running the process creating it as the built-in SYSTEM account.
There are several ways to do this: One is to use the command-line
utility [PsExec](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec),
from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which has option `-s` to start
processes as the SYSTEM account. Another alternative is to run the mount
command from a Windows Scheduled Task, or a Windows Service, configured
to run as the SYSTEM account. A third alternative is to use the
[WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure](https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Service-Architecture)).
Read more in the [install documentation](https://rclone.org/install/).
Note that when running rclone as another user, it will not use
the configuration file from your profile unless you tell it to
with the [`--config`](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-string) option.
Note also that it is now the SYSTEM account that will have the owner
permissions, and other accounts will have permissions according to the
group or others scopes. As mentioned above, these will then not get the
"write extended attributes" permission, and this may prevent writing to
files. You can work around this with the FileSecurity option, see
example above.

Note that mapping to a directory path, instead of a drive letter,
does not suffer from the same limitations.

## Mounting on macOS

Mounting on macOS can be done either via [built-in NFS server](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/),
[macFUSE](https://osxfuse.github.io/) (also known as osxfuse) or
[FUSE-T](https://www.fuse-t.org/). macFUSE is a traditional FUSE driver utilizing
a macOS kernel extension (kext). FUSE-T is an alternative FUSE system which
"mounts" via an NFSv4 local server.

### Unicode Normalization

It is highly recommended to keep the default of `--no-unicode-normalization=false`
for all `mount` and `serve` commands on macOS. For details, see [vfs-case-sensitivity](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-case-sensitivity).

### NFS mount

This method spins up an NFS server using [serve nfs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/)
command and mounts it to the specified mountpoint. If you run this in background
mode using |--daemon|, you will need to send SIGTERM signal to the rclone process
using |kill| command to stop the mount.

Note that `--nfs-cache-handle-limit` controls the maximum number of cached file
handles stored by the `nfsmount` caching handler. This should not be set too low
or you may experience errors when trying to access files. The default is 1000000,
but consider lowering this limit if the server's system resource usage causes problems.

### macFUSE Notes

If installing macFUSE using [dmg packages](https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/releases)
from the website, rclone will locate the macFUSE libraries without any further intervention.
If however, macFUSE is installed using the [macports](https://www.macports.org/)
package manager, the following addition steps are required.

```console
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib
```

### FUSE-T Limitations, Caveats, and Notes

There are some limitations, caveats, and notes about how it works. These are
current as  of FUSE-T version 1.0.14.

#### ModTime update on read

As per the [FUSE-T wiki](https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/wiki#caveats):

> File access and modification times cannot be set separately as it seems to be
> an issue with the NFS client which always modifies both. Can be reproduced
> with `touch -m` and `touch -a` commands

This means that viewing files with various tools, notably macOS Finder, will
cause rlcone to update the modification time of the file. This may make rclone
upload a full new copy of the file.

#### Read Only mounts

When mounting with `--read-only`, attempts to write to files will fail *silently*
as opposed to with a clear warning as in macFUSE.

## Mounting on Linux

On newer versions of Ubuntu, you may encounter the following error when running
`rclone mount`:

> NOTICE: mount helper error: fusermount3: mount failed: Permission denied
> CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1

This may be due to newer [Apparmor](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor) restrictions,
which can be disabled with `sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/fusermount3` (you may need
to `sudo apt install apparmor-utils` beforehand).

## Mounting on OpenBSD

`rclone nfsmount` works on OpenBSD by spinning up the [serve nfs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/)
server and mounting it with the system `mount_nfs(8)`, the same approach used
for the NFS mount method on macOS. There is no FUSE-based mount option on
OpenBSD, so `nfsmount` is the only way to mount rclone remotes as a local
file system there.

### portmap registration

OpenBSD's kernel NFS client locates `mountd` through the system portmapper
rather than connecting to a fixed port, so rclone's in-process NFS server
needs to be registered with portmap before it can be mounted. Start the
`serve nfs` server on a fixed port, stop the system NFS services so they
don't conflict with it, then register that port with portmap for both the
`nfs` and `mountd` RPC programs (this is the recipe from
[hjicks in #8578](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8578#issuecomment-2799229652)):

```console
rclone serve nfs --addr localhost:<PORT> remote:path

doas rcctl stop nfsd portmap
doas pkill -9 mountd   # mountd can't be stopped via rcctl(8)
doas rcctl -f start portmap
doas rpcinfo -s nfs 3 <PORT>
doas rpcinfo -s mountd 3 <PORT>
```

Replace `<PORT>` with the port passed to `--addr`. Port 2049 works too, but
needs either running rclone as root or adjusting `sysctl(8)` at
securelevel 0, so a non-privileged port is simpler for testing.

### Use `mount_nfs -T`, not `mount`

Mount the exported NFS share directly with `mount_nfs(8)` using the `-T`
flag to force TCP, rather than the generic `mount(8)` wrapper - OpenBSD's
`mount(8)` does not understand `-T` and rejects it with `unknown option -- T`:

```console
mount_nfs -T localhost:/ /path/to/local/mount
```

`rclone nfsmount` does this for you automatically on OpenBSD (it calls
`mount_nfs` directly with `-T` instead of going through `mount`), so this
is only needed if you are mounting the `serve nfs` export by hand.

### AUTH_UNIX and existing limitations

OpenBSD's (and the other BSDs') kernel NFS client requires the server to
offer the `AUTH_UNIX` authentication flavor during the MOUNT RPC handshake;
a server that only offers `AUTH_NULL` is rejected with
`mount_nfs: can't access /: Authentication error`. rclone's NFS server
advertises `AUTH_UNIX` for this reason, though it does not implement any
per-user access control on top of it - see
[issue #8578](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8578) for the
background on this and for the current state of OpenBSD support.

## Limitations

Without the use of `--vfs-cache-mode` this can only write files
sequentially, it can only seek when reading.  This means that many
applications won't work with their files on an rclone mount without
`--vfs-cache-mode writes` or `--vfs-cache-mode full`.
See the [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching) section for more info.
When using NFS mount on macOS, if you don't specify |--vfs-cache-mode|
the mount point will be read-only.

Bucket-based remotes - Azure Blob, Swift, S3, Google Cloud Storage and B2 -
can't store empty directories. Of these, only Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage
and S3 can preserve them when you add `--xxx-directory_markers`; otherwise,
empty directories will vanish once they drop out of the directory cache.

When `rclone mount` is invoked on Unix with `--daemon` flag, the main rclone
program will wait for the background mount to become ready or until the timeout
specified by the `--daemon-wait` flag. On Linux it can check mount status using
ProcFS so the flag in fact sets **maximum** time to wait, while the real wait
can be less. On macOS / BSD the time to wait is constant and the check is
performed only at the end. We advise you to set wait time on macOS reasonably.

Only supported on Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows at the moment.

## rclone mount vs rclone sync/copy

File systems expect things to be 100% reliable, whereas cloud storage
systems are a long way from 100% reliable. The rclone sync/copy
commands cope with this with lots of retries.  However rclone mount
can't use retries in the same way without making local copies of the
uploads. Look at the [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching)
for solutions to make mount more reliable.

## Attribute caching

You can use the flag `--attr-timeout` to set the time the kernel caches
the attributes (size, modification time, etc.) for directory entries.

The default is `1s` which caches files just long enough to avoid
too many callbacks to rclone from the kernel.

In theory 0s should be the correct value for filesystems which can
change outside the control of the kernel. However this causes quite a
few problems such as
[rclone using too much memory](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2157),
[rclone not serving files to samba](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-1-39-vs-1-40-mount-issue/5112)
and [excessive time listing directories](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2095#issuecomment-371141147).

The kernel can cache the info about a file for the time given by
`--attr-timeout`. You may see corruption if the remote file changes
length during this window.  It will show up as either a truncated file
or a file with garbage on the end.  With `--attr-timeout 1s` this is
very unlikely but not impossible.  The higher you set `--attr-timeout`
the more likely it is.  The default setting of "1s" is the lowest
setting which mitigates the problems above.

If you set it higher (`10s` or `1m` say) then the kernel will call
back to rclone less often making it more efficient, however there is
more chance of the corruption issue above.

If files don't change on the remote outside of the control of rclone
then there is no chance of corruption.

This is the same as setting the attr_timeout option in mount.fuse.

## Filters

Note that all the rclone filters can be used to select a subset of the
files to be visible in the mount.

## systemd

When running rclone mount as a systemd service, it is possible
to use Type=notify. In this case the service will enter the started state
after the mountpoint has been successfully set up.
Units having the rclone mount service specified as a requirement
will see all files and folders immediately in this mode.

Note that systemd runs mount units without any environment variables including
`PATH` or `HOME`. This means that tilde (`~`) expansion will not work
and you should provide `--config` and `--cache-dir` explicitly as absolute
paths via rclone arguments.
Since mounting requires the `fusermount` or `fusermount3` program,
rclone will use the fallback PATH of `/bin:/usr/bin` in this scenario.
Please ensure that `fusermount`/`fusermount3` is present on this PATH.

## Rclone as Unix mount helper

The core Unix program `/bin/mount` normally takes the `-t FSTYPE` argument
then runs the `/sbin/mount.FSTYPE` helper program passing it mount options
as `-o key=val,...` or `--opt=...`. Automount (classic or systemd) behaves
in a similar way.

rclone by default expects GNU-style flags `--key val`. To run it as a mount
helper you should symlink rclone binary to `/sbin/mount.rclone` and optionally
`/usr/bin/rclonefs`, e.g. `ln -s /usr/bin/rclone /sbin/mount.rclone`.
rclone will detect it and translate command-line arguments appropriately.

Now you can run classic mounts like this:

```console
mount sftp1:subdir /mnt/data -t rclone -o vfs_cache_mode=writes,sftp_key_file=/path/to/pem
```

or create systemd mount units:

```ini
# /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount for /mnt/data
[Mount]
Type=rclone
What=sftp1:subdir
Where=/mnt/data
Options=rw,_netdev,allow_other,args2env,vfs-cache-mode=writes,config=/etc/rclone.conf,cache-dir=/var/rclone
```

optionally accompanied by systemd automount unit

```ini
# /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.automount
[Unit]
Description=AutoMount for /mnt/data
[Automount]
Where=/mnt/data
TimeoutIdleSec=600
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

or add in `/etc/fstab` a line like

```console
sftp1:subdir /mnt/data rclone rw,noauto,nofail,_netdev,x-systemd.automount,args2env,vfs_cache_mode=writes,config=/etc/rclone.conf,cache_dir=/var/cache/rclone 0 0
```

or use classic Automountd.
Remember to provide explicit `config=...,cache-dir=...` as a workaround for
mount units being run without `HOME`.

Rclone in the mount helper mode will split `-o` argument(s) by comma, replace `_`
by `-` and prepend `--` to get the command-line flags. Options containing commas
or spaces can be wrapped in single or double quotes. Any inner quotes inside outer
quotes of the same type should be doubled.

Mount option syntax includes a few extra options treated specially:

- `env.NAME=VALUE` will set an environment variable for the mount process.
  This helps with Automountd and Systemd.mount which don't allow setting
  custom environment for mount helpers.
  Typically you will use `env.HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.host:3128` or `env.HOME=/root`
- `command=cmount` can be used to run `cmount` or any other rclone command
  rather than the default `mount`.
- `args2env` will pass mount options to the mount helper running in background
  via environment variables instead of command line arguments. This allows to
  hide secrets from such commands as `ps` or `pgrep`.
- `vv...` will be transformed into appropriate `--verbose=N`
- standard mount options like `x-systemd.automount`, `_netdev`, `nosuid` and alike
  are intended only for Automountd and ignored by rclone.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone mount remote:path /path/to/mountpoint [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --allow-idmap                            Allow id-mapped mounts (Linux 6.12+, mount2 only)
      --allow-non-empty                        Allow mounting over a non-empty directory (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-other                            Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-root                             Allow access to root user (not supported on Windows)
      --async-read                             Use asynchronous reads (not supported on Windows) (default true)
      --attr-timeout Duration                  Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s)
      --daemon                                 Run mount in background and exit parent process (as background output is suppressed, use --log-file with --log-format=pid,... to monitor) (not supported on Windows)
      --daemon-timeout Duration                Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) (default 0s)
      --daemon-wait Duration                   Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s)
      --debug-fuse                             Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v
      --default-permissions                    Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode (not supported on Windows)
      --devname string                         Set the device name - default is remote:path
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --direct-io                              Use Direct IO, disables caching of data
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --fuse-flag stringArray                  Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for mount
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-read-ahead SizeSuffix              The number of bytes that can be prefetched for sequential reads (not supported on Windows) (default 128Ki)
      --mount-case-insensitive Tristate        Tell the OS the mount is case insensitive (true) or sensitive (false) regardless of the backend (auto) (default unset)
      --network-mode                           Mount as remote network drive, instead of fixed disk drive (supported on Windows only)
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --noappledouble                          Ignore Apple Double (._) and .DS_Store files (supported on OSX only) (default true)
      --noapplexattr                           Ignore all "com.apple.*" extended attributes (supported on OSX only)
  -o, --option stringArray                     Option for libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      --volname string                         Set the volume name (supported on Windows and OSX only)
      --write-back-cache                       Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone (without this, writethrough caching is used) (not supported on Windows)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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# rclone moveto

Move file or directory from source to dest.

## Synopsis

If source:path is a file or directory then it moves it to a file or
directory named dest:path.

This can be used to rename files or upload single files to other than
their existing name.  If the source is a directory then it acts exactly
like the [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/) command.

So

```console
rclone moveto src dst
```

where src and dst are rclone paths, either remote:path or
/path/to/local or C:\windows\path\if\on\windows.

This will:

```text
if src is file
    move it to dst, overwriting an existing file if it exists
if src is directory
    move it to dst, overwriting existing files if they exist
    see move command for full details
```

This doesn't transfer files that are identical on src and dst, testing
by size and modification time or MD5SUM.  src will be deleted on
successful transfer.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the
`--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

## Logger Flags

The `--differ`, `--missing-on-dst`, `--missing-on-src`, `--match` and `--error`
flags write paths, one per line, to the file name (or stdout if it is `-`)
supplied. What they write is described in the help below. For example
`--differ` will write all paths which are present on both the source and
destination but different.

The `--combined` flag will write a file (or stdout) which contains all
file paths with a symbol and then a space and then the path to tell
you what happened to it. These are reminiscent of diff files.

- `= path` means path was found in source and destination and was identical
- `- path` means path was missing on the source, so only in the destination
- `+ path` means path was missing on the destination, so only in the source
- `* path` means path was present in source and destination but different.
- `! path` means there was an error reading or hashing the source or dest.

The `--dest-after` flag writes a list file using the same format flags
as [`lsf`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis) (including [customizable options
for hash, modtime, etc.](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/#synopsis))
Conceptually it is similar to rsync's `--itemize-changes`, but not identical
-- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the destination
after the command is finished.

When the `--no-traverse` flag is set, all logs involving files that exist only
on the destination will be incomplete or completely missing.

Note that these logger flags have a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:

- `--max-duration` / `CutoffModeHard`
- `--compare-dest` / `--copy-dest`
- server-side moves of an entire dir at once
- High-level retries, because there would be duplicates (use `--retries 1` to disable)
- Possibly some unusual error scenarios

Note also that each file is logged during execution, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID).

```
rclone moveto source:path dest:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --absolute                Put a leading / in front of path names
      --combined string         Make a combined report of changes to this file
      --csv                     Output in CSV format
      --dest-after string       Report all files that exist on the dest post-sync
      --differ string           Report all non-matching files to this file
  -d, --dir-slash               Append a slash to directory names (default true)
      --dirs-only               Only list directories
      --error string            Report all files with errors (hashing or reading) to this file
      --files-only              Only list files (default true)
  -F, --format string           Output format - see lsf help for details (default "p")
      --hash h                  Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "md5")
  -h, --help                    help for moveto
      --match string            Report all matching files to this file
      --missing-on-dst string   Report all files missing from the destination to this file
      --missing-on-src string   Report all files missing from the source to this file
  -s, --separator string        Separator for the items in the format (default ";")
  -t, --timeformat string       Specify a custom time format - see docs for details (default: 2006-01-02 15:04:05)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Copy Options

Flags for anything which can copy a file

```text
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone ncdu

Explore a remote with a text based user interface.

## Synopsis

This displays a text based user interface allowing the navigation of a
remote. It is most useful for answering the question - "What is using
all my disk space?".



To make the user interface it first scans the entire remote given and
builds an in memory representation.  rclone ncdu can be used during
this scanning phase and you will see it building up the directory
structure as it goes along.

You can interact with the user interface using key presses,
press '?' to toggle the help on and off. The supported keys are:

```text
 ↑,↓ or k,j to Move
 →,l to enter
 ←,h to return
 g toggle graph
 c toggle counts
 a toggle average size in directory
 m toggle modified time
 u toggle human-readable format
 n,s,C,A,M sort by name,size,count,asize,mtime
 d delete file/directory
 v select file/directory
 V enter visual select mode
 D delete selected files/directories
 y copy current path to clipboard
 Y display current path
 ^L refresh screen (fix screen corruption)
 r recalculate file sizes
 ? to toggle help on and off
 ESC to close the menu box
 q/^c to quit
```

Listed files/directories may be prefixed by a one-character flag,
some of them combined with a description in brackets at end of line.
These flags have the following meaning:

```text
e means this is an empty directory, i.e. contains no files (but
  may contain empty subdirectories)
~ means this is a directory where some of the files (possibly in
  subdirectories) have unknown size, and therefore the directory
  size may be underestimated (and average size inaccurate, as it
  is average of the files with known sizes).
. means an error occurred while reading a subdirectory, and
  therefore the directory size may be underestimated (and average
  size inaccurate)
! means an error occurred while reading this directory
```

This an homage to the [ncdu tool](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) but for
rclone remotes.  It is missing lots of features at the moment
but is useful as it stands. Unlike ncdu it does not show excluded files.

Note that it might take some time to delete big files/directories. The
UI won't respond in the meantime since the deletion is done synchronously.

For a non-interactive listing of the remote, see the
[tree](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_tree/) command. To just get the total size of
the remote you can also use the [size](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_size/) command.

```
rclone ncdu remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for ncdu
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone nfsmount

Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.

## Synopsis

Rclone nfsmount allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to
mount any of Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with FUSE.

First set up your remote using `rclone config`. Check it works with `rclone ls`
etc.

On Linux and macOS, you can run mount in either foreground or background (aka
daemon) mode. Mount runs in foreground mode by default. Use the `--daemon` flag
to force background mode. On Windows you can run mount in foreground only,
the flag is ignored.

In background mode rclone acts as a generic Unix mount program: the main
program starts, spawns background rclone process to setup and maintain the
mount, waits until success or timeout and exits with appropriate code
(killing the child process if it fails).

On Linux/macOS/FreeBSD start the mount like this, where `/path/to/local/mount`
is an **empty** **existing** directory:

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files /path/to/local/mount
```

On Windows you can start a mount in different ways. See [below](#mounting-modes-on-windows)
for details. If foreground mount is used interactively from a console window,
rclone will serve the mount and occupy the console so another window should be
used to work with the mount until rclone is interrupted e.g. by pressing Ctrl-C.

The following examples will mount to an automatically assigned drive,
to specific drive letter `X:`, to path `C:\path\parent\mount`
(where parent directory or drive must exist, and mount must **not** exist,
and is not supported when [mounting as a network drive](#mounting-modes-on-windows)),
and the last example will mount as network share `\\cloud\remote` and map it to
an automatically assigned drive:

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files *
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X:
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files \\cloud\remote
```

When the program ends while in foreground mode, either via Ctrl+C or receiving
a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal, the mount should be automatically stopped.

When running in background mode the user will have to stop the mount manually:

```console
# Linux
fusermount -u /path/to/local/mount
#... or on some systems
fusermount3 -u /path/to/local/mount
# OS X or Linux when using nfsmount
umount /path/to/local/mount
```

The umount operation can fail, for example when the mountpoint is busy.
When that happens, it is the user's responsibility to stop the mount manually.

The size of the mounted file system will be set according to information retrieved
from the remote, the same as returned by the [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)
command. Remotes with unlimited storage may report the used size only,
then an additional 1 PiB of free space is assumed. If the remote does not
[support](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features) the about feature
at all, then 1 PiB is set as both the total and the free size.

## Installing on Windows

To run `rclone nfsmount on Windows`, you will need to
download and install [WinFsp](https://winfsp.dev).

[WinFsp](https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp) is an open-source
Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space file
systems for Windows.  It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone
uses combination with [cgofuse](https://github.com/winfsp/cgofuse).
Both of these packages are by Bill Zissimopoulos who was very helpful
during the implementation of rclone nfsmount for Windows.

### Mounting modes on windows

Unlike other operating systems, Microsoft Windows provides a different filesystem
type for network and fixed drives. It optimises access on the assumption fixed
disk drives are fast and reliable, while network drives have relatively high latency
and less reliability. Some settings can also be differentiated between the two types,
for example that Windows Explorer should just display icons and not create preview
thumbnails for image and video files on network drives.

In most cases, rclone will mount the remote as a normal, fixed disk drive by default.
However, you can also choose to mount it as a remote network drive, often described
as a network share. If you mount an rclone remote using the default, fixed drive
mode and experience unexpected program errors, freezes or other issues, consider
mounting as a network drive instead.

When mounting as a fixed disk drive you can either mount to an unused drive letter,
or to a path representing a **nonexistent** subdirectory of an **existing** parent
directory or drive. Using the special value `*` will tell rclone to
automatically assign the next available drive letter, starting with Z: and moving
backward. Examples:

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files *
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X:
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X:
```

Option `--volname` can be used to set a custom volume name for the mounted
file system. The default is to use the remote name and path.

To mount as network drive, you can add option `--network-mode`
to your nfsmount command. Mounting to a directory path is not supported in
this mode, it is a limitation Windows imposes on junctions, so the remote must always
be mounted to a drive letter.

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode
```

A volume name specified with `--volname` will be used to create the network share
path. A complete UNC path, such as `\\cloud\remote`, optionally with path
`\\cloud\remote\madeup\path`, will be used as is. Any other
string will be used as the share part, after a default prefix `\\server\`.
If no volume name is specified then `\\server\share` will be used.
You must make sure the volume name is unique when you are mounting more than one
drive, or else the mount command will fail. The share name will treated as the
volume label for the mapped drive, shown in Windows Explorer etc, while the complete
`\\server\share` will be reported as the remote UNC path by
`net use` etc, just like a normal network drive mapping.

If you specify a full network share UNC path with `--volname`, this will implicitly
set the `--network-mode` option, so the following two examples have same result:

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files X: --volname \\server\share
```

You may also specify the network share UNC path as the mountpoint itself. Then rclone
will automatically assign a drive letter, same as with `*` and use that as
mountpoint, and instead use the UNC path specified as the volume name, as if it
were specified with the `--volname` option. This will also implicitly set
the `--network-mode` option. This means the following two examples have same result:

```console
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files \\cloud\remote
rclone nfsmount remote:path/to/files * --volname \\cloud\remote
```

There is yet another way to enable network mode, and to set the share path,
and that is to pass the "native" libfuse/WinFsp option directly:
`--fuse-flag --VolumePrefix=\server\share`. Note that the path
must be with just a single backslash prefix in this case.

*Note:* In previous versions of rclone this was the only supported method.

[Read more about drive mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_mapping)

See also [Limitations](#limitations) section below.

### Windows filesystem permissions

The FUSE emulation layer on Windows must convert between the POSIX-based
permission model used in FUSE, and the permission model used in Windows,
based on access-control lists (ACL).

The mounted filesystem will normally get three entries in its access-control list
(ACL), representing permissions for the POSIX permission scopes: Owner, group and
others. By default, the owner and group will be taken from the current user, and
the built-in group "Everyone" will be used to represent others. The user/group can
be customized with FUSE options "UserName" and "GroupName",
e.g. `-o UserName=user123 -o GroupName="Authenticated Users"`.
The permissions on each entry will be set according to [options](#options)
`--dir-perms` and `--file-perms`, which takes a value in traditional Unix
[numeric notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File-system_permissions#Numeric_notation).

The default permissions corresponds to `--file-perms 0666 --dir-perms 0777`,
i.e. read and write permissions to everyone. This means you will not be able
to start any programs from the mount. To be able to do that you must add
execute permissions, e.g. `--file-perms 0777 --dir-perms 0777` to add it
to everyone. If the program needs to write files, chances are you will
have to enable [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching) as well (see also
[limitations](#limitations)). Note that the default write permission have
some restrictions for accounts other than the owner, specifically it lacks
the "write extended attributes", as explained next.

The mapping of permissions is not always trivial, and the result you see in
Windows Explorer may not be exactly like you expected. For example, when setting
a value that includes write access for the group or others scope, this will be
mapped to individual permissions "write attributes", "write data" and
"append data", but not "write extended attributes". Windows will then show this
as basic permission "Special" instead of "Write", because "Write" also covers
the "write extended attributes" permission. When setting digit 0 for group or
others, to indicate no permissions, they will still get individual permissions
"read attributes", "read extended attributes" and "read permissions". This is
done for compatibility reasons, e.g. to allow users without additional
permissions to be able to read basic metadata about files like in Unix.

WinFsp 2021 (version 1.9) introduced a new FUSE option "FileSecurity",
that allows the complete specification of file security descriptors using
[SDDL](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/security-descriptor-string-format).
With this you get detailed control of the resulting permissions, compared
to use of the POSIX permissions described above, and no additional permissions
will be added automatically for compatibility with Unix. Some example use
cases will following.

If you set POSIX permissions for only allowing access to the owner,
using `--file-perms 0600 --dir-perms 0700`, the user group and the built-in
"Everyone" group will still be given some special permissions, as described
above. Some programs may then (incorrectly) interpret this as the file being
accessible by everyone, for example an SSH client may warn about "unprotected
private key file". You can work around this by specifying
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FA;;;OW)"`, which sets file all access (FA) to the
owner (OW), and nothing else.

When setting write permissions then, except for the owner, this does not
include the "write extended attributes" permission, as mentioned above.
This may prevent applications from writing to files, giving permission denied
error instead. To set working write permissions for the built-in "Everyone"
group, similar to what it gets by default but with the addition of the
"write extended attributes", you can specify
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FRFW;;;WD)"`, which sets file read (FR) and file
write (FW) to everyone (WD). If file execute (FX) is also needed, then change
to `-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FRFWFX;;;WD)"`, or set file all access (FA) to
get full access permissions, including delete, with
`-o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FA;;;WD)"`.

### Windows caveats

Drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts,
not even an account that was elevated to Administrator with the
User Account Control (UAC) feature. A result of this is that if you mount
to a drive letter from a Command Prompt run as Administrator, and then try
to access the same drive from Windows Explorer (which does not run as
Administrator), you will not be able to see the mounted drive.

If you don't need to access the drive from applications running with
administrative privileges, the easiest way around this is to always
create the mount from a non-elevated command prompt.

To make mapped drives available to the user account that created them
regardless if elevated or not, there is a special Windows setting called
[linked connections](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/mapped-drives-not-available-from-elevated-command#detail-to-configure-the-enablelinkedconnections-registry-entry)
that can be enabled.

It is also possible to make a drive mount available to everyone on the system,
by running the process creating it as the built-in SYSTEM account.
There are several ways to do this: One is to use the command-line
utility [PsExec](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec),
from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which has option `-s` to start
processes as the SYSTEM account. Another alternative is to run the mount
command from a Windows Scheduled Task, or a Windows Service, configured
to run as the SYSTEM account. A third alternative is to use the
[WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure](https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Service-Architecture)).
Read more in the [install documentation](https://rclone.org/install/).
Note that when running rclone as another user, it will not use
the configuration file from your profile unless you tell it to
with the [`--config`](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-string) option.
Note also that it is now the SYSTEM account that will have the owner
permissions, and other accounts will have permissions according to the
group or others scopes. As mentioned above, these will then not get the
"write extended attributes" permission, and this may prevent writing to
files. You can work around this with the FileSecurity option, see
example above.

Note that mapping to a directory path, instead of a drive letter,
does not suffer from the same limitations.

## Mounting on macOS

Mounting on macOS can be done either via [built-in NFS server](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/),
[macFUSE](https://osxfuse.github.io/) (also known as osxfuse) or
[FUSE-T](https://www.fuse-t.org/). macFUSE is a traditional FUSE driver utilizing
a macOS kernel extension (kext). FUSE-T is an alternative FUSE system which
"mounts" via an NFSv4 local server.

### Unicode Normalization

It is highly recommended to keep the default of `--no-unicode-normalization=false`
for all `mount` and `serve` commands on macOS. For details, see [vfs-case-sensitivity](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-case-sensitivity).

### NFS mount

This method spins up an NFS server using [serve nfs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/)
command and mounts it to the specified mountpoint. If you run this in background
mode using |--daemon|, you will need to send SIGTERM signal to the rclone process
using |kill| command to stop the mount.

Note that `--nfs-cache-handle-limit` controls the maximum number of cached file
handles stored by the `nfsmount` caching handler. This should not be set too low
or you may experience errors when trying to access files. The default is 1000000,
but consider lowering this limit if the server's system resource usage causes problems.

### macFUSE Notes

If installing macFUSE using [dmg packages](https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/releases)
from the website, rclone will locate the macFUSE libraries without any further intervention.
If however, macFUSE is installed using the [macports](https://www.macports.org/)
package manager, the following addition steps are required.

```console
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib
```

### FUSE-T Limitations, Caveats, and Notes

There are some limitations, caveats, and notes about how it works. These are
current as  of FUSE-T version 1.0.14.

#### ModTime update on read

As per the [FUSE-T wiki](https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/wiki#caveats):

> File access and modification times cannot be set separately as it seems to be
> an issue with the NFS client which always modifies both. Can be reproduced
> with `touch -m` and `touch -a` commands

This means that viewing files with various tools, notably macOS Finder, will
cause rlcone to update the modification time of the file. This may make rclone
upload a full new copy of the file.

#### Read Only mounts

When mounting with `--read-only`, attempts to write to files will fail *silently*
as opposed to with a clear warning as in macFUSE.

## Mounting on Linux

On newer versions of Ubuntu, you may encounter the following error when running
`rclone mount`:

> NOTICE: mount helper error: fusermount3: mount failed: Permission denied
> CRITICAL: Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1

This may be due to newer [Apparmor](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor) restrictions,
which can be disabled with `sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/fusermount3` (you may need
to `sudo apt install apparmor-utils` beforehand).

## Mounting on OpenBSD

`rclone nfsmount` works on OpenBSD by spinning up the [serve nfs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/)
server and mounting it with the system `mount_nfs(8)`, the same approach used
for the NFS mount method on macOS. There is no FUSE-based mount option on
OpenBSD, so `nfsmount` is the only way to mount rclone remotes as a local
file system there.

### portmap registration

OpenBSD's kernel NFS client locates `mountd` through the system portmapper
rather than connecting to a fixed port, so rclone's in-process NFS server
needs to be registered with portmap before it can be mounted. Start the
`serve nfs` server on a fixed port, stop the system NFS services so they
don't conflict with it, then register that port with portmap for both the
`nfs` and `mountd` RPC programs (this is the recipe from
[hjicks in #8578](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8578#issuecomment-2799229652)):

```console
rclone serve nfs --addr localhost:<PORT> remote:path

doas rcctl stop nfsd portmap
doas pkill -9 mountd   # mountd can't be stopped via rcctl(8)
doas rcctl -f start portmap
doas rpcinfo -s nfs 3 <PORT>
doas rpcinfo -s mountd 3 <PORT>
```

Replace `<PORT>` with the port passed to `--addr`. Port 2049 works too, but
needs either running rclone as root or adjusting `sysctl(8)` at
securelevel 0, so a non-privileged port is simpler for testing.

### Use `mount_nfs -T`, not `mount`

Mount the exported NFS share directly with `mount_nfs(8)` using the `-T`
flag to force TCP, rather than the generic `mount(8)` wrapper - OpenBSD's
`mount(8)` does not understand `-T` and rejects it with `unknown option -- T`:

```console
mount_nfs -T localhost:/ /path/to/local/mount
```

`rclone nfsmount` does this for you automatically on OpenBSD (it calls
`mount_nfs` directly with `-T` instead of going through `mount`), so this
is only needed if you are mounting the `serve nfs` export by hand.

### AUTH_UNIX and existing limitations

OpenBSD's (and the other BSDs') kernel NFS client requires the server to
offer the `AUTH_UNIX` authentication flavor during the MOUNT RPC handshake;
a server that only offers `AUTH_NULL` is rejected with
`mount_nfs: can't access /: Authentication error`. rclone's NFS server
advertises `AUTH_UNIX` for this reason, though it does not implement any
per-user access control on top of it - see
[issue #8578](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8578) for the
background on this and for the current state of OpenBSD support.

## Limitations

Without the use of `--vfs-cache-mode` this can only write files
sequentially, it can only seek when reading.  This means that many
applications won't work with their files on an rclone mount without
`--vfs-cache-mode writes` or `--vfs-cache-mode full`.
See the [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching) section for more info.
When using NFS mount on macOS, if you don't specify |--vfs-cache-mode|
the mount point will be read-only.

Bucket-based remotes - Azure Blob, Swift, S3, Google Cloud Storage and B2 -
can't store empty directories. Of these, only Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage
and S3 can preserve them when you add `--xxx-directory_markers`; otherwise,
empty directories will vanish once they drop out of the directory cache.

When `rclone mount` is invoked on Unix with `--daemon` flag, the main rclone
program will wait for the background mount to become ready or until the timeout
specified by the `--daemon-wait` flag. On Linux it can check mount status using
ProcFS so the flag in fact sets **maximum** time to wait, while the real wait
can be less. On macOS / BSD the time to wait is constant and the check is
performed only at the end. We advise you to set wait time on macOS reasonably.

Only supported on Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows at the moment.

## rclone nfsmount vs rclone sync/copy

File systems expect things to be 100% reliable, whereas cloud storage
systems are a long way from 100% reliable. The rclone sync/copy
commands cope with this with lots of retries.  However rclone nfsmount
can't use retries in the same way without making local copies of the
uploads. Look at the [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching)
for solutions to make nfsmount more reliable.

## Attribute caching

You can use the flag `--attr-timeout` to set the time the kernel caches
the attributes (size, modification time, etc.) for directory entries.

The default is `1s` which caches files just long enough to avoid
too many callbacks to rclone from the kernel.

In theory 0s should be the correct value for filesystems which can
change outside the control of the kernel. However this causes quite a
few problems such as
[rclone using too much memory](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2157),
[rclone not serving files to samba](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-1-39-vs-1-40-mount-issue/5112)
and [excessive time listing directories](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2095#issuecomment-371141147).

The kernel can cache the info about a file for the time given by
`--attr-timeout`. You may see corruption if the remote file changes
length during this window.  It will show up as either a truncated file
or a file with garbage on the end.  With `--attr-timeout 1s` this is
very unlikely but not impossible.  The higher you set `--attr-timeout`
the more likely it is.  The default setting of "1s" is the lowest
setting which mitigates the problems above.

If you set it higher (`10s` or `1m` say) then the kernel will call
back to rclone less often making it more efficient, however there is
more chance of the corruption issue above.

If files don't change on the remote outside of the control of rclone
then there is no chance of corruption.

This is the same as setting the attr_timeout option in mount.fuse.

## Filters

Note that all the rclone filters can be used to select a subset of the
files to be visible in the mount.

## systemd

When running rclone nfsmount as a systemd service, it is possible
to use Type=notify. In this case the service will enter the started state
after the mountpoint has been successfully set up.
Units having the rclone nfsmount service specified as a requirement
will see all files and folders immediately in this mode.

Note that systemd runs mount units without any environment variables including
`PATH` or `HOME`. This means that tilde (`~`) expansion will not work
and you should provide `--config` and `--cache-dir` explicitly as absolute
paths via rclone arguments.
Since mounting requires the `fusermount` or `fusermount3` program,
rclone will use the fallback PATH of `/bin:/usr/bin` in this scenario.
Please ensure that `fusermount`/`fusermount3` is present on this PATH.

## Rclone as Unix mount helper

The core Unix program `/bin/mount` normally takes the `-t FSTYPE` argument
then runs the `/sbin/mount.FSTYPE` helper program passing it mount options
as `-o key=val,...` or `--opt=...`. Automount (classic or systemd) behaves
in a similar way.

rclone by default expects GNU-style flags `--key val`. To run it as a mount
helper you should symlink rclone binary to `/sbin/mount.rclone` and optionally
`/usr/bin/rclonefs`, e.g. `ln -s /usr/bin/rclone /sbin/mount.rclone`.
rclone will detect it and translate command-line arguments appropriately.

Now you can run classic mounts like this:

```console
mount sftp1:subdir /mnt/data -t rclone -o vfs_cache_mode=writes,sftp_key_file=/path/to/pem
```

or create systemd mount units:

```ini
# /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount for /mnt/data
[Mount]
Type=rclone
What=sftp1:subdir
Where=/mnt/data
Options=rw,_netdev,allow_other,args2env,vfs-cache-mode=writes,config=/etc/rclone.conf,cache-dir=/var/rclone
```

optionally accompanied by systemd automount unit

```ini
# /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.automount
[Unit]
Description=AutoMount for /mnt/data
[Automount]
Where=/mnt/data
TimeoutIdleSec=600
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

or add in `/etc/fstab` a line like

```console
sftp1:subdir /mnt/data rclone rw,noauto,nofail,_netdev,x-systemd.automount,args2env,vfs_cache_mode=writes,config=/etc/rclone.conf,cache_dir=/var/cache/rclone 0 0
```

or use classic Automountd.
Remember to provide explicit `config=...,cache-dir=...` as a workaround for
mount units being run without `HOME`.

Rclone in the mount helper mode will split `-o` argument(s) by comma, replace `_`
by `-` and prepend `--` to get the command-line flags. Options containing commas
or spaces can be wrapped in single or double quotes. Any inner quotes inside outer
quotes of the same type should be doubled.

Mount option syntax includes a few extra options treated specially:

- `env.NAME=VALUE` will set an environment variable for the mount process.
  This helps with Automountd and Systemd.mount which don't allow setting
  custom environment for mount helpers.
  Typically you will use `env.HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.host:3128` or `env.HOME=/root`
- `command=cmount` can be used to run `cmount` or any other rclone command
  rather than the default `mount`.
- `args2env` will pass mount options to the mount helper running in background
  via environment variables instead of command line arguments. This allows to
  hide secrets from such commands as `ps` or `pgrep`.
- `vv...` will be transformed into appropriate `--verbose=N`
- standard mount options like `x-systemd.automount`, `_netdev`, `nosuid` and alike
  are intended only for Automountd and ignored by rclone.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone nfsmount remote:path /path/to/mountpoint [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to
      --allow-idmap                            Allow id-mapped mounts (Linux 6.12+, mount2 only)
      --allow-non-empty                        Allow mounting over a non-empty directory (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-other                            Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-root                             Allow access to root user (not supported on Windows)
      --async-read                             Use asynchronous reads (not supported on Windows) (default true)
      --attr-timeout Duration                  Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s)
      --daemon                                 Run mount in background and exit parent process (as background output is suppressed, use --log-file with --log-format=pid,... to monitor) (not supported on Windows)
      --daemon-timeout Duration                Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) (default 0s)
      --daemon-wait Duration                   Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s)
      --debug-fuse                             Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v
      --default-permissions                    Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode (not supported on Windows)
      --devname string                         Set the device name - default is remote:path
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --direct-io                              Use Direct IO, disables caching of data
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --fuse-flag stringArray                  Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for nfsmount
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-read-ahead SizeSuffix              The number of bytes that can be prefetched for sequential reads (not supported on Windows) (default 128Ki)
      --mount-case-insensitive Tristate        Tell the OS the mount is case insensitive (true) or sensitive (false) regardless of the backend (auto) (default unset)
      --network-mode                           Mount as remote network drive, instead of fixed disk drive (supported on Windows only)
      --nfs-cache-dir string                   The directory the NFS handle cache will use if set
      --nfs-cache-handle-limit int             max file handles cached simultaneously (min 5) (default 1000000)
      --nfs-cache-type memory|disk|symlink     Type of NFS handle cache to use (default memory)
      --nfs-mount-path string                  Subpath of the remote to mount via NFS (must be an existing directory). (default "/")
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --noappledouble                          Ignore Apple Double (._) and .DS_Store files (supported on OSX only) (default true)
      --noapplexattr                           Ignore all "com.apple.*" extended attributes (supported on OSX only)
  -o, --option stringArray                     Option for libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --sudo                                   Use sudo to run the mount/umount commands as root.
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      --volname string                         Set the volume name (supported on Windows and OSX only)
      --write-back-cache                       Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone (without this, writethrough caching is used) (not supported on Windows)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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# rclone obscure

Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.

## Synopsis

In the rclone config file, human-readable passwords are
obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them
out in base64. This is **not** a secure way of encrypting these
passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping" -
namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by accident.

Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in
the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64
character hex token.

This command can also accept a password through STDIN instead of an
argument by passing a hyphen as an argument. This will use the first
line of STDIN as the password not including the trailing newline.

```console
echo 'secretpassword' | rclone obscure -
```

If there is no data on STDIN to read, rclone obscure will default to
obfuscating the hyphen itself.

If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file
encryption - see [rclone config](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config/) for more
info.

```
rclone obscure password [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for obscure
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone rc

Run a command against a running rclone.

## Synopsis

This runs a command against a running rclone.  Use the `--url` flag to
specify an non default URL to connect on.  This can be either a
":port" which is taken to mean <http://localhost:port> or a
"host:port" which is taken to mean <http://host:port>.

A username and password can be passed in with `--user` and `--pass`.

Note that `--rc-addr`, `--rc-user`, `--rc-pass` will be read also for
`--url`, `--user`, `--pass`.

The `--unix-socket` flag can be used to connect over a unix socket like this

```sh
# start server on /tmp/my.socket
rclone rcd --rc-addr unix:///tmp/my.socket
# Connect to it
rclone rc --unix-socket /tmp/my.socket core/stats
```

Arguments should be passed in as parameter=value.

The result will be returned as a JSON object by default.

The `--json` parameter can be used to pass in a JSON blob as an input
instead of key=value arguments.  This is the only way of passing in
more complicated values.

The `-o`/`--opt` option can be used to set a key "opt" with key, value
options in the form `-o key=value` or `-o key`. It can be repeated as
many times as required. This is useful for rc commands which take the
"opt" parameter which by convention is a dictionary of strings.

```text
-o key=value -o key2
```

Will place this in the "opt" value

```json
{"key":"value", "key2","")
```

The `-a`/`--arg` option can be used to set strings in the "arg" value. It
can be repeated as many times as required. This is useful for rc
commands which take the "arg" parameter which by convention is a list
of strings.

```text
-a value -a value2
```

Will place this in the "arg" value

```json
["value", "value2"]
```

Use `--loopback` to connect to the rclone instance running `rclone rc`.
This is very useful for testing commands without having to run an
rclone rc server, e.g.:

```sh
rclone rc --loopback operations/about fs=/
```

Use `rclone rc` to see a list of all possible commands.

```
rclone rc commands parameter [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -a, --arg stringArray      Argument placed in the "arg" array
  -h, --help                 help for rc
      --json string          Input JSON - use instead of key=value args
      --loopback             If set connect to this rclone instance not via HTTP
      --no-output            If set, don't output the JSON result
  -o, --opt stringArray      Option in the form name=value or name placed in the "opt" array
      --pass string          Password to use to connect to rclone remote control
      --unix-socket string   Path to a unix domain socket to dial to, instead of opening a TCP connection directly
      --url string           URL to connect to rclone remote control (default "http://localhost:5572/")
      --user string          Username to use to rclone remote control
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone rcat

Copies standard input to file on remote.

## Synopsis

Reads from standard input (stdin) and copies it to a single remote file.

```console
echo "hello world" | rclone rcat remote:path/to/file
ffmpeg - | rclone rcat remote:path/to/file
```

If the remote file already exists, it will be overwritten.

rcat will try to upload small files in a single request, which is
usually more efficient than the streaming/chunked upload endpoints,
which use multiple requests. Exact behaviour depends on the remote.
What is considered a small file may be set through
`--streaming-upload-cutoff`. Uploading only starts after
the cutoff is reached or if the file ends before that. The data
must fit into RAM. The cutoff needs to be small enough to adhere
the limits of your remote, please see there. Generally speaking,
setting this cutoff too high will decrease your performance.

Use the `--size` flag to preallocate the file in advance at the remote end
and actually stream it, even if remote backend doesn't support streaming.

`--size` should be the exact size of the input stream in bytes. If the
size of the stream is different in length to the `--size` passed in
then the transfer will likely fail.

Note that the upload cannot be retried because the data is not stored.
If the backend supports multipart uploading then individual chunks can
be retried. If you need to transfer a lot of data, you may be better
off caching it locally and then `rclone move` it to the
destination which can use retries.

```
rclone rcat remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help       help for rcat
      --size int   File size hint to preallocate (default -1)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

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# rclone rcd

Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.

## Synopsis

This runs rclone so that it only listens to remote control commands.

This is useful if you are controlling rclone via the rc API.

If you pass in a path to a directory, rclone will serve that directory
for GET requests on the URL passed in.  It will also open the URL in
the browser when rclone is run.

See the [rc documentation](https://rclone.org/rc/) for more info on the rc flags.

## Server options

Use `--rc-addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg `--rc-addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--rc-addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set `--rc-addr` to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to `unix:///path/to/socket`
or just by using an absolute path name.

`--rc-addr` may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.
Socket activation, described further below, can also be used to accomplish the same.

`--rc-server-read-timeout` and `--rc-server-write-timeout` can be used to
control the timeouts on the server.  Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

`--rc-max-header-bytes` controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

`--rc-response-header` can be used to set an HTTP header for all responses,
will overriding existing values. The flag may be repeated to add multiple
headers. Use the format `Header-Name: value`.

`--rc-baseurl` controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from.  By default
rclone will serve from the root.  If you used `--rc-baseurl "/rclone"` then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/".  This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve.  Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on `--rc-baseurl`, so `--rc-baseurl "rclone"`,
`--rc-baseurl "/rclone"` and `--rc-baseurl "/rclone/"` are all treated
identically.

`--rc-disable-zip` may be set to disable the zipping download option.

### Protocol

The server supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is used automatically
for TLS connections.  For non-TLS connections, HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c)
is supported, allowing HTTP/2 without encryption.

### TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http.  If you want you can serve over
https.  You will need to supply the `--rc-cert` and `--rc-key` flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply `--rc-client-ca` also.

When TLS is configured every listener given with `--rc-addr` serves TLS.
An individual listener can be prefixed with `http://` to serve unencrypted
HTTP on that address, or with `tls://` to state explicitly that it must serve
TLS.  Using a `tls://` address without `--rc-cert` and `--rc-key` is an error.

`--rc-cert` must be set to the path of a file containing
either a PEM encoded certificate, or a concatenation of that with the CA
certificate. `--rc-key` must be set to the path of a file
with the PEM encoded private key. If setting `--rc-client-ca`,
it should be set to the path of a file with PEM encoded client certificate
authority certificates.

`--rc-min-tls-version` is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

## Socket activation

Instead of the listening addresses specified above, rclone will listen to all
FDs passed by the service manager, if any (and ignore any arguments passed
by `--rc-addr`).

This allows rclone to be a socket-activated service.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 8000 -- rclone serve
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 8000 over TCP.

### Template

`--rc-template` allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP
and WebDAV serve functions.  The server exports the following markup
to be used within the template to server pages:

| Parameter   | Subparameter | Description |
| :---------- | :----------- | :---------- |
| .Name       |              | The full path of a file/directory. |
| .Title      |              | Directory listing of '.Name'. |
| .Sort       |              | The current sort used. This is changeable via '?sort=' parameter. Possible values: namedirfirst, name, size, time (default namedirfirst). |
| .Order      |              | The current ordering used. This is changeable via '?order=' parameter. Possible values: asc, desc (default asc). |
| .Query      |              | Currently unused. |
| .Breadcrumb |              | Allows for creating a relative navigation. |
|             | .Link        | The link of the Text relative to the root. |
|             | .Text        | The Name of the directory. |
| .Entries    |              | Information about a specific file/directory. |
|             | .URL         | The url of an entry. |
|             | .Leaf        | Currently same as '.URL' but intended to be just the name. |
|             | .IsDir       | Boolean for if an entry is a directory or not. |
|             | .Size        | Size in bytes of the entry. |
|             | .ModTime     | The UTC timestamp of an entry. |

The server also makes the following functions available so that they can be used
within the template. These functions help extend the options for dynamic
rendering of HTML. They can be used to render HTML based on specific conditions.

| Function   | Description |
| :---------- | :---------- |
| afterEpoch  | Returns the time since the epoch for the given time. |
| contains    | Checks whether a given substring is present or not in a given string. |
| hasPrefix   | Checks whether the given string begins with the specified prefix. |
| hasSuffix   | Checks whether the given string end with the specified suffix. |

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the `--rc-user` and `--rc-pass` flags.

Alternatively, you can have the reverse proxy manage authentication and use the
username provided in the configured header with `--user-from-header`  (e.g., `--rc-user-from-header=x-remote-user`).
Ensure the proxy is trusted and headers cannot be spoofed, as misconfiguration
may lead to unauthorized access.

If either of the above authentication methods is not configured and client
certificates are required by the `--client-ca` flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use `--rc-htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd` to provide an htpasswd file.  This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication.  Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

```console
touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
```

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use `--rc-realm` to set the authentication realm.

Use `--rc-salt` to change the password hashing salt from the default.

```
rclone rcd <path to files to serve>* [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for rcd
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### RC Options

Flags to control the Remote Control API

```text
      --rc                                 Enable the remote control server
      --rc-addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default localhost:5572)
      --rc-allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --rc-baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --rc-cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --rc-client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --rc-enable-metrics                  Enable the Prometheus metrics path at the remote control server
      --rc-files string                    Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server
      --rc-htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --rc-job-expire-duration Duration    Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s)
      --rc-job-expire-interval Duration    Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s)
      --rc-key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --rc-max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --rc-min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --rc-no-auth                         Don't require auth for certain methods
      --rc-pass string                     Password for authentication
      --rc-realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --rc-response-header stringArray     Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --rc-salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --rc-serve                           Enable the serving of remote objects
      --rc-serve-no-modtime                Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
      --rc-server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-template string                 User-specified template
      --rc-user string                     User name for authentication
      --rc-user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
      --rc-web-fetch-url string            URL to fetch the releases for webgui (default "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest")
      --rc-web-gui                         Launch WebGUI on localhost
      --rc-web-gui-force-update            Force update to latest version of web gui
      --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser         Don't open the browser automatically
      --rc-web-gui-update                  Check and update to latest version of web gui
```

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# rclone rmdirs

Remove empty directories under the path.

## Synopsis

This recursively removes any empty directories (including directories
that only contain empty directories), that it finds under the path.
The root path itself will also be removed if it is empty, unless
you supply the `--leave-root` flag.

Use command [rmdir](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdir/) to delete just the empty
directory given by path, not recurse.

This is useful for tidying up remotes that rclone has left a lot of
empty directories in. For example the [delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_delete/)
command will delete files but leave the directory structure (unless
used with option `--rmdirs`).

This will delete `--checkers` directories concurrently so
if you have thousands of empty directories consider increasing this number.

To delete a path and any objects in it, use the [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/)
command.

```
rclone rmdirs remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help         help for rmdirs
      --leave-root   Do not remove root directory if empty
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

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# rclone selfupdate

Update the rclone binary.

## Synopsis

This command downloads the latest release of rclone and replaces the
currently running binary. The download is verified with a hashsum and
cryptographically signed signature; see [the release signing
docs](https://rclone.org/release_signing/) for details.

If used without flags (or with implied `--stable` flag), this command
will install the latest stable release. However, some issues may be fixed
(or features added) only in the latest beta release. In such cases you should
run the command with the `--beta` flag, i.e. `rclone selfupdate --beta`.
You can check in advance what version would be installed by adding the
`--check` flag, then repeat the command without it when you are satisfied.

Sometimes the rclone team may recommend you a concrete beta or stable
rclone release to troubleshoot your issue or add a bleeding edge feature.
The `--version VER` flag, if given, will update to the concrete version
instead of the latest one. If you omit micro version from `VER` (for
example `1.53`), the latest matching micro version will be used.

Upon successful update rclone will print a message that contains a previous
version number. You will need it if you later decide to revert your update
for some reason. Then you'll have to note the previous version and run the
following command: `rclone selfupdate [--beta] OLDVER`.
If the old version contains only dots and digits (for example `v1.54.0`)
then it's a stable release so you won't need the `--beta` flag. Beta releases
have an additional information similar to `v1.54.0-beta.5111.06f1c0c61`.
(if you are a developer and use a locally built rclone, the version number
will end with `-DEV`, you will have to rebuild it as it obviously can't
be distributed).

If you previously installed rclone via a package manager, the package may
include local documentation or configure services. You may wish to update
with the flag `--package deb` or `--package rpm` (whichever is correct for
your OS) to update these too. This command with the default `--package zip`
will update only the rclone executable so the local manual may become
inaccurate after it.

The [rclone mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) command may
or may not support extended FUSE options depending on the build and OS.
`selfupdate` will refuse to update if the capability would be discarded.

Note: Windows forbids deletion of a currently running executable so this
command will rename the old executable to 'rclone.old.exe' upon success.

Please note that this command was not available before rclone version 1.55.
If it fails for you with the message `unknown command "selfupdate"` then
you will need to update manually following the
[install documentation](https://rclone.org/install/).

```
rclone selfupdate [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --beta             Install beta release
      --check            Check for latest release, do not download
  -h, --help             help for selfupdate
      --output string    Save the downloaded binary at a given path (default: replace running binary)
      --package string   Package format: zip|deb|rpm (default: zip)
      --stable           Install stable release (this is the default)
      --version string   Install the given rclone version (default: latest)
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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# rclone serve

Serve a remote over a protocol.

## Synopsis

Serve a remote over a given protocol. Requires the use of a
subcommand to specify the protocol, e.g.

```console
rclone serve http remote:
```

When the "--metadata" flag is enabled, the following metadata fields will be provided as headers:
- "content-disposition"
- "cache-control" 
- "content-language"
- "content-encoding"
Note: The availability of these fields depends on whether the remote supports metadata.

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.


```
rclone serve <protocol> [opts] <remote> [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for serve
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone serve dlna](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/)	 - Serve remote:path over DLNA
* [rclone serve docker](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_docker/)	 - Serve any remote on docker's volume plugin API.
* [rclone serve ftp](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/)	 - Serve remote:path over FTP.
* [rclone serve http](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_http/)	 - Serve the remote over HTTP.
* [rclone serve nfs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/)	 - Serve the remote as an NFS mount
* [rclone serve restic](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_restic/)	 - Serve the remote for restic's REST API.
* [rclone serve s3](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_s3/)	 - Serve remote:path over s3.
* [rclone serve sftp](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/)	 - Serve the remote over SFTP.
* [rclone serve webdav](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/)	 - Serve remote:path over WebDAV.


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# rclone serve dlna

Serve remote:path over DLNA

## Synopsis

Run a DLNA media server for media stored in an rclone remote. Many
devices, such as the Xbox and PlayStation, can automatically discover
this server in the LAN and play audio/video from it. VLC is also
supported. Service discovery uses UDP multicast packets (SSDP) and
will thus only work on LANs.

Rclone will list all files present in the remote, without filtering
based on media formats or file extensions. Additionally, there is no
media transcoding support. This means that some players might show
files that they are not able to play back correctly.

Rclone will add external subtitle files (.srt) to videos if they have the same
filename as the video file itself (except the extension), either in the same
directory as the video, or in a "Subs" subdirectory.

## Server options

Use `--addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, e.g. `--addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.

Use `--name` to choose the friendly server name, which is by
default "rclone (hostname)".

Use `--log-trace` in conjunction with `-vv` to enable additional debug
logging of all UPNP traffic.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone serve dlna remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr string                            The ip:port or :port to bind the DLNA http server to (default ":7879")
      --announce-interval Duration             The interval between SSDP announcements (default 12m0s)
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for dlna
      --interface stringArray                  The interface to use for SSDP (repeat as necessary)
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --log-trace                              Enable trace logging of SOAP traffic
      --name string                            Name of DLNA server
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve docker

Serve any remote on docker's volume plugin API.

## Synopsis

This command implements the Docker volume plugin API allowing docker to use
rclone as a data storage mechanism for various cloud providers.
rclone provides [docker volume plugin](/docker) based on it.

To create a docker plugin, one must create a Unix or TCP socket that Docker
will look for when you use the plugin and then it listens for commands from
docker daemon and runs the corresponding code when necessary.
Docker plugins can run as a managed plugin under control of the docker daemon
or as an independent native service. For testing, you can just run it directly
from the command line, for example:

```console
sudo rclone serve docker --base-dir /tmp/rclone-volumes --socket-addr localhost:8787 -vv
```

Running `rclone serve docker` will create the said socket, listening for
commands from Docker to create the necessary Volumes. Normally you need not
give the `--socket-addr` flag. The API will listen on the unix domain socket
at `/run/docker/plugins/rclone.sock`. In the example above rclone will create
a TCP socket and a small file `/etc/docker/plugins/rclone.spec` containing
the socket address. We use `sudo` because both paths are writeable only by
the root user.

If you later decide to change listening socket, the docker daemon must be
restarted to reconnect to `/run/docker/plugins/rclone.sock`
or parse new `/etc/docker/plugins/rclone.spec`. Until you restart, any
volume related docker commands will timeout trying to access the old socket.
Running directly is supported on **Linux only**, not on Windows or MacOS.
This is not a problem with managed plugin mode described in details
in the [full documentation](https://rclone.org/docker).

The command will create volume mounts under the path given by `--base-dir`
(by default `/var/lib/docker-volumes/rclone` available only to root)
and maintain the JSON formatted file `docker-plugin.state` in the rclone cache
directory with book-keeping records of created and mounted volumes.

All mount and VFS options are submitted by the docker daemon via API, but
you can also provide defaults on the command line as well as set path to the
config file and cache directory or adjust logging verbosity.

# Restarting or upgrading the plugin

When the plugin is restarted (for example with
`docker plugin disable rclone && docker plugin enable rclone`, when upgrading
the plugin, or when the host reboots) rclone reads its `docker-plugin.state`
file and restores the volumes and mounts that were active before. The plugin
starts serving its socket straight away and re-establishes the mounts in the
background, so a slow or unreachable remote no longer prevents the plugin from
coming back up.

However, restarting the plugin necessarily stops and restarts the process that
serves the FUSE mounts. Any container that is **already running** and holding
files open on an rclone volume keeps a handle to the old, now dead mount, so
those handles start returning `transport endpoint is not connected` until the
container is restarted. This is a limitation of replacing the process behind a
live FUSE mount and cannot be avoided by rclone - the plugin itself recovers and
newly started containers work normally, but:

- **Restart any containers that were using rclone volumes** after you restart
  or upgrade the plugin (e.g. `docker restart <container>`), or stop them before
  and start them after.
- Databases and other applications that keep files open continuously (Grafana,
  Prometheus, SQLite-backed apps, etc.) are the most affected and should always
  be restarted.

# Security

The plugin API accepts a `remote` (aka `fs`) option on volume creation, and this
is parsed exactly like an rclone connection string. Connection strings are
trusted configuration: they may carry inline backend options, and some backends
use those options to run local commands (for example the `sftp` backend's `ssh`
option spawns an external binary). Anyone who can send requests to the plugin
socket can therefore make rclone run arbitrary commands as the user running
`rclone serve docker` (typically root). Treat access to the socket as equivalent
to that level of access and only expose it to trusted callers.

When listening on the default unix socket at `/run/docker/plugins/rclone.sock`
rclone creates it with mode `0660` owned by `root` and the group given by
`--socket-gid` (the process GID by default), so only root and members of that
group - normally just the docker daemon - can reach it. Do not loosen these
permissions or hand the group to untrusted users.

When using `--socket-addr` to listen on a TCP socket there is no authentication
and the API is reachable by anyone who can open the port, so bind it to a
loopback or otherwise trusted address and protect it with a firewall. Note that
holding Docker daemon access is already equivalent to root on the host, so a
caller able to issue `docker volume create` does not gain anything new from
this; the concern is exposing the socket more widely than the daemon itself.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone serve docker [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --allow-idmap                            Allow id-mapped mounts (Linux 6.12+, mount2 only)
      --allow-non-empty                        Allow mounting over a non-empty directory (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-other                            Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows)
      --allow-root                             Allow access to root user (not supported on Windows)
      --async-read                             Use asynchronous reads (not supported on Windows) (default true)
      --attr-timeout Duration                  Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s)
      --base-dir string                        Base directory for volumes (default "/var/lib/docker-volumes/rclone")
      --daemon                                 Run mount in background and exit parent process (as background output is suppressed, use --log-file with --log-format=pid,... to monitor) (not supported on Windows)
      --daemon-timeout Duration                Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) (default 0s)
      --daemon-wait Duration                   Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s)
      --debug-fuse                             Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v
      --default-permissions                    Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode (not supported on Windows)
      --devname string                         Set the device name - default is remote:path
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --direct-io                              Use Direct IO, disables caching of data
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --forget-state                           Skip restoring previous state
      --fuse-flag stringArray                  Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for docker
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-read-ahead SizeSuffix              The number of bytes that can be prefetched for sequential reads (not supported on Windows) (default 128Ki)
      --mount-case-insensitive Tristate        Tell the OS the mount is case insensitive (true) or sensitive (false) regardless of the backend (auto) (default unset)
      --network-mode                           Mount as remote network drive, instead of fixed disk drive (supported on Windows only)
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --no-spec                                Do not write spec file
      --noappledouble                          Ignore Apple Double (._) and .DS_Store files (supported on OSX only) (default true)
      --noapplexattr                           Ignore all "com.apple.*" extended attributes (supported on OSX only)
  -o, --option stringArray                     Option for libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required)
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --socket-addr string                     Address <host:port> or absolute path (default: /run/docker/plugins/rclone.sock)
      --socket-gid int                         GID for unix socket (default: current process GID) (default 1000)
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      --volname string                         Set the volume name (supported on Windows and OSX only)
      --write-back-cache                       Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone (without this, writethrough caching is used) (not supported on Windows)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve ftp

Serve remote:path over FTP.

## Synopsis

Run a basic FTP server to serve a remote over FTP protocol.
This can be viewed with a FTP client or you can make a remote of
type FTP to read and write it.

## Server options

Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, e.g. --addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --addr :8080 to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

## Auth Proxy

If you supply the parameter `--auth-proxy /path/to/program` then
rclone will use that program to generate backends on the fly which
then are used to authenticate incoming requests.  This uses a simple
JSON based protocol with input on STDIN and output on STDOUT.

**PLEASE NOTE:** `--auth-proxy` and `--authorized-keys` cannot be used
together, if `--auth-proxy` is set the authorized keys option will be
ignored.

There is an example program
[bin/test_proxy.py](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/test_proxy.py)
in the rclone source code.

The program's job is to take a `user` and `pass` on the input and turn
those into the config for a backend on STDOUT in JSON format.  This
config will have any default parameters for the backend added, but it
won't use configuration from environment variables or command line
options - it is the job of the proxy program to make a complete
config.

This config generated must have this extra parameter

- `_root` - root to use for the backend

And it may have this parameter

- `_obscure` - comma separated strings for parameters to obscure

If password authentication was used by the client, input to the proxy
process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword"
}
```

If public-key authentication was used by the client, input to the
proxy process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "public_key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDuwESFdAe14hVS6omeyX7edc...JQdf"
}
```

And as an example return this on STDOUT

```json
{
  "type": "sftp",
  "_root": "",
  "_obscure": "pass",
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword",
  "host": "sftp.example.com"
}
```

This would mean that an SFTP backend would be created on the fly for
the `user` and `pass`/`public_key` returned in the output to the host given.  Note
that since `_obscure` is set to `pass`, rclone will obscure the `pass`
parameter before creating the backend (which is required for sftp
backends).

The program can manipulate the supplied `user` in any way, for example
to make proxy to many different sftp backends, you could make the
`user` be `user@example.com` and then set the `host` to `example.com`
in the output and the user to `user`. For security you'd probably want
to restrict the `host` to a limited list.

An internal cache of backends is keyed on the `user` and a hash of the
`pass` or `public_key`.  This means that if a user's password or
public-key changes, or the proxy returns different config parameters
(eg a rotated `api_key`), a fresh backend will be created on the next
request rather than the cached one being reused.

This can be used to build general purpose proxies to any kind of
backend that rclone supports.

```
rclone serve ftp remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:2121")
      --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
      --cert string                            TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for ftp
      --key string                             TLS PEM Private key
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --pass string                            Password for authentication (empty value allow every password)
      --passive-port string                    Passive port range to use (default "30000-32000")
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --public-ip string                       Public IP address to advertise for passive connections
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --user string                            User name for authentication (default "anonymous")
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve http

Serve the remote over HTTP.

## Synopsis

Run a basic web server to serve a remote over HTTP.
This can be viewed in a web browser or you can make a remote of type
http read from it.

You can use the filter flags (e.g. `--include`, `--exclude`) to control what
is served.

The server will log errors.  Use `-v` to see access logs.

`--bwlimit` will be respected for file transfers.  Use `--stats` to
control the stats printing.

## Server options

Use `--addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg `--addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set `--addr` to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to `unix:///path/to/socket`
or just by using an absolute path name.

`--addr` may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.
Socket activation, described further below, can also be used to accomplish the same.

`--server-read-timeout` and `--server-write-timeout` can be used to
control the timeouts on the server.  Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

`--max-header-bytes` controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

`--response-header` can be used to set an HTTP header for all responses,
will overriding existing values. The flag may be repeated to add multiple
headers. Use the format `Header-Name: value`.

`--baseurl` controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from.  By default
rclone will serve from the root.  If you used `--baseurl "/rclone"` then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/".  This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve.  Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on `--baseurl`, so `--baseurl "rclone"`,
`--baseurl "/rclone"` and `--baseurl "/rclone/"` are all treated
identically.

`--disable-zip` may be set to disable the zipping download option.

### Protocol

The server supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is used automatically
for TLS connections.  For non-TLS connections, HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c)
is supported, allowing HTTP/2 without encryption.

### TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http.  If you want you can serve over
https.  You will need to supply the `--cert` and `--key` flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply `--client-ca` also.

When TLS is configured every listener given with `--addr` serves TLS.
An individual listener can be prefixed with `http://` to serve unencrypted
HTTP on that address, or with `tls://` to state explicitly that it must serve
TLS.  Using a `tls://` address without `--cert` and `--key` is an error.

`--cert` must be set to the path of a file containing
either a PEM encoded certificate, or a concatenation of that with the CA
certificate. `--key` must be set to the path of a file
with the PEM encoded private key. If setting `--client-ca`,
it should be set to the path of a file with PEM encoded client certificate
authority certificates.

`--min-tls-version` is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

## Socket activation

Instead of the listening addresses specified above, rclone will listen to all
FDs passed by the service manager, if any (and ignore any arguments passed
by `--addr`).

This allows rclone to be a socket-activated service.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 8000 -- rclone serve
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 8000 over TCP.

### Template

`--template` allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP
and WebDAV serve functions.  The server exports the following markup
to be used within the template to server pages:

| Parameter   | Subparameter | Description |
| :---------- | :----------- | :---------- |
| .Name       |              | The full path of a file/directory. |
| .Title      |              | Directory listing of '.Name'. |
| .Sort       |              | The current sort used. This is changeable via '?sort=' parameter. Possible values: namedirfirst, name, size, time (default namedirfirst). |
| .Order      |              | The current ordering used. This is changeable via '?order=' parameter. Possible values: asc, desc (default asc). |
| .Query      |              | Currently unused. |
| .Breadcrumb |              | Allows for creating a relative navigation. |
|             | .Link        | The link of the Text relative to the root. |
|             | .Text        | The Name of the directory. |
| .Entries    |              | Information about a specific file/directory. |
|             | .URL         | The url of an entry. |
|             | .Leaf        | Currently same as '.URL' but intended to be just the name. |
|             | .IsDir       | Boolean for if an entry is a directory or not. |
|             | .Size        | Size in bytes of the entry. |
|             | .ModTime     | The UTC timestamp of an entry. |

The server also makes the following functions available so that they can be used
within the template. These functions help extend the options for dynamic
rendering of HTML. They can be used to render HTML based on specific conditions.

| Function   | Description |
| :---------- | :---------- |
| afterEpoch  | Returns the time since the epoch for the given time. |
| contains    | Checks whether a given substring is present or not in a given string. |
| hasPrefix   | Checks whether the given string begins with the specified prefix. |
| hasSuffix   | Checks whether the given string end with the specified suffix. |

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the `--user` and `--pass` flags.

Alternatively, you can have the reverse proxy manage authentication and use the
username provided in the configured header with `--user-from-header`  (e.g., `--user-from-header=x-remote-user`).
Ensure the proxy is trusted and headers cannot be spoofed, as misconfiguration
may lead to unauthorized access.

If either of the above authentication methods is not configured and client
certificates are required by the `--client-ca` flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use `--htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd` to provide an htpasswd file.  This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication.  Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

```console
touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
```

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use `--realm` to set the authentication realm.

Use `--salt` to change the password hashing salt from the default.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

## Auth Proxy

If you supply the parameter `--auth-proxy /path/to/program` then
rclone will use that program to generate backends on the fly which
then are used to authenticate incoming requests.  This uses a simple
JSON based protocol with input on STDIN and output on STDOUT.

**PLEASE NOTE:** `--auth-proxy` and `--authorized-keys` cannot be used
together, if `--auth-proxy` is set the authorized keys option will be
ignored.

There is an example program
[bin/test_proxy.py](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/test_proxy.py)
in the rclone source code.

The program's job is to take a `user` and `pass` on the input and turn
those into the config for a backend on STDOUT in JSON format.  This
config will have any default parameters for the backend added, but it
won't use configuration from environment variables or command line
options - it is the job of the proxy program to make a complete
config.

This config generated must have this extra parameter

- `_root` - root to use for the backend

And it may have this parameter

- `_obscure` - comma separated strings for parameters to obscure

If password authentication was used by the client, input to the proxy
process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword"
}
```

If public-key authentication was used by the client, input to the
proxy process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "public_key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDuwESFdAe14hVS6omeyX7edc...JQdf"
}
```

And as an example return this on STDOUT

```json
{
  "type": "sftp",
  "_root": "",
  "_obscure": "pass",
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword",
  "host": "sftp.example.com"
}
```

This would mean that an SFTP backend would be created on the fly for
the `user` and `pass`/`public_key` returned in the output to the host given.  Note
that since `_obscure` is set to `pass`, rclone will obscure the `pass`
parameter before creating the backend (which is required for sftp
backends).

The program can manipulate the supplied `user` in any way, for example
to make proxy to many different sftp backends, you could make the
`user` be `user@example.com` and then set the `host` to `example.com`
in the output and the user to `user`. For security you'd probably want
to restrict the `host` to a limited list.

An internal cache of backends is keyed on the `user` and a hash of the
`pass` or `public_key`.  This means that if a user's password or
public-key changes, or the proxy returns different config parameters
(eg a rotated `api_key`), a fresh backend will be created on the next
request rather than the cached one being reused.

This can be used to build general purpose proxies to any kind of
backend that rclone supports.

```
rclone serve http remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray                       IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default 127.0.0.1:8080)
      --allow-origin string                    Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
      --baseurl string                         Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --cert string                            TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                       Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --disable-dir-list                       Disable HTML directory list on GET request for a directory
      --disable-zip                            Disable zip download of directories
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for http
      --htpasswd string                        A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                             TLS PEM Private key
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-header-bytes int                   Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --min-tls-version string                 Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --pass string                            Password for authentication
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --realm string                           Realm for authentication
      --response-header stringArray            Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --salt string                            Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --server-read-timeout Duration           Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout Duration          Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --template string                        User-specified template
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --user string                            User name for authentication
      --user-from-header string                User name from a defined HTTP header
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve nfs

Serve the remote as an NFS mount

## Synopsis

Create an NFS server that serves the given remote over the network.

This implements an NFSv3 server to serve any rclone remote via NFS.

The primary purpose for this command is to enable the [mount
command](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) on recent macOS versions where
installing FUSE is very cumbersome.

This server does not implement any authentication so any client will be
able to access the data. To limit access, you can use `serve nfs` on
the loopback address or rely on secure tunnels (such as SSH) or use
firewalling.

For this reason, by default, a random TCP port is chosen and the
loopback interface is used for the listening address by default;
meaning that it is only available to the local machine. If you want
other machines to access the NFS mount over local network, you need to
specify the listening address and port using the `--addr` flag.

Modifying files through the NFS protocol requires VFS caching. Usually
you will need to specify `--vfs-cache-mode` in order to be able to
write to the mountpoint (`full` is recommended). If you don't specify
VFS cache mode, the mount will be read-only.

`--nfs-cache-type` controls the type of the NFS handle cache. By
default this is `memory` where new handles will be randomly allocated
when needed. These are stored in memory. If the server is restarted
the handle cache will be lost and connected NFS clients will get stale
handle errors.

`--nfs-cache-type disk` uses an on disk NFS handle cache. Rclone
hashes the path of the object and stores it in a file named after the
hash. These hashes are stored on disk the directory controlled by
`--cache-dir` or the exact directory may be specified with
`--nfs-cache-dir`. Using this means that the NFS server can be
restarted at will without affecting the connected clients.

`--nfs-cache-type symlink` is similar to `--nfs-cache-type disk` in
that it uses an on disk cache, but the cache entries are held as
symlinks. Rclone will use the handle of the underlying file as the NFS
handle which improves performance. This sort of cache can't be backed
up and restored as the underlying handles will change. This is Linux
only. It requires running rclone as root or with `CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH`.
You can run rclone with this extra permission by doing this to the
rclone binary `sudo setcap cap_dac_read_search+ep /path/to/rclone`.

`--nfs-cache-handle-limit` controls the maximum number of cached NFS
handles stored by the caching handler. This should not be set too low
or you may experience errors when trying to access files. The default
is `1000000`, but consider lowering this limit if the server's system
resource usage causes problems. This is only used by the `memory` type
cache.

To serve NFS over the network use following command:

```sh
rclone serve nfs remote: --addr 0.0.0.0:$PORT --vfs-cache-mode=full
```

This specifies a port that can be used in the mount command. To mount
the server under Linux/macOS, use the following command:

```sh
mount -t nfs -o port=$PORT,mountport=$PORT,tcp $HOSTNAME:/ path/to/mountpoint
```

Where `$PORT` is the same port number used in the `serve nfs` command
and `$HOSTNAME` is the network address of the machine that `serve nfs`
was run on.

NFS clients can also mount a subdirectory of the served remote by
including it in the mount path. For example to mount only the
`photos/2024` subdirectory:

```sh
mount -t nfs -o port=$PORT,mountport=$PORT,tcp $HOSTNAME:/photos/2024 path/to/mountpoint
```

The subpath is resolved within the served remote and must refer to an
existing directory (not a file or a symlink). Subpath mounts are a
convenience equivalent to mounting `/` and changing directory: they
share access to the same underlying VFS and the same file handles, so
they do not isolate the client from siblings or parents of the mounted
subdirectory.

If `--vfs-metadata-extension` is in use then for the `--nfs-cache-type disk`
and `--nfs-cache-type cache` the metadata files will have the file
handle of their parent file suffixed with `0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01`.
This means they can be looked up directly from the parent file handle
is desired.

This command is only available on Unix platforms.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone serve nfs remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for nfs
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --nfs-cache-dir string                   The directory the NFS handle cache will use if set
      --nfs-cache-handle-limit int             max file handles cached simultaneously (min 5) (default 1000000)
      --nfs-cache-type memory|disk|symlink     Type of NFS handle cache to use (default memory)
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve restic

Serve the remote for restic's REST API.

## Synopsis

Run a basic web server to serve a remote over restic's REST backend
API over HTTP.  This allows restic to use rclone as a data storage
mechanism for cloud providers that restic does not support directly.

[Restic](https://restic.net/) is a command-line program for doing
backups.

The server will log errors.  Use -v to see access logs.

`--bwlimit` will be respected for file transfers.
Use `--stats` to control the stats printing.

## Setting up rclone for use by restic

First [set up a remote for your chosen cloud provider](https://rclone.org/docs/#configure).

Once you have set up the remote, check it is working with, for example
"rclone lsd remote:".  You may have called the remote something other
than "remote:" - just substitute whatever you called it in the
following instructions.

Now start the rclone restic server

```console
rclone serve restic -v remote:backup
```

Where you can replace "backup" in the above by whatever path in the
remote you wish to use.

By default this will serve on "localhost:8080" you can change this
with use of the `--addr` flag.

You might wish to start this server on boot.

Adding `--cache-objects=false` will cause rclone to stop caching objects
returned from the List call. Caching is normally desirable as it speeds
up downloading objects, saves transactions and uses very little memory.

## Setting up restic to use rclone

Now you can [follow the restic
instructions](http://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#rest-server)
on setting up restic.

Note that you will need restic 0.8.2 or later to interoperate with
rclone.

For the example above you will want to use "http://localhost:8080/" as
the URL for the REST server.

For example:

```console
$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/
$ export RESTIC_PASSWORD=yourpassword
$ restic init
created restic backend 8b1a4b56ae at rest:http://localhost:8080/

Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access
the repository. Losing your password means that your data is
irrecoverably lost.
$ restic backup /path/to/files/to/backup
scan [/path/to/files/to/backup]
scanned 189 directories, 312 files in 0:00
[0:00] 100.00%  38.128 MiB / 38.128 MiB  501 / 501 items  0 errors  ETA 0:00
duration: 0:00
snapshot 45c8fdd8 saved

```

### Multiple repositories

Note that you can use the endpoint to host multiple repositories.  Do
this by adding a directory name or path after the URL.  Note that
these **must** end with /.  Eg

```console
$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user1repo/
# backup user1 stuff
$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user2repo/
# backup user2 stuff
```

### Private repositories

The`--private-repos` flag can be used to limit users to repositories starting
with a path of `/<username>/`.

## Server options

Use `--addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg `--addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set `--addr` to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to `unix:///path/to/socket`
or just by using an absolute path name.

`--addr` may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.
Socket activation, described further below, can also be used to accomplish the same.

`--server-read-timeout` and `--server-write-timeout` can be used to
control the timeouts on the server.  Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

`--max-header-bytes` controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

`--response-header` can be used to set an HTTP header for all responses,
will overriding existing values. The flag may be repeated to add multiple
headers. Use the format `Header-Name: value`.

`--baseurl` controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from.  By default
rclone will serve from the root.  If you used `--baseurl "/rclone"` then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/".  This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve.  Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on `--baseurl`, so `--baseurl "rclone"`,
`--baseurl "/rclone"` and `--baseurl "/rclone/"` are all treated
identically.

`--disable-zip` may be set to disable the zipping download option.

### Protocol

The server supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is used automatically
for TLS connections.  For non-TLS connections, HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c)
is supported, allowing HTTP/2 without encryption.

### TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http.  If you want you can serve over
https.  You will need to supply the `--cert` and `--key` flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply `--client-ca` also.

When TLS is configured every listener given with `--addr` serves TLS.
An individual listener can be prefixed with `http://` to serve unencrypted
HTTP on that address, or with `tls://` to state explicitly that it must serve
TLS.  Using a `tls://` address without `--cert` and `--key` is an error.

`--cert` must be set to the path of a file containing
either a PEM encoded certificate, or a concatenation of that with the CA
certificate. `--key` must be set to the path of a file
with the PEM encoded private key. If setting `--client-ca`,
it should be set to the path of a file with PEM encoded client certificate
authority certificates.

`--min-tls-version` is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

## Socket activation

Instead of the listening addresses specified above, rclone will listen to all
FDs passed by the service manager, if any (and ignore any arguments passed
by `--addr`).

This allows rclone to be a socket-activated service.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 8000 -- rclone serve
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 8000 over TCP.

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the `--user` and `--pass` flags.

Alternatively, you can have the reverse proxy manage authentication and use the
username provided in the configured header with `--user-from-header`  (e.g., `--user-from-header=x-remote-user`).
Ensure the proxy is trusted and headers cannot be spoofed, as misconfiguration
may lead to unauthorized access.

If either of the above authentication methods is not configured and client
certificates are required by the `--client-ca` flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use `--htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd` to provide an htpasswd file.  This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication.  Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

```console
touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
```

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use `--realm` to set the authentication realm.

Use `--salt` to change the password hashing salt from the default.

```
rclone serve restic remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default 127.0.0.1:8080)
      --allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --append-only                     Disallow deletion of repository data
      --baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --cache-objects                   Cache listed objects (default true)
      --cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
  -h, --help                            help for restic
      --htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --pass string                     Password for authentication
      --private-repos                   Users can only access their private repo
      --realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --response-header stringArray     Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --stdio                           Run an HTTP2 server on stdin/stdout
      --user string                     User name for authentication
      --user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone serve s3

Serve remote:path over s3.

## Synopsis

`serve s3` implements a basic s3 server that serves a remote via s3.
This can be viewed with an s3 client, or you can make an [s3 type
remote](https://rclone.org/s3/) to read and write to it with rclone.

`serve s3` is considered **Experimental** so use with care.

S3 server supports Signature Version 4 authentication. Just use
`--auth-key accessKey,secretKey` and set the `Authorization`
header correctly in the request. (See the [AWS
docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html)).

`--auth-key` can be repeated for multiple auth pairs. If
`--auth-key` is not provided then `serve s3` will allow anonymous
access.

Like all rclone flags `--auth-key` can be set via environment
variables, in this case `RCLONE_AUTH_KEY`. Since this flag can be
repeated, the input to `RCLONE_AUTH_KEY` is CSV encoded. Because the
`accessKey,secretKey` has a comma in, this means it needs to be in
quotes.

```console
export RCLONE_AUTH_KEY='"user,pass"'
rclone serve s3 ...
```

Or to supply multiple identities:

```console
export RCLONE_AUTH_KEY='"user1,pass1","user2,pass2"'
rclone serve s3 ...
```

Setting this variable without quotes will produce an error.

Please note that some clients may require HTTPS endpoints. See [the
SSL docs](#tls-ssl) for more information.

This command uses the [VFS directory cache](#vfs-virtual-file-system).
All the functionality will work with `--vfs-cache-mode off`. Using
`--vfs-cache-mode full` (or `writes`) can be used to cache objects
locally to improve performance.

Use `--force-path-style=false` if you want to use the bucket name as a
part of the hostname (such as mybucket.local)

Use `--etag-hash` if you want to change the hash uses for the `ETag`.
Note that using anything other than `MD5` (the default) is likely to
cause problems for S3 clients which rely on the Etag being the MD5.

## Quickstart

For a simple set up, to serve `remote:path` over s3, run the server
like this:

```console
rclone serve s3 --auth-key ACCESS_KEY_ID,SECRET_ACCESS_KEY remote:path
```

For example, to use a simple folder in the filesystem, run the server
with a command like this:

```console
rclone serve s3 --auth-key ACCESS_KEY_ID,SECRET_ACCESS_KEY local:/path/to/folder
```

The `rclone.conf` for the server could look like this:

```ini
[local]
type = local
```

The `local` configuration is optional though. If you run the server with a
`remote:path` like `/path/to/folder` (without the `local:` prefix and without an
`rclone.conf` file), rclone will fall back to a default configuration, which
will be visible as a warning in the logs. But it will run nonetheless.

This will be compatible with an rclone (client) remote configuration which
is defined like this:

```ini
[serves3]
type = s3
provider = Rclone
endpoint = http://127.0.0.1:8080/
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY_ID
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
```

## Multipart uploads

By default `serve s3` **streams** each multipart upload, in part-number
order, into a single `PutStream` upload to the underlying remote, so the
whole file is never buffered in memory - memory use stays bounded by the
parts in flight. The remote then performs its own internal upload (for
example its own multipart upload, still with bounded memory). This works
for any remote that supports `PutStream`, which is nearly all of them,
including through `crypt`.

The upload is atomic so the destination object only ever changes on a
successful completion. A failed or aborted upload never affects any
object already stored under that name. Remotes that upload atomically
already (object stores such as `s3`) are streamed straight to the
destination. On remotes where a partial upload would otherwise be visible
(such as `local`), the parts are streamed to a temporary object that is
moved into place, server-side, on completion; these remotes therefore
also need to support a server-side move or copy.

**Features**

- The whole object is never buffered in memory; memory use is bounded by
  the parts in flight, not the upload size.
- Parts can be any size. Clients that don't produce uniform-sized parts
  work fine - for example PostgreSQL backup tools such as **pgBarman**
  and **pgBackRest**, which flush an upload buffer once it grows past
  the chunk size, so each part is the chunk size plus a variable
  overshoot.
- Works through `crypt` for any part size, since the object is encrypted
  as one continuous stream.
- The destination object only ever changes atomically, on completion: an
  aborted or failed upload leaves any pre-existing object of the same
  name untouched, and a partly-uploaded object never becomes visible.
- Backend-agnostic - it only needs the remote to support `PutStream`
  (plus a server-side move or copy on remotes that don't upload
  atomically).

**Limitations**

- Parts must arrive in ascending, contiguous part-number order
  (1, 2, 3, ...). Parts the client uploads concurrently or out of order
  are buffered until their turn. The memory used for this buffering is
  capped, per upload, by `--multipart-streaming-buffer-limit` (default
  `256M`, `0` for no limit): a part that would take the buffer over the
  limit is stalled until the stream drains, so a client that uploads
  faster than the remote can accept sees backpressure rather than
  unbounded server memory use. Since a stalled part holds its HTTP
  request open, clients whose upload concurrency times chunk size
  exceeds the limit may need a longer read timeout when the remote is
  slow. Non-contiguous part numbers are rejected on completion.
  Configure the client to upload in part order, ideally with low
  concurrency, for the lowest memory use.
- A part uploaded again before completion - typically a client retrying
  after a timeout - is accepted: if the earlier copy is still buffered
  it is replaced, and if it has already been streamed an identical
  re-upload is a no-op. What isn't possible is replacing a part that has
  already been streamed with *different* content - that is rejected. A
  failure in the stream to the remote itself still aborts the whole
  upload and the client must start it again. (The remote's own upload
  still retries its internal chunks.)
- Parts are serialised into one stream, so ingest from the client is
  effectively single-threaded, although the remote's own upload still
  runs concurrently.
- On remotes that don't upload atomically (such as `local`), the
  completed object is moved into place with a server-side operation.
  This is a cheap rename on most such remotes. On these remotes, if
  `serve s3` is killed part-way through an upload the temporary object
  (named with a leading `.rclone_multipart_upload_`) may be left behind;
  it is hidden from S3 listings but must be removed manually.

### Disabling streaming

If you pass `--disable-multipart-streaming`, or the remote doesn't
support `PutStream` (or doesn't upload atomically and can't move or copy
server-side), multipart uploads are instead **buffered in memory**
by the underlying S3 library: every part is held in memory and the whole
object is written out in one go when the upload completes (the previous
behaviour). This removes the in-order/contiguous-part restriction above,
so parts can be uploaded in any order, but **memory use grows with the
size of the upload**, so it is only suitable for small objects. A one-off
`NOTICE` is logged the first time this happens.

Alternatively, if the client is an rclone `s3` remote (like the
`[serves3]` example above), you can set `use_multipart_uploads = false`
on it so it uploads each object as a single stream and skips multipart
uploads altogether.

## Bugs

Multipart server side copies do not work (see
[#7454](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7454)). These take a
very long time and eventually fail. The default threshold for
multipart server side copies is 5G which is the maximum it can be, so
files above this side will fail to be server side copied.

For a current list of `serve s3` bugs see the [serve
s3](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/labels/serve%20s3) bug category
on GitHub.

## Limitations

`serve s3` will treat all directories in the root as buckets and
ignore all files in the root. You can use `CreateBucket` to create
folders under the root, but you can't create empty folders under other
folders not in the root.

When using `PutObject` or `DeleteObject`, rclone will automatically
create or clean up empty folders. If you don't want to clean up empty
folders automatically, use `--no-cleanup`.

When using `ListObjects`, rclone will use `/` when the delimiter is
empty. This reduces backend requests with no effect on most
operations, but if the delimiter is something other than `/` and
empty, rclone will do a full recursive search of the backend, which
can take some time.

Versioning is not currently supported.

Metadata will only be saved in memory other than the rclone `mtime`
metadata which will be set as the modification time of the file.

## Object names

`serve s3` stores objects as files in the backend, so object keys are
mapped to file paths rather than treated as the opaque strings AWS S3
allows. Keys must be in canonical path form: keys that contain `..` or
`.` path segments, repeated slashes (`//`), or a leading or trailing
slash are rejected with a `400 Bad Request` (`InvalidArgument`)
instead of being normalised, since normalising them could alias two
distinct keys to the same file or resolve a key outside its bucket.
This matches the behaviour of other S3 servers such as MinIO.

## Supported operations

`serve s3` currently supports the following operations.

- Bucket
  - `ListBuckets`
  - `CreateBucket`
  - `DeleteBucket`
- Object
  - `HeadObject`
  - `ListObjects`
  - `GetObject`
  - `PutObject`
  - `DeleteObject`
  - `DeleteObjects`
  - `CreateMultipartUpload`
  - `CompleteMultipartUpload`
  - `AbortMultipartUpload`
  - `CopyObject`
  - `UploadPart`

Other operations will return error `Unimplemented`.

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the `--user` and `--pass` flags.

Alternatively, you can have the reverse proxy manage authentication and use the
username provided in the configured header with `--user-from-header`  (e.g., `--user-from-header=x-remote-user`).
Ensure the proxy is trusted and headers cannot be spoofed, as misconfiguration
may lead to unauthorized access.

If either of the above authentication methods is not configured and client
certificates are required by the `--client-ca` flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use `--htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd` to provide an htpasswd file.  This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication.  Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

```console
touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
```

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use `--realm` to set the authentication realm.

Use `--salt` to change the password hashing salt from the default.

## Server options

Use `--addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg `--addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set `--addr` to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to `unix:///path/to/socket`
or just by using an absolute path name.

`--addr` may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.
Socket activation, described further below, can also be used to accomplish the same.

`--server-read-timeout` and `--server-write-timeout` can be used to
control the timeouts on the server.  Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

`--max-header-bytes` controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

`--response-header` can be used to set an HTTP header for all responses,
will overriding existing values. The flag may be repeated to add multiple
headers. Use the format `Header-Name: value`.

`--baseurl` controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from.  By default
rclone will serve from the root.  If you used `--baseurl "/rclone"` then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/".  This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve.  Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on `--baseurl`, so `--baseurl "rclone"`,
`--baseurl "/rclone"` and `--baseurl "/rclone/"` are all treated
identically.

`--disable-zip` may be set to disable the zipping download option.

### Protocol

The server supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is used automatically
for TLS connections.  For non-TLS connections, HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c)
is supported, allowing HTTP/2 without encryption.

### TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http.  If you want you can serve over
https.  You will need to supply the `--cert` and `--key` flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply `--client-ca` also.

When TLS is configured every listener given with `--addr` serves TLS.
An individual listener can be prefixed with `http://` to serve unencrypted
HTTP on that address, or with `tls://` to state explicitly that it must serve
TLS.  Using a `tls://` address without `--cert` and `--key` is an error.

`--cert` must be set to the path of a file containing
either a PEM encoded certificate, or a concatenation of that with the CA
certificate. `--key` must be set to the path of a file
with the PEM encoded private key. If setting `--client-ca`,
it should be set to the path of a file with PEM encoded client certificate
authority certificates.

`--min-tls-version` is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

## Socket activation

Instead of the listening addresses specified above, rclone will listen to all
FDs passed by the service manager, if any (and ignore any arguments passed
by `--addr`).

This allows rclone to be a socket-activated service.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 8000 -- rclone serve
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 8000 over TCP.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

```
rclone serve s3 remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray                              IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default 127.0.0.1:8080)
      --allow-origin string                           Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --auth-key stringArray                          Set key pair for v4 authorization: access_key_id,secret_access_key
      --auth-proxy string                             A program to use to create the backend from the auth
      --baseurl string                                Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --cert string                                   TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                              Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --dir-cache-time Duration                       Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                            Directory permissions (default 777)
      --disable-multipart-streaming                   Buffer multipart uploads in memory instead of streaming them to the backend (see the Multipart uploads docs section)
      --etag-hash string                              Which hash to use for the ETag, or auto or blank for off (default "MD5")
      --file-perms FileMode                           File permissions (default 666)
      --force-path-style                              If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style (default true)
      --gid uint32                                    Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                          help for s3
      --htpasswd string                               A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                                    TLS PEM Private key
      --link-perms FileMode                           Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-header-bytes int                          Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --min-tls-version string                        Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --multipart-streaming-buffer-limit SizeSuffix   Maximum memory buffered per streamed multipart upload for parts arriving out of order, 0 for unlimited (see the Multipart uploads docs section) (default 256Mi)
      --no-checksum                                   Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-cleanup                                    Not to cleanup empty folder after object is deleted
      --no-modtime                                    Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                       Don't allow seeking in files
      --pass string                                   Password for authentication
      --poll-interval Duration                        Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                                     Only allow read-only access
      --realm string                                  Realm for authentication
      --response-header stringArray                   Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --salt string                                   Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --server-read-timeout Duration                  Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout Duration                 Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --uid uint32                                    Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                                Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --user string                                   User name for authentication
      --user-from-header string                       User name from a defined HTTP header
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                          If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration                    Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix                 Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix           Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode                      Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration              Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                          If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix          Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                          Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration                   Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                                     Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string                 Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix                     Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix          If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int                    The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                        Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                                   Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size                  Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                       Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                       Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve sftp

Serve the remote over SFTP.

## Synopsis

Run an SFTP server to serve a remote over SFTP. This can be used
with an SFTP client or you can make a remote of type [sftp](/sftp) to use with it.

You can use the [filter](/filtering) flags (e.g. `--include`, `--exclude`)
to control what is served.

The server will respond to a small number of shell commands, mainly
md5sum, sha1sum and df, which enable it to provide support for checksums
and the about feature when accessed from an sftp remote.

Note that this server uses standard 32 KiB packet payload size, which
means you must not configure the client to expect anything else, e.g.
with the [chunk_size](https://rclone.org/sftp/#sftp-chunk-size) option on an sftp remote.

The server will log errors.  Use `-v` to see access logs.

`--bwlimit` will be respected for file transfers.
Use `--stats` to control the stats printing.

You must provide some means of authentication, either with
`--user`/`--pass`, an authorized keys file (specify location with
`--authorized-keys` - the default is the same as ssh), an
`--auth-proxy`, or set the `--no-auth` flag for no
authentication when logging in.

If you don't supply a host `--key` then rclone will generate rsa, ecdsa
and ed25519 variants, and cache them for later use in rclone's cache
directory (see `rclone help flags cache-dir`) in the "serve-sftp"
directory.

By default the server binds to localhost:2022 - if you want it to be
reachable externally then supply `--addr :2022` for example.

This also supports being run with socket activation, in which case it will
listen on the first passed FD.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command:

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 2222 -- rclone serve sftp :local:vfs/
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 2222 over TCP.

Note that the default of `--vfs-cache-mode off` is fine for the rclone
sftp backend, but it may not be with other SFTP clients.

If `--stdio` is specified, rclone will serve SFTP over stdio, which can
be used with sshd via ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, for example:

```text
restrict,command="rclone serve sftp --stdio ./photos" ssh-rsa ...
```

On the client you need to set `--transfers 1` when using `--stdio`.
Otherwise multiple instances of the rclone server are started by OpenSSH
which can lead to "corrupted on transfer" errors. This is the case because
the client chooses indiscriminately which server to send commands to while
the servers all have different views of the state of the filing system.

The "restrict" in authorized_keys prevents SHA1SUMs and MD5SUMs from being
used. Omitting "restrict" and using  `--sftp-path-override` to enable
checksumming is possible but less secure and you could use the SFTP server
provided by OpenSSH in this case.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

## Auth Proxy

If you supply the parameter `--auth-proxy /path/to/program` then
rclone will use that program to generate backends on the fly which
then are used to authenticate incoming requests.  This uses a simple
JSON based protocol with input on STDIN and output on STDOUT.

**PLEASE NOTE:** `--auth-proxy` and `--authorized-keys` cannot be used
together, if `--auth-proxy` is set the authorized keys option will be
ignored.

There is an example program
[bin/test_proxy.py](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/test_proxy.py)
in the rclone source code.

The program's job is to take a `user` and `pass` on the input and turn
those into the config for a backend on STDOUT in JSON format.  This
config will have any default parameters for the backend added, but it
won't use configuration from environment variables or command line
options - it is the job of the proxy program to make a complete
config.

This config generated must have this extra parameter

- `_root` - root to use for the backend

And it may have this parameter

- `_obscure` - comma separated strings for parameters to obscure

If password authentication was used by the client, input to the proxy
process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword"
}
```

If public-key authentication was used by the client, input to the
proxy process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "public_key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDuwESFdAe14hVS6omeyX7edc...JQdf"
}
```

And as an example return this on STDOUT

```json
{
  "type": "sftp",
  "_root": "",
  "_obscure": "pass",
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword",
  "host": "sftp.example.com"
}
```

This would mean that an SFTP backend would be created on the fly for
the `user` and `pass`/`public_key` returned in the output to the host given.  Note
that since `_obscure` is set to `pass`, rclone will obscure the `pass`
parameter before creating the backend (which is required for sftp
backends).

The program can manipulate the supplied `user` in any way, for example
to make proxy to many different sftp backends, you could make the
`user` be `user@example.com` and then set the `host` to `example.com`
in the output and the user to `user`. For security you'd probably want
to restrict the `host` to a limited list.

An internal cache of backends is keyed on the `user` and a hash of the
`pass` or `public_key`.  This means that if a user's password or
public-key changes, or the proxy returns different config parameters
(eg a rotated `api_key`), a fresh backend will be created on the next
request rather than the cached one being reused.

This can be used to build general purpose proxies to any kind of
backend that rclone supports.

```
rclone serve sftp remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:2022")
      --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
      --authorized-keys string                 Authorized keys file (default "~/.ssh/authorized_keys")
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for sftp
      --key stringArray                        SSH private host key file (Can be multi-valued, leave blank to auto generate)
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --no-auth                                Allow connections with no authentication if set
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --pass string                            Password for authentication
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --stdio                                  Run an sftp server on stdin/stdout
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --user string                            User name for authentication
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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* [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)	 - Serve a remote over a protocol.


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# rclone serve webdav

Serve remote:path over WebDAV.

## Synopsis

Run a basic WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the
WebDAV protocol. This can be viewed with a WebDAV client, through a web
browser, or you can make a remote of type WebDAV to read and write it.

## WebDAV options

### --etag-hash

This controls the ETag header.  Without this flag the ETag will be
based on the ModTime and Size of the object.

If this flag is set to "auto" then rclone will choose the first
supported hash on the backend or you can use a named hash such as
"MD5" or "SHA-1". Use the [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/) command
to see the full list.

## Gzip compression

The server will compress certain response bodies (text and XML, including
WebDAV PROPFIND responses) using gzip when the client advertises gzip
support via the `Accept-Encoding: gzip` request header. This reduces
bandwidth usage.

## Access WebDAV on Windows

WebDAV shared folder can be mapped as a drive on Windows, however the default
settings prevent it. Windows will fail to connect to the server using insecure
Basic authentication. It will not even display any login dialog. Windows
requires SSL / HTTPS connection to be used with Basic. If you try to connect
via Add Network Location Wizard you will get the following error:
"The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another".
However, you still can connect if you set the following registry key on a
client machine:
`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\BasicAuthLevel`
to 2. The BasicAuthLevel can be set to the following values:

```text
0 - Basic authentication disabled
1 - Basic authentication enabled for SSL connections only
2 - Basic authentication enabled for SSL connections and for non-SSL connections
```

If required, increase the FileSizeLimitInBytes to a higher value.
Navigate to the Services interface, then restart the WebClient service.

## Access Office applications on WebDAV

Navigate to following registry
`HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[14.0/15.0/16.0]\Common\Internet`
Create a new DWORD BasicAuthLevel with value 2.

```text
0 - Basic authentication disabled
1 - Basic authentication enabled for SSL connections only
2 - Basic authentication enabled for SSL and for non-SSL connections
```

<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/powerpoint/office-opens-blank-from-sharepoint>

## Serving over a unix socket

You can serve the webdav on a unix socket like this:

```console
rclone serve webdav --addr unix:///tmp/my.socket remote:path
```

and connect to it like this using rclone and the webdav backend:

```console
rclone --webdav-unix-socket /tmp/my.socket --webdav-url http://localhost lsf :webdav:
```

Note that there is no authentication on http protocol - this is expected to be
done by the permissions on the socket.

## Symlinks / Junction points

The webdav protocol does not support symlinks or junction points and
by default rclone will skip them completely.

You can use `-L` to get rclone to follow symlinks or you can
use `--local-links` to make rclone show `.rclonelink`
files in place of the symlinks.

**NB** Do not use `--links` as since v1.69 this applies to
the VFS layer too, use `--local-links` which only applies to
the local backend only.

## Server options

Use `--addr` to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg `--addr 1.2.3.4:8000` or `--addr :8080` to listen to all
IPs.  By default it only listens on localhost.  You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set `--addr` to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to `unix:///path/to/socket`
or just by using an absolute path name.

`--addr` may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.
Socket activation, described further below, can also be used to accomplish the same.

`--server-read-timeout` and `--server-write-timeout` can be used to
control the timeouts on the server.  Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

`--max-header-bytes` controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

`--response-header` can be used to set an HTTP header for all responses,
will overriding existing values. The flag may be repeated to add multiple
headers. Use the format `Header-Name: value`.

`--baseurl` controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from.  By default
rclone will serve from the root.  If you used `--baseurl "/rclone"` then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/".  This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve.  Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on `--baseurl`, so `--baseurl "rclone"`,
`--baseurl "/rclone"` and `--baseurl "/rclone/"` are all treated
identically.

`--disable-zip` may be set to disable the zipping download option.

### Protocol

The server supports HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is used automatically
for TLS connections.  For non-TLS connections, HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c)
is supported, allowing HTTP/2 without encryption.

### TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http.  If you want you can serve over
https.  You will need to supply the `--cert` and `--key` flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply `--client-ca` also.

When TLS is configured every listener given with `--addr` serves TLS.
An individual listener can be prefixed with `http://` to serve unencrypted
HTTP on that address, or with `tls://` to state explicitly that it must serve
TLS.  Using a `tls://` address without `--cert` and `--key` is an error.

`--cert` must be set to the path of a file containing
either a PEM encoded certificate, or a concatenation of that with the CA
certificate. `--key` must be set to the path of a file
with the PEM encoded private key. If setting `--client-ca`,
it should be set to the path of a file with PEM encoded client certificate
authority certificates.

`--min-tls-version` is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

## Socket activation

Instead of the listening addresses specified above, rclone will listen to all
FDs passed by the service manager, if any (and ignore any arguments passed
by `--addr`).

This allows rclone to be a socket-activated service.
It can be configured with .socket and .service unit files as described in
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html>.

Socket activation can be tested ad-hoc with the `systemd-socket-activate`command

```console
systemd-socket-activate -l 8000 -- rclone serve
```

This will socket-activate rclone on the first connection to port 8000 over TCP.

### Template

`--template` allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP
and WebDAV serve functions.  The server exports the following markup
to be used within the template to server pages:

| Parameter   | Subparameter | Description |
| :---------- | :----------- | :---------- |
| .Name       |              | The full path of a file/directory. |
| .Title      |              | Directory listing of '.Name'. |
| .Sort       |              | The current sort used. This is changeable via '?sort=' parameter. Possible values: namedirfirst, name, size, time (default namedirfirst). |
| .Order      |              | The current ordering used. This is changeable via '?order=' parameter. Possible values: asc, desc (default asc). |
| .Query      |              | Currently unused. |
| .Breadcrumb |              | Allows for creating a relative navigation. |
|             | .Link        | The link of the Text relative to the root. |
|             | .Text        | The Name of the directory. |
| .Entries    |              | Information about a specific file/directory. |
|             | .URL         | The url of an entry. |
|             | .Leaf        | Currently same as '.URL' but intended to be just the name. |
|             | .IsDir       | Boolean for if an entry is a directory or not. |
|             | .Size        | Size in bytes of the entry. |
|             | .ModTime     | The UTC timestamp of an entry. |

The server also makes the following functions available so that they can be used
within the template. These functions help extend the options for dynamic
rendering of HTML. They can be used to render HTML based on specific conditions.

| Function   | Description |
| :---------- | :---------- |
| afterEpoch  | Returns the time since the epoch for the given time. |
| contains    | Checks whether a given substring is present or not in a given string. |
| hasPrefix   | Checks whether the given string begins with the specified prefix. |
| hasSuffix   | Checks whether the given string end with the specified suffix. |

### Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the `--user` and `--pass` flags.

Alternatively, you can have the reverse proxy manage authentication and use the
username provided in the configured header with `--user-from-header`  (e.g., `--user-from-header=x-remote-user`).
Ensure the proxy is trusted and headers cannot be spoofed, as misconfiguration
may lead to unauthorized access.

If either of the above authentication methods is not configured and client
certificates are required by the `--client-ca` flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use `--htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd` to provide an htpasswd file.  This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication.  Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

```console
touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
```

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use `--realm` to set the authentication realm.

Use `--salt` to change the password hashing salt from the default.

## VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects
that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk
filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk
files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the
VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of
doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info
about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

## VFS Directory Cache

Using the `--dir-cache-time` flag, you can control how long a
directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.

```text
    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support
polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be
picked up within the polling interval.

You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are.  Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

```console
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget
```

Or individual files or directories:

```console
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```

## VFS File Buffering

The `--buffer-size` flag determines the amount of memory,
that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory
at all times. The buffered data is bound to one open file and won't be
shared.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per open file.  The
buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not
yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will
be used.

The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to
`--buffer-size * open files`.

## VFS File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. File caching is
necessary to make the VFS layer appear compatible with a normal file
system. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility.

For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and
write simultaneously to a file.  See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.

```text
    --cache-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for caching.
    --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode             Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
    --vfs-cache-max-age duration           Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
    --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix        Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix  Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
    --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration     Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
    --vfs-write-back duration              Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```

If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache.  The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
can be controlled with `--cache-dir` or setting the appropriate
environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by `--vfs-cache-mode`.
The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the
cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are
closed and if they haven't been accessed for `--vfs-write-back`
seconds. If rclone is quit or dies with files that haven't been
uploaded, these will be uploaded next time rclone is run with the same
flags.

If using `--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` note
that the cache may exceed these quotas for two reasons. Firstly
because it is only checked every `--vfs-cache-poll-interval`. Secondly
because open files cannot be evicted from the cache. When
`--vfs-cache-max-size` or `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` is exceeded,
rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache
first. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the
longest. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant
files are likely to remain cached.

The `--vfs-cache-max-age` will evict files from the cache
after the set time since last access has passed. The default value of
1 hour will start evicting files from cache that haven't been accessed
for 1 hour. When a cached file is accessed the 1 hour timer is reset to 0
and will wait for 1 more hour before evicting. Specify the time with
standard notation, s, m, h, d, w .

You **should not** run two copies of rclone using the same VFS cache
with the same or overlapping remotes if using `--vfs-cache-mode > off`.
This can potentially cause data corruption if you do. You can work
around this by giving each rclone its own cache hierarchy with
`--cache-dir`. You don't need to worry about this if the remotes in
use don't overlap.

### --vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode (the default) the cache will read directly from the remote and write
directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND
write will be buffered to disk.  This means that files opened for
write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried

### --vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from
the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk
first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried at exponentially increasing
intervals up to 1 minute.

### --vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When
data is read from the remote this is buffered to disk as well.

In this mode the files in the cache will be sparse files and rclone
will keep track of which bits of the files it has downloaded.

So if an application only reads the starts of each file, then rclone
will only buffer the start of the file. These files will appear to be
their full size in the cache, but they will be sparse files with only
the data that has been downloaded present in them.

This mode should support all normal file system operations and is
otherwise identical to `--vfs-cache-mode` writes.

When reading a file rclone will read `--buffer-size` plus
`--vfs-read-ahead` bytes ahead.  The `--buffer-size` is buffered in memory
whereas the `--vfs-read-ahead` is buffered on disk.

When using this mode it is recommended that `--buffer-size` is not set
too large and `--vfs-read-ahead` is set large if required.

**IMPORTANT** not all file systems support sparse files. In particular
FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache
directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it
will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

### Fingerprinting

Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file
copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made
from:

- size
- modification time
- hash

where available on an object.

On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take
an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

For example `hash` is slow with the `local` and `sftp` backends as
they have to read the entire file and hash it, and `modtime` is slow
with the `s3`, `swift`, `ftp` and `qinqstor` backends because they
need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

If you use the `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` flag then rclone will not
include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the
fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the
opening time of cached files.

If you are running a vfs cache over `local`, `s3` or `swift` backends
then using this flag is recommended.

Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of
the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to
be downloaded again.

## VFS Chunked Reading

When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This
means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the
chunk specified.  This can reduce the used download quota for some
remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually
read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.

These flags control the chunking:

```text
    --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix        Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix  Max chunk doubling size (default off)
    --vfs-read-chunk-streams int            The number of parallel streams to read at once
```

The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` == 0

Rclone will start reading a chunk of size `--vfs-read-chunk-size`,
and then double the size for each read. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` is
specified, and greater than `--vfs-read-chunk-size`, the chunk size for each
open file will get doubled only until the specified value is reached. If the
value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.

With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.

The chunks will not be buffered in memory.

### `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` > 0

Rclone reads `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` chunks of size
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` concurrently. The size for each read will stay
constant.

This improves performance performance massively on high latency links
or very high bandwidth links to high performance object stores.

Some experimentation will be needed to find the optimum values of
`--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` as these will
depend on the backend in use and the latency to the backend.

For high performance object stores (eg AWS S3) a reasonable place to
start might be `--vfs-read-chunk-streams 16` and
`--vfs-read-chunk-size 4M`. In testing with AWS S3 the performance
scaled roughly as the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` setting.

Similar settings should work for high latency links, but depending on
the latency they may need more `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` in order to
get the throughput.

## VFS Performance

These flags may be used to enable/disable features of the VFS for
performance or other reasons. See also the [chunked reading](#vfs-chunked-reading)
feature.

In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.

```text
    --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
    --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
    --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
```

Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.

```text
    --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
    --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).

```text
    --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```

## Symlinks

By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:

```text
    --links      Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
    --vfs-links  Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```

As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
file which appears as a symlink `link-to-file.txt` would be stored on
cloud storage as `link-to-file.txt.rclonelink` and the contents would
be the path to the symlink destination.

Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.

This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](https://rclone.org/local/#symlinks-junction-points).

The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.

It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.

A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree

```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
└── linked-dir -> dir
```

The VFS will correctly resolve `linked-dir` but not
`linked-dir/file.txt`. This is not a problem for the tested commands
but may be for other commands.

**Note** that there is an outstanding issue with symlink support
[issue #8245](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8245) with duplicate
files being created when symlinks are moved into directories where
there is a file of the same name (or vice versa).

## VFS Case Sensitivity

Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only
by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving:
although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used
to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query.
It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

The `--vfs-case-insensitive` VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
controlled by the underlying remote.

Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false"
otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

The `--no-unicode-normalization` flag controls whether a similar "fixup" is
performed for filenames that differ but are [canonically
equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) with respect to
unicode. Unicode normalization can be particularly helpful for users of macOS,
which prefers form NFD instead of the NFC used by most other platforms. It is
therefore highly recommended to keep the default of `false` on macOS, to avoid
encoding compatibility issues.

In the (probably unlikely) event that a directory has multiple duplicate
filenames after applying case and unicode normalization, the `--vfs-block-norm-dupes`
flag allows hiding these duplicates. This comes with a performance tradeoff, as
rclone will have to scan the entire directory for duplicates when listing a
directory. For this reason, it is recommended to leave this disabled if not
needed. However, macOS users may wish to consider using it, as otherwise, if a
remote directory contains both NFC and NFD versions of the same filename, an odd
situation will occur: both versions of the file will be visible in the mount,
and both will appear to be editable, however, editing either version will
actually result in only the NFD version getting edited under the hood. `--vfs-block-
norm-dupes` prevents this confusion by detecting this scenario, hiding the
duplicates, and logging an error, similar to how this is handled in `rclone
sync`.

## VFS Disk Options

This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

```text
    --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```

## Alternate report of used bytes

Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used.
If you need this information to be available when running `df` on the
filesystem, then pass the flag `--vfs-used-is-size` to rclone.
With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.

**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

## VFS Metadata

If you use the `--vfs-metadata-extension` flag you can get the VFS to
expose files which contain the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) as a JSON
blob. These files will not appear in the directory listing, but can be
`stat`-ed and opened and once they have been they **will** appear in
directory listings until the directory cache expires.

Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
`--metadata` flag.

For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get

```console
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G

$ cat /mnt/1G.metadata
{
        "atime": "2025-03-04T17:34:22.317069787Z",
        "btime": "2025-03-03T16:03:37.708253808Z",
        "gid": "1000",
        "mode": "100664",
        "mtime": "2025-03-03T16:03:39.640238323Z",
        "uid": "1000"
}

$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048578
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar  3 16:03 1G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user        185 Mar  3 16:03 1G.metadata
```

If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.

## Auth Proxy

If you supply the parameter `--auth-proxy /path/to/program` then
rclone will use that program to generate backends on the fly which
then are used to authenticate incoming requests.  This uses a simple
JSON based protocol with input on STDIN and output on STDOUT.

**PLEASE NOTE:** `--auth-proxy` and `--authorized-keys` cannot be used
together, if `--auth-proxy` is set the authorized keys option will be
ignored.

There is an example program
[bin/test_proxy.py](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/test_proxy.py)
in the rclone source code.

The program's job is to take a `user` and `pass` on the input and turn
those into the config for a backend on STDOUT in JSON format.  This
config will have any default parameters for the backend added, but it
won't use configuration from environment variables or command line
options - it is the job of the proxy program to make a complete
config.

This config generated must have this extra parameter

- `_root` - root to use for the backend

And it may have this parameter

- `_obscure` - comma separated strings for parameters to obscure

If password authentication was used by the client, input to the proxy
process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword"
}
```

If public-key authentication was used by the client, input to the
proxy process (on STDIN) would look similar to this:

```json
{
  "user": "me",
  "public_key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDuwESFdAe14hVS6omeyX7edc...JQdf"
}
```

And as an example return this on STDOUT

```json
{
  "type": "sftp",
  "_root": "",
  "_obscure": "pass",
  "user": "me",
  "pass": "mypassword",
  "host": "sftp.example.com"
}
```

This would mean that an SFTP backend would be created on the fly for
the `user` and `pass`/`public_key` returned in the output to the host given.  Note
that since `_obscure` is set to `pass`, rclone will obscure the `pass`
parameter before creating the backend (which is required for sftp
backends).

The program can manipulate the supplied `user` in any way, for example
to make proxy to many different sftp backends, you could make the
`user` be `user@example.com` and then set the `host` to `example.com`
in the output and the user to `user`. For security you'd probably want
to restrict the `host` to a limited list.

An internal cache of backends is keyed on the `user` and a hash of the
`pass` or `public_key`.  This means that if a user's password or
public-key changes, or the proxy returns different config parameters
(eg a rotated `api_key`), a fresh backend will be created on the next
request rather than the cached one being reused.

This can be used to build general purpose proxies to any kind of
backend that rclone supports.

```
rclone serve webdav remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray                       IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default 127.0.0.1:8080)
      --allow-origin string                    Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
      --baseurl string                         Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --cert string                            TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                       Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 777)
      --disable-dir-list                       Disable HTML directory list on GET request for a directory
      --disable-zip                            Disable zip download of directories
      --etag-hash string                       Which hash to use for the ETag, or auto or blank for off
      --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 666)
      --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
  -h, --help                                   help for webdav
      --htpasswd string                        A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                             TLS PEM Private key
      --link-perms FileMode                    Link permissions (default 666)
      --max-header-bytes int                   Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --min-tls-version string                 Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --no-checksum                            Don't compare checksums on up/download
      --no-modtime                             Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up)
      --no-seek                                Don't allow seeking in files
      --pass string                            Password for authentication
      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      --realm string                           Realm for authentication
      --response-header stringArray            Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --salt string                            Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --server-read-timeout Duration           Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout Duration          Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --template string                        User-specified template
      --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      --umask FileMode                         Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 002)
      --user string                            User name for authentication
      --user-from-header string                User name from a defined HTTP header
      --vfs-block-norm-dupes                   If duplicate filenames exist in the same directory (after normalization), log an error and hide the duplicates (may have a performance cost)
      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix    Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
      --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
      --vfs-handle-caching Duration            Time to keep file handle and downloaders alive after last close (default 5s)
      --vfs-links                              Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
      --vfs-metadata-extension string          Set the extension to read metadata from
      --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
      --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached ('off' is unlimited) (default off)
      --vfs-read-chunk-streams int             The number of parallel streams to read at once
      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      --vfs-refresh                            Refreshes the directory cache recursively in the background on start
      --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      --vfs-write-back Duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      --vfs-write-wait Duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

## See Also

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# rclone settier

Changes storage class/tier of objects in remote.

## Synopsis

Changes storage tier or class at remote if supported. Few cloud storage
services provides different storage classes on objects, for example
AWS S3 and Glacier, Azure Blob storage - Hot, Cool and Archive,
Google Cloud Storage, Regional Storage, Nearline, Coldline etc.

Note that, certain tier changes make objects not available to access immediately.
For example tiering to archive in azure blob storage makes objects in frozen state,
user can restore by setting tier to Hot/Cool, similarly S3 to Glacier makes object
inaccessible.true

You can use it to tier single object

```console
rclone settier Cool remote:path/file
```

Or use rclone filters to set tier on only specific files

```console
rclone --include "*.txt" settier Hot remote:path/dir
```

Or just provide remote directory and all files in directory will be tiered

```console
rclone settier tier remote:path/dir
```

```
rclone settier tier remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for settier
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.


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# rclone test

Run a test command

## Synopsis

Rclone test is used to run test commands.

Select which test command you want with the subcommand, eg

```console
rclone test memory remote:
```

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

**NB** Be careful running these commands, they may do strange things
so reading their documentation first is recommended.

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for test
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone test changenotify](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_changenotify/)	 - Log any change notify requests for the remote passed in.
* [rclone test histogram](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_histogram/)	 - Makes a histogram of file name characters.
* [rclone test info](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_info/)	 - Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.
* [rclone test makefile](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_makefile/)	 - Make files with random contents of the size given
* [rclone test makefiles](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_makefiles/)	 - Make a random file hierarchy in a directory
* [rclone test memory](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_memory/)	 - Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.
* [rclone test speed](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_speed/)	 - Run a speed test to the remote


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# rclone test changenotify

Log any change notify requests for the remote passed in.

```
rclone test changenotify remote: [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help                     help for changenotify
      --poll-interval Duration   Time to wait between polling for changes (default 10s)
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone test](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test/)	 - Run a test command


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# rclone test histogram

Makes a histogram of file name characters.

## Synopsis

This command outputs JSON which shows the histogram of characters used
in filenames in the remote:path specified.

The data doesn't contain any identifying information but is useful for
the rclone developers when developing filename compression.

```
rclone test histogram [remote:path] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for histogram
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone test](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test/)	 - Run a test command


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# rclone test info

Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.

## Synopsis

Discovers what filenames and upload methods are possible to write to the
paths passed in and how long they can be.  It can take some time.  It will
write test files into the remote:path passed in.  It outputs a bit of go
code for each one.

**NB** this can create undeletable files and other hazards - use with care!

```
rclone test info [remote:path]+ [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --all                    Run all tests
      --check-base32768        Check can store all possible base32768 characters
      --check-control          Check control characters
      --check-length           Check max filename length
      --check-normalization    Check UTF-8 Normalization
      --check-streaming        Check uploads with indeterminate file size
  -h, --help                   help for info
      --keep-test-files        Keep test files after execution
      --upload-wait Duration   Wait after writing a file (default 0s)
      --write-json string      Write results to file
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone test makefile

Make files with random contents of the size given

```
rclone test makefile <size> [<file>]+ [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --ascii      Fill files with random ASCII printable bytes only
      --chargen    Fill files with a ASCII chargen pattern
  -h, --help       help for makefile
      --pattern    Fill files with a periodic pattern
      --seed int   Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1)
      --sparse     Make the files sparse (appear to be filled with ASCII 0x00)
      --zero       Fill files with ASCII 0x00
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone test makefiles

Make a random file hierarchy in a directory

```
rclone test makefiles <dir> [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --ascii                      Fill files with random ASCII printable bytes only
      --chargen                    Fill files with a ASCII chargen pattern
      --files int                  Number of files to create (default 1000)
      --files-per-directory int    Average number of files per directory (default 10)
      --flat                       If set create all files in the root directory
  -h, --help                       help for makefiles
      --max-depth int              Maximum depth of directory hierarchy (default 10)
      --max-file-size SizeSuffix   Maximum size of files to create (default 100)
      --max-name-length int        Maximum size of file names (default 12)
      --min-file-size SizeSuffix   Minimum size of file to create
      --min-name-length int        Minimum size of file names (default 4)
      --pattern                    Fill files with a periodic pattern
      --seed int                   Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1)
      --sparse                     Make the files sparse (appear to be filled with ASCII 0x00)
      --zero                       Fill files with ASCII 0x00
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone test memory

Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.

```
rclone test memory remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for memory
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone test speed

Run a speed test to the remote

## Synopsis

Run a speed test to the remote.

This command runs a series of uploads and downloads to the remote, measuring
and printing the speed of each test using varying file sizes and numbers of
files.

Test time can be innaccurate with small file caps and large files. As it
uses the results of an initial test to determine how many files to use in
each subsequent test.

It is recommended to use -q flag for a simpler output. e.g.:

    rclone test speed remote: -q

**NB** This command will create and delete files on the remote in a randomly
named directory which will be automatically removed on a clean exit.

You can use the --json flag to only print the results in JSON format.

```
rclone test speed <remote> [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --ascii                Fill files with random ASCII printable bytes only
      --chargen              Fill files with a ASCII chargen pattern
      --file-cap int         Maximum number of files to use in each test (default 100)
  -h, --help                 help for speed
      --json                 Output only results in JSON format
      --large SizeSuffix     Size of large files (default 1Gi)
      --medium SizeSuffix    Size of medium files (default 10Mi)
      --pattern              Fill files with a periodic pattern
      --seed int             Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1)
      --small SizeSuffix     Size of small files (default 1Ki)
      --sparse               Make the files sparse (appear to be filled with ASCII 0x00)
      --test-time Duration   Length for each test to run (default 15s)
      --zero                 Fill files with ASCII 0x00
```

See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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# rclone touch

Create new file or change file modification time.

## Synopsis

Set the modification time on file(s) as specified by remote:path to
have the current time.

If remote:path does not exist then a zero sized file will be created,
unless `--no-create` or `--recursive` is provided.

If `--recursive` is used then recursively sets the modification
time on all existing files that is found under the path. Filters are supported,
and you can test with the `--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.
This will touch `--transfers` files concurrently.

If `--timestamp` is used then sets the modification time to that
time instead of the current time. Times may be specified as one of:

- 'YYMMDD' - e.g. 17.10.30
- 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS' - e.g. 2006-01-02T15:04:05
- 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSS' - e.g. 2006-01-02T15:04:05.123456789

Note that value of `--timestamp` is in UTC. If you want local time
then add the `--localtime` flag.

Metadata can be added when creating a new file with `--metadata-set`.
For example:
  rclone touch remote:path -M --metadata-set key=value

```
rclone touch remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help               help for touch
      --localtime          Use localtime for timestamp, not UTC
  -C, --no-create          Do not create the file if it does not exist (implied with --recursive)
  -R, --recursive          Recursively touch all files
  -t, --timestamp string   Use specified time instead of the current time of day
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

```text
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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# rclone tree

List the contents of the remote in a tree like fashion.

## Synopsis

Lists the contents of a remote in a similar way to the unix tree command.

For example

```text
$ rclone tree remote:path
/
├── file1
├── file2
├── file3
└── subdir
    ├── file4
    └── file5

1 directories, 5 files
```

You can use any of the filtering options with the tree command (e.g.
`--include` and `--exclude`.  You can also use `--fast-list`.

The tree command has many options for controlling the listing which
are compatible with the tree command, for example you can include file
sizes with `--size`.  Note that not all of them have
short options as they conflict with rclone's short options.

For a more interactive navigation of the remote see the
[ncdu](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/) command.

```
rclone tree remote:path [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -a, --all             All files are listed (list . files too)
  -d, --dirs-only       List directories only
      --dirsfirst       List directories before files (-U disables)
      --full-path       Print the full path prefix for each file
  -h, --help            help for tree
      --level int       Descend only level directories deep
  -D, --modtime         Print the date of last modification.
      --noindent        Don't print indentation lines
      --noreport        Turn off file/directory count at end of tree listing
  -o, --output string   Output to file instead of stdout
  -p, --protections     Print the protections for each file.
  -Q, --quote           Quote filenames with double quotes.
  -s, --size            Print the size in bytes of each file.
      --sort string     Select sort: name,version,size,mtime,ctime
      --sort-ctime      Sort files by last status change time
  -t, --sort-modtime    Sort files by last modification time
  -r, --sort-reverse    Reverse the order of the sort
  -U, --unsorted        Leave files unsorted
      --version         Sort files alphanumerically by version
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](https://rclone.org/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### Filter Options

Flags for filtering directory listings

```text
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```

### Listing Options

Flags for listing directories

```text
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```

## See Also

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## Copying single files

rclone normally syncs or copies directories.  However, if the source
remote points to a file, rclone will just copy that file.  The
destination remote must point to a directory - rclone will give the
error `Failed to create file system for "remote:file": is a file not a
directory` if it isn't.

For example, suppose you have a remote with a file in called
`test.jpg`, then you could copy just that file like this

```console
rclone copy remote:test.jpg /tmp/download
```

The file `test.jpg` will be placed inside `/tmp/download`.

This is equivalent to specifying

```console
rclone copy --files-from /tmp/files remote: /tmp/download
```

Where `/tmp/files` contains the single line

```console
test.jpg
```

It is recommended to use `copy` when copying individual files, not `sync`.
They have pretty much the same effect but `copy` will use a lot less
memory.

## Syntax of remote paths

The syntax of the paths passed to the rclone command are as follows.

### /path/to/dir

This refers to the local file system.

On Windows `\` may be used instead of `/` in local paths **only**,
non local paths must use `/`. See [local filesystem](https://rclone.org/local/#paths-on-windows)
documentation for more about Windows-specific paths.

These paths needn't start with a leading `/` - if they don't then they
will be relative to the current directory.

### remote:path/to/dir

This refers to a directory `path/to/dir` on `remote:` as defined in
the config file (configured with `rclone config`).

### remote:/path/to/dir

On most backends this is refers to the same directory as
`remote:path/to/dir` and that format should be preferred.  On a very
small number of remotes (FTP, SFTP, Dropbox for business) this will
refer to a different directory.  On these, paths without a leading `/`
will refer to your "home" directory and paths with a leading `/` will
refer to the root.

### :backend:path/to/dir

This is an advanced form for creating remotes on the fly.  `backend`
should be the name or prefix of a backend (the `type` in the config
file) and all the configuration for the backend should be provided on
the command line (or in environment variables).

Here are some examples:

```console
rclone lsd --http-url https://pub.rclone.org :http:
```

To list all the directories in the root of `https://pub.rclone.org/`.

```console
rclone lsf --http-url https://example.com :http:path/to/dir
```

To list files and directories in `https://example.com/path/to/dir/`

```console
rclone copy --http-url https://example.com :http:path/to/dir /tmp/dir
```

To copy files and directories in `https://example.com/path/to/dir` to `/tmp/dir`.

```console
rclone copy --sftp-host example.com :sftp:path/to/dir /tmp/dir
```

To copy files and directories from `example.com` in the relative
directory `path/to/dir` to `/tmp/dir` using sftp.

### Connection strings {#connection-strings}

The above examples can also be written using a connection string
syntax, so instead of providing the arguments as command line
parameters `--http-url https://pub.rclone.org` they are provided as
part of the remote specification as a kind of connection string.

```console
rclone lsd ":http,url='https://pub.rclone.org':"
rclone lsf ":http,url='https://example.com':path/to/dir"
rclone copy ":http,url='https://example.com':path/to/dir" /tmp/dir
rclone copy :sftp,host=example.com:path/to/dir /tmp/dir
```

These can apply to modify existing remotes as well as create new
remotes with the on the fly syntax. This example is equivalent to
adding the `--drive-shared-with-me` parameter to the remote `gdrive:`.

```console
rclone lsf "gdrive,shared_with_me:path/to/dir"
```

The major advantage to using the connection string style syntax is
that it only applies to the remote, not to all the remotes of that
type of the command line. A common confusion is this attempt to copy a
file shared on google drive to the normal drive which **does not
work** because the `--drive-shared-with-me` flag applies to both the
source and the destination.

```console
rclone copy --drive-shared-with-me gdrive:shared-file.txt gdrive:
```

However using the connection string syntax, this does work.

```console
rclone copy "gdrive,shared_with_me:shared-file.txt" gdrive:
```

Note that the connection string only affects the options of the immediate
backend. If for example gdriveCrypt is a crypt based on gdrive, then the
following command **will not work** as intended, because
`shared_with_me` is ignored by the crypt backend:

```console
rclone copy "gdriveCrypt,shared_with_me:shared-file.txt" gdriveCrypt:
```

The connection strings have the following syntax

```text
remote,parameter=value,parameter2=value2:path/to/dir
:backend,parameter=value,parameter2=value2:path/to/dir
```

If the `parameter` has a `:` or `,` then it must be placed in quotes `"` or
`'`, so

```text
remote,parameter="colon:value",parameter2="comma,value":path/to/dir
:backend,parameter='colon:value',parameter2='comma,value':path/to/dir
```

If a quoted value needs to include that quote, then it should be
doubled, so

```text
remote,parameter="with""quote",parameter2='with''quote':path/to/dir
```

This will make `parameter` be `with"quote` and `parameter2` be
`with'quote`.

If you leave off the `=parameter` then rclone will substitute `=true`
which works very well with flags. For example, to use s3 configured in
the environment you could use:

```console
rclone lsd :s3,env_auth:
```

Which is equivalent to

```console
rclone lsd :s3,env_auth=true:
```

Note that on the command line you might need to surround these
connection strings with `"` or `'` to stop the shell interpreting any
special characters within them.

If you are a shell master then you'll know which strings are OK and
which aren't, but if you aren't sure then enclose them in `"` and use
`'` as the inside quote. This syntax works on all OSes.

```console
rclone copy ":http,url='https://example.com':path/to/dir" /tmp/dir
```

On Linux/macOS some characters are still interpreted inside `"`
strings in the shell (notably `\` and `$` and `"`) so if your strings
contain those you can swap the roles of `"` and `'` thus. (This syntax
does not work on Windows.)

```console
rclone copy ':http,url="https://example.com":path/to/dir' /tmp/dir
```

You can use [rclone config string](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_string/) to
convert a remote into a connection string.

#### Connection strings, config and logging

If you supply extra configuration to a backend by command line flag,
environment variable or connection string then rclone will add a
suffix based on the hash of the config to the name of the remote, eg

```console
rclone -vv lsf --s3-chunk-size 20M s3:
```

Has the log message

```text
DEBUG : s3: detected overridden config - adding "{Srj1p}" suffix to name
```

This is so rclone can tell the modified remote apart from the
unmodified remote when caching the backends.

This should only be noticeable in the logs.

This means that on the fly backends such as

```console
rclone -vv lsf :s3,env_auth:
```

Will get their own names

```text
DEBUG : :s3: detected overridden config - adding "{YTu53}" suffix to name
```

### Valid remote names

Remote names are case sensitive, and must adhere to the following rules:

- May contain number, letter, `_`, `-`, `.`, `+`, `@` and space.
- May not start with `-` or space.
- May not end with space.

Starting with rclone version 1.61, any Unicode numbers and letters are allowed,
while in older versions it was limited to plain ASCII (0-9, A-Z, a-z). If you use
the same rclone configuration from different shells, which may be configured with
different character encoding, you must be cautious to use characters that are
possible to write in all of them. This is mostly a problem on Windows, where
the console traditionally uses a non-Unicode character set - defined
by the so-called "code page".

Do not use single character names on Windows as it creates ambiguity with Windows
drives' names, e.g.: remote called `C` is indistinguishable from `C` drive. Rclone
will always assume that single letter name refers to a drive.

## Adding global configuration to a remote {#globalconfig}

It is possible to add global configuration to the remote configuration which
will be applied just before the remote is created.

This can be done in two ways. The first is to use `override.var = value` in the
config file or the connection string for a temporary change, and the second is
to use `global.var = value` in the config file or connection string for a
permanent change.

This is explained fully below.

### override.var

This is used to override a global variable **just** for the duration of the
remote creation. It won't affect other remotes even if they are created at the
same time.

This is very useful for overriding networking config needed for just for that
remote. For example, say you have a remote which needs `--no-check-certificate`
as it is running on test infrastructure without a proper certificate. You could
supply the `--no-check-certificate` flag to rclone, but this will affect **all**
the remotes. To make it just affect this remote you use an override. You could
put this in the config file:

```ini
[remote]
type = XXX
...
override.no_check_certificate = true
```

or use it in the connection string `remote,override.no_check_certificate=true:`
(or just `remote,override.no_check_certificate:`).

Note how the global flag name loses its initial `--` and gets `-` replaced with
`_` and gets an `override.` prefix.

Not all global variables make sense to be overridden like this as the config is
only applied during the remote creation. Here is a non exhaustive list of ones
which might be useful:

- `bind_addr`
- `ca_cert`
- `client_cert`
- `client_key`
- `connect_timeout`
- `disable_http2`
- `disable_http_keep_alives`
- `dump`
- `expect_continue_timeout`
- `headers`
- `http_proxy`
- `low_level_retries`
- `max_connections`
- `no_check_certificate`
- `no_gzip`
- `timeout`
- `traffic_class`
- `use_cookies`
- `use_server_modtime`
- `user_agent`

An `override.var` will override all other config methods, but **just** for the
duration of the creation of the remote.

### global.var

This is used to set a global variable **for everything**. The global variable is
set just before the remote is created.

This is useful for parameters (eg sync parameters) which can't be set as an
`override`. For example, say you have a remote where you would always like to
use the `--checksum` flag. You could supply the `--checksum` flag to rclone on
every command line, but instead you could put this in the config file:

```ini
[remote]
type = XXX
...
global.checksum = true
```

or use it in the connection string `remote,global.checksum=true:` (or just
`remote,global.checksum:`). This is equivalent to using the `--checksum` flag.

Note how the global flag name loses its initial `--` and gets `-` replaced with
`_` and gets a `global.` prefix.

Any global variable can be set like this and it is exactly equivalent to using
the equivalent flag on the command line. This means it will affect all uses of
rclone.

If two remotes set the same global variable then the first one instantiated will
be overridden by the second one. A `global.var` will override all other config
methods when the remote is created.

## Quoting and the shell

When you are typing commands to your computer you are using something
called the command line shell.  This interprets various characters in
an OS specific way.

Here are some gotchas which may help users unfamiliar with the shell rules

### Linux / macOS

If your names have spaces or shell metacharacters (e.g. `*`, `?`, `$`,
`'`, `"`, etc.) then you must quote them.  Use single quotes `'` by default.

```console
rclone copy 'Important files?' remote:backup
```

If you want to send a `'` you will need to use `"`, e.g.

```console
rclone copy "O'Reilly Reviews" remote:backup
```

The rules for quoting metacharacters are complicated and if you want
the full details you'll have to consult the manual page for your
shell.

### Windows

If your names have spaces in you need to put them in `"`, e.g.

```bat
rclone copy "E:\folder name\folder name\folder name" remote:backup
```

If you are using the root directory on its own then don't quote it
(see [#464](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/464) for why), e.g.

```bat
rclone copy E:\ remote:backup
```

## Copying files or directories with `:` in the names

rclone uses `:` to mark a remote name.  This is, however, a valid
filename component in non-Windows OSes.  The remote name parser will
only search for a `:` up to the first `/` so if you need to act on a
file or directory like this then use the full path starting with a
`/`, or use `./` as a current directory prefix.

So to sync a directory called `sync:me` to a remote called `remote:` use

```console
rclone sync --interactive ./sync:me remote:path
```

or

```console
rclone sync --interactive /full/path/to/sync:me remote:path
```

## Server-side copy

Most remotes (but not all - see [the
overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)) support server-side copy.

This means if you want to copy one folder to another then rclone won't
download all the files and re-upload them; it will instruct the server
to copy them in place.

Eg

```console
rclone copy s3:oldbucket s3:newbucket
```

Will copy the contents of `oldbucket` to `newbucket` without
downloading and re-uploading.

Remotes which don't support server-side copy **will** download and
re-upload in this case.

Server-side copies are used with `sync` and `copy` and will be
identified in the log when using the `-v` flag.  The `move` command
may also use them if remote doesn't support server-side move directly.
This is done by issuing a server-side copy then a delete which is much
quicker than a download and re-upload.

Server-side copies will only be attempted if the remote names are the
same.

This can be used when scripting to make aged backups efficiently, e.g.

```console
rclone sync --interactive remote:current-backup remote:previous-backup
rclone sync --interactive /path/to/files remote:current-backup
```

## Metadata support {#metadata}

Metadata is data about a file (or directory) which isn't the contents
of the file (or directory). Normally rclone only preserves the
modification time and the content (MIME) type where possible.

Rclone supports preserving all the available metadata on files and
directories when using the `--metadata` or `-M` flag.

Exactly what metadata is supported and what that support means depends
on the backend. Backends that support metadata have a metadata section
in their docs and are listed in the [features table](https://rclone.org/overview/#features)
(Eg [local](https://rclone.org/local/#metadata), [s3](/s3/#metadata))

Some backends don't support metadata, some only support metadata on
files and some support metadata on both files and directories.

Rclone only supports a one-time sync of metadata. This means that
metadata will be synced from the source object to the destination
object only when the source object has changed and needs to be
re-uploaded. If the metadata subsequently changes on the source object
without changing the object itself then it won't be synced to the
destination object. This is in line with the way rclone syncs
`Content-Type` without the `--metadata` flag.

Using `--metadata` when syncing from local to local will preserve file
attributes such as file mode, owner, extended attributes (not
Windows).

Note that arbitrary metadata may be added to objects using the
`--metadata-set key=value` flag when the object is first uploaded.
This flag can be repeated as many times as necessary.

The [--metadata-mapper](#metadata-mapper) flag can be used to pass the
name of a program in which can transform metadata when it is being
copied from source to destination.

Rclone supports `--metadata-set` and `--metadata-mapper` when doing
server-side `Move` and server-side `Copy`, but not when doing server
side `DirMove` (renaming a directory) as this would involve recursing
into the directory. Note that you can disable `DirMove` with
`--disable DirMove` and rclone will revert back to using `Move` for
each individual object where `--metadata-set` and `--metadata-mapper`
are supported.

### Types of metadata

Metadata is divided into two type. System metadata and User metadata.

Metadata which the backend uses itself is called system metadata. For
example on the local backend the system metadata `uid` will store the
user ID of the file when used on a unix based platform.

Arbitrary metadata is called user metadata and this can be set however
is desired.

When objects are copied from backend to backend, they will attempt to
interpret system metadata if it is supplied. Metadata may change from
being user metadata to system metadata as objects are copied between
different backends. For example copying an object from s3 sets the
`content-type` metadata. In a backend which understands this (like
`azureblob`) this will become the Content-Type of the object. In a
backend which doesn't understand this (like the `local` backend) this
will become user metadata. However should the local object be copied
back to s3, the Content-Type will be set correctly.

### Metadata framework

Rclone implements a metadata framework which can read metadata from an
object and write it to the object when (and only when) it is being
uploaded.

This metadata is stored as a dictionary with string keys and string
values.

There are some limits on the names of the keys (these may be clarified
further in the future).

- must be lower case
- may be `a-z` `0-9` containing `.` `-` or `_`
- length is backend dependent

Each backend can provide system metadata that it understands. Some
backends can also store arbitrary user metadata.

Where possible the key names are standardized, so, for example, it is
possible to copy object metadata from s3 to azureblob for example and
metadata will be translated appropriately.

Some backends have limits on the size of the metadata and rclone will
give errors on upload if they are exceeded.

### Metadata preservation

The goal of the implementation is to

1. Preserve metadata if at all possible
2. Interpret metadata if at all possible

The consequences of 1 is that you can copy an S3 object to a local
disk then back to S3 losslessly. Likewise you can copy a local file
with file attributes and xattrs from local disk to s3 and back again
losslessly.

The consequence of 2 is that you can copy an S3 object with metadata
to Azureblob (say) and have the metadata appear on the Azureblob
object also.

### Standard system metadata

Here is a table of standard system metadata which, if appropriate, a
backend may implement.

| key                 | description | example |
|---------------------|-------------|---------|
| mode                | File type and mode: octal, unix style | 0100664 |
| uid                 | User ID of owner: decimal number | 500 |
| gid                 | Group ID of owner: decimal number | 500 |
| rdev                | Device ID (if special file)  => hexadecimal | 0 |
| atime               | Time of last access:  RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 |
| mtime               | Time of last modification:  RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 |
| btime               | Time of file creation (birth):  RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 |
| utime               | Time of file upload:  RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 |
| cache-control       | Cache-Control header | no-cache |
| content-disposition | Content-Disposition header | inline |
| content-encoding    | Content-Encoding header | gzip |
| content-language    | Content-Language header | en-US |
| content-type        | Content-Type header | text/plain |

The metadata keys `mtime` and `content-type` will take precedence if
supplied in the metadata over reading the `Content-Type` or
modification time of the source object.

Hashes are not included in system metadata as there is a well defined
way of reading those already.

## Options

Rclone has a number of options to control its behaviour. These are
documented below, and in the [flags](/flags) page.

Options that take parameters can have the values passed in two ways,
`--option=value` or `--option value`. However boolean (true/false)
options behave slightly differently to the other options in that
`--boolean` sets the option to `true` and the absence of the flag sets
it to `false`.  It is also possible to specify `--boolean=false` or
`--boolean=true`.  Note that `--boolean false` is not valid - this is
parsed as `--boolean` and the `false` is parsed as an extra command
line argument for rclone.

String values that are recognized as special identifiers, e.g. the
name of the log level to set with option `--log-level`, are case
insensitive, e.g. `--log-level ERROR` and `--log-level error` are
identical.

Options documented to take a `stringArray` parameter accept multiple
values. To pass more than one value, repeat the option; for example:
`--include value1 --include value2`. Other options may only accept a
single value, and should only be specified once, but where the
specified parameter may indicate a list of values separated by space
or comma. Such options are documented to take a `CommaSepList`
parameter, if comma separated, and `SpaceSepList` if space separated,
although some may also have different parameters such as `DumpFlags`
or just `string` and the help text explains that this will be
interpreted as a list.

Floating-point values with fractional part must use period (`.`)
as decimal separator, common in English-speaking countries, regardless
of your configured system locale. Parameter type `float` accepts decimal
and hexadecimal floating-point numbers as defined by the Go syntax for
[floating-point literals](https://go.dev/ref/spec#Floating-point_literals).

### Time and duration options {#time-options}

Options that take a `Time` or `Duration` parameter must be specified
as a formatted string describing an absolute or relative time. Note
that both `Time` and `Duration` parameter types can be expressed as
either absolute or relative time, just with different interpretations,
e.g. a relative time will be treated as an offset from the current time
when passed as a `Time` value.

An absolute time can be specified as a string in one of the following formats:

- RFC3339 - e.g. `2006-01-02T15:04:05Z` or `2006-01-02T15:04:05+07:00`
- ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - `2006-01-02T15:04:05`
- ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - `2006-01-02 15:04:05`
- ISO8601 Date - `2006-01-02` (YYYY-MM-DD)

A relative time is a string with a, possibly signed, sequence of decimal
numbers, each with optional fraction, and each with a unit suffix. If
the string only contains a single number, then the unit suffix is optional
and will default to seconds, i.e. a plain decimal value will be treated
as a number of seconds. The following suffixes are valid:

- `ms` - Milliseconds
- `s`  - Seconds
- `m`  - Minutes
- `h`  - Hours
- `d`  - Days
- `w`  - Weeks
- `M`  - Months
- `y`  - Years

Examples: "10", "300ms", "-1.5h" or "2h45m".

### Size options

Options that take a SizeSuffix parameter can be specified as an
integer value, which will then be assumed to represent a KiB
value (multiples of 1024 bytes) by default. The interpretation
can be changed by appending a suffix: `B` for Byte, `K` for KiB,
`M` for MiB, `G` for GiB, `T` for TiB and `P` for PiB. These are
the binary units, e.g. 1, 2\*\*10, 2\*\*20, 2\*\*30 respectively.

See also [--human-readable](#human-readable).

## Main options

### --backup-dir string

When using [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or
[move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/), any files which would have been overwritten
or deleted are moved in their original hierarchy into this directory.

If `--suffix` is set, then the moved files will have the suffix added
to them. If there is a file with the same path (after the suffix has
been added) in the directory, then it will be overwritten.

The remote in use must support server-side move or copy and you must
use the same remote as the destination of the sync. The backup
directory must not overlap the destination directory without it being
excluded by a filter rule.

For example

```console
rclone sync --interactive /path/to/local remote:current --backup-dir remote:old
```

will sync `/path/to/local` to `remote:current`, but for any files
which would have been updated or deleted will be stored in
`remote:old`.

If running rclone from a script you might want to use today's date as
the directory name passed to `--backup-dir` to store the old files, or
you might want to pass `--suffix` with today's date. This can be done
with `--suffix $(date +%F)` in bash, and
`--suffix $(Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd')` in PowerShell.

See `--compare-dest` and `--copy-dest`.

### --bind string

Local address to bind to for outgoing connections.  This can be an
IPv4 address (1.2.3.4), an IPv6 address (1234::789A) or host name.  If
the host name doesn't resolve or resolves to more than one IP address
it will give an error.

You can use `--bind 0.0.0.0` to force rclone to use IPv4 addresses and
`--bind ::0` to force rclone to use IPv6 addresses.

### --bwlimit BwTimetable

This option controls the bandwidth limit. For example

```text
--bwlimit 10M
```

would mean limit the upload and download bandwidth to 10 MiB/s.
**NB** this is **bytes** per second not **bits** per second. To use a
single limit, specify the desired bandwidth in KiB/s, or use a
suffix B|K|M|G|T|P. The default is `0` which means to not limit bandwidth.

The upload and download bandwidth can be specified separately, as
`--bwlimit UP:DOWN`, so

```text
--bwlimit 10M:100k
```

would mean limit the upload bandwidth to 10 MiB/s and the download
bandwidth to 100 KiB/s. Either limit can be "off" meaning no limit, so
to just limit the upload bandwidth you would use

```text
--bwlimit 10M:off
```

this would limit the upload bandwidth to 10 MiB/s but the download
bandwidth would be unlimited.

When specified as above the bandwidth limits last for the duration of
run of the rclone binary.

It is also possible to specify a "timetable" of limits, which will
cause certain limits to be applied at certain times. To specify a
timetable, format your entries as `WEEKDAY-HH:MM,BANDWIDTH
WEEKDAY-HH:MM,BANDWIDTH...` where: `WEEKDAY` is optional element.

- `BANDWIDTH` can be a single number, e.g.`100k` or a pair of numbers
for upload:download, e.g.`10M:1M`.
- `WEEKDAY` can be written as the whole word or only using the first 3
  characters. It is optional.
- `HH:MM` is an hour from 00:00 to 23:59.

Entries can be separated by spaces or semicolons.

**Note:** Semicolons can be used as separators instead of spaces to avoid
parsing issues in environments like Docker.

An example of a typical timetable to avoid link saturation during daytime
working hours could be:

Using spaces as separators:
`--bwlimit "08:00,512k 12:00,10M 13:00,512k 18:00,30M 23:00,off"`

Using semicolons as separators:
`--bwlimit "08:00,512k;12:00,10M;13:00,512k;18:00,30M;23:00,off"`

In these examples, the transfer bandwidth will be set to 512 KiB/s
at 8am every day. At noon, it will rise to 10 MiB/s, and drop back
to 512 KiB/sec at 1pm. At 6pm, the bandwidth limit will be set to
30 MiB/s, and at 11pm it will be completely disabled (full speed).
Anything between 11pm and 8am will remain unlimited.

An example of timetable with `WEEKDAY` could be:

Using spaces as separators:
`--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512 Fri-23:59,10M Sat-10:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"`

Using semicolons as separators:
`--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512;Fri-23:59,10M;Sat-10:00,1M;Sun-20:00,off"`

It means that, the transfer bandwidth will be set to 512 KiB/s on
Monday. It will rise to 10 MiB/s before the end of Friday. At 10:00
on Saturday it will be set to 1 MiB/s. From 20:00 on Sunday it will
be unlimited.

Timeslots without `WEEKDAY` are extended to the whole week. So this
example:

```text
--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512 12:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"
```

Is equivalent to this:

```text
--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512Mon-12:00,1M Tue-12:00,1M Wed-12:00,1M Thu-12:00,1M Fri-12:00,1M Sat-12:00,1M Sun-12:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"
```

Bandwidth limit apply to the data transfer for all backends. For most
backends the directory listing bandwidth is also included (exceptions
being the non HTTP backends, `ftp`, `sftp` and `storj`).

Note that the units are **Byte/s**, not **bit/s**. Typically
connections are measured in bit/s - to convert divide by 8. For
example, let's say you have a 10 Mbit/s connection and you wish rclone
to use half of it - 5 Mbit/s. This is 5/8 = 0.625 MiB/s so you would
use a `--bwlimit 0.625M` parameter for rclone.

On Unix systems (Linux, macOS, …) the bandwidth limiter can be toggled by
sending a `SIGUSR2` signal to rclone. This allows to remove the limitations
of a long running rclone transfer and to restore it back to the value specified
with `--bwlimit` quickly when needed. Assuming there is only one rclone instance
running, you can toggle the limiter like this:

```console
kill -SIGUSR2 $(pidof rclone)
```

If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
change the bwlimit dynamically:

```console
rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=1M
```

### --bwlimit-file BwTimetable

This option controls per file bandwidth limit. For the options see the
`--bwlimit` flag.

For example use this to allow no transfers to be faster than 1 MiB/s

```text
--bwlimit-file 1M
```

This can be used in conjunction with `--bwlimit`.

Note that if a schedule is provided the file will use the schedule in
effect at the start of the transfer.

### --buffer-size SizeSuffix

Use this sized buffer to speed up file transfers.  Each `--transfer`
will use this much memory for buffering.

When using `mount` or `cmount` each open file descriptor will use this much
memory for buffering.
See the [mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#file-buffering) documentation for more details.

Set to `0` to disable the buffering for the minimum memory usage.

Note that the memory allocation of the buffers is influenced by the
[--use-mmap](#use-mmap) flag.

### --cache-dir string

Specify the directory rclone will use for caching, to override
the default.

Default value is depending on operating system:

- Windows `%LocalAppData%\rclone`, if `LocalAppData` is defined.
- macOS `$HOME/Library/Caches/rclone` if `HOME` is defined.
- Unix `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/rclone` if `XDG_CACHE_HOME` is defined, else
  `$HOME/.cache/rclone` if `HOME` is defined.
- Fallback (on all OS) to `$TMPDIR/rclone`, where `TMPDIR` is the value
  from [--temp-dir](#temp-dir-string).

You can use the [config paths](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_paths/)
command to see the current value.

Cache directory is heavily used by the [VFS File Caching](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-file-caching)
mount feature, but also by [serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/), [GUI](/gui) and
other parts of rclone.

### --check-first

If this flag is set then in a [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/),
[copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/), rclone
will do all the checks to see whether files need to be transferred before
doing any of the transfers. Normally rclone would start running
transfers as soon as possible.

This flag can be useful on IO limited systems where transfers
interfere with checking.

It can also be useful to ensure perfect ordering when using
`--order-by`.

If both `--check-first` and `--order-by` are set when doing `rclone move`
then rclone will use the transfer thread to delete source files which
don't need transferring. This will enable perfect ordering of the
transfers and deletes but will cause the transfer stats to have more
items in than expected.

Using this flag can use more memory as it effectively sets
`--max-backlog` to infinite. This means that all the info on the
objects to transfer is held in memory before the transfers start.

### --checkers int

Originally controlling just the number of file checkers to run in parallel,
e.g. by `rclone copy`. Now a fairly universal parallelism control
used by `rclone` in several places.

Note: checkers do the equality checking of files during a sync.
For some storage systems (e.g. S3, Swift, Dropbox) this can take
a significant amount of time so they are run in parallel.

The default is to run 8 checkers in parallel. However, in case
of slow-reacting backends you may need to lower (rather than increase)
this default by setting `--checkers` to 4 or less threads. This is
especially advised if you are experiencing backend server crashes
during file checking phase (e.g. on subsequent or top-up backups
where little or no file copying is done and checking takes up
most of the time). Increase this setting only with utmost care,
while monitoring your server health and file checking throughput.

### -c, --checksum

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to
see if they are equal.  If you set this flag then rclone will check
the file hash and size to determine if files are equal.

This is useful when the remote doesn't support setting modified time
and a more accurate sync is desired than just checking the file size.

This is very useful when transferring between remotes which store the
same hash type on the object, e.g. Drive and Swift. For details of which
remotes support which hash type see the table in the [overview
section](https://rclone.org/overview/).

Eg `rclone --checksum sync s3:/bucket swift:/bucket` would run much
quicker than without the `--checksum` flag.

When using this flag, rclone won't update mtimes of remote files if
they are incorrect as it would normally.

### --color AUTO|NEVER|ALWAYS

Specify when colors (and other ANSI codes) should be added to the output.

`AUTO` only allows ANSI codes when the output is a terminal. This is the default.

`NEVER` never allow ANSI codes.

`ALWAYS` always add ANSI codes, regardless of the output format (terminal or file).

### --compare-dest stringArray

When using [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or
[move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/), the specified paths are checked in addition
to the destination for files. If a file identical to the source is found, that
file is **not** copied from source. This is useful to copy just files that
have changed since the last backup.

You must use the same remote as the destination of the sync. The
compare directory must not overlap the destination directory.

See `--copy-dest` and `--backup-dir`.

### --config string

Specify the location of the rclone configuration file, to override
the default. E.g. `rclone config --config="rclone.conf"`.

The exact default is a bit complex to describe, due to changes
introduced through different versions of rclone while preserving
backwards compatibility, but in most cases it is as simple as:

- `%APPDATA%/rclone/rclone.conf` on Windows
- `~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf` on other

The complete logic is as follows: Rclone will look for an existing
configuration file in any of the following locations, in priority order:

1. `rclone.conf` (in program directory, where rclone executable is)
2. `%APPDATA%/rclone/rclone.conf` (only on Windows)
3. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rclone/rclone.conf` (on all systems, including Windows)
4. `~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf` (see below for explanation of ~ symbol)
5. `~/.rclone.conf`

If no existing configuration file is found, then a new one will be created
in the following location:

- On Windows: Location 2 listed above, except in the unlikely event
  that `APPDATA` is not defined, then location 4 is used instead.
- On Unix: Location 3 if `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is defined, else location 4.
- Fallback to location 5 (on all OS), when the rclone directory cannot be
  created, but if also a home directory was not found then path
  `.rclone.conf` relative to current working directory will be used as
  a final resort.

The `~` symbol in paths above represent the home directory of the current user
on any OS, and the value is defined as following:

- On Windows: `%HOME%` if defined, else `%USERPROFILE%`, or else `%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%`.
- On Unix: `$HOME` if defined, else by looking up current user in OS-specific user
  database (e.g. passwd file), or else use the result from shell command `cd && pwd`.

If you run `rclone config file` you will see where the default location is for
you. Running `rclone config touch` will ensure a configuration file exists,
creating an empty one in the default location if there is none.

The fact that an existing file `rclone.conf` in the same directory
as the rclone executable is always preferred, means that it is easy
to run in "portable" mode by downloading rclone executable to a
writable directory and then create an empty file `rclone.conf` in the
same directory.

If the location is set to empty string `""` or path to a file
with name `notfound`, or the os null device represented by value `NUL` on
Windows and `/dev/null` on Unix systems, then rclone will keep the
configuration file in memory only.

You may see a log message "Config file not found - using defaults" if there is
no configuration file. This can be suppressed, e.g. if you are using rclone
entirely with [on the fly remotes](https://rclone.org/docs/#backend-path-to-dir), by using
memory-only configuration file or by creating an empty configuration file, as
described above.

The file format is basic [INI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Format):
Sections of text, led by a `[section]` header and followed by
`key=value` entries on separate lines. In rclone each remote is
represented by its own section, where the section name defines the
name of the remote. Options are specified as the `key=value` entries,
where the key is the option name without the `--backend-` prefix,
in lowercase and with `_` instead of `-`. E.g. option `--mega-hard-delete`
corresponds to key `hard_delete`. Only backend options can be specified.
A special, and required, key `type` identifies the [storage system](https://rclone.org/overview/),
where the value is the internal lowercase name as returned by command
`rclone help backends`. Comments are indicated by `;` or `#` at the
beginning of a line.

Example:

```ini
[megaremote]
type = mega
user = you@example.com
pass = PDPcQVVjVtzFY-GTdDFozqBhTdsPg3qH
```

Note that passwords are in [obscured](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/)
form. Also, many storage systems uses token-based authentication instead
of passwords, and this requires additional steps. It is easier, and safer,
to use the interactive command `rclone config` instead of manually
editing the configuration file.

The configuration file will typically contain login information, and
should therefore have restricted permissions so that only the current user
can read it. Rclone tries to ensure this when it writes the file.
You may also choose to [encrypt](#configuration-encryption) the file.

When token-based authentication are used, the configuration file
must be writable, because rclone needs to update the tokens inside it.

To reduce risk of corrupting an existing configuration file, rclone
will not write directly to it when saving changes. Instead it will
first write to a new, temporary, file. If a configuration file already
existed, it will (on Unix systems) try to mirror its permissions to
the new file. Then it will rename the existing file to a temporary
name as backup. Next, rclone will rename the new file to the correct name,
before finally cleaning up by deleting the backup file.

If the configuration file path used by rclone is a symbolic link, then
this will be evaluated and rclone will write to the resolved path, instead
of overwriting the symbolic link. Temporary files used in the process
(described above) will be written to the same parent directory as that
of the resolved configuration file, but if this directory is also a
symbolic link it will not be resolved and the temporary files will be
written to the location of the directory symbolic link.

### --contimeout Duration

Set the connection timeout. This should be in go time format which
looks like `5s` for 5 seconds, `10m` for 10 minutes, or `3h30m`.

The connection timeout is the amount of time rclone will wait for a
connection to go through to a remote object storage system.  It is
`1m` by default.

### --copy-dest stringArray

When using [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or
[move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/), the specified paths are checked in addition
to the destination for files. This part is the same as `--compare-dest`, but
the difference is that with `--copy-dest`, if a file identical to the source
is found, that file is server-side copied from the specified paths to the
destination. This is useful for incremental backup.

The remote in use must support server-side copy and you must
use the same remote as the destination of the sync.  The compare
directory must not overlap the destination directory.

See `--compare-dest` and `--backup-dir`.

### --dedupe-mode interactive|skip|first|newest|oldest|largest|smallest|rename|list

Mode to run dedupe command in.  One of `interactive`, `skip`, `first`,
`newest`, `oldest`, `largest`, `smallest`, `rename` `list`.  The default
is `interactive`.   See the [dedupe](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_dedupe/) command
for more information as to what these options mean.

### --default-time Time

If a file or directory does have a modification time rclone can read
then rclone will display this fixed time instead.

The default is `2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC`. This can be configured in
any of the ways shown in [time options](#time-options).

For example `--default-time 2020-06-01` to set the default time to the
1st of June 2020 or `--default-time 0s` to set the default time to the
time rclone started up.

### --disable string

This disables a comma separated list of optional features. For example
to disable server-side move and server-side copy use:

```text
--disable move,copy
```

The features can be put in any case.

To see a list of which features can be disabled use:

```text
--disable help
```

The features a remote has can be seen in JSON format with:

```console
rclone backend features remote:
```

See the overview [features](https://rclone.org/overview/#features) and
[optional features](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features) to get an idea of
which feature does what.

Note that some features can be set to `true` if they are `true`/`false`
feature flag features by prefixing them with `!`. For example the
`CaseInsensitive` feature can be forced to `false` with `--disable CaseInsensitive`
and forced to `true` with `--disable '!CaseInsensitive'`. In general
it isn't a good idea doing this but it may be useful in extremis.

(Note that `!` is a shell command which you will
need to escape with single quotes or a backslash on unix like
platforms.)

This flag can be useful for debugging and in exceptional circumstances
(e.g. Google Drive limiting the total volume of server-side copies to
100 GiB/day).

### --disable-http2

This stops rclone from trying to use HTTP/2 if available. This can
sometimes speed up transfers due to a
[problem in the Go standard library](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37373).

### --dscp string

Specify a DSCP value or name to use in connections. This could help QoS
system to identify traffic class. BE, EF, DF, LE, CSx and AFxx are allowed.

See the description of [differentiated services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_services)
to get an idea of this field. Setting this to 1 (LE) to identify the flow to
SCAVENGER class can avoid occupying too much bandwidth in a network with DiffServ
support ([RFC 8622](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8622)).

For example, if you configured QoS on router to handle LE properly. Running:

```console
rclone copy --dscp LE from:/from to:/to
```

would make the priority lower than usual internet flows.

This option has no effect on Windows (see [golang/go#42728](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42728)).

### -n, --dry-run

Do a trial run with no permanent changes.  Use this to see what rclone
would do without actually doing it.  Useful when setting up the
[sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/) command which deletes files in the destination.

### --expect-continue-timeout Duration

This specifies the amount of time to wait for a server's first
response headers after fully writing the request headers if the
request has an "Expect: 100-continue" header. Not all backends support
using this.

Zero means no timeout and causes the body to be sent immediately,
without waiting for the server to approve.  This time does not include
the time to send the request header.

The default is `1s`.  Set to `0` to disable.

### --error-on-no-transfer

By default, rclone will exit with return code 0 if there were no errors.

This option allows rclone to return exit code 9 if no files were transferred
between the source and destination. This allows using rclone in scripts, and
triggering follow-on actions if data was copied, or skipping if not.

NB: Enabling this option turns a usually non-fatal error into a potentially
fatal one - please check and adjust your scripts accordingly!

### --fix-case

Normally, a sync to a case insensitive dest (such as macOS / Windows) will
not result in a matching filename if the source and dest filenames have
casing differences but are otherwise identical. For example, syncing `hello.txt`
to `HELLO.txt` will normally result in the dest filename remaining `HELLO.txt`.
If `--fix-case` is set, then `HELLO.txt` will be renamed to `hello.txt`
to match the source.

NB:

- directory names with incorrect casing will also be fixed
- `--fix-case` will be ignored if `--immutable` is set
- using `--local-case-sensitive` instead is not advisable;
it will cause `HELLO.txt` to get deleted!
- the old dest filename must not be excluded by filters.
Be especially careful with [`--files-from`](https://rclone.org/filtering/#files-from-read-list-of-source-file-names),
which does not respect [`--ignore-case`](https://rclone.org/filtering/#ignore-case-make-searches-case-insensitive)!
- on remotes that do not support server-side move, `--fix-case` will require
downloading the file and re-uploading it. To avoid this, do not use `--fix-case`.

### --fs-cache-expire-duration Duration

When using rclone via the API rclone caches created remotes for 5
minutes by default in the "fs cache". This means that if you do
repeated actions on the same remote then rclone won't have to build it
again from scratch, which makes it more efficient.

This flag sets the time that the remotes are cached for. If you set it
to `0` (or negative) then rclone won't cache the remotes at all.

Note that if you use some flags, eg `--backup-dir` and if this is set
to `0` rclone may build two remotes (one for the source or destination
and one for the `--backup-dir` where it may have only built one
before.

### --fs-cache-expire-interval Duration

This controls how often rclone checks for cached remotes to expire.
See the `--fs-cache-expire-duration` documentation above for more
info. The default is 60s, set to 0 to disable expiry.

### --header stringArray

Add an HTTP header for all transactions. The flag can be repeated to
add multiple headers.

If you want to add headers only for uploads use `--header-upload` and
if you want to add headers only for downloads use `--header-download`.

This flag is supported for all HTTP based backends even those not
supported by `--header-upload` and `--header-download` so may be used
as a workaround for those with care.

```console
rclone ls remote:test --header "X-Rclone: Foo" --header "X-LetMeIn: Yes"
```

### --header-download stringArray

Add an HTTP header for all download transactions. The flag can be repeated to
add multiple headers.

```console
rclone sync --interactive s3:test/src ~/dst --header-download "X-Amz-Meta-Test: Foo" --header-download "X-Amz-Meta-Test2: Bar"
```

See GitHub issue [#59](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/59) for
currently supported backends.

### --header-upload stringArray

Add an HTTP header for all upload transactions. The flag can be repeated to add
multiple headers.

```console
rclone sync --interactive ~/src s3:test/dst --header-upload "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='cool.html'" --header-upload "X-Amz-Meta-Test: FooBar"
```

See GitHub issue [#59](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/59) for
currently supported backends.

### --http-proxy string

Use this option to set an HTTP proxy for all HTTP based services to
use.

Rclone also supports the standard HTTP proxy environment variables
which it will pick up automatically. The is the way the HTTP proxy
will normally be set but this flag can be used to override it.

### --human-readable

Rclone commands output values for sizes (e.g. number of bytes) and
counts (e.g. number of files) either as *raw* numbers, or
in *human-readable* format.

In human-readable format the values are scaled to larger units, indicated with
a suffix shown after the value, and rounded to three decimals. Rclone consistently
uses binary units (powers of 2) for sizes and decimal units (powers of 10) for counts.
The unit prefix for size is according to IEC standard notation, e.g. `Ki` for kibi.
Used with byte unit, `1 KiB` means 1024 Byte. In list type of output, only the
unit prefix appended to the value (e.g. `9.762Ki`), while in more textual output
the full unit is shown (e.g. `9.762 KiB`). For counts the SI standard notation is
used, e.g. prefix `k` for kilo. Used with file counts, `1k` means 1000 files.

The various [list](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ls/) commands output raw numbers by default.
Option `--human-readable` will make them output values in human-readable format
instead (with the short unit prefix).

The [about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/) command outputs human-readable by default,
with a command-specific option `--full` to output the raw numbers instead.

Command [size](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_size/) outputs both human-readable and raw numbers
in the same output.

The [tree](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_tree/) command also considers `--human-readable`, but
it will not use the exact same notation as the other commands: It rounds to one
decimal, and uses single letter suffix, e.g. `K` instead of `Ki`. The reason for
this is that it relies on an external library.

The interactive command [ncdu](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/) shows human-readable by
default, and responds to key `u` for toggling human-readable format.

### --ignore-case-sync

Using this option will cause rclone to ignore the case of the files
when synchronizing so files will not be copied/synced when the
existing filenames are the same, even if the casing is different.

### --ignore-checksum

Normally rclone will check that the checksums of transferred files
match, and give an error "corrupted on transfer" if they don't.

You can use this option to skip that check.  You should only use it if
you have had the "corrupted on transfer" error message and you are
sure you might want to transfer potentially corrupted data.

### --ignore-existing

Using this option will make rclone unconditionally skip all files
that exist on the destination, no matter the content of these files.

While this isn't a generally recommended option, it can be useful
in cases where your files change due to encryption. However, it cannot
correct partial transfers in case a transfer was interrupted.

When performing a `move`/`moveto` command, this flag will leave skipped
files in the source location unchanged when a file with the same name
exists on the destination.

### --ignore-size

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to
see if they are equal.  If you set this flag then rclone will check
only the modification time.  If `--checksum` is set then it only
checks the checksum.

It will also cause rclone to skip verifying the sizes are the same
after transfer.

This can be useful for transferring files to and from OneDrive which
occasionally misreports the size of image files (see
[#399](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/399) for more info).

### -I, --ignore-times

Using this option will cause rclone to unconditionally upload all
files regardless of the state of files on the destination.

Normally rclone would skip any files that have the same
modification time and are the same size (or have the same checksum if
using `--checksum`).

### --immutable

Treat source and destination files as immutable and disallow
modification.

With this option set, files will be created and deleted as requested,
but existing files will never be updated.  If an existing file does
not match between the source and destination, rclone will give the error
`Source and destination exist but do not match: immutable file modified`.

Note that only commands which transfer files (e.g. [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/),
[copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/)) are affected
by this behavior, and only modification is disallowed.  Files may still be deleted
explicitly (e.g. [delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_delete/), [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/))
or implicitly (e.g. [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/)).
Use `copy --immutable` if it is desired to avoid deletion as well as modification.

This can be useful as an additional layer of protection for immutable
or append-only data sets (notably backup archives), where modification
implies corruption and should not be propagated.

### --inplace {#inplace}

The `--inplace` flag changes the behaviour of rclone when uploading
files to some backends (backends with the `PartialUploads` feature
flag set) such as:

- local
- ftp
- sftp
- pcloud

Without `--inplace` (the default) rclone will first upload to a
temporary file with an extension like this, where `XXXXXX` represents a
hash of the source file's fingerprint and `.partial` is
[--partial-suffix](#partial-suffix) value (`.partial` by default).

```text
original-file-name.XXXXXX.partial
```

(rclone will make sure the final name is no longer than 100 characters
by truncating the `original-file-name` part if necessary).

When the upload is complete, rclone will rename the `.partial` file to
the correct name, overwriting any existing file at that point. If the
upload fails then the `.partial` file will be deleted.

This prevents other users of the backend from seeing partially
uploaded files in their new names and prevents overwriting the old
file until the new one is completely uploaded.

If the `--inplace` flag is supplied, rclone will upload directly to
the final name without creating a `.partial` file.

This means that an incomplete file will be visible in the directory
listings while the upload is in progress and any existing files will
be overwritten as soon as the upload starts. If the transfer fails
then the file will be deleted. This can cause data loss of the
existing file if the transfer fails.

Note that on the local file system if you don't use `--inplace` hard
links (Unix only) will be broken. And if you do use `--inplace` you
won't be able to update in use executables.

Note also that versions of rclone prior to v1.63.0 behave as if the
`--inplace` flag is always supplied.

### -i, --interactive {#interactive}

This flag can be used to tell rclone that you wish a manual
confirmation before destructive operations.

It is **recommended** that you use this flag while learning rclone
especially with `rclone sync`.

For example

```console
$ rclone delete --interactive /tmp/dir
rclone: delete "important-file.txt"?
y) Yes, this is OK (default)
n) No, skip this
s) Skip all delete operations with no more questions
!) Do all delete operations with no more questions
q) Exit rclone now.
y/n/s/!/q> n
```

The options mean

- `y`: **Yes**, this operation should go ahead. You can also press Return
  for this to happen. You'll be asked every time unless you choose `s`
  or `!`.
- `n`: **No**, do not do this operation. You'll be asked every time unless
  you choose `s` or `!`.
- `s`: **Skip** all the following operations of this type with no more
  questions. This takes effect until rclone exits. If there are any
  different kind of operations you'll be prompted for them.
- `!`: **Do all** the following operations with no more
  questions. Useful if you've decided that you don't mind rclone doing
  that kind of operation. This takes effect until rclone exits . If
  there are any different kind of operations you'll be prompted for
  them.
- `q`: **Quit** rclone now, just in case!

### --leave-root

During rmdirs it will not remove root directory, even if it's empty.

### -l, --links

Normally rclone will ignore symlinks or junction points (which behave
like symlinks under Windows). Ignored files won't be copied, moved or
deleted in a sync.

If you supply this flag then rclone will copy symbolic links from any
supported backend backend, and store them as text files, with a
`.rclonelink` suffix in the destination.

The text file will contain the target of the symbolic link.

The `--links` / `-l` flag enables this feature for all supported
backends and the VFS. There are individual flags for just enabling it
for the VFS `--vfs-links` and the local backend `--local-links` if
required.

### --list-cutoff int {#list-cutoff}

When syncing rclone needs to sort directory entries before comparing
them. Below this threshold (1,000,000) by default, rclone will store
the directory entries in memory. 1,000,000 entries will take approx
1GB of RAM to store. Above this threshold rclone will store directory
entries on disk and sort them without using a lot of memory.

Doing this is slightly less efficient then sorting them in memory and
will only work well for the bucket based backends (eg s3, b2,
azureblob, swift) but these are the only backends likely to have
millions of entries in a directory.

### --log-file string

Log all of rclone's output to a file. This is not active by default.
This can be useful for tracking down problems with syncs in
combination with the `-v` flag.  See the [logging](#logging) section
for more info.

If the file exists, then rclone will append to it.

Note that if you are using the `logrotate` program to manage rclone's
logs, then you should use the `copytruncate` option as rclone doesn't
have a signal to rotate logs.

Alternatively you can use the options below to manage rclone's built
in log rotation.

### --log-file-max-size SizeSuffix

Maximum size of the log file before it's rotated (eg `10M`). This SizeSuffix
is rounded to the nearest MiB or 1 MiB if lower.

If `--log-file` is not set then this option will be ignored.

If this option is not set, then the other log rotation options will be
ignored.

For example if the following flags are in use

```console
rclone --log-file rclone.log --log-file-max-size 1M --log-file-max-backups 3
```

Then this will create log files which look like this

```console
$ ls -l
-rw-------  1 user user  1048491 Apr 11 17:15 rclone-2025-04-11T17-15-29.998.log
-rw-------  1 user user  1048511 Apr 11 17:15 rclone-2025-04-11T17-15-30.467.log
-rw-------  1 user user  1048559 Apr 11 17:15 rclone-2025-04-11T17-15-30.543.log
-rw-------  1 user user   521602 Apr 11 17:15 rclone.log
```

The file `rclone.log` being the current one.

### --log-file-compress

If set, compress rotated log files using gzip. This changes the
extension of the old log files to `.log.gz`.

Defaults to false - don't compress log files.

### --log-file-max-age Duration

Maximum duration to retain old log files (eg `7d`). This is rounded to
the dearest day, or 1 day if lower.

The default is to retain all old log files.

### --log-file-max-backups int

Maximum number of old log files to retain

The default is to retain all old log files.

### --log-format string

Comma separated list of log format options. The accepted options are:

- `date` - Add a date in the format YYYY/MM/YY to the log.
- `time` - Add a time to the log in format HH:MM:SS.
- `microseconds` - Add microseconds to the time in format HH:MM:SS.SSSSSS.
- `UTC` - Make the logs in UTC not localtime.
- `longfile` - Adds the source file and line number of the log statement.
- `shortfile` - Adds the source file and line number of the log statement.
- `pid` - Add the process ID to the log - useful with `rclone mount --daemon`.
- `nolevel` - Don't add the level to the log.
- `json` - Equivalent to adding `--use-json-log`

They are added to the log line in the order above.

The default log format is `"date,time"`.

### --log-level LogLevel

This sets the log level for rclone.  The default log level is `NOTICE`.

`DEBUG` is equivalent to `-vv`. It outputs lots of debug info - useful
for bug reports and really finding out what rclone is doing.

`INFO` is equivalent to `-v`. It outputs information about each transfer
and prints stats once a minute by default.

`NOTICE` is the default log level if no logging flags are supplied. It
outputs very little when things are working normally. It outputs
warnings and significant events.

`ERROR` is equivalent to `-q`. It only outputs error messages.

See also the [logging](#logging) section.

### --windows-event-log-level LogLevel

If this is configured (the default is `OFF`) then logs of this level
and above will be logged to the Windows event log in **addition** to
the normal logs. These will be logged in JSON format as described
below regardless of what format the main logs are configured for.

The Windows event log only has 3 levels of severity `Info`, `Warning`
and `Error`. If enabled we map rclone levels like this.

- `Error` ← `ERROR` (and above)
- `Warning` ←  `WARNING` (note that this level is defined but not currently used).
- `Info` ← `NOTICE`, `INFO` and `DEBUG`.

Rclone will declare its log source as "rclone" if it is has enough
permissions to create the registry key needed. If not then logs will
appear as "Application". You can run `rclone version --windows-event-log-level DEBUG`
once as administrator to create the registry key in advance.

**Note** that the `--windows-event-log-level` level must be greater (more
severe) than or equal to the `--log-level`. For example to log DEBUG
to a log file but ERRORs to the event log you would use

```text
--log-file rclone.log --log-level DEBUG --windows-event-log-level ERROR
```

This option is only supported Windows platforms.

### --use-json-log

This switches the log format to JSON. The log messages are then
streamed as individual JSON objects, with fields: `level`, `msg`, `source`,
and `time`. The resulting format is what is sometimes referred to as
[newline-delimited JSON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming#Newline-delimited_JSON)
(NDJSON), or JSON Lines (JSONL). This is well suited for processing by
traditional line-oriented tools and shell pipelines, but a complete log
file is not strictly valid JSON and needs a parser that can handle it.

The JSON logs will be printed on a single line, but are shown expanded
here for clarity.

```json
{
  "time": "2025-05-13T17:30:51.036237518+01:00",
  "level": "debug",
  "msg": "4 go routines active\n",
  "source": "cmd/cmd.go:298"
}
```

Completed data transfer logs will have extra `size` information. Logs
which are about a particular object will have `object` and
`objectType` fields also.

```json
{
  "time": "2025-05-13T17:38:05.540846352+01:00",
  "level": "info",
  "msg": "Copied (new) to: file2.txt",
  "size": 6,
  "object": "file.txt",
  "objectType": "*local.Object",
  "source": "operations/copy.go:368"
}
```

Stats logs will contain a `stats` field which is the same as
returned from the rc call [core/stats](https://rclone.org/rc/#core-stats).

```json
{
  "time": "2025-05-13T17:38:05.540912847+01:00",
  "level": "info",
  "msg": "...text version of the stats...",
  "stats": {
    "bytes": 6,
    "checks": 0,
    "deletedDirs": 0,
    "deletes": 0,
    "elapsedTime": 0.000904825,
    ...truncated for clarity...
    "totalBytes": 6,
    "totalChecks": 0,
    "totalTransfers": 1,
    "transferTime": 0.000882794,
    "transfers": 1
  },
  "source": "accounting/stats.go:569"
}
```

### --low-level-retries int

This controls the number of low level retries rclone does.

A low level retry is used to retry a failing operation - typically one
HTTP request.  This might be uploading a chunk of a big file for
example.  You will see low level retries in the log with the `-v`
flag.

This shouldn't need to be changed from the default in normal operations.
However, if you get a lot of low level retries you may wish
to reduce the value so rclone moves on to a high level retry (see the
`--retries` flag) quicker.

Disable low level retries with `--low-level-retries 1`.

### --max-backlog int

This is the maximum allowable backlog of files in a sync/copy/move
queued for being checked or transferred.

This can be set arbitrarily large.  It will only use memory when the
queue is in use.  Note that it will use in the order of N KiB of memory
when the backlog is in use.

Setting this large allows rclone to calculate how many files are
pending more accurately, give a more accurate estimated finish
time and make `--order-by` work more accurately.

Setting this small will make rclone more synchronous to the listings
of the remote which may be desirable.

Setting this to a negative number will make the backlog as large as
possible.

### --max-buffer-memory SizeSuffix {#max-buffer-memory}

If set, don't allocate more than given amount of memory as buffers. If
not set or set to `0` or `off` this will not limit the amount of memory
in use.

This includes memory used by buffers created by the `--buffer` flag
and buffers used by multi-thread transfers.

Most multi-thread transfers do not take additional memory, but some do
depending on the backend (eg the s3 backend for uploads). This means
there is a tension between total setting `--transfers` as high as
possible and memory use.

Setting `--max-buffer-memory` allows the buffer memory to be
controlled so that it doesn't overwhelm the machine and allows
`--transfers` to be set large.

### --max-connections int

This sets the maximum number of concurrent calls to the backend API.
It may not map 1:1 to TCP or HTTP connections depending on the backend
in use and the use of HTTP1 vs HTTP2.

When downloading files, backends only limit the initial opening of the
stream. The bulk data download is not counted as a connection. This
means that the `--max--connections` flag won't limit the total number
of downloads.

Note that it is possible to cause deadlocks with this setting so it
should be used with care.

If you are doing a sync or copy then make sure `--max-connections` is
one more than the sum of `--transfers` and `--checkers`.

If you use `--check-first` then `--max-connections` just needs to be
one more than the maximum of `--checkers` and `--transfers`.

So for  `--max-connections 3` you'd use `--checkers 2 --transfers 2
--check-first` or `--checkers 1 --transfers 1`.

Setting this flag can be useful for backends which do multipart
uploads to limit the number of simultaneous parts being transferred.

### --max-delete int

This tells rclone not to delete more than N files.  If that limit is
exceeded then a fatal error will be generated and rclone will stop the
operation in progress.

### --max-delete-size SizeSuffix

Rclone will stop deleting files when the total size of deletions has
reached the size specified. It defaults to off.

If that limit is exceeded then a fatal error will be generated and
rclone will stop the operation in progress.

### --max-depth int

This modifies the recursion depth for all the commands except purge.

So if you do `rclone --max-depth 1 ls remote:path` you will see only
the files in the top level directory.  Using `--max-depth 2` means you
will see all the files in first two directory levels and so on.

For historical reasons the `lsd` command defaults to using a
`--max-depth` of 1 - you can override this with the command line flag.

You can use this command to disable recursion (with `--max-depth 1`).

Note that if you use this with `sync` and `--delete-excluded` the
files not recursed through are considered excluded and will be deleted
on the destination.  Test first with `--dry-run` if you are not sure
what will happen.

### --max-duration Duration

Rclone will stop transferring when it has run for the
duration specified.
Defaults to off.

When the limit is reached all transfers will stop immediately.
Use `--cutoff-mode` to modify this behaviour.

Rclone will exit with exit code 10 if the duration limit is reached.

### --max-transfer SizeSuffix

Rclone will stop transferring when it has reached the size specified.
Defaults to off.

When the limit is reached all transfers will stop immediately.
Use `--cutoff-mode` to modify this behaviour.

Rclone will exit with exit code 8 if the transfer limit is reached.

### --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS

Configure the behavior of `--max-transfer` and `--max-duration`.

`HARD` will stop transferring immediately when rclone reaches the limit.
This is the default.

`SOFT` will stop starting new transfers when rclone reaches the limit.

`CAUTIOUS` will try to prevent rclone from reaching the limit. Only applicable
for `--max-transfer`.

### -M, --metadata

Setting this flag enables rclone to copy the metadata from the source
to the destination. For local backends this is ownership, permissions,
xattr etc. See the [metadata section](#metadata) for more info.

### --metadata-mapper SpaceSepList {#metadata-mapper}

If you supply the parameter `--metadata-mapper /path/to/program` then
rclone will use that program to map metadata from source object to
destination object.

The argument to this flag should be a command with an optional space separated
list of arguments. If one of the arguments has a space in then enclose
it in `"`, if you want a literal `"` in an argument then enclose the
argument in `"` and double the `"`. See [CSV encoding](https://godoc.org/encoding/csv)
for more info.

```text
--metadata-mapper "python bin/test_metadata_mapper.py"
--metadata-mapper 'python bin/test_metadata_mapper.py "argument with a space"'
--metadata-mapper 'python bin/test_metadata_mapper.py "argument with ""two"" quotes"'
```

This uses a simple JSON based protocol with input on STDIN and output
on STDOUT. This will be called for every file and directory copied and
may be called concurrently.

The program's job is to take a metadata blob on the input and turn it
into a metadata blob on the output suitable for the destination
backend.

Input to the program (via STDIN) might look like this. This provides
some context for the `Metadata` which may be important.

- `SrcFs` is the config string for the remote that the object is currently on.
- `SrcFsType` is the name of the source backend.
- `DstFs` is the config string for the remote that the object is being copied to
- `DstFsType` is the name of the destination backend.
- `Remote` is the path of the object relative to the root.
- `Size`, `MimeType`, `ModTime` are attributes of the object.
- `IsDir` is `true` if this is a directory (not yet implemented).
- `ID` is the source `ID` of the object if known.
- `Metadata` is the backend specific metadata as described in the backend docs.

```json
{
  "SrcFs": "gdrive:",
  "SrcFsType": "drive",
  "DstFs": "newdrive:user",
  "DstFsType": "onedrive",
  "Remote": "test.txt",
  "Size": 6,
  "MimeType": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
  "ModTime": "2022-10-11T17:53:10.286745272+01:00",
  "IsDir": false,
  "ID": "xyz",
  "Metadata": {
    "btime": "2022-10-11T16:53:11Z",
    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
    "mtime": "2022-10-11T17:53:10.286745272+01:00",
    "owner": "user1@domain1.com",
    "permissions": "...",
    "description": "my nice file",
    "starred": "false"
  }
}
```

The program should then modify the input as desired and send it to
STDOUT. The returned `Metadata` field will be used in its entirety for
the destination object. Any other fields will be ignored. Note in this
example we translate user names and permissions and add something to
the description:

```json
{
  "Metadata": {
    "btime": "2022-10-11T16:53:11Z",
    "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
    "mtime": "2022-10-11T17:53:10.286745272+01:00",
    "owner": "user1@domain2.com",
    "permissions": "...",
    "description": "my nice file [migrated from domain1]",
    "starred": "false"
  }
}
```

Metadata can be removed here too.

An example python program might look something like this to implement
the above transformations.

```python
import sys, json

i = json.load(sys.stdin)
metadata = i["Metadata"]
# Add tag to description
if "description" in metadata:
    metadata["description"] += " [migrated from domain1]"
else:
    metadata["description"] = "[migrated from domain1]"
# Modify owner
if "owner" in metadata:
    metadata["owner"] = metadata["owner"].replace("domain1.com", "domain2.com")
o = { "Metadata": metadata }
json.dump(o, sys.stdout, indent="\t")
```

You can find this example (slightly expanded) in the rclone source code at
[bin/test_metadata_mapper.py](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/bin/test_metadata_mapper.py).

If you want to see the input to the metadata mapper and the output
returned from it in the log you can use `-vv --dump mapper`.

See the [metadata section](#metadata) for more info.

### --metadata-set stringArray

Specify value as string in format `key=value` to add metadata `key`
with value `value` when uploading. This can be repeated as many times
as required. See the [metadata section](#metadata) for more info.

### --modify-window Duration

When checking whether a file has been modified, this is the maximum
allowed time difference that a file can have and still be considered
equivalent.

The default is `1ns` unless this is overridden by a remote.  For
example OS X only stores modification times to the nearest second so
if you are reading and writing to an OS X filing system this will be
`1s` by default.

This command line flag allows you to override that computed default.

### --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix

When transferring with multiple threads, rclone will buffer the specified
number of bytes in memory before writing to disk for each thread.

This can improve performance if the underlying filesystem does not deal
well with a lot of small writes in different positions of the file, so
if you see transfers being limited by disk write speed, you might want
to experiment with different values. Specially for magnetic drives and
remote file systems a higher value can be useful.

Nevertheless, the default of `128k` should be fine for almost all use
cases, so before changing it ensure that network is not really your
bottleneck.

As a final hint, size is not the only factor: block size (or similar
concept) can have an impact. In one case, we observed that exact
multiples of 16k performed much better than other values.

### --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix

Normally the chunk size for multi thread transfers is set by the backend.
However some backends such as `local` and `smb` (which implement `OpenWriterAt`
but not `OpenChunkWriter`) don't have a natural chunk size.

In this case the value of this option is used (default 64Mi).

### --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix {#multi-thread-cutoff}

When transferring files above specified size  to capable backends,
rclone will use multiple threads to transfer the file (default 256M).

Capable backends are marked in the
[overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features) as `MultithreadUpload`. (They
need to implement either the `OpenWriterAt` or `OpenChunkWriter`
internal interfaces). These include include, `local`, `s3`,
`azureblob`, `b2`, `oracleobjectstorage` and `smb` at the time of
writing.

On the local disk, rclone preallocates the file (using
`fallocate(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)` on unix or `NTSetInformationFile` on
Windows both of which takes no time) then each thread writes directly
into the file at the correct place. This means that rclone won't
create fragmented or sparse files and there won't be any assembly time
at the end of the transfer.

The number of threads used to transfer is controlled by
`--multi-thread-streams`.

Use `-vv` if you wish to see info about the threads.

This will work with the [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/)
and [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/) commands, and friends
[copyto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyto/), [moveto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_moveto/).
Multi thread transfers will be used with `rclone mount` and `rclone serve`
if `--vfs-cache-mode` is set to `writes` or above.

Most multi-thread transfers do not take additional memory, but some do
(for example uploading to s3). In the worst case memory usage can be
at maximum `--transfers` \* `--multi-thread-chunk-size` \*
`--multi-thread-streams` or specifically for the s3 backend
`--transfers` \* `--s3-chunk-size` \* `--s3-concurrency`. However you
can use the the [--max-buffer-memory](https://rclone.org/docs/#max-buffer-memory) flag
to control the maximum memory used here.

**NB** that this **only** works with supported backends as the
destination but will work with any backend as the source.

**NB** that multi-thread copies are disabled for local to local copies
as they are faster without unless `--multi-thread-streams` is set
explicitly.

**NB** on Windows using multi-thread transfers to the local disk will
cause the resulting files to be [sparse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file).
Use `--local-no-sparse` to disable sparse files (which may cause long
delays at the start of transfers) or disable multi-thread transfers
with `--multi-thread-streams 0`

### --multi-thread-streams int

When using multi thread transfers (see above `--multi-thread-cutoff`)
this sets the number of streams to use. Set to `0` to disable multi
thread transfers (Default 4).

If the backend has a `--backend-upload-concurrency` setting (eg
`--s3-upload-concurrency`) then this setting will be used as the
number of transfers instead if it is larger than the value of
`--multi-thread-streams` or `--multi-thread-streams` isn't set.

### --name-transform stringArray

`--name-transform` introduces path name transformations for
`rclone copy`, `rclone sync`, and `rclone move`. These transformations
enable modifications to source and destination file names by applying
prefixes, suffixes, and other alterations during transfer operations.
For detailed docs and examples, see [`convmv`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_convmv/).

### --no-check-dest

The `--no-check-dest` can be used with `move` or `copy` and it causes
rclone not to check the destination at all when copying files.

This means that:

- the destination is not listed minimising the API calls
- files are always transferred
- this can cause duplicates on remotes which allow it (e.g. Google Drive)
- `--retries 1` is recommended otherwise you'll transfer everything again on a retry

This flag is useful to minimise the transactions if you know that none
of the files are on the destination.

This is a specialized flag which should be ignored by most users!

### --no-gzip-encoding

Don't set `Accept-Encoding: gzip`.  This means that rclone won't ask
the server for compressed files automatically. Useful if you've set
the server to return files with `Content-Encoding: gzip` but you
uploaded compressed files.

There is no need to set this in normal operation, and doing so will
decrease the network transfer efficiency of rclone.

### --no-traverse

The `--no-traverse` flag controls whether the destination file system
is traversed when using the `copy` or `move` commands.
`--no-traverse` is not compatible with `sync` and will be ignored if
you supply it with `sync`.

If you are only copying a small number of files (or are filtering most
of the files) and/or have a large number of files on the destination
then `--no-traverse` will stop rclone listing the destination and save
time.

However, if you are copying a large number of files, especially if you
are doing a copy where lots of the files under consideration haven't
changed and won't need copying then you shouldn't use `--no-traverse`.

See [rclone copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) for an example of how to use it.

### --no-unicode-normalization

Don't normalize unicode characters in filenames during the sync routine.

Sometimes, an operating system will store filenames containing unicode
parts in their decomposed form (particularly macOS). Some cloud storage
systems will then recompose the unicode, resulting in duplicate files if
the data is ever copied back to a local filesystem.

Using this flag will disable that functionality, treating each unicode
character as unique. For example, by default é and é will be normalized
into the same character. With `--no-unicode-normalization` they will be
treated as unique characters.

### --no-update-modtime

When using this flag, rclone won't update modification times of remote
files if they are incorrect as it would normally.

This can be used if the remote is being synced with another tool also
(e.g. the Google Drive client).

### --no-update-dir-modtime

When using this flag, rclone won't update modification times of remote
directories if they are incorrect as it would normally.

### --order-by string

The `--order-by` flag controls the order in which files in the backlog
are processed in `rclone sync`, `rclone copy` and `rclone move`.

The order by string is constructed like this.  The first part
describes what aspect is being measured:

- `size` - order by the size of the files
- `name` - order by the full path of the files
- `modtime` - order by the modification date of the files

This can have a modifier appended with a comma:

- `ascending` or `asc` - order so that the smallest (or oldest) is processed first
- `descending` or `desc` - order so that the largest (or newest) is processed first
- `mixed` - order so that the smallest is processed first for some threads and
  the largest for others

If the modifier is `mixed` then it can have an optional percentage
(which defaults to `50`), e.g. `size,mixed,25` which means that 25% of
the threads should be taking the smallest items and 75% the
largest. The threads which take the smallest first will always take
the smallest first and likewise the largest first threads. The `mixed`
mode can be useful to minimise the transfer time when you are
transferring a mixture of large and small files - the large files are
guaranteed upload threads and bandwidth and the small files will be
processed continuously.

If no modifier is supplied then the order is `ascending`.

For example

- `--order-by size,desc` - send the largest files first
- `--order-by modtime,ascending` - send the oldest files first
- `--order-by name` - send the files with alphabetically by path first

If the `--order-by` flag is not supplied or it is supplied with an
empty string then the default ordering will be used which is as
scanned.  With `--checkers 1` this is mostly alphabetical, however
with the default `--checkers 8` it is somewhat random.

#### Limitations

The `--order-by` flag does not do a separate pass over the data.  This
means that it may transfer some files out of the order specified if

- there are no files in the backlog or the source has not been fully scanned yet
- there are more than [--max-backlog](#max-backlog-int) files in the backlog

Rclone will do its best to transfer the best file it has so in
practice this should not cause a problem.  Think of `--order-by` as
being more of a best efforts flag rather than a perfect ordering.

If you want perfect ordering then you will need to specify
[--check-first](#check-first) which will find all the files which need
transferring first before transferring any.

### --partial-suffix string {#partial-suffix}

When [--inplace](#inplace) is not used, it causes rclone to use
the `--partial-suffix` as suffix for temporary files.

Suffix length limit is 16 characters.

The default is `.partial`.

### --password-command SpaceSepList {#password-command}

This flag supplies a program which should supply the config password
when run. This is an alternative to rclone prompting for the password
or setting the `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` variable. It is also used when
setting the config password for the first time.

The argument to this should be a command with a space separated list
of arguments. If one of the arguments has a space in then enclose it
in `"`, if you want a literal `"` in an argument then enclose the
argument in `"` and double the `"`. See [CSV encoding](https://godoc.org/encoding/csv)
for more info.

Eg

```text
--password-command "echo hello"
--password-command 'echo "hello with space"'
--password-command 'echo "hello with ""quotes"" and space"'
```

Note that when changing the configuration password the environment
variable `RCLONE_PASSWORD_CHANGE=1` will be set. This can be used to
distinguish initial decryption of the config file from the new
password.

See the [Configuration Encryption](#configuration-encryption) for more info.

See a [Windows PowerShell example on the Wiki](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/Windows-Powershell-use-rclone-password-command-for-Config-file-password).

### -P, --progress

This flag makes rclone update the stats in a static block in the
terminal providing a realtime overview of the transfer.

Any log messages will scroll above the static block.  Log messages
will push the static block down to the bottom of the terminal where it
will stay.

Normally this is updated every 500mS but this period can be overridden
with the `--stats` flag.

This can be used with the `--stats-one-line` flag for a simpler
display.

To change the display length of filenames (for different terminal widths),
see the `--stats-file-name-length` option.  The default output is formatted
for 80 character wide terminals.

Note: On Windows until [this bug](https://github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm/issues/26)
is fixed all non-ASCII characters will be replaced with `.` when
`--progress` is in use.

### --progress-terminal-title

This flag, when used with `-P/--progress`, will print the string `ETA: %s`
to the terminal title.

### -q, --quiet

This flag will limit rclone's output to error messages only.

### --refresh-times

The `--refresh-times` flag can be used to update modification times of
existing files when they are out of sync on backends which don't
support hashes.

This is useful if you uploaded files with the incorrect timestamps and
you now wish to correct them.

This flag is **only** useful for destinations which don't support
hashes (e.g. `crypt`).

This can be used any of the sync commands [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/),
[copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/).

To use this flag you will need to be doing a modification time sync
(so not using `--size-only` or `--checksum`). The flag will have no
effect when using `--size-only` or `--checksum`.

If this flag is used when rclone comes to upload a file it will check
to see if there is an existing file on the destination. If this file
matches the source with size (and checksum if available) but has a
differing timestamp then instead of re-uploading it, rclone will
update the timestamp on the destination file. If the checksum does not
match rclone will upload the new file. If the checksum is absent (e.g.
on a `crypt` backend) then rclone will update the timestamp.

Note that some remotes can't set the modification time without
re-uploading the file so this flag is less useful on them.

Normally if you are doing a modification time sync rclone will update
modification times without `--refresh-times` provided that the remote
supports checksums **and** the checksums match on the file. However if the
checksums are absent then rclone will upload the file rather than
setting the timestamp as this is the safe behaviour.

### --retries int

Retry the entire sync if it fails this many times it fails (default 3).

Some remotes can be unreliable and a few retries help pick up the
files which didn't get transferred because of errors.

Disable retries with `--retries 1`.

### --retries-sleep Duration

This sets the interval between each retry specified by `--retries`

The default is `0`. Use `0` to disable.

### --server-side-across-configs

Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy or move) to work across
different configurations.

This can be useful if you wish to do a server-side copy or move
between two remotes which use the same backend but are configured
differently.

Note that this isn't enabled by default because it isn't easy for
rclone to tell if it will work between any two configurations.

### --size-only

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to
see if they are equal.  If you set this flag then rclone will check
only the size.

This can be useful transferring files from Dropbox which have been
modified by the desktop sync client which doesn't set checksums of
modification times in the same way as rclone.

### --stats Duration

Commands which transfer data
([sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/),
[copyto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyto/), [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/),
[moveto](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_moveto/)) will print data transfer stats at
regular intervals to show their progress.

This sets the interval.

The default is `1m`. Use `0` to disable.

If you set the stats interval then all commands can show stats.  This
can be useful when running other commands, `check` or `mount` for
example.

Stats are logged at `INFO` level by default which means they won't
show at default log level `NOTICE`.  Use `--stats-log-level NOTICE` or
`-v` to make them show.  See the [logging](#logging) section for more
info on log levels.

Note that on macOS you can send a SIGINFO (which is normally ctrl-T in
the terminal) to make the stats print immediately.

### --stats-file-name-length int

By default, the `--stats` output will truncate file names and paths longer
than 40 characters.  This is equivalent to providing
`--stats-file-name-length 40`. Use `--stats-file-name-length 0` to disable
any truncation of file names printed by stats.

### --stats-log-level LogLevel

Log level to show `--stats` output at.  This can be `DEBUG`, `INFO`,
`NOTICE`, or `ERROR`.  The default is `INFO`.  This means at the
default level of logging, which is `NOTICE`, the stats won't show - if
you want them to then use `--stats-log-level NOTICE`.  See the
[logging](#logging) section for more details on log levels.

### --stats-one-line

When this is specified, rclone condenses the stats into a single line
showing the most important stats only.

### --stats-one-line-date

When this is specified, rclone enables the single-line stats and prepends
<!-- markdownlint-disable-next-line no-space-in-code -->
the display with a date string. The default is `2006/01/02 15:04:05 - `

### --stats-one-line-date-format string

When this is specified, rclone enables the single-line stats and prepends
the display with a user-supplied date string. The date string MUST be
enclosed in quotes. Follow [golang specs](https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Format)
for date formatting syntax.

### --stats-unit string

By default, data transfer rates will be printed in bytes per second,
corresponding to `--stats-unit bytes`.

This option allows the data rate to be printed in bits per second,
by specifying `--stats-unit bits`. Data transfer volume will still be
reported in bytes.

The rate is reported as a binary unit, not SI unit. So 1 Mbit/s
equals 1,048,576 bit/s and not 1,000,000 bit/s.

### --suffix string

When using [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/), [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) or
[move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/) any files which would have been
overwritten or deleted will have the suffix added to them.  If there
is a file with the same path (after the suffix has been added), then
it will be overwritten.

The remote in use must support server-side move or copy and you must
use the same remote as the destination of the sync.

This is for use with files to add the suffix in the current directory
or with `--backup-dir`. See `--backup-dir` for more info.

For example

```console
rclone copy --interactive /path/to/local/file remote:current --suffix .bak
```

will copy `/path/to/local` to `remote:current`, but for any files
which would have been updated or deleted have .bak added.

If using `rclone sync` with `--suffix` and without `--backup-dir` then
it is recommended to put a filter rule in excluding the suffix
otherwise the `sync` will delete the backup files.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /path/to/local/file remote:current --suffix .bak --exclude "*.bak"
```

### --suffix-keep-extension

When using `--suffix`, setting this causes rclone put the SUFFIX
before the extension of the files that it backs up rather than after.

So let's say we had `--suffix -2019-01-01`, without the flag `file.txt`
would be backed up to `file.txt-2019-01-01` and with the flag it would
be backed up to `file-2019-01-01.txt`.  This can be helpful to make
sure the suffixed files can still be opened.

If a file has two (or more) extensions and the second (or subsequent)
extension is recognised as a valid mime type, then the suffix will go
before that extension. So `file.tar.gz` would be backed up to
`file-2019-01-01.tar.gz` whereas `file.badextension.gz` would be
backed up to `file.badextension-2019-01-01.gz`.

### --syslog

On capable OSes (not Windows or Plan9) send all log output to syslog.

This can be useful for running rclone in a script or `rclone mount`.

### --syslog-facility string

If using `--syslog` this sets the syslog facility (e.g. `KERN`, `USER`).
See `man syslog` for a list of possible facilities.  The default
facility is `DAEMON`.

### --temp-dir string

Specify the directory rclone will use for temporary files, to override
the default. Make sure the directory exists and have accessible permissions.

By default the operating system's temp directory will be used:

- On Unix systems, `$TMPDIR` if non-empty, else `/tmp`.
- On Windows, the first non-empty value from `%TMP%`, `%TEMP%`, `%USERPROFILE%`,
  or the Windows directory.

When overriding the default with this option, the specified path will be
set as value of environment variable `TMPDIR` on Unix systems
and `TMP` and `TEMP` on Windows.

You can use the [config paths](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_paths/)
command to see the current value.

### --tpslimit float

Limit transactions per second to this number. Default is 0 which is
used to mean unlimited transactions per second.

A transaction is roughly defined as an API call; its exact meaning
will depend on the backend. For HTTP based backends it is an HTTP
PUT/GET/POST/etc and its response. For FTP/SFTP it is a round trip
transaction over TCP.

For example, to limit rclone to 10 transactions per second use
`--tpslimit 10`, or to 1 transaction every 2 seconds use `--tpslimit
0.5`.

Use this when the number of transactions per second from rclone is
causing a problem with the cloud storage provider (e.g. getting you
banned or rate limited).

This can be very useful for `rclone mount` to control the behaviour of
applications using it.

This limit applies to all HTTP based backends and to the FTP and SFTP
backends. It does not apply to the local backend or the Storj backend.

See also `--tpslimit-burst`.

### --tpslimit-burst int

Max burst of transactions for `--tpslimit` (default `1`).

Normally `--tpslimit` will do exactly the number of transaction per
second specified.  However if you supply `--tps-burst` then rclone can
save up some transactions from when it was idle giving a burst of up
to the parameter supplied.

For example if you provide `--tpslimit-burst 10` then if rclone has
been idle for more than 10*`--tpslimit` then it can do 10 transactions
very quickly before they are limited again.

This may be used to increase performance of `--tpslimit` without
changing the long term average number of transactions per second.

### --track-renames

By default, rclone doesn't keep track of renamed files, so if you
rename a file locally then sync it to a remote, rclone will delete the
old file on the remote and upload a new copy.

An rclone sync with `--track-renames` runs like a normal sync, but keeps
track of objects which exist in the destination but not in the source
(which would normally be deleted), and which objects exist in the
source but not the destination (which would normally be transferred).
These objects are then candidates for renaming.

After the sync, rclone matches up the source only and destination only
objects using the `--track-renames-strategy` specified and either
renames the destination object or transfers the source and deletes the
destination object. `--track-renames` is stateless like all of
rclone's syncs.

To use this flag the destination must support server-side copy or
server-side move, and to use a hash based `--track-renames-strategy`
(the default) the source and the destination must have a compatible
hash.

If the destination does not support server-side copy or move, rclone
will fall back to the default behaviour and log an error level message
to the console.

Encrypted destinations are not currently supported by `--track-renames`
if `--track-renames-strategy` includes `hash`.

Note that `--track-renames` is incompatible with `--no-traverse` and
that it uses extra memory to keep track of all the rename candidates.

Note also that `--track-renames` is incompatible with
`--delete-before` and will select `--delete-after` instead of
`--delete-during`.

### --track-renames-strategy string

This option changes the file matching criteria for `--track-renames`.

The matching is controlled by a comma separated selection of these tokens:

- `modtime` - the modification time of the file - not supported on all backends
- `hash` - the hash of the file contents - not supported on all backends
- `leaf` - the name of the file not including its directory name
- `size` - the size of the file (this is always enabled)

The default option is `hash`.

Using `--track-renames-strategy modtime,leaf` would match files
based on modification time, the leaf of the file name and the size
only.

Using `--track-renames-strategy modtime` or `leaf` can enable
`--track-renames` support for encrypted destinations.

Note that the `hash` strategy is not supported with encrypted destinations.

### --delete-(before,during,after)

This option allows you to specify when files on your destination are
deleted when you sync folders.

Specifying the value `--delete-before` will delete all files present
on the destination, but not on the source *before* starting the
transfer of any new or updated files. This uses two passes through the
file systems, one for the deletions and one for the copies.

Specifying `--delete-during` will delete files while checking and
uploading files. This is the fastest option and uses the least memory.

Specifying `--delete-after` (the default value) will delay deletion of
files until all new/updated files have been successfully transferred.
The files to be deleted are collected in the copy pass then deleted
after the copy pass has completed successfully.  The files to be
deleted are held in memory so this mode may use more memory.  This is
the safest mode as it will only delete files if there have been no
errors subsequent to that.  If there have been errors before the
deletions start then you will get the message `not deleting files as
there were IO errors`.

### --fast-list

When doing anything which involves a directory listing (e.g. `sync`,
`copy`, `ls` - in fact nearly every command), rclone has different
strategies to choose from.

The basic strategy is to list one directory and processes it before using
more directory lists to process any subdirectories. This is a mandatory
backend feature, called `List`, which means it is supported by all backends.
This strategy uses small amount of memory, and because it can be parallelised
it is fast for operations involving processing of the list results.

Some backends provide the support for an alternative strategy, where all
files beneath a directory can be listed in one (or a small number) of
transactions. Rclone supports this alternative strategy through an optional
backend feature called [`ListR`](https://rclone.org/overview/#listr). You can see in the storage
system overview documentation's [optional features](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
section which backends it is enabled for (these tend to be the bucket-based
ones, e.g. S3, B2, GCS, Swift). This strategy requires fewer transactions
for highly recursive operations, which is important on backends where this
is charged or heavily rate limited. It may be faster (due to fewer transactions)
or slower (because it can't be parallelized) depending on different parameters,
and may require more memory if rclone has to keep the whole listing in memory.

Which listing strategy rclone picks for a given operation is complicated, but
in general it tries to choose the best possible. It will prefer `ListR` in
situations where it doesn't need to store the listed files in memory, e.g.
for unlimited recursive `ls` command variants. In other situations it will
prefer `List`, e.g. for `sync` and `copy`, where it needs to keep the listed
files in memory, and is performing operations on them where parallelization
may be a huge advantage.

Rclone is not able to take all relevant parameters into account for deciding
the best strategy, and therefore allows you to influence the choice in two ways:
You can stop rclone from using `ListR` by disabling the feature, using the
[--disable](#disable-string) option (`--disable ListR`), or you can
allow rclone to use `ListR` where it would normally choose not to do so due to
higher memory usage, using the `--fast-list` option. Rclone should always
produce identical results either way. Using `--disable ListR` or `--fast-list`
on a remote which doesn't support `ListR` does nothing, rclone will just ignore
it.

A rule of thumb is that if you pay for transactions and can fit your entire
sync listing into memory, then `--fast-list` is recommended. If you have a
very big sync to do, then don't use `--fast-list`, otherwise you will run out
of memory. Run some tests and compare before you decide, and if in doubt then
just leave the default, let rclone decide, i.e. not use `--fast-list`.

### --timeout Duration

This sets the IO idle timeout.  If a transfer has started but then
becomes idle for this long it is considered broken and disconnected.

The default is `5m`.  Set to `0` to disable.

### --transfers int

The number of file transfers to run in parallel.  It can sometimes be
useful to set this to a smaller number if the remote is giving a lot
of timeouts or bigger if you have lots of bandwidth and a fast remote.

The default is to run 4 file transfers in parallel.

Look at --multi-thread-streams if you would like to control single file transfers.

### -u, --update

This forces rclone to skip any files which exist on the destination
and have a modified time that is newer than the source file.

This can be useful in avoiding needless transfers when transferring to
a remote which doesn't support modification times directly (or when
using `--use-server-modtime` to avoid extra API calls) as it is more
accurate than a `--size-only` check and faster than using
`--checksum`. On such remotes (or when using `--use-server-modtime`)
the time checked will be the uploaded time.

If an existing destination file has a modification time older than the
source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different. If the
sizes are the same, it will be updated if the checksum is different or
not available.

If an existing destination file has a modification time equal (within
the computed modify window) to the source file's, it will be updated
if the sizes are different. The checksum will not be checked in this
case unless the `--checksum` flag is provided.

In all other cases the file will not be updated.

Consider using the `--modify-window` flag to compensate for time skews
between the source and the backend, for backends that do not support
mod times, and instead use uploaded times. However, if the backend
does not support checksums, note that syncing or copying within the
time skew window may still result in additional transfers for safety.

### --use-mmap

If this flag is set then rclone will use anonymous memory allocated by
mmap on Unix based platforms and VirtualAlloc on Windows for its
transfer buffers (size controlled by `--buffer-size`).  Memory
allocated like this does not go on the Go heap and can be returned to
the OS immediately when it is finished with.

If this flag is not set then rclone will allocate and free the buffers
using the Go memory allocator which may use more memory as memory
pages are returned less aggressively to the OS.

It is possible this does not work well on all platforms so it is
disabled by default; in the future it may be enabled by default.

### --use-server-modtime

Some object-store backends (e.g, Swift, S3) do not preserve file modification
times (modtime). On these backends, rclone stores the original modtime as
additional metadata on the object. By default it will make an API call to
retrieve the metadata when the modtime is needed by an operation.

Use this flag to disable the extra API call and rely instead on the server's
modified time. In cases such as a local to remote sync using `--update`,
knowing the local file is newer than the time it was last uploaded to the
remote is sufficient. In those cases, this flag can speed up the process and
reduce the number of API calls necessary.

This flag is only supported on certain backends and will be silently
ignored on unsupported backends. Supported backends include
`azureblob`, `oracleobjectstorage`, `s3`, `swift`.

Using this flag on a sync operation without also using `--update` would cause
all files modified at any time other than the last upload time to be uploaded
again, which is probably not what you want.

### -v, -vv, --verbose

With `-v` rclone will tell you about each file that is transferred and
a small number of significant events.

With `-vv` rclone will become very verbose telling you about every
file it considers and transfers.  Please send bug reports with a log
with this setting.

When setting verbosity as an environment variable, use
`RCLONE_VERBOSE=1` or `RCLONE_VERBOSE=2` for `-v` and `-vv` respectively.

### -V, --version

Prints the version number

## SSL/TLS options

The outgoing SSL/TLS connections rclone makes can be controlled with
these options.  For example this can be very useful with the HTTP or
WebDAV backends. Rclone HTTP servers have their own set of
configuration for SSL/TLS which you can find in their documentation.

### --ca-cert stringArray

This loads the PEM encoded certificate authority certificates and uses
it to verify the certificates of the servers rclone connects to.

If you have generated certificates signed with a local CA then you
will need this flag to connect to servers using those certificates.

### --client-cert string

This loads the PEM encoded client side certificate.

This is used for [mutual TLS authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_authentication).

The `--client-key` flag is required too when using this.

### --client-key string

This loads the PEM encoded client side private key used for mutual TLS
authentication.  Used in conjunction with `--client-cert`.

Supported types are:

- Unencrypted PKCS#1 ("BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY")
- Unencrypted PKCS#8 ("BEGIN PRIVATE KEY")
- Encrypted PKCS#8 ("BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY")
- Legacy PEM encryption (e.g., DEK-Info headers), which are automatically detected.

### --client-pass string

This can be used to supply an optional password to decrypt the client key file.

**NB** the password should be obscured so it should be the output of
`rclone obscure YOURPASSWORD`.

### --no-check-certificate

`--no-check-certificate` controls whether a client verifies the
server's certificate chain and host name.
If `--no-check-certificate` is true, TLS accepts any certificate
presented by the server and any host name in that certificate.
In this mode, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.

This option defaults to `false`.

**This should be used only for testing.**

## Configuration encryption

Your configuration file contains information for logging in to
your cloud services. This means that you should keep your
`rclone.conf` file in a secure location.

If you are in an environment where that isn't possible, you can
add a password to your configuration. This means that you will
have to supply the password every time you start rclone.

To add a password to your rclone configuration, execute `rclone config`.

```console
$ rclone config
Current remotes:

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/s/q>
```

Go into `s`, Set configuration password:

```text
e/n/d/s/q> s
Your configuration is not encrypted.
If you add a password, you will protect your login information to cloud services.
a) Add Password
q) Quit to main menu
a/q> a
Enter NEW configuration password:
password:
Confirm NEW password:
password:
Password set
Your configuration is encrypted.
c) Change Password
u) Unencrypt configuration
q) Quit to main menu
c/u/q>
```

Your configuration is now encrypted, and every time you start rclone
you will have to supply the password. See below for details.
In the same menu, you can change the password or completely remove
encryption from your configuration.

There is no way to recover the configuration if you lose your password.

You can also use

- [rclone config encryption set](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_set/)
  to set the config encryption directly
- [rclone config encryption remove](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_remove/)
  to remove it
- [rclone config encryption check](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption_check/)
  to check that it is encrypted properly.

rclone uses [nacl secretbox](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox)
which in turn uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and authenticate
your configuration with secret-key cryptography.
The password is SHA-256 hashed, which produces the key for secretbox.
The hashed password is not stored.

While this provides very good security, we do not recommend storing
your encrypted rclone configuration in public if it contains sensitive
information, maybe except if you use a very strong password.

If it is safe in your environment, you can set the `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS`
environment variable to contain your password, in which case it will be
used for decrypting the configuration.

You can set this for a session from a script.  For unix like systems
save this to a file called `set-rclone-password`:

```sh
#!/bin/echo Source this file don't run it

read -s RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS
export RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS
```

Then source the file when you want to use it.  From the shell you
would do `source set-rclone-password`.  It will then ask you for the
password and set it in the environment variable.

An alternate means of supplying the password is to provide a script
which will retrieve the password and print on standard output.  This
script should have a fully specified path name and not rely on any
environment variables.  The script is supplied either via
[`--password-command="..."`](#password-command) command line argument or via the
`RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND` environment variable.

One useful example of this is using the `passwordstore` application
to retrieve the password:

```console
export RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND="pass rclone/config"
```

If the `passwordstore` password manager holds the password for the
rclone configuration, using the script method means the password
is primarily protected by the `passwordstore` system, and is never
embedded in the clear in scripts, nor available for examination
using the standard commands available.  It is quite possible with
long running rclone sessions for copies of passwords to be innocently
captured in log files or terminal scroll buffers, etc.  Using the
script method of supplying the password enhances the security of
the config password considerably.

If you are running rclone inside a script, unless you are using the
`--password-command` method, you might want to disable
password prompts. To do that, pass the parameter
`--ask-password=false` to rclone. This will make rclone fail instead
of asking for a password if `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` doesn't contain
a valid password, and `--password-command` has not been supplied.

Whenever running commands that may be affected by options in a
configuration file, rclone will look for an existing file according
to the rules described [above](#config-string), and load any it
finds. If an encrypted file is found, this includes decrypting it,
with the possible consequence of a password prompt. When executing
a command line that you know are not actually using anything from such
a configuration file, you can avoid it being loaded by overriding the
location, e.g. with one of the documented special values for
memory-only configuration. Since only backend options can be stored
in configuration files, this is normally unnecessary for commands
that do not operate on backends, e.g. `completion`. However,
it will be relevant for commands that do operate on backends in
general, but are used without referencing a stored remote, e.g.
listing local filesystem paths, or
[connection strings](#connection-strings): `rclone --config="" ls .`

### Configuration encryption cheatsheet

You can quickly apply a configuration encryption without plain-text
at rest or transfer. Detailed instructions for popular OSes:

#### Mac

- Generate and store a password

  ```console
  security add-generic-password -a rclone -s config -w $(openssl rand -base64 40)
  ```

- Add the retrieval instruction to your `.zprofile` / `.profile`

  ```console
  export RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND="/usr/bin/security find-generic-password -a rclone -s config -w"
  ```

#### Linux

- Prerequisite: Linux doesn't come with a default password manager. Let's install
    the "pass" utility using a package manager, e.g. `apt install pass`,
    `yum install pass`, [etc.](https://www.passwordstore.org/#download);
    then initialize a password store: `pass init rclone`.

- Generate and store a password

  ```console
  echo $(openssl rand -base64 40) | pass insert -m rclone/config
  ```

- Add the retrieval instruction

  ```console
  export RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND="/usr/bin/pass rclone/config"
  ```

#### Windows

- Generate and store a password

  ```powershell
  New-Object -TypeName PSCredential -ArgumentList "rclone", (ConvertTo-SecureString -String ([System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(40, 10)) -AsPlainText -Force) | Export-Clixml -Path "rclone-credential.xml"
  ```

- Add the password retrieval instruction

  ```powershell
  [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND", "[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR((Import-Clixml -Path "rclone-credential.xml").Password))")
  ```

#### Encrypt the config file (all systems)

- Execute `rclone config`, and select option `s) Set configuration password`

- Add/update the password from previous steps

## Developer options

These options are useful when developing or debugging rclone.  There
are also some more remote specific options which aren't documented
here which are used for testing.  These start with remote name e.g.
`--drive-test-option` - see the docs for the remote in question.

### --cpuprofile string

Write CPU profile to a file. This can be analysed with `go tool pprof`.

### --memprofile string

Write memory profile to a file. This can be analysed with `go tool pprof`.

### --dump DumpFlags

The `--dump` flag takes a comma separated list of flags to dump info
about.

Note that some headers, such as `Accept-Encoding`, may not be correct
as shown in the request, and the response may not show `Content-Encoding`
if the go standard libraries auto gzip encoding was in effect. In this case
the body of the request will be gunzipped before showing it.

The available flags are:

- `headers` dumps HTTP headers. Any `Authorization:` headers will be excluded,
  but output may still contain sensitive information.  Can be very verbose.
  Useful for debugging only. Use `auth` if you do want the `Authorization:` headers.
- `auth` dumps HTTP headers like `headers`, but also includes any `Authorization:`
  headers. This means the output will probably contain sensitive information.
  Use `headers` to dump without `Authorization:` headers. Can be very verbose.
  Useful for debugging only. This flag also makes the debug log of the config
  process (e.g. `rclone config -vv`) show answers to questions, passwords and
  tokens which are otherwise redacted.
- `bodies` dumps HTTP headers and bodies. May contain sensitive info.
  Can be very verbose.  Useful for debugging only. Note that the bodies
  are buffered in memory so don't use this for enormous files.
- `requests` is similar to `bodies`, but dumps the request bodies and the
  response headers.  Useful for debugging download problems.
- `responses` is similar to `bodies`, but dumps the response bodies and the
  request headers. Useful for debugging upload problems.
- `filters` dumps the filters.  Useful to see exactly what include
  and exclude options are filtering on.
- `goroutines` dumps a list of the running go-routines at the end of
  the command.
- `openfiles` dumps a list of the open files at the end of the command.
  It uses the `lsof` Unix command to do that, so you'll need that installed
  to use it.
- `mapper` dumps the JSON blobs being sent to the program supplied with
  `--metadata-mapper` and received from it. It can be useful for debugging
  the metadata mapper interface.
- `curl` dumps the HTTP request as a `curl` command. Can be used with
  the other HTTP debugging flags (e.g. `requests`, `bodies`). By
  default the auth will be masked - use with `auth` to have the curl
  commands with authentication too.
- `errors` only dumps the HTTP transactions which fail with a retryable
  error - that is a transport error, an HTTP 429 (too many requests) or an
  HTTP 5xx server error. The other dump flags control what is dumped, so
  for example use `--dump errors,bodies` to dump the headers and bodies of
  failed transactions only. On its own `--dump errors` dumps the headers.
  This lets you capture first-failure diagnostics without the noise of
  dumping every transaction. May contain sensitive info.
- `trace` logs connection level events for each HTTP transaction using Go's
  `net/http/httptrace` - DNS resolution, TCP connect, TLS handshake (including
  the negotiated TLS version, cipher, ALPN protocol and server certificate),
  connection reuse, request write and time to first response byte. Each line is
  tagged with the time elapsed since the start of the transaction so you can see
  where the time goes. This is complementary to the other dump flags: it shows
  how the connection behaved rather than what was sent, so it is useful for
  debugging connectivity, DNS, TLS, proxy and keep-alive problems. It does not
  dump headers or bodies - combine it with `headers` or `bodies` for that.

## Filtering

For the filtering options

- `--delete-excluded`
- `--filter`
- `--filter-from`
- `--exclude`
- `--exclude-from`
- `--exclude-if-present`
- `--include`
- `--include-from`
- `--files-from`
- `--files-from-raw`
- `--files-from0`
- `--min-size`
- `--max-size`
- `--min-age`
- `--max-age`
- `--hash-filter`
- `--dump filters`
- `--metadata-include`
- `--metadata-include-from`
- `--metadata-exclude`
- `--metadata-exclude-from`
- `--metadata-filter`
- `--metadata-filter-from`

See the [filtering section](https://rclone.org/filtering/).

## Remote control

For the remote control options and for instructions on how to remote control rclone:

- `--rc`
- Anything starting with `--rc-`

See [the remote control section](https://rclone.org/rc/).

## Logging

rclone has 4 levels of logging, `ERROR`, `NOTICE`, `INFO` and `DEBUG`.

By default, rclone logs to standard error.  This means you can redirect
standard error and still see the normal output of rclone commands (e.g.
`rclone ls`).

By default, rclone will produce `Error` and `Notice` level messages.

If you use the `-q` flag, rclone will only produce `Error` messages.

If you use the `-v` flag, rclone will produce `Error`, `Notice` and
`Info` messages.

If you use the `-vv` flag, rclone will produce `Error`, `Notice`,
`Info` and `Debug` messages.

You can also control the log levels with the `--log-level` flag.

If you use the `--log-file` option, rclone will redirect `Error`,
`Info` and `Debug` messages along with standard error to a file.

If you use the `--syslog` flag then rclone will log to syslog and the
`--syslog-facility` control which facility it uses.

Rclone prefixes all log messages with their level in capitals, e.g. INFO
which makes it easy to grep the log file for different kinds of
information.

## Metrics

Rclone can publish metrics in the OpenMetrics/Prometheus format.

To enable the metrics endpoint, use the `--metrics-addr` flag. Metrics can
also be published on the `--rc-addr` port if the `--rc` flag and
`--rc-enable-metrics` flags are supplied or if using rclone rcd
`--rc-enable-metrics`

Rclone provides extensive configuration options for the metrics HTTP endpoint.
These settings are grouped under the Metrics section and have a prefix
`--metrics-*`.

When metrics are enabled with `--rc-enable-metrics`, they will be published on
the same port as the rc API. In this case, the `--metrics-*` flags will be
ignored, and the HTTP endpoint configuration will be managed by the `--rc-*`
parameters.

## Exit code

If any errors occur during the command execution, rclone will exit with a
non-zero exit code.  This allows scripts to detect when rclone
operations have failed.

During the startup phase, rclone will exit immediately if an error is
detected in the configuration.  There will always be a log message
immediately before exiting.

When rclone is running it will accumulate errors as it goes along, and
only exit with a non-zero exit code if (after retries) there were
still failed transfers.  For every error counted there will be a high
priority log message (visible with `-q`) showing the message and
which file caused the problem. A high priority message is also shown
when starting a retry so the user can see that any previous error
messages may not be valid after the retry. If rclone has done a retry
it will log a high priority message if the retry was successful.

### List of exit codes

- `0` - Success
- `1` - Error not otherwise categorised
- `2` - Syntax or usage error
- `3` - Directory not found
- `4` - File not found
- `5` - Temporary error (one that more retries might fix) (Retry errors)
- `6` - Less serious errors (like 461 errors from dropbox) (NoRetry errors)
- `7` - Fatal error (one that more retries won't fix, like account suspended)
  (Fatal errors)
- `8` - Transfer exceeded - limit set by --max-transfer reached
- `9` - Operation successful, but no files transferred (Requires
  [`--error-on-no-transfer`](#error-on-no-transfer))
- `10` - Duration exceeded - limit set by --max-duration reached

## Environment variables

Rclone can be configured entirely using environment variables.  These
can be used to set defaults for options or config file entries.

### Options

Every option in rclone can have its default set by environment
variable.

To find the name of the environment variable, first, take the long
option name, strip the leading `--`, change `-` to `_`, make
upper case and prepend `RCLONE_`.

For example, to always set `--stats 5s`, set the environment variable
`RCLONE_STATS=5s`.  If you set stats on the command line this will
override the environment variable setting.

Or to always use the trash in drive `--drive-use-trash`, set
`RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_TRASH=true`.

Verbosity is slightly different, the environment variable
equivalent of `--verbose` or `-v` is `RCLONE_VERBOSE=1`,
or for `-vv`, `RCLONE_VERBOSE=2`.

The same parser is used for the options and the environment variables
so they take exactly the same form.

The options set by environment variables can be seen with the `-vv` flag,
e.g. `rclone version -vv`.

Options that can appear multiple times (type `stringArray`) are
treated slightly differently as environment variables can only be
defined once. In order to allow a simple mechanism for adding one or
many items, the input is treated as a [CSV encoded](https://godoc.org/encoding/csv)
string. For example

| Environment variable | Equivalent options |
|----------------------|--------------------|
| `RCLONE_EXCLUDE="*.jpg"` | `--exclude "*.jpg"` |
| `RCLONE_EXCLUDE="*.jpg,*.png"` | `--exclude "*.jpg"` `--exclude "*.png"` |
| `RCLONE_EXCLUDE='"*.jpg","*.png"'` | `--exclude "*.jpg"` `--exclude "*.png"` |
| `RCLONE_EXCLUDE='"/directory with comma , in it /**"'` | `--exclude "/directory with comma , in it /**" |

If `stringArray` options are defined as environment variables **and**
options on the command line then all the values will be used.

### Config file

You can set defaults for values in the config file on an individual
remote basis. The names of the config items are documented in the page
for each backend.

To find the name of the environment variable, you need to set, take
`RCLONE_CONFIG_` + name of remote + `_` + name of config file option
and make it all uppercase.
Note one implication here is the remote's name must be
convertible into a valid environment variable name,
so it can only contain letters, digits, or the `_` (underscore) character.

For example, to configure an S3 remote named `mys3:` without a config
file (using unix ways of setting environment variables):

```console
$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_TYPE=s3
$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
$ rclone lsd mys3:
          -1 2016-09-21 12:54:21        -1 my-bucket
$ rclone listremotes | grep mys3
mys3:
```

Note that if you want to create a remote using environment variables
you must create the `..._TYPE` variable as above.

Note that the name of a remote created using environment variable is
case insensitive, in contrast to regular remotes stored in config
file as documented [above](#valid-remote-names).
You must write the name in uppercase in the environment variable, but
as seen from example above it will be listed and can be accessed in
lowercase, while you can also refer to the same remote in uppercase:

```console
$ rclone lsd mys3:
          -1 2016-09-21 12:54:21        -1 my-bucket
$ rclone lsd MYS3:
          -1 2016-09-21 12:54:21        -1 my-bucket
```

Note that you can only set the options of the immediate backend,
so RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3CRYPT_ACCESS_KEY_ID has no effect, if myS3Crypt is
a crypt remote based on an S3 remote. However RCLONE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID will
set the access key of all remotes using S3, including myS3Crypt.

Note also that now rclone has [connection strings](#connection-strings),
it is probably easier to use those instead which makes the above example

```console
rclone lsd :s3,access_key_id=XXX,secret_access_key=XXX:
```

### Precedence

The various different methods of backend configuration are read in
this order and the first one with a value is used.

- Parameters in connection strings, e.g. `myRemote,skip_links:`
- Flag values as supplied on the command line, e.g. `--skip-links`
- Remote specific environment vars, e.g. `RCLONE_CONFIG_MYREMOTE_SKIP_LINKS`
  (see above).
- Backend-specific environment vars, e.g. `RCLONE_LOCAL_SKIP_LINKS`.
- Backend generic environment vars, e.g. `RCLONE_SKIP_LINKS`.
- Config file, e.g. `skip_links = true`.
- Default values, e.g. `false` - these can't be changed.

So if both `--skip-links` is supplied on the command line and an
environment variable `RCLONE_LOCAL_SKIP_LINKS` is set, the command line
flag will take preference.

The backend configurations set by environment variables can be seen with the
`-vv` flag, e.g. `rclone about myRemote: -vv`.

For non backend configuration the order is as follows:

- Flag values as supplied on the command line, e.g. `--stats 5s`.
- Environment vars, e.g. `RCLONE_STATS=5s`.
- Default values, e.g. `1m` - these can't be changed.

### Other environment variables

- `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` set to contain your config file password (see
  [Configuration Encryption](#configuration-encryption) section)
- `HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY` and `NO_PROXY` (or the lowercase versions thereof).
  - `HTTPS_PROXY` takes precedence over `HTTP_PROXY` for https requests.
  - The environment values may be either a complete URL or a "host[:port]"
    for, in which case the "http" scheme is assumed.
- `USER` and `LOGNAME` values are used as fallbacks for current username.
  The primary method for looking up username is OS-specific: Windows API on
  Windows, real user ID in /etc/passwd on Unix systems. In the documentation
  the current username is simply referred to as `$USER`.
- `RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR` - rclone **sets** this variable for use in config files
  and sub processes to point to the directory holding the config file.

The options set by environment variables can be seen with the `-vv` and
`--log-level=DEBUG` flags, e.g. `rclone version -vv`.

# Configuring rclone on a remote / headless machine

Some of the configurations (those involving oauth2) require an
internet-connected web browser.

If you are trying to set rclone up on a remote or headless machine with no
browser available on it (e.g. a NAS or a server in a datacenter), then
you will need to use an alternative means of configuration. There are
three ways of doing it, described below.

## Configuring using rclone authorize

On the headless machine run [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config), but
answer `N` to the question `Use web browser to automatically authenticate
rclone with remote?`.

```text
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.

y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> n

Option config_token.
For this to work, you will need rclone available on a machine that has
a web browser available.
For more help and alternate methods see: https://rclone.org/remote_setup/
Execute the following on the machine with the web browser (same rclone
version recommended):
        rclone authorize "onedrive"
Then paste the result.
Enter a value.
config_token>
```

Then on your main desktop machine, run [rclone authorize](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_authorize/).

```text
rclone authorize "onedrive"
NOTICE: Make sure your Redirect URL is set to "http://localhost:53682/" in your custom config.
NOTICE: If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NOTICE: Log in and authorize rclone for access
NOTICE: Waiting for code...

Got code
Paste the following into your remote machine --->
SECRET_TOKEN
<---End paste
```

Then back to the headless machine, paste in the code.

```text
config_token> SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
[acd12]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>
```

## Configuring by copying the config file

Rclone stores all of its configuration in a single file. This can easily be
copied to configure a remote rclone (although some backends do not support
reusing the same configuration, consult your backend documentation to be
sure).

Start by running [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config) to create the
configuration file on your desktop machine.

```console
rclone config
```

Then locate the file by running [rclone config file](/commands/rclone_config_file).

```console
$ rclone config file
Configuration file is stored at:
/home/user/.rclone.conf
```

Finally, transfer the file to the remote machine (scp, cut paste, ftp, sftp, etc.)
and place it in the correct location (use [rclone config file](/commands/rclone_config_file)
on the remote machine to find out where).

## Configuring using SSH Tunnel

If you have an SSH client installed on your local machine, you can set up an
SSH tunnel to redirect the port 53682 into the headless machine by using the
following command:

```console
ssh -L localhost:53682:localhost:53682 username@remote_server
```

Then on the headless machine run [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config) and
answer `Y` to the question `Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone
with remote?`.

```text
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.

y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> y
NOTICE: Make sure your Redirect URL is set to "http://localhost:53682/" in your custom config.
NOTICE: If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NOTICE: Log in and authorize rclone for access
NOTICE: Waiting for code...
```

Finally, copy and paste the presented URL `http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx`
to the browser on your local machine, complete the auth and you are done.

# Filtering, includes and excludes

Filter flags determine which files rclone `sync`, `move`, `ls`, `lsl`,
`md5sum`, `sha1sum`, `size`, `delete`, `check` and similar commands
apply to.

They are specified in terms of path/file name patterns; path/file
lists; file age and size, or presence of a file in a directory. Bucket
based remotes without the concept of directory apply filters to object
key, age and size in an analogous way.

Rclone `purge` does not obey filters.

To test filters without risk of damage to data, apply them to `rclone
ls`, or with the `--dry-run` and `-vv` flags.

Rclone filter patterns can only be used in filter command line options, not
in the specification of a remote.

E.g. `rclone copy "remote:dir*.jpg" /path/to/dir` does not have a filter effect.
`rclone copy remote:dir /path/to/dir --include "*.jpg"` does.

**Important** Avoid mixing any two of `--include...`, `--exclude...` or
`--filter...` flags in an rclone command. The results might not be what
you expect. Instead use a `--filter...` flag.

## Patterns for matching path/file names

### Pattern syntax {#patterns}

Here is a formal definition of the pattern syntax,
[examples](#examples) are below.

Rclone matching rules follow a glob style:

```text
*         matches any sequence of non-separator (/) characters
**        matches any sequence of characters including / separators
?         matches any single non-separator (/) character
[ [ ! ] { character-range } ]
          character class (must be non-empty)
{ pattern-list }
          pattern alternatives
{{ regexp }}
          regular expression to match
c         matches character c (c != *, **, ?, \, [, {, })
\c        matches reserved character c (c = *, **, ?, \, [, {, }) or character class
```

character-range:

```text
c         matches character c (c != \, -, ])
\c        matches reserved character c (c = \, -, ])
lo - hi   matches character c for lo <= c <= hi
```

pattern-list:

```text
pattern { , pattern }
          comma-separated (without spaces) patterns
```

character classes (see [Go regular expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/))
include:

```text
Named character classes (e.g. [\d], [^\d], [\D], [^\D])
Perl character classes (e.g. \s, \S, \w, \W)
ASCII character classes (e.g. [[:alnum:]], [[:alpha:]], [[:punct:]], [[:xdigit:]])
```

regexp for advanced users to insert a regular expression - see [below](#regexp)
for more info:

```text
Any re2 regular expression not containing `}}`
```

If the filter pattern starts with a `/` then it only matches
at the top level of the directory tree,
**relative to the root of the remote** (not necessarily the root
of the drive). If it does not start with `/` then it is matched
starting at the **end of the path/file name** but it only matches
a complete path element - it must match from a `/`
separator or the beginning of the path/file.

```text
file.jpg   - matches "file.jpg"
           - matches "directory/file.jpg"
           - doesn't match "afile.jpg"
           - doesn't match "directory/afile.jpg"
/file.jpg  - matches "file.jpg" in the root directory of the remote
           - doesn't match "afile.jpg"
           - doesn't match "directory/file.jpg"
```

The top level of the remote might not be the top level of the drive.

E.g. for a Microsoft Windows local directory structure

```text
F:
├── bkp
├── data
│   ├── excl
│   │   ├── 123.jpg
│   │   └── 456.jpg
│   ├── incl
│   │   └── document.pdf
```

To copy the contents of folder `data` into folder `bkp` excluding the contents
of subfolder `excl`the following command treats `F:\data` and `F:\bkp` as top
level for filtering.

`rclone copy F:\data\ F:\bkp\ --exclude=/excl/**`

**Important** Use `/` in path/file name patterns and not `\` even if
running on Microsoft Windows.

Simple patterns are case sensitive unless the `--ignore-case` flag is used.

Without `--ignore-case` (default)

```text
potato - matches "potato"
       - doesn't match "POTATO"
```

With `--ignore-case`

```text
potato - matches "potato"
       - matches "POTATO"
```

## Using regular expressions in filter patterns {#regexp}

The syntax of filter patterns is glob style matching (like `bash`
uses) to make things easy for users. However this does not provide
absolute control over the matching, so for advanced users rclone also
provides a regular expression syntax.

Rclone generally accepts Perl-style regular expressions, the exact syntax
is defined in the [Go regular expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/).
Regular expressions should be enclosed in `{{` `}}`. They will match only the
last path segment if the glob doesn't start with `/` or the whole path
name if it does. Note that rclone does not attempt to parse the
supplied regular expression, meaning that using any regular expression
filter will prevent rclone from using [directory filter rules](#directory_filter),
as it will instead check every path against
the supplied regular expression(s).

Here is how the `{{regexp}}` is transformed into an full regular
expression to match the entire path:

```text
{{regexp}}  becomes (^|/)(regexp)$
/{{regexp}} becomes ^(regexp)$
```

Regexp syntax can be mixed with glob syntax, for example

```text
*.{{jpe?g}} to match file.jpg, file.jpeg but not file.png
```

You can also use regexp flags - to set case insensitive, for example

```text
*.{{(?i)jpg}} to match file.jpg, file.JPG but not file.png
```

Be careful with wildcards in regular expressions - you don't want them
to match path separators normally. To match any file name starting
with `start` and ending with `end` write

```text
{{start[^/]*end\.jpg}}
```

Not

```text
{{start.*end\.jpg}}
```

Which will match a directory called `start` with a file called
`end.jpg` in it as the `.*` will match `/` characters.

Note that you can use `-vv --dump filters` to show the filter patterns
in regexp format - rclone implements the glob patterns by transforming
them into regular expressions.

## Filter pattern examples {#examples}

| Description | Pattern | Matches | Does not match |
| ----------- |-------- | ------- | -------------- |
| Wildcard    | `*.jpg` | `/file.jpg`     | `/file.png`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.jpg` | `/dir/file.png` |
| Rooted      | `/*.jpg` | `/file.jpg`    | `/file.png`    |
|             |          | `/file2.jpg`    | `/dir/file.jpg` |
| Alternates  | `*.{jpg,png}` | `/file.jpg`     | `/file.gif`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.png` | `/dir/file.gif` |
| Path Wildcard | `dir/**` | `/dir/anyfile`     | `file.png`    |
|             |          | `/subdir/dir/subsubdir/anyfile` | `/subdir/file.png` |
| Any Char    | `*.t?t` | `/file.txt`     | `/file.qxt`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.tzt` | `/dir/file.png` |
| Range       | `*.[a-z]` | `/file.a`     | `/file.0`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.b` | `/dir/file.1` |
| Escape      | `*.\?\?\?` | `/file.???`     | `/file.abc`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.???` | `/dir/file.def` |
| Class       | `*.\d\d\d` | `/file.012`     | `/file.abc`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.345` | `/dir/file.def` |
| Regexp      | `*.{{jpe?g}}` | `/file.jpeg`     | `/file.png`    |
|             |         | `/dir/file.jpg` | `/dir/file.jpeeg` |
| Rooted Regexp | `/{{.*\.jpe?g}}` | `/file.jpeg`  | `/file.png`    |
|             |                  | `/file.jpg`   | `/dir/file.jpg` |

## How filter rules are applied to files {#how-filter-rules-work}

Rclone path/file name filters are made up of one or more of the following flags:

- `--include`
- `--include-from`
- `--exclude`
- `--exclude-from`
- `--filter`
- `--filter-from`

There can be more than one instance of individual flags.

Rclone internally uses a combined list of all the include and exclude
rules. The order in which rules are processed can influence the result
of the filter.

All flags of the same type are processed together in the order
above, regardless of what order the different types of flags are
included on the command line.

Multiple instances of the same flag are processed from left
to right according to their position in the command line.

To mix up the order of processing includes and excludes use `--filter...`
flags.

Within `--include-from`, `--exclude-from` and `--filter-from` flags
rules are processed from top to bottom of the referenced file.

If there is an `--include` or `--include-from` flag specified, rclone
implies a `- **` rule which it adds to the bottom of the internal rule
list. Specifying a `+` rule with a `--filter...` flag does not imply
that rule.

Each path/file name passed through rclone is matched against the
combined filter list. At first match to a rule the path/file name
is included or excluded and no further filter rules are processed for
that path/file.

If rclone does not find a match, after testing against all rules
(including the implied rule if appropriate), the path/file name
is included.

Any path/file included at that stage is processed by the rclone
command.

`--files-from`, `--files-from-raw` and `--files-from0` flags
over-ride and cannot be combined with other filter options.

To see the internal combined rule list, in regular expression form,
for a command add the `--dump filters` flag. Running an rclone command
with `--dump filters` and `-vv` flags lists the internal filter elements
and shows how they are applied to each source path/file. There is not
currently a means provided to pass regular expression filter options into
rclone directly though character class filter rules contain character
classes. [Go regular expression reference](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/)

### How filter rules are applied to directories {#directory_filter}

Rclone commands are applied to path/file names not
directories. The entire contents of a directory can be matched
to a filter by the pattern `directory/*` or recursively by
`directory/**`.

Directory filter rules are defined with a closing `/` separator.

E.g. `/directory/subdirectory/` is an rclone directory filter rule.

Rclone commands can use directory filter rules to determine whether they
recurse into subdirectories. This potentially optimises access to a remote
by avoiding listing unnecessary directories. Whether optimisation is
desirable depends on the specific filter rules and source remote content.

If any [regular expression filters](#regexp) are in use, then no
directory recursion optimisation is possible, as rclone must check
every path against the supplied regular expression(s).

Directory recursion optimisation occurs if either:

- A source remote does not support the rclone `ListR` primitive. local,
sftp, Microsoft OneDrive and WebDAV do not support `ListR`. Google
Drive and most bucket type storage do. [Full list](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)

- On other remotes (those that support `ListR`), if the rclone command is not
naturally recursive, and provided it is not run with the `--fast-list` flag.
`ls`, `lsf -R` and `size` are naturally recursive but `sync`, `copy` and `move`
are not.

- Whenever the `--disable ListR` flag is applied to an rclone command.

Rclone commands imply directory filter rules from path/file filter
rules. To view the directory filter rules rclone has implied for a
command specify the `--dump filters` flag.

E.g. for an include rule

```text
/a/*.jpg
```

Rclone implies the directory include rule

```text
/a/
```

Directory filter rules specified in an rclone command can limit
the scope of an rclone command but path/file filters still have
to be specified.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --include /directory/` will not match any
files. Because it is an `--include` option the `--exclude **` rule
is implied, and the `/directory/` pattern serves only to optimise
access to the remote by ignoring everything outside of that directory.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --filter-from filter-list.txt` with a file
`filter-list.txt`:

```text
- /dir1/
- /dir2/
+ *.pdf
- **
```

All files in directories `dir1` or `dir2` or their subdirectories
are completely excluded from the listing. Only files of suffix
`pdf` in the root of `remote:` or its subdirectories are listed.
The `- **` rule prevents listing of any path/files not previously
matched by the rules above.

Option `exclude-if-present` creates a directory exclude rule based
on the presence of a file in a directory and takes precedence over
other rclone directory filter rules.

When using pattern list syntax, if a pattern item contains either
`/` or `**`, then rclone will not able to imply a directory filter rule
from this pattern list.

E.g. for an include rule

```text
{dir1/**,dir2/**}
```

Rclone will match files below directories `dir1` or `dir2` only,
but will not be able to use this filter to exclude a directory `dir3`
from being traversed.

Directory recursion optimisation may affect performance, but normally
not the result. One exception to this is sync operations with option
`--create-empty-src-dirs`, where any traversed empty directories will
be created. With the pattern list example `{dir1/**,dir2/**}` above,
this would create an empty directory `dir3` on destination (when it exists
on source). Changing the filter to `{dir1,dir2}/**`, or splitting it into
two include rules `--include dir1/** --include dir2/**`, will match the
same files while also filtering directories, with the result that an empty
directory `dir3` will no longer be created.

### `--exclude` - Exclude files matching pattern

Excludes path/file names from an rclone command based on a single exclude
rule.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

`--exclude` should not be used with `--include`, `--include-from`,
`--filter` or `--filter-from` flags.

`--exclude` has no effect when combined with `--files-from`,
`--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` flags.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --exclude *.bak` excludes all .bak files
from listing.

E.g. `rclone size remote: --exclude "/dir/**"` returns the total size of
all files on `remote:` excluding those in root directory `dir` and sub
directories.

E.g. on Microsoft Windows `rclone ls remote: --exclude "*\[{JP,KR,HK}\]*"`
lists the files in `remote:` without `[JP]` or `[KR]` or `[HK]` in
their name. Quotes prevent the shell from interpreting the `\`
characters.`\` characters escape the `[` and `]` so an rclone filter
treats them literally rather than as a character-range. The `{` and `}`
define an rclone pattern list. For other operating systems single quotes are
required ie `rclone ls remote: --exclude '*\[{JP,KR,HK}\]*'`

### `--exclude-from` - Read exclude patterns from file

Excludes path/file names from an rclone command based on rules in a
named file. The file contains a list of remarks and pattern rules.

For an example `exclude-file.txt`:

```text
# a sample exclude rule file
*.bak
file2.jpg
```

`rclone ls remote: --exclude-from exclude-file.txt` lists the files on
`remote:` except those named `file2.jpg` or with a suffix `.bak`. That is
equivalent to `rclone ls remote: --exclude file2.jpg --exclude "*.bak"`.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

The `--exclude-from` flag is useful where multiple exclude filter rules
are applied to an rclone command.

`--exclude-from` should not be used with `--include`, `--include-from`,
`--filter` or `--filter-from` flags.

`--exclude-from` has no effect when combined with `--files-from`,
`--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` flags.

`--exclude-from` followed by `-` reads filter rules from standard input.

### `--include` - Include files matching pattern

Adds a single include rule based on path/file names to an rclone
command.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

`--include` has no effect when combined with `--files-from`,
`--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` flags.

`--include` implies `--exclude **` at the end of an rclone internal
filter list. Therefore if you mix `--include` and `--include-from`
flags with `--exclude`, `--exclude-from`, `--filter` or `--filter-from`,
you must use include rules for all the files you want in the include
statement. For more flexibility use the `--filter-from` flag.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --include "*.{png,jpg}"` lists the files on
`remote:` with suffix `.png` and `.jpg`. All other files are excluded.

E.g. multiple rclone copy commands can be combined with `--include` and a
pattern-list.

```console
rclone copy /vol1/A remote:A
rclone copy /vol1/B remote:B
```

is equivalent to:

```console
rclone copy /vol1 remote: --include "{A,B}/**"
```

E.g. `rclone ls remote:/wheat --include "??[^[:punct:]]*"` lists the
files `remote:` directory `wheat` (and subdirectories) whose third
character is not punctuation. This example uses
an [ASCII character class](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/).

### `--include-from` - Read include patterns from file

Adds path/file names to an rclone command based on rules in a
named file. The file contains a list of remarks and pattern rules.

For an example `include-file.txt`:

```text
# a sample include rule file
*.jpg
file2.avi
```

`rclone ls remote: --include-from include-file.txt` lists the files on
`remote:` with name `file2.avi` or suffix `.jpg`. That is equivalent to
`rclone ls remote: --include file2.avi --include "*.jpg"`.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

The `--include-from` flag is useful where multiple include filter rules
are applied to an rclone command.

`--include-from` implies `--exclude **` at the end of an rclone internal
filter list. Therefore if you mix `--include` and `--include-from`
flags with `--exclude`, `--exclude-from`, `--filter` or `--filter-from`,
you must use include rules for all the files you want in the include
statement. For more flexibility use the `--filter-from` flag.

`--include-from` has no effect when combined with `--files-from`,
`--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` flags.

`--include-from` followed by `-` reads filter rules from standard input.

### `--filter` - Add a file-filtering rule

Specifies path/file names to an rclone command, based on a single
include or exclude rule, in `+` or `-` format.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

`--filter +` differs from `--include`. In the case of `--include` rclone
implies an `--exclude *` rule which it adds to the bottom of the internal rule
list. `--filter...+` does not imply
that rule.

`--filter` has no effect when combined with `--files-from`,
`--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` flags.

`--filter` should not be used with `--include`, `--include-from`,
`--exclude` or `--exclude-from` flags.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --filter "- *.bak"` excludes all `.bak` files
from a list of `remote:`.

### `--filter-from` - Read filtering patterns from a file

Adds path/file names to an rclone command based on rules in a
named file. The file contains a list of remarks and pattern rules. Include
<!-- markdownlint-disable-next-line no-space-in-code -->
rules start with `+ ` and exclude rules with `- `. `!` clears existing
rules. Rules are processed in the order they are defined.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order filter flags are
processed in.

Arrange the order of filter rules with the most restrictive first and
work down.

Lines starting with # or ; are ignored, and can be used to write comments.
Inline comments are not supported. *Use `-vv --dump filters` to see how they
appear in the final regexp.*

E.g. for `filter-file.txt`:

```text
# a sample filter rule file
- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
- /dir/tmp/** # WARNING! This text will be treated as part of the path.
- /dir/Trash/**
+ /dir/**
# exclude everything else
- *
```

`rclone ls remote: --filter-from filter-file.txt` lists the path/files on
`remote:` including all `jpg` and `png` files, excluding any
matching `secret*.jpg` and including `file2.avi`.  It also includes
everything in the directory `dir` at the root of `remote`, except
`remote:dir/Trash` which it excludes.  Everything else is excluded.

E.g. for an alternative `filter-file.txt`:

```text
- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
- *
```

Files `file1.jpg`, `file3.png` and `file2.avi` are listed whilst
`secret17.jpg` and files without the suffix `.jpg` or `.png` are excluded.

E.g. for an alternative `filter-file.txt`:

```text
+ *.jpg
+ *.gif
!
+ 42.doc
- *
```

Only file 42.doc is listed. Prior rules are cleared by the `!`.

### `--files-from` - Read list of source-file names

Adds path/files to an rclone command from a list in a named file.
Rclone processes the path/file names in the order of the list, and
no others.

Other filter flags (`--include`, `--include-from`, `--exclude`,
`--exclude-from`, `--filter` and `--filter-from`) are ignored when
`--files-from`, `--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` is used.

`--files-from` expects a list of files as its input. Leading or
trailing whitespace is stripped from the input lines. Lines starting
with `#` or `;` are ignored.

`--files-from` followed by `-` reads the list of files from standard input.

Rclone commands with a `--files-from` flag traverse the remote,
treating the names in `--files-from` as a set of filters.

If the `--no-traverse` and `--files-from` flags are used together
an rclone command does not traverse the remote. Instead it addresses
each path/file named in the file individually. For each path/file name, that
requires typically 1 API call. This can be efficient for a short `--files-from`
list and a remote containing many files.

Rclone commands do not error if any names in the `--files-from` file are
missing from the source remote.

The `--files-from` flag can be repeated in a single rclone command to
read path/file names from more than one file. The files are read from left
to right along the command line.

Paths within the `--files-from` file are interpreted as starting
with the root specified in the rclone command.  Leading `/` separators are
ignored. See [--files-from-raw](#files-from-raw-read-list-of-source-file-names-without-any-processing)
if you need the input to be processed in a raw manner.

E.g. for a file `files-from.txt`:

```text
# comment
file1.jpg
subdir/file2.jpg
```

`rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt /home/me/pics remote:pics`
copies the following, if they exist, and only those files.

```text
/home/me/pics/file1.jpg        → remote:pics/file1.jpg
/home/me/pics/subdir/file2.jpg → remote:pics/subdir/file2.jpg
```

E.g. to copy the following files referenced by their absolute paths:

```text
/home/user1/42
/home/user1/dir/ford
/home/user2/prefect
```

First find a common subdirectory - in this case `/home`
and put the remaining files in `files-from.txt` with or without
leading `/`, e.g.

```text
user1/42
user1/dir/ford
user2/prefect
```

Then copy these to a remote:

```console
rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt /home remote:backup
```

The three files are transferred as follows:

```text
/home/user1/42       → remote:backup/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/ford → remote:backup/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/prefect  → remote:backup/user2/stuff
```

Alternatively if `/` is chosen as root `files-from.txt` will be:

```text
/home/user1/42
/home/user1/dir/ford
/home/user2/prefect
```

The copy command will be:

```console
rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt / remote:backup
```

Then there will be an extra `home` directory on the remote:

```text
/home/user1/42       → remote:backup/home/user1/42
/home/user1/dir/ford → remote:backup/home/user1/dir/ford
/home/user2/prefect  → remote:backup/home/user2/prefect
```

### `--files-from-raw` - Read list of source-file names without any processing

This flag is the same as `--files-from` except that input is read in a
raw manner. Lines with leading / trailing whitespace, and lines starting
with `;` or `#` are read without any processing. [rclone lsf](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsf/)
has a compatible format that can be used to export file lists from remotes for
input to `--files-from-raw`.

### `--files-from0` - Read NUL separated list of source-file names

This flag is the same as `--files-from-raw` except that input is
split on NUL (`\0`) characters instead of newlines. This allows
handling filenames that contain embedded newline characters.

It is similar to the `-print0` option of `find` and the `-0`
option of `xargs`.

E.g. to copy files listed by `find`:

```console
find /path -print0 | rclone copy --files-from0 - / remote:path
```

### `--ignore-case` - make searches case insensitive

By default, rclone filter patterns are case sensitive. The `--ignore-case`
flag makes all of the filters patterns on the command line case
insensitive.

E.g. `--include "zaphod.txt"` does not match a file `Zaphod.txt`. With
`--ignore-case` a match is made.

## Quoting shell metacharacters

Rclone commands with filter patterns containing shell metacharacters may
not as work as expected in your shell and may require quoting.

E.g. linux, OSX (`*` metacharacter)

- `--include \*.jpg`
- `--include '*.jpg'`
- `--include='*.jpg'`

Microsoft Windows expansion is done by the command, not shell, so
`--include *.jpg` does not require quoting.

If the rclone error
`Command .... needs .... arguments maximum: you provided .... non flag arguments:`
is encountered, the cause is commonly spaces within the name of a
remote or flag value. The fix then is to quote values containing spaces.

## Other filters

### `--min-size` - Don't transfer any file smaller than this

Controls the minimum size file within the scope of an rclone command.
Default units are `KiB` but abbreviations `B`, `K`, `M`, `G`, `T` or `P` are valid.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --min-size 50k` lists files on `remote:` of 50 KiB
size or larger.

See [the size option docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#size-options) for more info.

### `--max-size` - Don't transfer any file larger than this

Controls the maximum size file within the scope of an rclone command.
Default units are `KiB` but abbreviations `B`, `K`, `M`, `G`, `T` or `P` are valid.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --max-size 1G` lists files on `remote:` of 1 GiB
size or smaller.

See [the size option docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#size-options) for more info.

### `--max-age` - Don't transfer any file older than this

Controls the maximum age of files within the scope of an rclone command.

`--max-age` applies only to files and not to directories.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --max-age 2d` lists files on `remote:` of 2 days
old or less.

See [the time option docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#time-options) for valid formats.

### `--min-age` - Don't transfer any file younger than this

Controls the minimum age of files within the scope of an rclone command.
(see `--max-age` for valid formats)

`--min-age` applies only to files and not to directories.

E.g. `rclone ls remote: --min-age 2d` lists files on `remote:` of 2 days
old or more.

See [the time option docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#time-options) for valid formats.

### `--hash-filter` - Deterministically select a subset of files {#hash-filter}

The `--hash-filter` flag enables selecting a deterministic subset of files,
useful for:

1. Running large sync operations across multiple machines.
2. Checking a subset of files for bitrot.
3. Any other operations where a sample of files is required.

#### Syntax

The flag takes two parameters expressed as a fraction:

```text
--hash-filter K/N
```

- `N`: The total number of partitions (must be a positive integer).
- `K`: The specific partition to select (an integer from `0` to `N`).

For example:

- `--hash-filter 1/3`: Selects the first third of the files.
- `--hash-filter 2/3` and `--hash-filter 3/3`: Select the second and third
  partitions, respectively.

Each partition is non-overlapping, ensuring all files are covered without duplication.

#### Random Partition Selection

Use `@` as `K` to randomly select a partition:

```text
--hash-filter @/M
```

For example, `--hash-filter @/3` will randomly select a number between 0 and 2.
This will stay constant across retries.

#### How It Works

- Rclone takes each file's full path, normalizes it to lowercase, and applies
  Unicode normalization.
- It then hashes the normalized path into a 64 bit number.
- The hash result is reduced modulo `N` to assign the file to a partition.
- If the calculated partition does not match `K` the file is excluded.
- Other filters may apply if the file is not excluded.

**Important:** Rclone will traverse all directories to apply the filter.

#### Usage Notes

- Safe to use with `rclone sync`; source and destination selections will match.
- **Do not** use with `--delete-excluded`, as this could delete unselected files.
- Ignored if `--files-from`, `--files-from-raw` or `--files-from0` is used.

#### Examples

##### Dividing files into 4 partitions

Assuming the current directory contains `file1.jpg` through `file9.jpg`:

```console
$ rclone lsf --hash-filter 0/4 .
file1.jpg
file5.jpg

$ rclone lsf --hash-filter 1/4 .
file3.jpg
file6.jpg
file9.jpg

$ rclone lsf --hash-filter 2/4 .
file2.jpg
file4.jpg

$ rclone lsf --hash-filter 3/4 .
file7.jpg
file8.jpg

$ rclone lsf --hash-filter 4/4 . # the same as --hash-filter 0/4
file1.jpg
file5.jpg
```

##### Syncing the first quarter of files

```console
rclone sync --hash-filter 1/4 source:path destination:path
```

##### Checking a random 1% of files for integrity

```console
rclone check --download --hash-filter @/100 source:path destination:path
```

## Other flags

### `--delete-excluded` - Delete files on dest excluded from sync

**Important** this flag is dangerous to your data - use with `--dry-run`
and `-v` first.

In conjunction with `rclone sync`, `--delete-excluded` deletes any files
on the destination which are excluded from the command.

E.g. the scope of `rclone sync --interactive A: B:` can be restricted:

```console
rclone --min-size 50k --delete-excluded sync A: B:
```

All files on `B:` which are less than 50 KiB are deleted
because they are excluded from the rclone sync command.

### `--dump filters` - dump the filters to the output

Dumps the defined filters to standard output in regular expression
format.

Useful for debugging.

## Exclude directory based on a file

The `--exclude-if-present` flag controls whether a directory is
within the scope of an rclone command based on the presence of a
named file within it. The flag can be repeated to check for
multiple file names, presence of any of them will exclude the
directory.

This flag has a priority over other filter flags.

E.g. for the following directory structure:

```text
dir1/file1
dir1/dir2/file2
dir1/dir2/dir3/file3
dir1/dir2/dir3/.ignore
```

The command `rclone ls --exclude-if-present .ignore dir1` does
not list `dir3`, `file3` or `.ignore`.

## Metadata filters {#metadata}

The metadata filters work in a very similar way to the normal file
name filters, except they match [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) on the
object.

The metadata should be specified as `key=value` patterns. This may be
wildcarded using the normal [filter patterns](#patterns) or [regular
expressions](#regexp).

For example if you wished to list only local files with a mode of
`100664` you could do that with:

```console
rclone lsf -M --files-only --metadata-include "mode=100664" .
```

Or if you wished to show files with an `atime`, `mtime` or `btime` at a given date:

```console
rclone lsf -M --files-only --metadata-include "[abm]time=2022-12-16*" .
```

Like file filtering, metadata filtering only applies to files not to
directories.

The filters can be applied using these flags.

- `--metadata-include`      - Include metadatas matching pattern
- `--metadata-include-from` - Read metadata include patterns from file
  (use - to read from stdin)
- `--metadata-exclude`      - Exclude metadatas matching pattern
- `--metadata-exclude-from` - Read metadata exclude patterns from file
  (use - to read from stdin)
- `--metadata-filter`       - Add a metadata filtering rule
- `--metadata-filter-from`  - Read metadata filtering patterns from a file
  (use - to read from stdin)

Each flag can be repeated. See the section on [how filter rules are
applied](#how-filter-rules-work) for more details - these flags work
in an identical way to the file name filtering flags, but instead of
file name patterns have metadata patterns.

## Common pitfalls

The most frequent filter support issues on
the [rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/) are:

- Not using paths relative to the root of the remote
- Not using `/` to match from the root of a remote
- Not using `**` to match the contents of a directory

# rclone gui

The `rclone gui` command starts the official Web GUI that comes
bundled with rclone.

With this command, rclone can serve a web-based GUI (graphical user
interface) that is accessible from a normal web browser.

Run it in a terminal and rclone will initialize and then start the
GUI.

```console
rclone gui
```

This will produce logs like this. The terminal window needs to stay
open to continue to run the GUI:

```console
2026/04/14 11:36:04 NOTICE: Serving remote control on http://127.0.0.1:50803/
2026/04/14 11:36:04 NOTICE: Serving GUI on http://127.0.0.1:50802/
2026/04/14 11:36:04 NOTICE: GUI available at http://127.0.0.1:50802/login?pass=XXX&url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A50803%2F&user=gui
```

You can also add debugging flags when running the GUI, such as `-v`,
which will show more logging output from the rc server.

## Using the GUI

Once the browser opens, you will be presented with the Dashboard, the
main screen where you can see the status of your remotes and system.

At the top, starting from the left, you will see a series of tabs you
can click on. On the right side you will have the logout button and
potentially an "Update available" message if a new rclone version has
been released.

### Dashboard

See live metrics, learn if your remotes are near capacity, and read
the changelog for the current version.

### Explorer

Explore and manage both local disks and remotes, download files and
directories and start transfers.

### Remotes

Scroll the list of remotes and tap on it to navigate to the explorer.
There you can navigate the contents of your remotes, transfer,
download, and even upload files.

### Mounts

Mount remotes as local drives on your computer and check on your
existing mounts.

### Serves

Get quick info about your active serve instances, and start new ones.

### Settings

Edit your `rclone.conf` file directly, set logging flags, and
performance parameters.

## How it works

When you run `rclone gui` this is what happens

- Rclone starts the remote control API ("rc").
- Rclone starts a second server to serve the Web GUI.
- If a port, username or password is not specified, then missing
  values will be auto-generated.
- Unless `--no-open-browser` is passed, a browser window will open.
- The URL already contains the username & password, in which case the
  GUI will use those values and log you in automatically.

## Security

It's important to think first about what rclone has access to and what
you might be sharing.

A few good measures:

- Don't use `--no-auth` (this is for testing only).
- Do not expose to the local network (eg with `--api-addr :5572 --addr
  :8080`) unless you trust all devices on your local network. Prefer
  `127.0.0.1` or `localhost` (the default).
- Use a strong password and non-obvious usernames like "admin" or
  "rclone" if you are using `--user` and `--pass`.
- If you want to host it on a server and access it remotely, make sure
  you're only exposing the GUI and not the RC API. They listen on
  different ports.

If you want to access it remotely but want to avoid running a proxy
and exposing ports, you can use Cloudflare Tunnels or localhost.run or
Tailscale (all free).

## Options

```console
      --addr stringArray       IPaddress:Port for the GUI server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --api-addr stringArray   IPaddress:Port for the RC API server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --enable-metrics         Enable OpenMetrics/Prometheus compatible endpoint at /metrics
  -h, --help                   help for gui
      --no-auth                Don't require auth for the RC API
      --no-open-browser        Skip opening the browser automatically
      --pass string            Password for RC authentication
      --user string            User name for RC authentication
```

## History

In v1.74 the GUI was redone and embedded within rclone for ease of
use. The GUI bundle ships as a compressed zip embedded in the rclone
binary and is served from the zip at runtime.

# Remote controlling rclone with its API

If rclone is run with the `--rc` flag then it starts an HTTP server
which can be used to remote control rclone using its API.

You can either use the [rc](#api-rc) command to access the API
or [use HTTP directly](#api-http).

If you just want to run a remote control then see the [rcd](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rcd/)
command.

## Security {#security}

**Access to the rc API is equivalent to shell access as the user running
rclone.** Treat the rc port as you would an interactive login on the host.

Any caller who can reach the API (and pass authentication, if it is enabled)
can, among other things:

- **Run OS commands** as the rclone user. `core/command` re-executes the rclone
  binary with arbitrary arguments, and several backend options shell out to
  programs, so even creating a remote with `config/create` can lead to command
  execution.
- **Read and write any file** reachable by the rclone process, by pointing
  `operations/*` or `sync/*` at a `local` remote (or via `--rc-files` /
  `--rc-serve`). Writing arbitrary files as the rclone user is itself a route to
  code execution.
- **Read back stored credentials.** rclone configs routinely hold cloud-provider
  secrets. `config/dump` and friends expose them, so a compromise of the rc
  reaches every configured backend.
- **Change rclone's runtime behaviour** with `options/set`, **manage remotes**
  with `config/*`, and **stop the process** with `core/quit`.

There is currently no per-endpoint capability or scope system: authentication is
all-or-nothing. Granting any access grants all of the above.

Consequently:

- **Do not bind the rc to a network address you do not control.** The default
  bind is loopback (`localhost:5572`); keep it there unless you have a specific
  reason to change it.
- **Do not use `--rc-no-auth` on a non-loopback bind.** It disables
  authentication on the endpoints that access remotes — see
  [`--rc-no-auth`](#--rc-no-auth).
- **Use authentication and TLS** (`--rc-user`/`--rc-pass` or `--rc-htpasswd`,
  plus `--rc-cert`/`--rc-key`) whenever the port is reachable by anyone you do
  not fully trust, and raise `--rc-min-tls-version`.

## Supported parameters

### --rc

Flag to start the http server listen on remote requests.

### --rc-addr=IP

IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:5572").

### --rc-cert=KEY

SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate).

### --rc-client-ca=PATH

Client certificate authority to verify clients with.

### --rc-htpasswd=PATH

htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done.

### --rc-key=PATH

TLS PEM private key file.

### --rc-max-header-bytes=VALUE

Maximum size of request header (default 4096).

### --rc-min-tls-version=VALUE

The minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0",
"tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

### --rc-user=VALUE

User name for authentication.

### --rc-pass=VALUE

Password for authentication.

### --rc-realm=VALUE

Realm for authentication (default "rclone").

### --rc-server-read-timeout=DURATION

Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s).

### --rc-server-write-timeout=DURATION

Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s).

### --rc-serve

Enable the serving of remote objects via the HTTP interface. This
means objects will be accessible at `http://127.0.0.1:5572/` by default,
so you can browse to `http://127.0.0.1:5572/` or `http://127.0.0.1:5572/*`
to see a listing of the remotes.  Objects may be requested from
remotes using this syntax `http://127.0.0.1:5572/[remote:path]/path/to/object`

Unless the rc server has authentication configured (`--rc-user`/`--rc-pass`
or `--rc-htpasswd`) or the `--rc-no-auth` flag is set, only remotes already
present in the config file may be served this way. Inline remotes (e.g.
`[:webdav,url=...:]`), connection string parameters and bare local paths are
rejected, since instantiating them from an unauthenticated request could run
commands or read arbitrary local files.

Default Off.

### global.* connection string options and the rc

Remotes instantiated by the rc do not let [connection
string](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings) `global.*` options change rclone's
process-wide configuration. Remotes created directly on the command
line or defined in the config file are unaffected.

A `global.*` option still takes effect for the individual backend it
is set on (exactly like an `override.*` option), it just does not leak
into the global config for the rest of the process.

### --rc-serve-no-modtime

Set this flag to skip reading the modification time (can speed things up).

Default Off.

### --rc-files /path/to/directory

Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server.

If this is set then rclone will serve the files in that directory.  It
will also open the root in the web browser if specified.  This is for
implementing browser based GUIs for rclone functions.

If `--rc-user` or `--rc-pass` is set then the URL that is opened will
have the authorization in the URL in the `http://user:pass@localhost/`
style.

Default Off.

### --rc-enable-metrics

Enable OpenMetrics/Prometheus compatible endpoint at `/metrics`.
If more control over the metrics is desired (for example running it on a
different port or with different auth) then endpoint can be enabled with
the `--metrics-*` flags instead.

Default Off.

### --rc-web-gui

Set this flag to serve the default web gui on the same port as rclone.

Default Off.

### --rc-allow-origin

Set the allowed Access-Control-Allow-Origin for rc requests.

Can be used with --rc-web-gui if the rclone is running on different IP than the web-gui.

Default is IP address on which rc is running.

### --rc-web-fetch-url

Set the URL to fetch the rclone-web-gui files from.

Default <https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest>.

### --rc-web-gui-update

Set this flag to check and update rclone-webui-react from the rc-web-fetch-url.

Default Off.

### --rc-web-gui-force-update

Set this flag to force update rclone-webui-react from the rc-web-fetch-url.

Default Off.

### --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser

Set this flag to disable opening browser automatically when using web-gui.

Default Off.

### --rc-job-expire-duration=DURATION

Expire finished async jobs older than DURATION (default 60s).

### --rc-job-expire-interval=DURATION

Interval duration to check for expired async jobs (default 10s).

### --rc-no-auth

By default rclone will require authorisation to have been set up on
the rc interface in order to use any methods which access any rclone
remotes.  Eg `operations/list` is denied as it involved creating a
remote as is `sync/copy`.

If this is set then no authorisation will be required on the server to
use these methods.  The alternative is to use `--rc-user` and
`--rc-pass` and use these credentials in the request.

Default Off.

### --rc-baseurl

Prefix for URLs.

Default is root

### --rc-template

User-specified template.

## Accessing the remote control via the rclone rc command {#api-rc}

Rclone itself implements the remote control protocol in its `rclone
rc` command.

You can use it like this:

```console
$ rclone rc rc/noop param1=one param2=two
{
    "param1": "one",
    "param2": "two"
}
```

If the remote is running on a different URL than the default
`http://localhost:5572/`, use the `--url` option to specify it:

```console
rclone rc --url http://some.remote:1234/ rc/noop
```

Or, if the remote is listening on a Unix socket, use the `--unix-socket` option
instead:

```console
rclone rc --unix-socket /tmp/rclone.sock rc/noop
```

Run `rclone rc` on its own, without any commands, to see the help for the
installed remote control commands. Note that this also needs to connect to the
remote server.

## JSON input

`rclone rc` also supports a `--json` flag which can be used to send
more complicated input parameters.

```console
$ rclone rc --json '{ "p1": [1,"2",null,4], "p2": { "a":1, "b":2 } }' rc/noop
{
    "p1": [
        1,
        "2",
        null,
        4
    ],
    "p2": {
        "a": 1,
        "b": 2
    }
}
```

If the parameter being passed is an object then it can be passed as a
JSON string rather than using the `--json` flag which simplifies the
command line.

```console
rclone rc operations/list fs=/tmp remote=test opt='{"showHash": true}'
```

Rather than

```console
rclone rc operations/list --json '{"fs": "/tmp", "remote": "test", "opt": {"showHash": true}}'
```

## Special parameters

The rc interface supports some special parameters which apply to
**all** commands.  These start with `_` to show they are different.

### Running asynchronous jobs with _async = true

Each rc call is classified as a job and it is assigned its own id. By default
jobs are executed immediately as they are created or synchronously.

If `_async` has a true value when supplied to an rc call then it will
return immediately with a job id and execute id, and the task will be run in the
background. The `job/status` call can be used to get information of
the background job. The job can be queried for up to 1 minute after
it has finished.

It is recommended that potentially long running jobs, e.g. `sync/sync`,
`sync/copy`, `sync/move`, `operations/purge` are run with the `_async`
flag to avoid any potential problems with the HTTP request and
response timing out.

As an alternative to `_async`, you can send the HTTP header
`Prefer: respond-async` (RFC 7240). This has the same effect as
`_async = true` but additionally returns HTTP status 202 (Accepted)
instead of 200, and includes a `Preference-Applied: respond-async`
response header. The 202 status code makes it easy for clients to distinguish
an async response from a completed one without inspecting the body.

Starting a job with the `_async` flag:

```console
$ rclone rc --json '{ "p1": [1,"2",null,4], "p2": { "a":1, "b":2 }, "_async": true }' rc/noop
{
    "jobid": 2,
    "executeId": "d794c33c-463e-4acf-b911-f4b23e4f40b7"
}
```

The `jobid` is a unique identifier for the job within this rclone instance.
The `executeId` identifies the rclone process instance and changes after
rclone restart. Together, the pair (`executeId`, `jobid`) uniquely identifies
a job across rclone restarts.

Query the status to see if the job has finished.  For more information
on the meaning of these return parameters see the `job/status` call.

```console
$ rclone rc --json '{ "jobid":2 }' job/status
{
    "duration": 0.000124163,
    "endTime": "2018-10-27T11:38:07.911245881+01:00",
    "error": "",
    "executeId": "d794c33c-463e-4acf-b911-f4b23e4f40b7",
    "finished": true,
    "id": 2,
    "output": {
        "_async": true,
        "p1": [
            1,
            "2",
            null,
            4
        ],
        "p2": {
            "a": 1,
            "b": 2
        }
    },
    "startTime": "2018-10-27T11:38:07.911121728+01:00",
    "success": true
}
```

`job/list` can be used to show running or recently completed jobs along with their status

```console
$ rclone rc job/list
{
    "executeId": "d794c33c-463e-4acf-b911-f4b23e4f40b7",
    "finished_ids": [
        1
    ],
    "jobids": [
        1,
        2
    ],
    "running_ids": [
        2
    ]
}
```

This shows:
- `executeId` - the current rclone instance ID (same for all jobs, changes after restart)
- `jobids` - array of all job IDs (both running and finished)
- `running_ids` - array of currently running job IDs
- `finished_ids` - array of finished job IDs

### Setting config flags with _config

If you wish to set config (the equivalent of the global flags) for the
duration of an rc call only then pass in the `_config` parameter.

Alternatively, you can pass config options flat at the top level of the parameter map. The option names are the same as their CLI flags without `--` and with `-` replaced by `_` (e.g. `transfers` instead of `Transfers` inside `_config`).

This should be in the same format as the `main` key returned by
[options/get](#options-get).

```console
rclone rc --loopback options/get blocks=main
```

You can see more help on these options with this command (see [the
options blocks section](#option-blocks) for more info).

```console
rclone rc --loopback options/info blocks=main
```

For example, if you wished to run a sync with the `--checksum`
parameter, you would pass this parameter in your JSON blob.

```json
"_config":{"CheckSum": true}
```

Or pass it flat at the top level:

```json
"checksum": true
```

If using `rclone rc` this could be passed as

```console
rclone rc sync/sync ... _config='{"CheckSum": true}'
```

Or simply flat:

```console
rclone rc sync/sync ... checksum=true
```

If both flat parameters and `_config` are supplied, the parameters in the legacy `_config` block will take precedence.

Any config parameters you don't set will inherit the global defaults
which were set with command line flags or environment variables.

Note that it is possible to set some values as strings or integers -
see [data types](#data-types) for more info. Here is an example
setting the equivalent of `--buffer-size` in string or integer format.

```json
"_config":{"BufferSize": "42M"}
"_config":{"BufferSize": 44040192}
```

Or flat:

```json
"buffer_size": "42M"
"buffer_size": 44040192
```

If you wish to check the `_config` assignment has worked properly then
calling `options/local` will show what the value got set to.

### Setting filter flags with _filter

If you wish to set filters for the duration of an rc call only then
pass in the `_filter` parameter.

Alternatively, you can pass filter options flat at the top level of the parameter map. The option names are the same as their CLI flags without `--` and with `-` replaced by `_` (e.g. `exclude` instead of `Exclude` inside `_filter`).

This should be in the same format as the `filter` key returned by
[options/get](#options-get).

```console
rclone rc --loopback options/get blocks=filter
```

You can see more help on these options with this command (see [the
options blocks section](#option-blocks) for more info).

```console
rclone rc --loopback options/info blocks=filter
```

For example, if you wished to run a sync with these flags

```text
--max-size 1M --max-age 42s --include "a" --include "b"
```

you would pass this parameter in your JSON blob.

```json
"_filter":{"MaxSize":"1M", "IncludeRule":["a","b"], "MaxAge":"42s"}
```

Or pass them flat at the top level:

```json
"max_size":"1M", "include":["a","b"], "max_age":"42s"
```

If using `rclone rc` this could be passed as

```console
rclone rc ... _filter='{"MaxSize":"1M", "IncludeRule":["a","b"], "MaxAge":"42s"}'
```

Or simply flat:

```console
rclone rc ... max_size=1M include="a,b" max_age=42s
```

If both flat parameters and `_filter` are supplied, the parameters in the legacy `_filter` block will take precedence.

Any filter parameters you don't set will inherit the global defaults
which were set with command line flags or environment variables.

Note that it is possible to set some values as strings or integers -
see [data types](#data-types) for more info. Here is an example
setting the equivalent of `--buffer-size` in string or integer format.

```json
"_filter":{"MinSize": "42M"}
"_filter":{"MinSize": 44040192}
```

Or flat:

```json
"min_size": "42M"
```

If you wish to check the `_filter` assignment has worked properly then
calling `options/local` will show what the value got set to.

### Assigning operations to groups with _group = value

Each rc call has its own stats group for tracking its metrics. By default
grouping is done by the composite group name from prefix `job/` and  id of the
job like so `job/1`.

If `_group` has a value then stats for that request will be grouped under that
value. This allows caller to group stats under their own name.

Stats for specific group can be accessed by passing `group` to `core/stats`:

```console
$ rclone rc --json '{ "group": "job/1" }' core/stats
{
    "speed": 12345
    ...
}
```

## Data types {#data-types}

When the API returns types, these will mostly be straight forward
integer, string or boolean types.

However some of the types returned by the [options/get](#options-get)
call and taken by the [options/set](#options-set) calls as well as the
`vfsOpt`, `mountOpt` and the `_config` parameters.

- `Duration` - these are returned as an integer duration in
  nanoseconds. They may be set as an integer, or they may be set with
  time string, eg "5s". See the [options section](https://rclone.org/docs/#options) for
  more info.
- `Size` - these are returned as an integer number of bytes. They may
  be set as an integer or they may be set with a size suffix string,
  eg "10M". See the [options section](https://rclone.org/docs/#options) for more info.
- Enumerated type (such as `CutoffMode`, `DumpFlags`, `LogLevel`,
  `VfsCacheMode` - these will be returned as an integer and may be set
  as an integer but more conveniently they can be set as a string, eg
  "HARD" for `CutoffMode` or `DEBUG` for `LogLevel`.
- `BandwidthSpec` - this will be set and returned as a string, eg
  "1M".

### Option blocks {#option-blocks}

The calls [options/info](#options-info) (for the main config) and
[config/providers](#config-providers) (for the backend config) may be
used to get information on the rclone configuration options. This can
be used to build user interfaces for displaying and setting any rclone
option.

These consist of arrays of `Option` blocks. These have the following
format. Each block describes a single option.

| Field | Type | Optional | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| Name       | string     | N | name of the option in snake_case |
| FieldName  | string     | N | name of the field used in the rc - if blank use Name. May contain "." for nested fields. |
| Help       | string     | N | help, started with a single sentence on a single line |
| Groups     | string     | Y | groups this option belongs to - comma separated string for options classification |
| Provider   | string     | Y | set to filter on provider |
| Default    | any        | N | default value, if set (and not to nil or "") then Required does nothing |
| Value      | any        | N | value to be set by flags |
| Examples   | Examples   | Y | predefined values that can be selected from list (multiple-choice option) |
| ShortOpt   | string     | Y | the short command line option for this |
| Hide       | Visibility | N | if non zero, this option is hidden from the configurator or the command line |
| Required   | bool       | N | this option is required, meaning value cannot be empty unless there is a default |
| IsPassword | bool       | N | set if the option is a password |
| NoPrefix   | bool       | N | set if the option for this should not use the backend prefix |
| Advanced   | bool       | N | set if this is an advanced config option |
| Exclusive  | bool       | N | set if the answer can only be one of the examples (empty string allowed unless Required or Default is set) |
| Sensitive  | bool       | N | set if this option should be redacted when using `rclone config redacted` |

An example of this might be the `--log-level` flag. Note that the
`Name` of the option becomes the command line flag with `_` replaced
with `-`.

```json
{
    "Advanced": false,
    "Default": 5,
    "DefaultStr": "NOTICE",
    "Examples": [
        {
            "Help": "",
            "Value": "EMERGENCY"
        },
        {
            "Help": "",
            "Value": "ALERT"
        },
        ...
    ],
    "Exclusive": true,
    "FieldName": "LogLevel",
    "Groups": "Logging",
    "Help": "Log level DEBUG|INFO|NOTICE|ERROR",
    "Hide": 0,
    "IsPassword": false,
    "Name": "log_level",
    "NoPrefix": true,
    "Required": true,
    "Sensitive": false,
    "Type": "LogLevel",
    "Value": null,
    "ValueStr": "NOTICE"
},
```

Note that the `Help` may be multiple lines separated by `\n`. The
first line will always be a short sentence and this is the sentence
shown when running `rclone help flags`.

## Specifying remotes to work on

Remotes are specified with the `fs=`, `srcFs=`, `dstFs=`
parameters depending on the command being used.

The parameters can be a string as per the rest of rclone, eg
`s3:bucket/path` or `:sftp:/my/dir`. They can also be specified as
JSON blobs.

If specifying a JSON blob it should be a object mapping strings to
strings. These values will be used to configure the remote. There are
3 special values which may be set:

- `type` -  set to `type` to specify a remote called `:type:`
- `_name` - set to `name` to specify a remote called `name:`
- `_root` - sets the root of the remote - may be empty

One of `_name` or `type` should normally be set. If the `local`
backend is desired then `type` should be set to `local`. If `_root`
isn't specified then it defaults to the root of the remote.

For example this JSON is equivalent to `remote:/tmp`

```json
{
    "_name": "remote",
    "_root": "/tmp"
}
```

And this is equivalent to `:sftp,host='example.com':/tmp`

```json
{
    "type": "sftp",
    "host": "example.com",
    "_root": "/tmp"
}
```

And this is equivalent to `/tmp/dir`

```json
{
    "type": "local",
    "_root": "/tmp/dir"
}
```

## Supported commands
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### backend/command: Runs a backend command. {#backend-command}

This takes the following parameters:

- command - a string with the command name
- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- arg - a list of arguments for the backend command
- opt - a map of string to string of options

Returns:

- result - result from the backend command

Example:

    rclone rc backend/command command=noop fs=. -o echo=yes -o blue -a path1 -a path2

Returns

```
{
	"result": {
		"arg": [
			"path1",
			"path2"
		],
		"name": "noop",
		"opt": {
			"blue": "",
			"echo": "yes"
		}
	}
}
```

Note that this is the direct equivalent of using this "backend"
command:

    rclone backend noop . -o echo=yes -o blue path1 path2

Note that arguments must be preceded by the "-a" flag

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more information.

### cache/expire: Purge a remote from cache {#cache-expire}

Purge a remote from the cache backend. Supports either a directory or a file.
Params:
  - remote = path to remote (required)
  - withData = true/false to delete cached data (chunks) as well (optional)

Eg

    rclone rc cache/expire remote=path/to/sub/folder/
    rclone rc cache/expire remote=/ withData=true

### cache/fetch: Fetch file chunks {#cache-fetch}

Ensure the specified file chunks are cached on disk.

The chunks= parameter specifies the file chunks to check.
It takes a comma separated list of array slice indices.
The slice indices are similar to Python slices: start[:end]

start is the 0 based chunk number from the beginning of the file
to fetch inclusive. end is 0 based chunk number from the beginning
of the file to fetch exclusive.
Both values can be negative, in which case they count from the back
of the file. The value "-5:" represents the last 5 chunks of a file.

Some valid examples are:
":5,-5:" -> the first and last five chunks
"0,-2" -> the first and the second last chunk
"0:10" -> the first ten chunks

Any parameter with a key that starts with "file" can be used to
specify files to fetch, e.g.

    rclone rc cache/fetch chunks=0 file=hello file2=home/goodbye

File names will automatically be encrypted when the a crypt remote
is used on top of the cache.

### cache/stats: Get cache stats {#cache-stats}

Show statistics for the cache remote.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### config/create: create the config for a remote. {#config-create}

This takes the following parameters:

- name - name of remote
- parameters - a map of \{ "key": "value" \} pairs
- type - type of the new remote
- opt - a dictionary of options to control the configuration
    - obscure - declare passwords are plain and need obscuring
    - noObscure - declare passwords are already obscured and don't need obscuring
    - noOutput - don't print anything to stdout
    - nonInteractive - don't interact with a user, return questions
    - continue - continue the config process with an answer
    - all - ask all the config questions not just the post config ones
    - state - state to restart with - used with continue
    - result - result to restart with - used with continue


See the [config create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_create/) command for more information on the above.

### config/delete: Delete a remote in the config file. {#config-delete}

Parameters:

- name - name of remote to delete

See the [config delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_delete/) command for more information on the above.

### config/dump: Dumps the config file. {#config-dump}

Returns a JSON object:
- key: value

Where keys are remote names and values are the config parameters.

See the [config dump](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_dump/) command for more information on the above.

### config/get: Get a remote in the config file. {#config-get}

Parameters:

- name - name of remote to get

See the [config dump](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_dump/) command for more information on the above.

### config/listremotes: Lists the remotes in the config file and defined in environment variables. {#config-listremotes}

Returns
- remotes - array of remote names

See the [listremotes](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_listremotes/) command for more information on the above.

### config/oauthstatus: Get the status of the OAuth authentication server. {#config-oauthstatus}

Returns the current status of the OAuth authentication server.

Returns a JSON object:
- status - "running" or "stopped"
- authUrl - URL for the authorization (only if status is "running")

Eg

    {
        "status": "running",
        "authUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=..."
    }

### config/oauthstop: Stop any running OAuth authentication server. {#config-oauthstop}

Stops the OAuth authentication server if one is running.

This can be used to recover from an interrupted OAuth flow without
restarting rclone. If no OAuth authentication is in progress, an error
is returned.

### config/password: password the config for a remote. {#config-password}

This takes the following parameters:

- name - name of remote
- parameters - a map of \{ "key": "value" \} pairs


See the [config password](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_password/) command for more information on the above.

### config/paths: Reads the config file path and other important paths. {#config-paths}

Returns a JSON object with the following keys:

- config: path to config file
- cache: path to root of cache directory
- temp: path to root of temporary directory

Eg

    {
        "cache": "/home/USER/.cache/rclone",
        "config": "/home/USER/.rclone.conf",
        "temp": "/tmp"
    }

See the [config paths](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_paths/) command for more information on the above.

### config/providers: Shows how providers are configured in the config file. {#config-providers}

Returns a JSON object:
- providers - array of objects

See the [config providers](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_providers/) command
for more information on the above.

Note that the Options blocks are in the same format as returned by
"options/info". They are described in the
[option blocks](#option-blocks) section.

### config/setpath: Set the path of the config file {#config-setpath}

Parameters:

- path - path to the config file to use

### config/unlock: Unlock the config file. {#config-unlock}

Unlocks the config file if it is locked.

Parameters:

- 'configPassword' - password to unlock the config file

A good idea is to disable AskPassword before making this call

### config/unset: Unset keys in a remote in the config file. {#config-unset}

Parameters:

- name - name of remote
- keys - a list of key names to remove

Returns:

- removed - a list of the keys that were actually removed

See the [config unset](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_unset/) command for more information on the above.

### config/update: update the config for a remote. {#config-update}

This takes the following parameters:

- name - name of remote
- parameters - a map of \{ "key": "value" \} pairs
- opt - a dictionary of options to control the configuration
    - obscure - declare passwords are plain and need obscuring
    - noObscure - declare passwords are already obscured and don't need obscuring
    - noOutput - don't print anything to stdout
    - nonInteractive - don't interact with a user, return questions
    - continue - continue the config process with an answer
    - all - ask all the config questions not just the post config ones
    - state - state to restart with - used with continue
    - result - result to restart with - used with continue


See the [config update](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_update/) command for more information on the above.

### core/bwlimit: Set the bandwidth limit. {#core-bwlimit}

This sets the bandwidth limit to the string passed in. This should be
a single bandwidth limit entry or a pair of upload:download bandwidth.

Eg

    rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=off
    {
        "bytesPerSecond": -1,
        "bytesPerSecondTx": -1,
        "bytesPerSecondRx": -1,
        "rate": "off"
    }
    rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=1M
    {
        "bytesPerSecond": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondTx": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondRx": 1048576,
        "rate": "1M"
    }
    rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=1M:100k
    {
        "bytesPerSecond": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondTx": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondRx": 131072,
        "rate": "1M"
    }


If the rate parameter is not supplied then the bandwidth is queried

    rclone rc core/bwlimit
    {
        "bytesPerSecond": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondTx": 1048576,
        "bytesPerSecondRx": 1048576,
        "rate": "1M"
    }

The format of the parameter is exactly the same as passed to --bwlimit
except only one bandwidth may be specified.

In either case "rate" is returned as a human-readable string, and
"bytesPerSecond" is returned as a number.

### core/command: Run a rclone terminal command over rc. {#core-command}

This takes the following parameters:

- command - a string with the command name.
- arg - a list of arguments for the backend command.
- opt - a map of string to string of options.
- returnType - one of ("COMBINED_OUTPUT", "STREAM", "STREAM_ONLY_STDOUT", "STREAM_ONLY_STDERR").
    - Defaults to "COMBINED_OUTPUT" if not set.
    - The STREAM returnTypes will write the output to the body of the HTTP message.
    - The COMBINED_OUTPUT will write the output to the "result" parameter.

Returns:

- result - result from the backend command.
    - Only set when using returnType "COMBINED_OUTPUT".
- error	 - set if rclone exits with an error code.
- returnType - one of ("COMBINED_OUTPUT", "STREAM", "STREAM_ONLY_STDOUT", "STREAM_ONLY_STDERR").

Example:

    rclone rc core/command command=ls -a mydrive:/ -o max-depth=1
    rclone rc core/command -a ls -a mydrive:/ -o max-depth=1

Returns:

```
{
	"error": false,
	"result": "<Raw command line output>"
}

OR
{
	"error": true,
	"result": "<Raw command line output>"
}

```

### core/disks: List the local disks {#core-disks}

This does not take any parameters

This call is for rclone GUI programs to enumerate local disks and
important directories for doing transfers to and from. The list
returned will include the root directory and the user's home directory
and any mounted disks. The returned items should be usable directly as
remotes.

Returns:

- disks
    - This is an array of strings of local disk names

### core/du: Returns disk usage of a locally attached disk. {#core-du}

This returns the disk usage for the local directory passed in as dir.

If the directory is not passed in, it defaults to the directory
pointed to by --cache-dir.

- dir - string (optional)

Returns:

```
{
	"dir": "/",
	"info": {
		"Available": 361769115648,
		"Free": 361785892864,
		"Total": 982141468672
	}
}
```

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### core/gc: Runs a garbage collection. {#core-gc}

This tells the go runtime to do a garbage collection run.  It isn't
necessary to call this normally, but it can be useful for debugging
memory problems.

### core/group-list: Returns list of stats. {#core-group-list}

This returns list of stats groups currently in memory. 

Returns the following values:
```
{
	"groups":  an array of group names:
		[
			"group1",
			"group2",
			...
		]
}
```

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### core/memstats: Returns the memory statistics {#core-memstats}

This returns the memory statistics of the running program.  What the values mean
are explained in the go docs: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#MemStats

The most interesting values for most people are:

- HeapAlloc - this is the amount of memory rclone is actually using
- HeapSys - this is the amount of memory rclone has obtained from the OS
- Sys - this is the total amount of memory requested from the OS
   - It is virtual memory so may include unused memory

### core/obscure: Obscures a string passed in. {#core-obscure}

Pass a clear string and rclone will obscure it for the config file:
- clear - string

Returns:
- obscured - string

### core/pid: Return PID of current process {#core-pid}

This returns PID of current process.
Useful for stopping rclone process.

### core/quit: Terminates the app. {#core-quit}

(Optional) Pass an exit code to be used for terminating the app:
- exitCode - int

### core/stats: Returns stats about current transfers. {#core-stats}

This returns all available stats:

	rclone rc core/stats

If group is not provided then summed up stats for all groups will be
returned.

Parameters

- group - name of the stats group (string, optional)
- short - if true will not return the transferring and checking arrays (boolean, optional)

Returns the following values:

```
{
	"bytes": total transferred bytes since the start of the group,
	"checks": number of files checked,
	"deletedDirs": number of directories deleted,
	"deletes" : number of files deleted,
	"elapsedTime": time in floating point seconds since rclone was started,
	"errors": number of errors,
	"eta": estimated time in seconds until the group completes,
	"fatalError": boolean whether there has been at least one fatal error,
	"lastError": last error string,
	"renames" : number of files renamed,
	"listed" : number of directory entries listed,
	"retryError": boolean showing whether there has been at least one non-NoRetryError,
        "serverSideCopies": number of server side copies done,
        "serverSideCopyBytes": number bytes server side copied,
        "serverSideMoves": number of server side moves done,
        "serverSideMoveBytes": number bytes server side moved,
	"speed": average speed in bytes per second since start of the group,
	"totalBytes": total number of bytes in the group,
	"totalChecks": total number of checks in the group,
	"totalTransfers": total number of transfers in the group,
	"transferTime" : total time spent on running jobs,
	"transfers": number of transferred files,
	"transferring": an array of currently active file transfers:
		[
			{
				"bytes": total transferred bytes for this file,
				"eta": estimated time in seconds until file transfer completion
				"name": name of the file,
				"percentage": progress of the file transfer in percent,
				"speed": average speed over the whole transfer in bytes per second,
				"speedAvg": current speed in bytes per second as an exponentially weighted moving average,
				"size": size of the file in bytes
			}
		],
	"checking": an array of names of currently active file checks
		[]
}
```
Values for "transferring", "checking" and "lastError" are only assigned if data is available.
The value for "eta" is null if an eta cannot be determined.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### core/stats-delete: Delete stats group. {#core-stats-delete}

This deletes entire stats group.

Parameters

- group - name of the stats group (string)

### core/stats-reset: Reset stats. {#core-stats-reset}

This clears counters, errors and finished transfers for all stats or specific 
stats group if group is provided.

Parameters

- group - name of the stats group (string)

### core/transferred: Returns stats about completed transfers. {#core-transferred}

This returns stats about completed transfers:

	rclone rc core/transferred

If group is not provided then completed transfers for all groups will be
returned.

Note only the last 100 completed transfers are returned.

Parameters

- group - name of the stats group (string)

Returns the following values:
```
{
	"transferred":  an array of completed transfers (including failed ones):
		[
			{
				"name": name of the file,
				"size": size of the file in bytes,
				"bytes": total transferred bytes for this file,
				"checked": if the transfer is only checked (skipped, deleted),
				"what": the purpose of the transfer (transferring, deleting, checking, importing, hashing, merging, listing, moving, renaming),
				"timestamp": integer representing millisecond unix epoch,
				"error": string description of the error (empty if successful),
				"jobid": id of the job that this transfer belongs to
			}
		]
}
```

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### core/version: Shows the current version of rclone, Go and the OS. {#core-version}

This shows the current versions of rclone, Go and the OS:

- version - rclone version, e.g. "v1.71.2"
- decomposed - version number as [major, minor, patch]
- isGit - boolean - true if this was compiled from the git version
- isBeta - boolean - true if this is a beta version
- os - OS in use as according to Go GOOS (e.g. "linux")
- osKernel - OS Kernel version (e.g. "6.8.0-86-generic (x86_64)")
- osVersion -  OS Version (e.g. "ubuntu 24.04 (64 bit)")
- osArch - cpu architecture in use (e.g. "arm64 (ARMv8 compatible)")
- arch - cpu architecture in use according to Go GOARCH (e.g. "arm64")
- goVersion - version of Go runtime in use (e.g. "go1.25.0")
- linking - type of rclone executable (static or dynamic)
- goTags - space separated build tags or "none"

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### debug/set-block-profile-rate: Set runtime.SetBlockProfileRate for blocking profiling. {#debug-set-block-profile-rate}

SetBlockProfileRate controls the fraction of goroutine blocking events
that are reported in the blocking profile. The profiler aims to sample
an average of one blocking event per rate nanoseconds spent blocked.

To include every blocking event in the profile, pass rate = 1. To turn
off profiling entirely, pass rate <= 0.

After calling this you can use this to see the blocking profile:

    go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/block

Parameters:

- rate - int

### debug/set-gc-percent: Call runtime/debug.SetGCPercent for setting the garbage collection target percentage. {#debug-set-gc-percent}

SetGCPercent sets the garbage collection target percentage: a collection is triggered
when the ratio of freshly allocated data to live data remaining after the previous collection
reaches this percentage. SetGCPercent returns the previous setting. The initial setting is the
value of the GOGC environment variable at startup, or 100 if the variable is not set.

This setting may be effectively reduced in order to maintain a memory limit.
A negative percentage effectively disables garbage collection, unless the memory limit is reached.

See https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetMemoryLimit for more details.

Parameters:

- gc-percent - int

### debug/set-mutex-profile-fraction: Set runtime.SetMutexProfileFraction for mutex profiling. {#debug-set-mutex-profile-fraction}

SetMutexProfileFraction controls the fraction of mutex contention
events that are reported in the mutex profile. On average 1/rate
events are reported. The previous rate is returned.

To turn off profiling entirely, pass rate 0. To just read the current
rate, pass rate < 0. (For n>1 the details of sampling may change.)

Once this is set you can look use this to profile the mutex contention:

    go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/mutex

Parameters:

- rate - int

Results:

- previousRate - int

### debug/set-soft-memory-limit: Call runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit for setting a soft memory limit for the runtime. {#debug-set-soft-memory-limit}

SetMemoryLimit provides the runtime with a soft memory limit.

The runtime undertakes several processes to try to respect this memory limit, including
adjustments to the frequency of garbage collections and returning memory to the underlying
system more aggressively. This limit will be respected even if GOGC=off (or, if SetGCPercent(-1) is executed).

The input limit is provided as bytes, and includes all memory mapped, managed, and not
released by the Go runtime. Notably, it does not account for space used by the Go binary
and memory external to Go, such as memory managed by the underlying system on behalf of
the process, or memory managed by non-Go code inside the same process.
Examples of excluded memory sources include: OS kernel memory held on behalf of the process,
memory allocated by C code, and memory mapped by syscall.Mmap (because it is not managed by the Go runtime).

A zero limit or a limit that's lower than the amount of memory used by the Go runtime may cause
the garbage collector to run nearly continuously. However, the application may still make progress.

The memory limit is always respected by the Go runtime, so to effectively disable this behavior,
set the limit very high. math.MaxInt64 is the canonical value for disabling the limit, but values
much greater than the available memory on the underlying system work just as well.

See https://go.dev/doc/gc-guide for a detailed guide explaining the soft memory limit in more detail,
as well as a variety of common use-cases and scenarios.

SetMemoryLimit returns the previously set memory limit. A negative input does not adjust the limit,
and allows for retrieval of the currently set memory limit.

Parameters:

- mem-limit - int

### fscache/clear: Clear the Fs cache. {#fscache-clear}

This clears the fs cache. This is where remotes created from backends
are cached for a short while to make repeated rc calls more efficient.

If you change the parameters of a backend then you may want to call
this to clear an existing remote out of the cache before re-creating
it.

### fscache/entries: Returns the number of entries in the fs cache. {#fscache-entries}

This returns the number of entries in the fs cache.

Returns
- entries - number of items in the cache

### job/batch: Run a batch of rclone rc commands concurrently. {#job-batch}

This takes the following parameters:

- concurrency - int - do this many commands concurrently. Defaults to `--transfers` if not set.
- inputs - an list of inputs to the commands with an extra `_path` parameter

```json
{
    "_path": "rc/path",
    "param1": "parameter for the path as documented",
    "param2": "parameter for the path as documented, etc",
}
```

The inputs may use `_async`, `_group`, `_config` and `_filter` as normal when using the rc.

Returns:

- results - a list of results from the commands with one entry for each in inputs.

For example:

```sh
rclone rc job/batch --json '{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "_path": "rc/noop",
      "parameter": "OK"
    },
    {
      "_path": "rc/error",
      "parameter": "BAD"
    }
  ]
}
'
```

Gives the result:

```json
{
  "results": [
    {
      "parameter": "OK"
    },
    {
      "error": "arbitrary error on input map[parameter:BAD]",
      "input": {
        "parameter": "BAD"
      },
      "path": "rc/error",
      "status": 500
    }
  ]
}
```

### job/list: Lists the IDs of the running jobs {#job-list}

Parameters: None.

Results:

- executeId - string id of rclone executing (change after restart)
- jobids - array of integer job ids (starting at 1 on each restart)
- runningIds - array of integer job ids that are running
- finishedIds - array of integer job ids that are finished

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### job/status: Reads the status of the job ID {#job-status}

Parameters:

- jobid - id of the job (integer).

Results:

- finished - boolean
- duration - time in seconds that the job ran for
- endTime - time the job finished (e.g. "2018-10-26T18:50:20.528746884+01:00")
- error - error from the job or empty string for no error
- finished - boolean whether the job has finished or not
- id - as passed in above
- executeId - rclone instance ID (changes after restart); combined with id uniquely identifies a job
- startTime - time the job started (e.g. "2018-10-26T18:50:20.528336039+01:00")
- success - boolean - true for success false otherwise
- output - output of the job as would have been returned if called synchronously
- progress - output of the progress related to the underlying job

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### job/stop: Stop the running job {#job-stop}

Parameters:

- jobid - id of the job (integer).

### job/stopgroup: Stop all running jobs in a group {#job-stopgroup}

Parameters:

- group - name of the group (string).

### mount/listmounts: Show current mount points {#mount-listmounts}

This shows currently mounted points, which can be used for performing an unmount.

This takes no parameters and returns

- mountPoints: list of current mount points

Eg

    rclone rc mount/listmounts

### mount/mount: Create a new mount point {#mount-mount}

rclone allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to mount any of
Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with FUSE.

If no mountType is provided, the priority is given as follows: 1. mount 2.cmount 3.mount2

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote path to be mounted (required)
- mountPoint: valid path on the local machine (required)
- mountType: one of the values (mount, cmount, mount2) specifies the mount implementation to use
- mountOpt: a JSON object with Mount options in.
- vfsOpt: a JSON object with VFS options in.

Alternatively, you can pass VFS and Mount options flat at the top level of the parameter map. The option names are the same as their CLI flags without '--' and with '-' replaced by '_' (e.g. 'vfs_cache_mode' instead of 'CacheMode' inside 'vfsOpt', and 'volname' instead of 'VolName' inside 'mountOpt').

If both flat parameters and nested 'vfsOpt'/'mountOpt' blocks are supplied, the parameters in the nested blocks will take precedence.

On Windows mountPoint may be set to "*" to assign the next available
drive letter automatically, or a network share UNC path (e.g.
"\\server\share") to mount as a network drive. In these cases the
actual drive letter is chosen at mount time.

This returns the following values:

- mountPoint: the actual mount point that was used (this may differ
  from the input, e.g. on Windows when "*" is passed the allocated
  drive letter is returned)

Example:

```console
rclone rc mount/mount fs=mydrive: mountPoint=/home/<user>/mountPoint
rclone rc mount/mount fs=mydrive: mountPoint=/home/<user>/mountPoint mountType=mount
rclone rc mount/mount fs=TestDrive: mountPoint=/mnt/tmp vfsOpt='{"CacheMode": 2}' mountOpt='{"AllowOther": true}'
rclone rc mount/mount fs=TestDrive: mountPoint=/mnt/tmp vfs_cache_mode=writes volname=MyTestVolume
rclone rc mount/mount fs=mydrive: mountPoint=* mountType=cmount
```

The vfsOpt are as described in options/get and can be seen in the
"vfs" section when running and the mountOpt can be seen in the "mount" section:

```console
rclone rc options/get
```

### mount/types: Show all possible mount types {#mount-types}

This shows all possible mount types and returns them as a list.

This takes no parameters and returns

- mountTypes: list of mount types

The mount types are strings like "mount", "mount2", "cmount" and can
be passed to mount/mount as the mountType parameter.

Eg

    rclone rc mount/types

### mount/unmount: Unmount selected active mount {#mount-unmount}

rclone allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to
mount any of Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with
FUSE.

This takes the following parameters:

- mountPoint: valid path on the local machine where the mount was created (required)

Example:

    rclone rc mount/unmount mountPoint=/home/<user>/mountPoint

### mount/unmountall: Unmount all active mounts {#mount-unmountall}

rclone allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to
mount any of Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with
FUSE.

This takes no parameters and returns error if unmount does not succeed.

Eg

    rclone rc mount/unmountall

### operations/about: Return the space used on the remote {#operations-about}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"

The result is as returned from rclone about --json

See the [about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/check: check the source and destination are the same {#operations-check}

Checks the files in the source and destination match.  It compares
sizes and hashes and logs a report of files that don't
match.  It doesn't alter the source or destination.

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:" for the source, "/" for local filesystem
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive2:" for the destination, "/" for local filesystem
- download - check by downloading rather than with hash
- checkFileHash - treat checkFileFs:checkFileRemote as a SUM file with hashes of given type
- checkFileFs - treat checkFileFs:checkFileRemote as a SUM file with hashes of given type
- checkFileRemote - treat checkFileFs:checkFileRemote as a SUM file with hashes of given type
- oneWay -  check one way only, source files must exist on remote
- combined - make a combined report of changes (default false)
- missingOnSrc - report all files missing from the source (default true)
- missingOnDst - report all files missing from the destination (default true)
- match - report all matching files (default false)
- differ - report all non-matching files (default true)
- error - report all files with errors (hashing or reading) (default true)

If you supply the download flag, it will download the data from
both remotes and check them against each other on the fly.  This can
be useful for remotes that don't support hashes or if you really want
to check all the data.

If you supply the size-only global flag, it will only compare the sizes not
the hashes as well.  Use this for a quick check.

If you supply the checkFileHash option with a valid hash name, the
checkFileFs:checkFileRemote must point to a text file in the SUM
format. This treats the checksum file as the source and dstFs as the
destination. Note that srcFs is not used and should not be supplied in
this case.

Returns:

- success - true if no error, false otherwise
- status - textual summary of check, OK or text string
- hashType - hash used in check, may be missing
- combined - array of strings of combined report of changes
- missingOnSrc - array of strings of all files missing from the source
- missingOnDst - array of strings of all files missing from the destination
- match - array of strings of all matching files
- differ - array of strings of all non-matching files
- error - array of strings of all files with errors (hashing or reading)

### operations/cleanup: Remove trashed files in the remote or path {#operations-cleanup}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"

See the [cleanup](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cleanup/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/copyfile: Copy a file from source remote to destination remote {#operations-copyfile}

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:" for the source, "/" for local filesystem
- srcRemote - a path within that remote e.g. "file.txt" for the source
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive2:" for the destination, "/" for local filesystem
- dstRemote - a path within that remote e.g. "file2.txt" for the destination

### operations/copyurl: Copy the URL to the object {#operations-copyurl}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
- url - string, URL to read from
 - autoFilename - boolean, set to true to retrieve destination file name from url

See the [copyurl](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyurl/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/delete: Remove files in the path {#operations-delete}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"

See the [delete](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_delete/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/deletefile: Remove the single file pointed to {#operations-deletefile}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"

See the [deletefile](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_deletefile/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/fsinfo: Return information about the remote {#operations-fsinfo}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"

This returns info about the remote passed in;

```
{
        // optional features and whether they are available or not
        "Features": {
                "About": true,
                "BucketBased": false,
                "BucketBasedRootOK": false,
                "CanHaveEmptyDirectories": true,
                "CaseInsensitive": false,
                "ChangeNotify": false,
                "CleanUp": false,
                "Command": true,
                "Copy": false,
                "DirCacheFlush": false,
                "DirMove": true,
                "Disconnect": false,
                "DuplicateFiles": false,
                "GetTier": false,
                "IsLocal": true,
                "ListR": false,
                "MergeDirs": false,
                "MetadataInfo": true,
                "Move": true,
                "OpenWriterAt": true,
                "PublicLink": false,
                "Purge": true,
                "PutStream": true,
                "PutUnchecked": false,
                "ReadMetadata": true,
                "ReadMimeType": false,
                "ServerSideAcrossConfigs": false,
                "SetTier": false,
                "SetWrapper": false,
                "Shutdown": false,
                "SlowHash": true,
                "SlowModTime": false,
                "UnWrap": false,
                "UserInfo": false,
                "UserMetadata": true,
                "WrapFs": false,
                "WriteMetadata": true,
                "WriteMimeType": false
        },
        // Names of hashes available
        "Hashes": [
                "md5",
                "sha1",
                "whirlpool",
                "crc32",
                "sha256",
                "dropbox",
                "mailru",
                "quickxor"
        ],
        "Name": "local",        // Name as created
        "Precision": 1,         // Precision of timestamps in ns
        "Root": "/",            // Path as created
        "String": "Local file system at /", // how the remote will appear in logs
        // Information about the system metadata for this backend
        "MetadataInfo": {
                "System": {
                        "atime": {
                                "Help": "Time of last access",
                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
                        },
                        "btime": {
                                "Help": "Time of file birth (creation)",
                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
                        },
                        "gid": {
                                "Help": "Group ID of owner",
                                "Type": "decimal number",
                                "Example": "500"
                        },
                        "mode": {
                                "Help": "File type and mode",
                                "Type": "octal, unix style",
                                "Example": "0100664"
                        },
                        "mtime": {
                                "Help": "Time of last modification",
                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
                        },
                        "rdev": {
                                "Help": "Device ID (if special file)",
                                "Type": "hexadecimal",
                                "Example": "1abc"
                        },
                        "uid": {
                                "Help": "User ID of owner",
                                "Type": "decimal number",
                                "Example": "500"
                        }
                },
                "Help": "Textual help string\n"
        }
}
```

This command does not have a command line equivalent so use this instead:

    rclone rc --loopback operations/fsinfo fs=remote:

### operations/hashsum: Produces a hashsum file for all the objects in the path. {#operations-hashsum}

Produces a hash file for all the objects in the path using the hash
named.  The output is in the same format as the standard
md5sum/sha1sum tool.

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:" for the source, "/" for local filesystem
    - this can point to a file and just that file will be returned in the listing.
- hashType - type of hash to be used
- download - check by downloading rather than with hash (boolean)
- base64 - output the hashes in base64 rather than hex (boolean)

If you supply the download flag, it will download the data from the
remote and create the hash on the fly. This can be useful for remotes
that don't support the given hash or if you really want to check all
the data.

Note that if you wish to supply a checkfile to check hashes against
the current files then you should use operations/check instead of
operations/hashsum.

Returns:

- hashsum - array of strings of the hashes
- hashType - type of hash used

Example:

    $ rclone rc --loopback operations/hashsum fs=bin hashType=MD5 download=true base64=true
    {
        "hashType": "md5",
        "hashsum": [
            "WTSVLpuiXyJO_kGzJerRLg==  backend-versions.sh",
            "v1b_OlWCJO9LtNq3EIKkNQ==  bisect-go-rclone.sh",
            "VHbmHzHh4taXzgag8BAIKQ==  bisect-rclone.sh",
        ]
    }

See the [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/hashsumfile: Produces a hash for a single file. {#operations-hashsumfile}

Produces a hash for a single file using the hash named.

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "file.txt"
- hashType - type of hash to be used
- download - check by downloading rather than with hash (boolean)
- base64 - output the hashes in base64 rather than hex (boolean)

If you supply the download flag, it will download the data from the
remote and create the hash on the fly. This can be useful for remotes
that don't support the given hash or if you really want to read all
the data.

Returns:

- hash - hash for the file
- hashType - type of hash used

Example:

    $ rclone rc --loopback operations/hashsumfile fs=/ remote=/bin/bash hashType=MD5 download=true base64=true
    {
        "hashType": "md5",
        "hash": "MDMw-fG2YXs7Uz5Nz-H68A=="
    }

See the [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/list: List the given remote and path in JSON format {#operations-list}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
- opt - a dictionary of options to control the listing (optional)
    - recurse - If set recurse directories
    - noModTime - If set return modification time
    - showEncrypted -  If set show decrypted names
    - showOrigIDs - If set show the IDs for each item if known
    - showHash - If set return a dictionary of hashes
    - noMimeType - If set don't show mime types
    - dirsOnly - If set only show directories
    - filesOnly - If set only show files
    - metadata - If set return metadata of objects also
    - hashTypes - array of strings of hash types to show if showHash set

Returns:

- list
    - This is an array of objects as described in the lsjson command

See the [lsjson](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsjson/) command for more information on the above and examples.

### operations/mkdir: Make a destination directory or container {#operations-mkdir}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"

See the [mkdir](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mkdir/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/movefile: Move a file from source remote to destination remote {#operations-movefile}

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:" for the source, "/" for local filesystem
- srcRemote - a path within that remote e.g. "file.txt" for the source
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive2:" for the destination, "/" for local filesystem
- dstRemote - a path within that remote e.g. "file2.txt" for the destination

### operations/publiclink: Create or retrieve a public link to the given file or folder. {#operations-publiclink}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
- unlink - boolean - if set removes the link rather than adding it (optional)
- expire - string - the expiry time of the link e.g. "1d" (optional)

Returns:

- url - URL of the resource

See the [link](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_link/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/purge: Remove a directory or container and all of its contents {#operations-purge}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"

See the [purge](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/rmdir: Remove an empty directory or container {#operations-rmdir}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"

See the [rmdir](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdir/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/rmdirs: Remove all the empty directories in the path {#operations-rmdirs}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
- leaveRoot - boolean, set to true not to delete the root

See the [rmdirs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rmdirs/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/settier: Changes storage tier or class on all files in the path {#operations-settier}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"

See the [settier](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_settier/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/settierfile: Changes storage tier or class on the single file pointed to {#operations-settierfile}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"

### operations/size: Count the number of bytes and files in remote {#operations-size}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:path/to/dir"

Returns:

- count - number of files
- bytes - number of bytes in those files

See the [size](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_size/) command for more information on the above.

### operations/stat: Give information about the supplied file or directory {#operations-stat}

This takes the following parameters

- fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"
- opt - a dictionary of options to control the listing (optional)
    - see operations/list for the options

The result is

- item - an object as described in the lsjson command. Will be null if not found.

Note that if you are only interested in files then it is much more
efficient to set the filesOnly flag in the options.

See the [lsjson](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_lsjson/) command for more information on the above and examples.

### operations/uploadfile: Upload file using multiform/form-data {#operations-uploadfile}

This takes the following parameters:

- fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
- remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
- each part in body represents a file to be uploaded

### options/blocks: List all the option blocks {#options-blocks}

Returns:
- options - a list of the options block names

### options/get: Get all the global options {#options-get}

Returns an object where keys are option block names and values are an
object with the current option values in.

Parameters:

- blocks: optional string of comma separated blocks to include
    - all are included if this is missing or ""

Note that these are the global options which are unaffected by use of
the _config and _filter parameters. If you wish to read the parameters
set in _config or _filter use options/local.

This shows the internal names of the option within rclone which should
map to the external options very easily with a few exceptions.

### options/info: Get info about all the global options {#options-info}

Returns an object where keys are option block names and values are an
array of objects with info about each options.

Parameters:

- blocks: optional string of comma separated blocks to include
    - all are included if this is missing or ""

These objects are in the same format as returned by "config/providers". They are
described in the [option blocks](#option-blocks) section.

### options/local: Get the currently active config for this call {#options-local}

Returns an object with the keys "config" and "filter".
The "config" key contains the local config and the "filter" key contains
the local filters.

Note that these are the local options specific to this rc call. If
_config was not supplied then they will be the global options.
Likewise with "_filter".

This call is mostly useful for seeing if _config and _filter passing
is working.

This shows the internal names of the option within rclone which should
map to the external options very easily with a few exceptions.

### options/set: Set an option {#options-set}

Parameters:

- option block name containing an object with
  - key: value

Repeated as often as required.

Only supply the options you wish to change.  If an option is unknown
it will be silently ignored.  Not all options will have an effect when
changed like this.

For example:

This sets DEBUG level logs (-vv) (these can be set by number or string)

    rclone rc options/set --json '{"main": {"LogLevel": "DEBUG"}}'
    rclone rc options/set --json '{"main": {"LogLevel": 8}}'

And this sets INFO level logs (-v)

    rclone rc options/set --json '{"main": {"LogLevel": "INFO"}}'

And this sets NOTICE level logs (normal without -v)

    rclone rc options/set --json '{"main": {"LogLevel": "NOTICE"}}'

### pluginsctl/addPlugin: Add a plugin using url {#pluginsctl-addPlugin}

Used for adding a plugin to the webgui.

This takes the following parameters:

- url - http url of the github repo where the plugin is hosted (http://github.com/rclone/rclone-webui-react).

Example:

   rclone rc pluginsctl/addPlugin

### pluginsctl/getPluginsForType: Get plugins with type criteria {#pluginsctl-getPluginsForType}

This shows all possible plugins by a mime type.

This takes the following parameters:

- type - supported mime type by a loaded plugin e.g. (video/mp4, audio/mp3).
- pluginType - filter plugins based on their type e.g. (DASHBOARD, FILE_HANDLER, TERMINAL).

Returns:

- loadedPlugins - list of current production plugins.
- testPlugins - list of temporarily loaded development plugins, usually running on a different server.

Example:

   rclone rc pluginsctl/getPluginsForType type=video/mp4

### pluginsctl/listPlugins: Get the list of currently loaded plugins {#pluginsctl-listPlugins}

This allows you to get the currently enabled plugins and their details.

This takes no parameters and returns:

- loadedPlugins - list of current production plugins.
- testPlugins - list of temporarily loaded development plugins, usually running on a different server.

E.g.

   rclone rc pluginsctl/listPlugins

### pluginsctl/listTestPlugins: Show currently loaded test plugins {#pluginsctl-listTestPlugins}

Allows listing of test plugins with the rclone.test set to true in package.json of the plugin.

This takes no parameters and returns:

- loadedTestPlugins - list of currently available test plugins.

E.g.

    rclone rc pluginsctl/listTestPlugins

### pluginsctl/removePlugin: Remove a loaded plugin {#pluginsctl-removePlugin}

This allows you to remove a plugin using it's name.

This takes parameters:

- name - name of the plugin in the format `author`/`plugin_name`.

E.g.

   rclone rc pluginsctl/removePlugin name=rclone/video-plugin

### pluginsctl/removeTestPlugin: Remove  a test plugin {#pluginsctl-removeTestPlugin}

This allows you to remove a plugin using it's name.

This takes the following parameters:

- name - name of the plugin in the format `author`/`plugin_name`.

Example:

    rclone rc pluginsctl/removeTestPlugin name=rclone/rclone-webui-react

### rc/error: This returns an error {#rc-error}

This returns an error with the input as part of its error string.
Useful for testing error handling.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### rc/fatal: This returns an fatal error {#rc-fatal}

This returns an error with the input as part of its error string.
Useful for testing error handling.

### rc/list: List all the registered remote control commands {#rc-list}

This lists all the registered remote control commands as a JSON map in
the commands response.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### rc/noop: Echo the input to the output parameters {#rc-noop}

This echoes the input parameters to the output parameters for testing
purposes.  It can be used to check that rclone is still alive and to
check that parameter passing is working properly.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### rc/noopauth: Echo the input to the output parameters requiring auth {#rc-noopauth}

This echoes the input parameters to the output parameters for testing
purposes.  It can be used to check that rclone is still alive and to
check that parameter passing is working properly.

### rc/panic: This returns an error by panicking {#rc-panic}

This returns an error with the input as part of its error string.
Useful for testing error handling.

### serve/list: Show running servers {#serve-list}

Show running servers with IDs.

This takes no parameters and returns

- list: list of running serve commands

Each list element will have

- id: ID of the server
- addr: address the server is running on
- params: parameters used to start the server

Eg

    rclone rc serve/list

Returns

```json
{
    "list": [
        {
            "addr": "[::]:4321",
            "id": "nfs-ffc2a4e5",
            "params": {
                "fs": "remote:",
                "opt": {
                    "ListenAddr": ":4321"
                },
                "type": "nfs",
                "vfsOpt": {
                    "CacheMode": "full"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
```

### serve/start: Create a new server {#serve-start}

Create a new server with the specified parameters.

This takes the following parameters:

- `type` - type of server: `http`, `webdav`, `ftp`, `sftp`, `nfs`, etc.
- `fs` - remote storage path to serve
- `addr` - the ip:port to run the server on, eg ":1234" or "localhost:1234"

Other parameters are as described in the documentation for the
relevant [rclone serve](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/) command line options.
To translate a command line option to an rc parameter, remove the
leading `--` and replace `-` with `_`, so `--vfs-cache-mode` becomes
`vfs_cache_mode`.

Option parameters (such as VFS, proxy, and protocol-specific options) can be passed flat at the top level of the parameter map or inside nested JSON objects under the `vfsOpt`, `proxyOpt`, and `opt` keys (e.g. `vfsOpt='{"CacheMode": 2}'`, `proxyOpt='{"AuthProxy": "http://127.0.0.1:8080"}'`). If both flat parameters and nested blocks are supplied, the parameters in the nested blocks will take precedence. Note that global parameters must be set with `_config` and `_filter` as described above.

Examples:

    rclone rc serve/start type=nfs fs=remote: addr=:4321 vfs_cache_mode=full
    rclone rc serve/start --json '{"type":"nfs","fs":"remote:","addr":":1234","vfs_cache_mode":"full"}'
    rclone rc serve/start type=webdav fs=remote: vfsOpt='{"CacheMode": 2}' proxyOpt='{"AuthProxy": "http://127.0.0.1:8080"}'

This will give the reply

```json
{
    "addr": "[::]:4321", // Address the server was started on
    "id": "nfs-ecfc6852" // Unique identifier for the server instance
}
```

Or an error if it failed to start.

Stop the server with `serve/stop` and list the running servers with `serve/list`.

### serve/stop: Unserve selected active serve {#serve-stop}

Stops a running `serve` instance by ID.

This takes the following parameters:

- id: as returned by serve/start

This will give an empty response if successful or an error if not.

Example:

    rclone rc serve/stop id=12345

### serve/stopall: Stop all active servers {#serve-stopall}

Stop all active servers.

This will stop all active servers.

    rclone rc serve/stopall

### serve/types: Show all possible serve types {#serve-types}

This shows all possible serve types and returns them as a list.

This takes no parameters and returns

- types: list of serve types, eg "nfs", "sftp", etc

The serve types are strings like "serve", "serve2", "cserve" and can
be passed to serve/start as the serveType parameter.

Eg

    rclone rc serve/types

Returns

```json
{
    "types": [
        "http",
        "sftp",
        "nfs"
    ]
}
```

### sync/bisync: Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths. {#sync-bisync}

<!--- Docs generated by help.go - use go generate to rebuild - DO NOT EDIT --->

This takes the following parameters:

- path1 (required) - (string) a remote directory string e.g. `drive:path1`
- path2 (required) - (string) a remote directory string e.g. `drive:path2`
- dryRun - (bool) dry-run mode
- backupDir1 - (string) --backup-dir for Path1. Must be a non-overlapping path on
the same remote.  
- backupDir2 - (string) --backup-dir for Path2. Must be a non-overlapping path on
the same remote.  
- checkAccess - (bool) Ensure expected RCLONE_TEST files are found on both
Path1 and Path2 filesystems, else abort.  
- checkFilename - (string) Filename for --check-access (default: RCLONE_TEST)  
- checkSync - (string) Controls comparison of final listings: true|false|only
(default: true)  
- compare - (string) Comma-separated list of bisync-specific compare options ex.
'size,modtime,checksum' (default: 'size,modtime')  
- conflictLoser - (ConflictLoserAction) Action to take on the loser of a sync
conflict (when there is a winner) or on both files (when there is no
winner): , num, pathname, delete (default: num)  
- conflictResolve - (string) Automatically resolve conflicts by preferring the
version that is: none, path1, path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default:
none)  
- conflictSuffix - (string) Suffix to use when renaming a --conflict-loser. Can
be either one string or two comma-separated strings to assign different
suffixes to Path1/Path2. (default: 'conflict')  
- createEmptySrcDirs - (bool) Sync creation and deletion of empty directories.
(Not compatible with --remove-empty-dirs)  
- downloadHash - (bool) Compute hash by downloading when otherwise
unavailable. (warning: may be slow and use lots of data!)  
- filtersFile - (string) Read filtering patterns from a file  
- force - (bool) Bypass --max-delete safety check and run the sync. Consider
using with --verbose  
- ignoreListingChecksum - (bool) Do not use checksums for listings (add --ignore-
checksum to additionally skip post-copy checksum checks)  
- maxLock - (Duration) Consider lock files older than this to be expired
(default: 0 (never expire)) (minimum: 2m)  
- noCleanup - (bool) Retain working files (useful for troubleshooting and
testing).  
- noSlowHash - (bool) Ignore listing checksums only on backends where they are
slow  
- recover - (bool) Automatically recover from interruptions without requiring --
resync.  
- removeEmptyDirs - (bool) Remove ALL empty directories at the final cleanup
step.  
- resilient - (bool) Allow future runs to retry after certain less-serious
errors, instead of requiring --resync.  
- resync - (bool) Performs the resync run. Equivalent to --resync-mode path1.
Consider using --verbose or --dry-run first.  
- resyncMode - (string) During resync, prefer the version that is: path1,
path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default: path1 if --resync, otherwise
none for no resync.)  
- slowHashSyncOnly - (bool) Ignore slow checksums for listings and deltas, but
still consider them during sync calls.  
- workdir - (string) Use custom working dir - useful for testing. (default:
/home/ncw/.cache/rclone/bisync)  

See [bisync command help](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_bisync/)
and [full bisync description](https://rclone.org/bisync/)
for more information.

### sync/copy: copy a directory from source remote to destination remote {#sync-copy}

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:src" for the source
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:dst" for the destination
- createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set


See the [copy](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/) command for more information on the above.

### sync/move: move a directory from source remote to destination remote {#sync-move}

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:src" for the source
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:dst" for the destination
- createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set
- deleteEmptySrcDirs - delete empty src directories if set


See the [move](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_move/) command for more information on the above.

### sync/sync: sync a directory from source remote to destination remote {#sync-sync}

This takes the following parameters:

- srcFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:src" for the source
- dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:dst" for the destination
- createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set


See the [sync](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/) command for more information on the above.

### vfs/forget: Forget files or directories in the directory cache. {#vfs-forget}

This forgets the paths in the directory cache causing them to be
re-read from the remote when needed.

If no paths are passed in then it will forget all the paths in the
directory cache.

    rclone rc vfs/forget

Otherwise pass files or dirs in as file=path or dir=path.  Any
parameter key starting with file will forget that file and any
starting with dir will forget that dir, e.g.

    rclone rc vfs/forget file=hello file2=goodbye dir=home/junk
 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

### vfs/list: List active VFSes. {#vfs-list}

This lists the active VFSes.

It returns a list under the key "vfses" where the values are the VFS
names that could be passed to the other VFS commands in the "fs"
parameter.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### vfs/poll-interval: Get the status or update the value of the poll-interval option. {#vfs-poll-interval}

Without any parameter given this returns the current status of the
poll-interval setting.

When the interval=duration parameter is set, the poll-interval value
is updated and the polling function is notified.
Setting interval=0 disables poll-interval.

    rclone rc vfs/poll-interval interval=5m

The timeout=duration parameter can be used to specify a time to wait
for the current poll function to apply the new value.
If timeout is less or equal 0, which is the default, wait indefinitely.

The new poll-interval value will only be active when the timeout is
not reached.

If poll-interval is updated or disabled temporarily, some changes
might not get picked up by the polling function, depending on the
used remote.
 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

### vfs/queue: Queue info for a VFS. {#vfs-queue}

This returns info about the upload queue for the selected VFS.

This is only useful if `--vfs-cache-mode` > off. If you call it when
the `--vfs-cache-mode` is off, it will return an empty result.

    {
        "queue": // an array of files queued for upload
        [
            {
                "name":      "file",   // string: name (full path) of the file,
                "id":        123,      // integer: id of this item in the queue,
                "size":      79,       // integer: size of the file in bytes
                "expiry":    1.5       // float: time until file is eligible for transfer, lowest goes first
                "tries":     1,        // integer: number of times we have tried to upload
                "delay":     5.0,      // float: seconds between upload attempts
                "uploading": false,    // boolean: true if item is being uploaded
            },
       ],
    }

The `expiry` time is the time until the file is eligible for being
uploaded in floating point seconds. This may go negative. As rclone
only transfers `--transfers` files at once, only the lowest
`--transfers` expiry times will have `uploading` as `true`. So there
may be files with negative expiry times for which `uploading` is
`false`.

 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

### vfs/queue-set-expiry: Set the expiry time for an item queued for upload. {#vfs-queue-set-expiry}

Use this to adjust the `expiry` time for an item in the upload queue.
You will need to read the `id` of the item using `vfs/queue` before
using this call.

You can then set `expiry` to a floating point number of seconds from
now when the item is eligible for upload. If you want the item to be
uploaded as soon as possible then set it to a large negative number (eg
-1000000000). If you want the upload of the item to be delayed
for a long time then set it to a large positive number.

Setting the `expiry` of an item which has already has started uploading
will have no effect - the item will carry on being uploaded.

This will return an error if called with `--vfs-cache-mode` off or if
the `id` passed is not found.

This takes the following parameters

- `fs` - select the VFS in use (optional)
- `id` - a numeric ID as returned from `vfs/queue`
- `expiry` - a new expiry time as floating point seconds
- `relative` - if set, expiry is to be treated as relative to the current expiry (optional, boolean)

This returns an empty result on success, or an error.

 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

### vfs/refresh: Refresh the directory cache. {#vfs-refresh}

This reads the directories for the specified paths and freshens the
directory cache.

If no paths are passed in then it will refresh the root directory.

    rclone rc vfs/refresh

Otherwise pass directories in as dir=path. Any parameter key
starting with dir will refresh that directory, e.g.

    rclone rc vfs/refresh dir=home/junk dir2=data/misc

If the parameter recursive=true is given the whole directory tree
will get refreshed. This refresh will use --fast-list if enabled.
 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

### vfs/stats: Stats for a VFS. {#vfs-stats}

This returns stats for the selected VFS.

    {
        // Status of the disk cache - only present if --vfs-cache-mode > off
        "diskCache": {
            "bytesUsed": 0,
            "erroredFiles": 0,
            "files": 0,
            "hashType": 1,
            "outOfSpace": false,
            "path": "/home/user/.cache/rclone/vfs/local/mnt/a",
            "pathMeta": "/home/user/.cache/rclone/vfsMeta/local/mnt/a",
            "uploadsInProgress": 0,
            "uploadsQueued": 0
        },
        "fs": "/mnt/a",
        "inUse": 1,
        // Status of the in memory metadata cache
        "metadataCache": {
            "dirs": 1,
            "files": 0
        },
        // Options as returned by options/get
        "opt": {
            "CacheMaxAge": 3600000000000,
            // ...
            "WriteWait": 1000000000
        }
    }

 
This command takes an "fs" parameter. If this parameter is not
supplied and if there is only one VFS in use then that VFS will be
used. If there is more than one VFS in use then the "fs" parameter
must be supplied.

**Authentication is not required for this call.**

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## Accessing the remote control via HTTP {#api-http}

Rclone implements a simple HTTP based protocol.

Each endpoint takes an JSON object and returns a JSON object or an
error.  The JSON objects are essentially a map of string names to
values.

All calls must made using POST.

The input objects can be supplied using URL parameters, POST
parameters or by supplying "Content-Type: application/json" and a JSON
blob in the body.  There are examples of these below using `curl`.

The response will be a JSON blob in the body of the response.  This is
formatted to be reasonably human-readable.

### Error returns

If an error occurs then there will be an HTTP error status (e.g. 500)
and the body of the response will contain a JSON encoded error object,
e.g.

```json
{
    "error": "Expecting string value for key \"remote\" (was float64)",
    "input": {
        "fs": "/tmp",
        "remote": 3
    },
    "status": 400,
    "path": "operations/rmdir"
}
```

The keys in the error response are:

- error - error string
- input - the input parameters to the call
- status - the HTTP status code
- path - the path of the call

### CORS

The sever implements basic CORS support and allows all origins for that.
The response to a preflight OPTIONS request will echo the requested
"Access-Control-Request-Headers" back.

### Using POST with URL parameters only

```console
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?potato=1&sausage=2'
```

Response

```json
{
    "potato": "1",
    "sausage": "2"
}
```

Here is what an error response looks like:

```console
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/error?potato=1&sausage=2'
```

```json
{
    "error": "arbitrary error on input map[potato:1 sausage:2]",
    "input": {
        "potato": "1",
        "sausage": "2"
    }
}
```

Note that curl doesn't return errors to the shell unless you use the `-f` option

```console
$ curl -f -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/error?potato=1&sausage=2'
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 Bad Request
$ echo $?
22
```

### Using POST with a form

```console
curl --data "potato=1" --data "sausage=2" http://localhost:5572/rc/noop
```

Response

```json
{
    "potato": "1",
    "sausage": "2"
}
```

Note that you can combine these with URL parameters too with the POST
parameters taking precedence.

```console
curl --data "potato=1" --data "sausage=2" "http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?rutabaga=3&sausage=4"
```

Response

```json
{
    "potato": "1",
    "rutabaga": "3",
    "sausage": "4"
}

```

### Using POST with a JSON blob

```console
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"potato":2,"sausage":1}' http://localhost:5572/rc/noop
```

response

```json
{
    "password": "xyz",
    "username": "xyz"
}
```

This can be combined with URL parameters too if required.  The JSON
blob takes precedence.

```console
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"potato":2,"sausage":1}' 'http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?rutabaga=3&potato=4'
```

```json
{
    "potato": 2,
    "rutabaga": "3",
    "sausage": 1
}
```

## Debugging rclone with pprof

If you use the `--rc` flag this will also enable the use of the go
profiling tools on the same port.

The profiling endpoints follow the same authentication rules as the
rest of the rc: they are only served if authentication has been set up
(`--rc-user`/`--rc-pass` or `--rc-htpasswd`) or the
[`--rc-no-auth`](#--rc-no-auth) flag is in use. For debugging on the
default localhost port the easiest thing is to use `--rc --rc-no-auth`
(but see the warning about using `--rc-no-auth` on a non-loopback
bind).

To use these, first [install go](https://golang.org/doc/install).

### Debugging memory use

To profile rclone's memory use you can run:

```console
go tool pprof -web http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap
```

This should open a page in your browser showing what is using what
memory.

You can also use the `-text` flag to produce a textual summary

```console
$ go tool pprof -text http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap
Showing nodes accounting for 1537.03kB, 100% of 1537.03kB total
      flat  flat%   sum%        cum   cum%
 1024.03kB 66.62% 66.62%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.addDecoderNode
     513kB 33.38%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.newBufioWriterSize
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/cmd/all.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/cmd/serve.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/cmd/serve/restic.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/rclone/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.init.0
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  main.init
         0     0%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.(*conn).readRequest
         0     0%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.(*conn).serve
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  runtime.main
```

### Debugging go routine leaks

Memory leaks are most often caused by go routine leaks keeping memory
alive which should have been garbage collected.

See all active go routines using

```console
curl http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1
```

Or go to <http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1> in your browser.

### Other profiles to look at

You can see a summary of profiles available at <http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/>

Here is how to use some of them:

- Memory: `go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap`
- Go routines: `curl http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1`
- 30-second CPU profile: `go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/profile`
- 5-second execution trace: `wget http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/trace?seconds=5`
- Goroutine blocking profile
  - Enable first with: `rclone rc debug/set-block-profile-rate rate=1` ([docs](#debug-set-block-profile-rate))
  - `go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/block`
- Contended mutexes:
  - Enable first with: `rclone rc debug/set-mutex-profile-fraction rate=1` ([docs](#debug-set-mutex-profile-fraction))
  - `go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/mutex`

See the [net/http/pprof docs](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof/)
for more info on how to use the profiling and for a general overview
see [the Go team's blog post on profiling go programs](https://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs).

The profiling hook is [zero overhead unless it is used](https://stackoverflow.com/q/26545159/164234).

# Overview of cloud storage systems

Each cloud storage system is slightly different.  Rclone attempts to
provide a unified interface to them, but some underlying differences
show through.

## Features

Here is an overview of the major features of each cloud storage system.



### Hash

The cloud storage system supports various hash types of the objects.
The hashes are used when transferring data as an integrity check and
can be specifically used with the `--checksum` flag in syncs and in
the `check` command.

To use the verify checksums when transferring between cloud storage
systems they must support a common hash type.

### ModTime

Almost all cloud storage systems store some sort of timestamp
on objects, but several of them not something that is appropriate
to use for syncing. E.g. some backends will only write a timestamp
that represents the time of the upload. To be relevant for syncing
it should be able to store the modification time of the source
object. If this is not the case, rclone will only check the file
size by default, though can be configured to check the file hash
(with the `--checksum` flag). Ideally it should also be possible to
change the timestamp of an existing file without having to re-upload it.

| Key | Explanation |
|-----|-------------|
| `-` | ModTimes not supported - times likely the upload time |
| `R` | ModTimes supported on files but can't be changed without re-upload |
| `R/W` | Read and Write ModTimes fully supported on files |
| `DR` | ModTimes supported on files and directories but can't be changed without re-upload |
| `DR/W` | Read and Write ModTimes fully supported on files and directories |

Storage systems with a `-` in the ModTime column, means the
modification read on objects is not the modification time of the
file when uploaded. It is most likely the time the file was uploaded,
or possibly something else (like the time the picture was taken in
Google Photos).

Storage systems with a `R` (for read-only) in the ModTime column,
means the it keeps modification times on objects, and updates them
when uploading objects, but it does not support changing only the
modification time (`SetModTime` operation) without re-uploading,
possibly not even without deleting existing first. Some operations
in rclone, such as `copy` and `sync` commands, will automatically
check for `SetModTime` support and re-upload if necessary to keep
the modification times in sync. Other commands will not work
without `SetModTime` support, e.g. `touch` command on an existing
file will fail, and changes to modification time only on a files
in a `mount` will be silently ignored.

Storage systems with `R/W` (for read/write) in the ModTime column,
means they do also support modtime-only operations.

Storage systems with `D` in the ModTime column means that the
following symbols apply to directories as well as files.

### Case Insensitive

If a cloud storage systems is case sensitive then it is possible to
have two files which differ only in case, e.g. `file.txt` and
`FILE.txt`.  If a cloud storage system is case insensitive then that
isn't possible.

This can cause problems when syncing between a case insensitive
system and a case sensitive system.  The symptom of this is that no
matter how many times you run the sync it never completes fully.

The local filesystem and SFTP may or may not be case sensitive
depending on OS.

- Windows - usually case insensitive, though case is preserved
- OSX - usually case insensitive, though it is possible to format case sensitive
- Linux - usually case sensitive, but there are case insensitive file systems
  (e.g. FAT formatted USB keys)

Most of the time this doesn't cause any problems as people tend to
avoid files whose name differs only by case even on case sensitive
systems.

### Duplicate files

If a cloud storage system allows duplicate files then it can have two
objects with the same name.

This confuses rclone greatly when syncing - use the `rclone dedupe`
command to rename or remove duplicates.

### Restricted filenames

Some cloud storage systems might have restrictions on the characters
that are usable in file or directory names.
When `rclone` detects such a name during a file upload, it will
transparently replace the restricted characters with similar looking
Unicode characters. To handle the different sets of restricted characters
for different backends, rclone uses something it calls [encoding](#encoding).

This process is designed to avoid ambiguous file names as much as
possible and allow to move files between many cloud storage systems
transparently.

The name shown by `rclone` to the user or during log output will only
contain a minimal set of [replaced characters](#restricted-characters)
to ensure correct formatting and not necessarily the actual name used
on the cloud storage.

This transformation is reversed when downloading a file or parsing
`rclone` arguments. For example, when uploading a file named `my file?.txt`
to Onedrive, it will be displayed as `my file?.txt` on the console, but
stored as `my file？.txt` to Onedrive (the `?` gets replaced by the similar
looking `？` character, the so-called "fullwidth question mark").
The reverse transformation allows to read a file `unusual/name.txt`
from Google Drive, by passing the name `unusual／name.txt` on the command line
(the `/` needs to be replaced by the similar looking `／` character).

#### Caveats {#restricted-filenames-caveats}

The filename encoding system works well in most cases, at least
where file names are written in English or similar languages.
You might not even notice it: It just works. In some cases it may
lead to issues, though. E.g. when file names are written in Chinese,
or Japanese, where it is always the Unicode fullwidth variants of the
punctuation marks that are used.

On Windows, the characters `:`, `*` and `?` are examples of restricted
characters. If these are used in filenames on a remote that supports it,
Rclone will transparently convert them to their fullwidth Unicode
variants `＊`, `？` and `：` when downloading to Windows, and back again
when uploading. This way files with names that are not allowed on Windows
can still be stored.

However, if you have files on your Windows system originally with these same
Unicode characters in their names, they will be included in the same conversion
process. E.g. if you create a file in your Windows filesystem with name
`Test：1.jpg`, where `：` is the Unicode fullwidth colon symbol, and use
rclone to upload it to Google Drive, which supports regular `:` (halfwidth
question mark), rclone will replace the fullwidth `:` with the
halfwidth `:` and store the file as `Test:1.jpg` in Google Drive. Since
both Windows and Google Drive allows the name `Test：1.jpg`, it would
probably be better if rclone just kept the name as is in this case.

With the opposite situation; if you have a file named `Test:1.jpg`,
in your Google Drive, e.g. uploaded from a Linux system where `:` is valid
in file names. Then later use rclone to copy this file to your Windows
computer you will notice that on your local disk it gets renamed
to `Test：1.jpg`. The original filename is not legal on Windows, due to
the `:`, and rclone therefore renames it to make the copy possible.
That is all good. However, this can also lead to an issue: If you already
had a *different* file named `Test：1.jpg` on Windows, and then use rclone
to copy either way. Rclone will then treat the file originally named
`Test:1.jpg` on Google Drive and the file originally named `Test：1.jpg`
on Windows as the same file, and replace the contents from one with the other.

Its virtually impossible to handle all cases like these correctly in all
situations, but by customizing the [encoding option](#encoding), changing the
set of characters that rclone should convert, you should be able to
create a configuration that works well for your specific situation.
See also the [example](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding-example-windows) below.

(Windows was used as an example of a file system with many restricted
characters, and Google drive a storage system with few.)

#### Default restricted characters {#restricted-characters}

The table below shows the characters that are replaced by default.

When a replacement character is found in a filename, this character
will be escaped with the `‛` character to avoid ambiguous file names.
(e.g. a file named `␀.txt` would shown as `‛␀.txt`)

Each cloud storage backend can use a different set of characters,
which will be specified in the documentation for each backend.

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| SOH       | 0x01  | ␁           |
| STX       | 0x02  | ␂           |
| ETX       | 0x03  | ␃           |
| EOT       | 0x04  | ␄           |
| ENQ       | 0x05  | ␅           |
| ACK       | 0x06  | ␆           |
| BEL       | 0x07  | ␇           |
| BS        | 0x08  | ␈           |
| HT        | 0x09  | ␉           |
| LF        | 0x0A  | ␊           |
| VT        | 0x0B  | ␋           |
| FF        | 0x0C  | ␌           |
| CR        | 0x0D  | ␍           |
| SO        | 0x0E  | ␎           |
| SI        | 0x0F  | ␏           |
| DLE       | 0x10  | ␐           |
| DC1       | 0x11  | ␑           |
| DC2       | 0x12  | ␒           |
| DC3       | 0x13  | ␓           |
| DC4       | 0x14  | ␔           |
| NAK       | 0x15  | ␕           |
| SYN       | 0x16  | ␖           |
| ETB       | 0x17  | ␗           |
| CAN       | 0x18  | ␘           |
| EM        | 0x19  | ␙           |
| SUB       | 0x1A  | ␚           |
| ESC       | 0x1B  | ␛           |
| FS        | 0x1C  | ␜           |
| GS        | 0x1D  | ␝           |
| RS        | 0x1E  | ␞           |
| US        | 0x1F  | ␟           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |
| DEL       | 0x7F  | ␡           |

The default encoding will also encode these file names as they are
problematic with many cloud storage systems.

| File name | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----------:|
| .         | ．          |
| ..        | ．．         |

#### Invalid UTF-8 bytes {#invalid-utf8}

Some backends only support a sequence of well formed UTF-8 bytes
as file or directory names.

In this case all invalid UTF-8 bytes will be replaced with a quoted
representation of the byte value to allow uploading a file to such a
backend. For example, the invalid byte `0xFE` will be encoded as `‛FE`.

A common source of invalid UTF-8 bytes are local filesystems, that store
names in a different encoding than UTF-8 or UTF-16, like latin1. See the
[local filenames](https://rclone.org/local/#filenames) section for details.

#### Encoding option {#encoding}

Most backends have an encoding option, specified as a flag
`--backend-encoding` where `backend` is the name of the backend, or as
a config parameter `encoding` (you'll need to select the Advanced
config in `rclone config` to see it).

This will have default value which encodes and decodes characters in
such a way as to preserve the maximum number of characters (see
above).

However this can be incorrect in some scenarios, for example if you
have a Windows file system with Unicode fullwidth characters
`＊`, `？` or `：`, that you want to remain as those characters on the
remote rather than being translated to regular (halfwidth) `*`, `?` and `:`.

The `--backend-encoding` flags allow you to change that. You can
disable the encoding completely with `--backend-encoding Raw` or set
`encoding = Raw` in the config file.

Encoding takes a comma separated list of encodings. You can see the
list of all possible values by passing an invalid value to this
flag, e.g. `--local-encoding "help"`. The command `rclone help flags encoding`
will show you the defaults for the backends.

| Encoding  | Characters | Encoded as |
| --------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| Asterisk | `*` | `＊` |
| BackQuote | `` ` `` | `｀` |
| BackSlash | `\` | `＼` |
| Colon | `:` | `：` |
| CrLf | CR 0x0D, LF 0x0A | `␍`, `␊` |
| Ctl | All control characters 0x00-0x1F | `␀␁␂␃␄␅␆␇␈␉␊␋␌␍␎␏␐␑␒␓␔␕␖␗␘␙␚␛␜␝␞␟` |
| Del | DEL 0x7F | `␡` |
| Dollar | `$` | `＄` |
| Dot | `.` or `..` as entire string | `．`, `．．` |
| DoubleQuote | `"` | `＂` |
| Exclamation | `!` | `！` |
| Hash | `#` | `＃` |
| InvalidUtf8 | An invalid UTF-8 character (e.g. latin1) | `�` |
| LeftCrLfHtVt | CR 0x0D, LF 0x0A, HT 0x09, VT 0x0B on the left of a string | `␍`, `␊`, `␉`, `␋` |
| LeftPeriod | `.` on the left of a string | `.` |
| LeftSpace | SPACE on the left of a string | `␠` |
| LeftTilde | `~` on the left of a string | `～` |
| LtGt | `<`, `>` | `＜`, `＞` |
| None ¹ | NUL 0x00 | ␀ |
| Percent | `%` | `％` |
| Pipe | \| | `｜` |
| Question | `?` | `？` |
| RightCrLfHtVt | CR 0x0D, LF 0x0A, HT 0x09, VT 0x0B on the right of a string | `␍`, `␊`, `␉`, `␋` |
| RightPeriod | `.` on the right of a string | `.` |
| RightSpace | SPACE on the right of a string | `␠` |
| Semicolon | `;` | `；` |
| SingleQuote | `'` | `＇` |
| Slash | `/` | `／` |
| SquareBracket | `[`, `]` | `［`, `］` |

¹ Encoding from NUL 0x00 to ␀ is always implicit except when using Raw.
It was previously incorrectly documented as disabling encoding,
and to maintain backward compatibility, its behavior has not been changed.

##### Encoding example: FTP

To take a specific example, the FTP backend's default encoding is

```text
--ftp-encoding "Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot"
```

However, let's say the FTP server is running on Windows and can't have
any of the invalid Windows characters in file names. You are backing
up Linux servers to this FTP server which do have those characters in
file names. So you would add the Windows set which are

```text
Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot
```

to the existing ones, giving:

```text
Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot,Del,RightSpace
```

This can be specified using the `--ftp-encoding` flag or using an `encoding`
parameter in the config file.

##### Encoding example: Windows

As another example, take a Windows system where there is a file with
name `Test：1.jpg`, where `：` is the Unicode fullwidth colon symbol.
When using rclone to copy this to a remote which supports `:`,
the regular (halfwidth) colon (such as Google Drive), you will notice
that the file gets renamed to `Test:1.jpg`.

To avoid this you can change the set of characters rclone should convert
for the local filesystem, using command-line argument `--local-encoding`.
Rclone's default behavior on Windows corresponds to

```text
--local-encoding "Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot"
```

If you want to use fullwidth characters `：`, `＊` and `？` in your filenames
without rclone changing them when uploading to a remote, then set the same as
the default value but without `Colon,Question,Asterisk`:

```text
--local-encoding "Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot"
```

Alternatively, you can disable the conversion of any characters with
`--local-encoding Raw`.

Instead of using command-line argument `--local-encoding`, you may also set it
as [environment variable](https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables) `RCLONE_LOCAL_ENCODING`,
or [configure](https://rclone.org/docs/#configure) a remote of type `local` in your config,
and set the `encoding` option there.

The risk by doing this is that if you have a filename with the regular (halfwidth)
`:`, `*` and `?` in your cloud storage, and you try to download
it to your Windows filesystem, this will fail. These characters are not
valid in filenames on Windows, and you have told rclone not to work around
this by converting them to valid fullwidth variants.

### MIME Type

MIME types (also known as media types) classify types of documents
using a simple text classification, e.g. `text/html` or
`application/pdf`.

Some cloud storage systems support reading (`R`) the MIME type of
objects and some support writing (`W`) the MIME type of objects.

The MIME type can be important if you are serving files directly to
HTTP from the storage system.

If you are copying from a remote which supports reading (`R`) to a
remote which supports writing (`W`) then rclone will preserve the MIME
types.  Otherwise they will be guessed from the extension, or the
remote itself may assign the MIME type.

### Metadata

Backends may or may support reading or writing metadata. They may
support reading and writing system metadata (metadata intrinsic to
that backend) and/or user metadata (general purpose metadata).

The levels of metadata support are

| Key | Explanation |
|-----|-------------|
| `R` | Read only System Metadata on files only|
| `RW` | Read and write System Metadata on files only|
| `RWU` | Read and write System Metadata and read and write User Metadata on files only|
| `DR` | Read only System Metadata on files and directories |
| `DRW` | Read and write System Metadata on files and directories|
| `DRWU` | Read and write System Metadata and read and write User Metadata on files and directories |

See [the metadata docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) for more info.

## Optional Features

All rclone remotes support a base command set. Other features depend
upon backend-specific capabilities.



### Purge

This deletes a directory quicker than just deleting all the files in
the directory.

### Copy

Used when copying an object to and from the same remote.  This known
as a server-side copy so you can copy a file without downloading it
and uploading it again.  It is used if you use `rclone copy` or
`rclone move` if the remote doesn't support `Move` directly.

If the server doesn't support `Copy` directly then for copy operations
the file is downloaded then re-uploaded.

### Move

Used when moving/renaming an object on the same remote.  This is known
as a server-side move of a file.  This is used in `rclone move` if the
server doesn't support `DirMove`.

If the server isn't capable of `Move` then rclone simulates it with
`Copy` then delete.  If the server doesn't support `Copy` then rclone
will download the file and re-upload it.

### DirMove

This is used to implement `rclone move` to move a directory if
possible.  If it isn't then it will use `Move` on each file (which
falls back to `Copy` then download and upload - see `Move` section).

### CleanUp

This is used for emptying the trash for a remote by `rclone cleanup`.

If the server can't do `CleanUp` then `rclone cleanup` will return an
error.

‡‡ Note that while Box implements this it has to delete every file
individually so it will be slower than emptying the trash via the WebUI

### ListR

The remote supports a recursive list to list all the contents beneath
a directory quickly.  This enables the `--fast-list` flag to work.
See the [rclone docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### StreamUpload

Some remotes allow files to be uploaded without knowing the file size
in advance. This allows certain operations to work without spooling the
file to local disk first, e.g. `rclone rcat`.

### MultithreadUpload

Some remotes allow transfers to the remote to be sent as chunks in
parallel. If this is supported then rclone will use multi-thread
copying to transfer files much faster.

### LinkSharing

Sets the necessary permissions on a file or folder and prints a link
that allows others to access them, even if they don't have an account
on the particular cloud provider.

### About

Rclone `about` prints quota information for a remote. Typical output
includes bytes used, free, quota and in trash.

If a remote lacks about capability `rclone about remote:`returns
an error.

Backends without about capability cannot determine free space for an
rclone mount, or use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an
rclone union remote.

See [rclone about command](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)

### EmptyDir

The remote supports empty directories. See [Limitations](https://rclone.org/bugs/#limitations)
 for details. Most Object/Bucket-based remotes do not support this.

# Tiers

Rclone backends are divided into tiers to give users an idea of the stability of each backend.

| Tier   | Label         | Intended meaning |
|--------|---------------|------------------|
|  | Core          | Production-grade, first-class |
|  | Stable        | Well-supported, minor gaps |
|  | Supported     | Works for many uses; known caveats |
|  | Experimental  | Use with care; expect gaps/changes |
|  | Deprecated    | No longer maintained or supported |

## Overview

Here is a summary of all backends:



## Scoring

Here is how the backends are scored.

### Features

These are useful optional features a backend should have in rough
order of importance. Each one of these scores a point for the Features
column.

- F1: Hash(es)
- F2: Modtime
- F3: Stream upload
- F4: Copy/Move
- F5: DirMove	
- F6: Metadata
- F7: MultipartUpload


### Tier

The tier is decided after determining these attributes. Some discretion is allowed in tiering as some of these attributes are more important than others.

| Attr | T1: Core | T2: Stable | T3: Supported | T4: Experimental | T5: Incubator |
|------|----------|------------|---------------|------------------|---------------|
| Maintainers | >=2 | >=1 | >=1 | >=0 | >=0 |
| API source | Official | Official | Either | Either | Either |
| Features (F1-F7) | >=5/7 | >=4/7 | >=3/7 | >=2/7 | N/A |
| Integration tests | All Green | All green | Nearly all green | Some Flaky | N/A |
| Error handling | Pacer | Pacer | Retries | Retries | N/A |
| Data integrity | Hashes, alt, modtime | Hashes or alt | Hash OR modtime | Best-effort | N/A |
| Perf baseline | Bench within 2x S3 | Bench doc | Anecdotal OK | Optional | N/A |
| Adoption | widely used | often used | some use | N/A | N/A |
| Docs completeness | Full | Full | Basic | Minimal | Minimal |
| Security | Principle-of-least-privilege | Reasonable scopes | Basic auth | Works | Works |

# Global Flags

This describes the global flags available to every rclone command
split into groups.


## Copy

Flags for anything which can copy a file.

```
      --check-first                                 Do all the checks before starting transfers
  -c, --checksum                                    Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only)
      --compare-dest stringArray                    Include additional server-side paths during comparison
      --copy-dest stringArray                       Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination
      --cutoff-mode HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS              Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default HARD)
      --ignore-case-sync                            Ignore case when synchronizing
      --ignore-checksum                             Skip post copy check of checksums
      --ignore-existing                             Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                                 Ignore size when skipping use modtime or checksum
  -I, --ignore-times                                Don't skip items that match size and time - transfer all unconditionally
      --immutable                                   Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified
      --inplace                                     Download directly to destination file instead of atomic download to temp/rename
  -l, --links                                       Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
      --max-backlog int                             Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
      --max-duration Duration                       Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s)
      --max-transfer SizeSuffix                     Maximum size of data to transfer (default off)
  -M, --metadata                                    If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --modify-window Duration                      Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --multi-thread-chunk-size SizeSuffix          Chunk size for multi-thread downloads / uploads, if not set by filesystem (default 64Mi)
      --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix              Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 256Mi)
      --multi-thread-streams int                    Number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4)
      --multi-thread-write-buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size for writing when in multi-thread mode (default 128Ki)
      --name-transform stringArray                  Transform paths during the copy process
      --no-check-dest                               Don't check the destination, copy regardless
      --no-traverse                                 Don't traverse destination file system on copy
      --no-update-dir-modtime                       Don't update directory modification times
      --no-update-modtime                           Don't update destination modtime if files identical
      --order-by string                             Instructions on how to order the transfers, e.g. 'size,descending'
      --partial-suffix string                       Add partial-suffix to temporary file name when --inplace is not used (default ".partial")
      --refresh-times                               Refresh the modtime of remote files
      --server-side-across-configs                  Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs
      --size-only                                   Skip based on size only, not modtime or checksum
      --streaming-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix          Cutoff for switching to chunked upload if file size is unknown, upload starts after reaching cutoff or when file ends (default 100Ki)
  -u, --update                                      Skip files that are newer on the destination
```


## Sync

Flags used for sync commands.

```
      --backup-dir string               Make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
      --delete-after                    When synchronizing, delete files on destination after transferring (default)
      --delete-before                   When synchronizing, delete files on destination before transferring
      --delete-during                   When synchronizing, delete files during transfer
      --fix-case                        Force rename of case insensitive dest to match source
      --ignore-errors                   Delete even if there are I/O errors
      --list-cutoff int                 To save memory, sort directory listings on disk above this threshold (default 1000000)
      --max-delete int                  When synchronizing, limit the number of deletes (default -1)
      --max-delete-size SizeSuffix      When synchronizing, limit the total size of deletes (default off)
      --suffix string                   Suffix to add to changed files
      --suffix-keep-extension           Preserve the extension when using --suffix
      --track-renames                   When synchronizing, track file renames and do a server-side move if possible
      --track-renames-strategy string   Strategies to use when synchronizing using track-renames hash|modtime|leaf (default "hash")
```


## Important

Important flags useful for most commands.

```
  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```


## Check

Flags used for check commands.

```
      --max-backlog int   Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000)
```


## Networking

Flags for general networking and HTTP stuff.

```
      --bind string                        Local address to bind to for outgoing connections, IPv4, IPv6 or name
      --bwlimit BwTimetable                Bandwidth limit in KiB/s, or use suffix B|K|M|G|T|P or a full timetable
      --bwlimit-file BwTimetable           Bandwidth limit per file in KiB/s, or use suffix B|K|M|G|T|P or a full timetable
      --ca-cert stringArray                CA certificate used to verify servers
      --client-cert string                 Client SSL certificate (PEM) for mutual TLS auth
      --client-key string                  Client SSL private key (PEM) for mutual TLS auth
      --client-pass string                 Password for client SSL private key (PEM) for mutual TLS auth (obscured) (obscured)
      --contimeout Duration                Connect timeout (default 1m0s)
      --disable-http-keep-alives           Disable HTTP keep-alives and use each connection once
      --disable-http2                      Disable HTTP/2 in the global transport
      --dscp string                        Set DSCP value to connections, value or name, e.g. CS1, LE, DF, AF21
      --expect-continue-timeout Duration   Timeout when using expect / 100-continue in HTTP (default 1s)
      --header stringArray                 Set HTTP header for all transactions
      --header-download stringArray        Set HTTP header for download transactions
      --header-upload stringArray          Set HTTP header for upload transactions
      --http-proxy string                  HTTP proxy URL
      --max-connections int                Maximum number of simultaneous backend API connections, 0 for unlimited
      --no-check-certificate               Do not verify the server SSL certificate (insecure)
      --no-gzip-encoding                   Don't set Accept-Encoding: gzip
      --timeout Duration                   IO idle timeout (default 5m0s)
      --tpslimit float                     Limit HTTP transactions per second to this
      --tpslimit-burst int                 Max burst of transactions for --tpslimit (default 1)
      --use-cookies                        Enable session cookiejar
      --user-agent string                  Set the user-agent to a specified string (default "rclone/v1.75.0")
```


## Performance

Flags helpful for increasing performance.

```
      --buffer-size SizeSuffix   In memory buffer size when reading files for each --transfer (default 16Mi)
      --checkers int             Number of checkers to run in parallel (default 8)
      --transfers int            Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```


## Config

Flags for general configuration of rclone.

```
      --ask-password                        Allow prompt for password for encrypted configuration (default true)
      --auto-confirm                        If enabled, do not request console confirmation
      --cache-dir string                    Directory rclone will use for caching (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone")
      --color AUTO|NEVER|ALWAYS             When to show colors (and other ANSI codes) AUTO|NEVER|ALWAYS (default AUTO)
      --config string                       Config file (default "$HOME/.config/rclone/rclone.conf")
      --default-time Time                   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --disable string                      Disable a comma separated list of features (use --disable help to see a list)
  -n, --dry-run                             Do a trial run with no permanent changes
      --error-on-no-transfer                Sets exit code 9 if no files are transferred, useful in scripts
      --fs-cache-expire-duration Duration   Cache remotes for this long (0 to disable caching) (default 5m0s)
      --fs-cache-expire-interval Duration   Interval to check for expired remotes (default 1m0s)
      --human-readable                      Print numbers in a human-readable format, sizes with suffix Ki|Mi|Gi|Ti|Pi
  -i, --interactive                         Enable interactive mode
      --kv-lock-time Duration               Maximum time to keep key-value database locked by process (default 1s)
      --low-level-retries int               Number of low level retries to do (default 10)
      --max-buffer-memory SizeSuffix        If set, don't allocate more than this amount of memory as buffers (default off)
      --no-console                          Hide console window (supported on Windows only)
      --no-unicode-normalization            Don't normalize unicode characters in filenames
      --password-command SpaceSepList       Command for supplying password for encrypted configuration
      --retries int                         Retry operations this many times if they fail (default 3)
      --retries-sleep Duration              Interval between retrying operations if they fail, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 0s)
      --temp-dir string                     Directory rclone will use for temporary files (default "/tmp")
      --use-mmap                            Use mmap allocator (see docs)
      --use-server-modtime                  Use server modified time instead of object metadata
```


## Debugging

Flags for developers.

```
      --cpuprofile string   Write cpu profile to file
      --dump DumpFlags      List of items to dump from: headers, bodies, requests, responses, auth, filters, goroutines, openfiles, mapper, curl, errors, trace
      --dump-bodies         Dump HTTP headers and bodies - may contain sensitive info
      --dump-headers        Dump HTTP headers - may contain sensitive info
      --memprofile string   Write memory profile to file
```


## Filter

Flags for filtering directory listings.

```
      --delete-excluded                     Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --exclude stringArray                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from stringArray            Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --exclude-if-present stringArray      Exclude directories if filename is present
      --files-from stringArray              Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from-raw stringArray          Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin)
      --files-from0 stringArray             Read list of source-file names from file using NUL as separator (use - to read from stdin)
  -f, --filter stringArray                  Add a file filtering rule
      --filter-from stringArray             Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --hash-filter string                  Partition filenames by hash k/n or randomly @/n
      --ignore-case                         Ignore case in filters (case insensitive)
      --include stringArray                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from stringArray            Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --max-age Duration                    Only transfer files younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --max-depth int                       If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1)
      --max-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --min-age Duration                    Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off)
      --min-size SizeSuffix                 Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off)
```


## Listing

Flags for listing directories.

```
      --default-time Time   Time to show if modtime is unknown for files and directories (default 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
      --fast-list           Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions
```


## Logging

Flags for logging and statistics.

```
      --log-file string                     Log everything to this file
      --log-file-compress                   If set, compress rotated log files using gzip
      --log-file-max-age Duration           Maximum duration to retain old log files (eg "7d") (default 0s)
      --log-file-max-backups int            Maximum number of old log files to retain
      --log-file-max-size SizeSuffix        Maximum size of the log file before it's rotated (eg "10M") (default off)
      --log-format Bits                     Comma separated list of log format options (default date,time)
      --log-level LogLevel                  Log level DEBUG|INFO|NOTICE|ERROR (default NOTICE)
      --log-systemd                         Activate systemd integration for the logger
      --max-stats-groups int                Maximum number of stats groups to keep in memory, on max oldest is discarded (default 1000)
  -P, --progress                            Show progress during transfer
      --progress-terminal-title             Show progress on the terminal title (requires -P/--progress)
  -q, --quiet                               Print as little stuff as possible
      --stats Duration                      Interval between printing stats, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --stats-file-name-length int          Max file name length in stats (0 for no limit) (default 45)
      --stats-log-level LogLevel            Log level to show --stats output DEBUG|INFO|NOTICE|ERROR (default INFO)
      --stats-one-line                      Make the stats fit on one line
      --stats-one-line-date                 Enable --stats-one-line and add current date/time prefix
      --stats-one-line-date-format string   Enable --stats-one-line-date and use custom formatted date: Enclose date string in double quotes ("), see https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Format
      --stats-unit string                   Show data rate in stats as either 'bits' or 'bytes' per second (default "bytes")
      --syslog                              Use Syslog for logging
      --syslog-facility string              Facility for syslog, e.g. KERN,USER (default "DAEMON")
      --use-json-log                        Use json log format
  -v, --verbose count                       Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)
```


## Metadata

Flags to control metadata.

```
  -M, --metadata                            If set, preserve metadata when copying objects
      --metadata-exclude stringArray        Exclude metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-exclude-from stringArray   Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-filter stringArray         Add a metadata filtering rule
      --metadata-filter-from stringArray    Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-include stringArray        Include metadatas matching pattern
      --metadata-include-from stringArray   Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
      --metadata-mapper SpaceSepList        Program to run to transforming metadata before upload
      --metadata-set stringArray            Add metadata key=value when uploading
```


## RC

Flags to control the Remote Control API.

```
      --rc                                 Enable the remote control server
      --rc-addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default localhost:5572)
      --rc-allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --rc-baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --rc-cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --rc-client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --rc-enable-metrics                  Enable the Prometheus metrics path at the remote control server
      --rc-files string                    Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server
      --rc-htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --rc-job-expire-duration Duration    Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s)
      --rc-job-expire-interval Duration    Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s)
      --rc-key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --rc-max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --rc-min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --rc-no-auth                         Don't require auth for certain methods
      --rc-pass string                     Password for authentication
      --rc-realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --rc-response-header stringArray     Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --rc-salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --rc-serve                           Enable the serving of remote objects
      --rc-serve-no-modtime                Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
      --rc-server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-template string                 User-specified template
      --rc-user string                     User name for authentication
      --rc-user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
      --rc-web-fetch-url string            URL to fetch the releases for webgui (default "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest")
      --rc-web-gui                         Launch WebGUI on localhost
      --rc-web-gui-force-update            Force update to latest version of web gui
      --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser         Don't open the browser automatically
      --rc-web-gui-update                  Check and update to latest version of web gui
```


## Metrics

Flags to control the Metrics HTTP endpoint..

```
      --metrics-addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to
      --metrics-allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --metrics-baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --metrics-cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --metrics-client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --metrics-htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --metrics-key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --metrics-max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --metrics-min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --metrics-pass string                     Password for authentication
      --metrics-realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --metrics-response-header stringArray     Set HTTP header for all responses, overriding existing values
      --metrics-salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --metrics-server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --metrics-server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --metrics-template string                 User-specified template
      --metrics-user string                     User name for authentication
      --metrics-user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
      --rc-enable-metrics                       Enable the Prometheus metrics path at the remote control server
```


## Backend

Backend-only flags (these can be set in the config file also).

```
      --alias-description string                            Description of the remote
      --alias-remote string                                 Remote or path to alias
      --archive-description string                          Description of the remote
      --archive-remote string                               Remote to wrap to read archives from
      --azureblob-access-tier string                        Access tier of blob: hot, cool, cold or archive
      --azureblob-account string                            Azure Storage Account Name
      --azureblob-archive-tier-delete                       Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting
      --azureblob-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
      --azureblob-client-certificate-password string        Password for the certificate file (optional) (obscured)
      --azureblob-client-certificate-path string            Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key
      --azureblob-client-id string                          The ID of the client in use
      --azureblob-client-secret string                      One of the service principal's client secrets
      --azureblob-client-send-certificate-chain             Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth
      --azureblob-connection-string string                  Storage Connection String
      --azureblob-copy-concurrency int                      Concurrency for multipart copy (default 512)
      --azureblob-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 8Mi)
      --azureblob-copy-total-concurrency int                Global concurrency limit for multipart copy chunks
      --azureblob-decompress                                If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
      --azureblob-delete-snapshots string                   Set to specify how to deal with snapshots on blob deletion
      --azureblob-description string                        Description of the remote
      --azureblob-directory-markers                         Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created
      --azureblob-disable-checksum                          Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
      --azureblob-disable-instance-discovery                Skip requesting Microsoft Entra instance metadata
      --azureblob-encoding Encoding                         The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8)
      --azureblob-endpoint string                           Endpoint for the service
      --azureblob-env-auth                                  Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI)
      --azureblob-key string                                Storage Account Shared Key
      --azureblob-list-chunk int                            Size of blob list (default 5000)
      --azureblob-msi-client-id string                      Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id string                      Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-msi-object-id string                      Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azureblob-no-check-container                        If set, don't attempt to check the container exists or create it
      --azureblob-no-head-object                            If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
      --azureblob-password string                           The user's password (obscured)
      --azureblob-public-access string                      Public access level of a container: blob or container
      --azureblob-sas-url string                            SAS URL for container level access only
      --azureblob-service-principal-file string             Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal
      --azureblob-tenant string                             ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID
      --azureblob-upload-concurrency int                    Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 16)
      --azureblob-upload-cutoff string                      Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated)
      --azureblob-use-az                                    Use Azure CLI tool az for authentication
      --azureblob-use-copy-blob                             Whether to use the Copy Blob API when copying to the same storage account (default true)
      --azureblob-use-emulator                              Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'
      --azureblob-use-msi                                   Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure)
      --azureblob-username string                           User name (usually an email address)
      --azurefiles-account string                           Azure Storage Account Name
      --azurefiles-chunk-size SizeSuffix                    Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
      --azurefiles-client-certificate-password string       Password for the certificate file (optional) (obscured)
      --azurefiles-client-certificate-path string           Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key
      --azurefiles-client-id string                         The ID of the client in use
      --azurefiles-client-secret string                     One of the service principal's client secrets
      --azurefiles-client-send-certificate-chain            Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth
      --azurefiles-connection-string string                 Storage Connection String
      --azurefiles-description string                       Description of the remote
      --azurefiles-disable-instance-discovery               Skip requesting Microsoft Entra instance metadata
      --azurefiles-encoding Encoding                        The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --azurefiles-endpoint string                          Endpoint for the service
      --azurefiles-env-auth                                 Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI)
      --azurefiles-key string                               Storage Account Shared Key
      --azurefiles-max-stream-size SizeSuffix               Max size for streamed files (default 10Gi)
      --azurefiles-msi-client-id string                     Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azurefiles-msi-mi-res-id string                     Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azurefiles-msi-object-id string                     Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
      --azurefiles-password string                          The user's password (obscured)
      --azurefiles-sas-url string                           SAS URL for container level access only
      --azurefiles-service-principal-file string            Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal
      --azurefiles-share-name string                        Azure Files Share Name
      --azurefiles-tenant string                            ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID
      --azurefiles-upload-concurrency int                   Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 16)
      --azurefiles-use-az                                   Use Azure CLI tool az for authentication
      --azurefiles-use-emulator                             Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'
      --azurefiles-use-msi                                  Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure)
      --azurefiles-username string                          User name (usually an email address)
      --b2-account string                                   Account ID or Application Key ID
      --b2-chunk-size SizeSuffix                            Upload chunk size (default 96Mi)
      --b2-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                           Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4Gi)
      --b2-description string                               Description of the remote
      --b2-disable-checksum                                 Disable checksums for large (> upload cutoff) files
      --b2-download-auth-duration Duration                  Time before the public link authorization token will expire in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d (default 1w)
      --b2-download-url string                              Custom endpoint for downloads
      --b2-encoding Encoding                                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --b2-endpoint string                                  Endpoint for the service
      --b2-hard-delete                                      Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files
      --b2-key string                                       Application Key
      --b2-lifecycle int                                    Set the number of days deleted files should be kept when creating a bucket
      --b2-sse-customer-algorithm string                    If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in B2
      --b2-sse-customer-key string                          To use SSE-C, you may provide the secret encryption key encoded in a UTF-8 compatible string to encrypt/decrypt your data
      --b2-sse-customer-key-base64 string                   To use SSE-C, you may provide the secret encryption key encoded in Base64 format to encrypt/decrypt your data
      --b2-sse-customer-key-md5 string                      If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional)
      --b2-test-mode string                                 A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header for debugging
      --b2-upload-concurrency int                           Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 4)
      --b2-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                         Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
      --b2-version-at Time                                  Show file versions as they were at the specified time (default off)
      --b2-versions                                         Include old versions in directory listings
      --box-access-token string                             Box App Primary Access Token
      --box-auth-url string                                 Auth server URL
      --box-box-config-file string                          Box App config.json location
      --box-box-sub-type string                              (default "user")
      --box-client-credentials                              Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --box-client-id string                                OAuth Client Id
      --box-client-secret string                            OAuth Client Secret
      --box-commit-retries int                              Max number of times to try committing a multipart file (default 100)
      --box-description string                              Description of the remote
      --box-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --box-impersonate string                              Impersonate this user ID when using a service account
      --box-list-chunk int                                  Size of listing chunk 1-1000 (default 1000)
      --box-owned-by string                                 Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in
      --box-root-folder-id string                           Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point
      --box-token string                                    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --box-token-url string                                Token server url
      --box-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                        Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB) (default 50Mi)
      --cache-chunk-clean-interval Duration                 How often should the cache perform cleanups of the chunk storage (default 1m0s)
      --cache-chunk-no-memory                               Disable the in-memory cache for storing chunks during streaming
      --cache-chunk-path string                             Directory to cache chunk files (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
      --cache-chunk-size SizeSuffix                         The size of a chunk (partial file data) (default 5Mi)
      --cache-chunk-total-size SizeSuffix                   The total size that the chunks can take up on the local disk (default 10Gi)
      --cache-db-path string                                Directory to store file structure metadata DB (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
      --cache-db-purge                                      Clear all the cached data for this remote on start
      --cache-db-wait-time Duration                         How long to wait for the DB to be available - 0 is unlimited (default 1s)
      --cache-description string                            Description of the remote
      --cache-info-age Duration                             How long to cache file structure information (directory listings, file size, times, etc.) (default 6h0m0s)
      --cache-plex-insecure string                          Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server
      --cache-plex-password string                          The password of the Plex user (obscured)
      --cache-plex-url string                               The URL of the Plex server
      --cache-plex-username string                          The username of the Plex user
      --cache-read-retries int                              How many times to retry a read from a cache storage (default 10)
      --cache-remote string                                 Remote to cache
      --cache-rps int                                       Limits the number of requests per second to the source FS (-1 to disable) (default -1)
      --cache-tmp-upload-path string                        Directory to keep temporary files until they are uploaded
      --cache-tmp-wait-time Duration                        How long should files be stored in local cache before being uploaded (default 15s)
      --cache-workers int                                   How many workers should run in parallel to download chunks (default 4)
      --cache-writes                                        Cache file data on writes through the FS
      --chunker-chunk-size SizeSuffix                       Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks (default 2Gi)
      --chunker-description string                          Description of the remote
      --chunker-fail-hard                                   Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks
      --chunker-hash-type string                            Choose how chunker handles hash sums (default "md5")
      --chunker-remote string                               Remote to chunk/unchunk
      --cloudinary-adjust-media-files-extensions            Cloudinary handles media formats as a file attribute and strips it from the name, which is unlike most other file systems (default true)
      --cloudinary-api-key string                           Cloudinary API Key
      --cloudinary-api-secret string                        Cloudinary API Secret
      --cloudinary-cloud-name string                        Cloudinary Environment Name
      --cloudinary-description string                       Description of the remote
      --cloudinary-encoding Encoding                        The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --cloudinary-eventually-consistent-delay Duration     Wait N seconds for eventual consistency of the databases that support the backend operation (default 0s)
      --cloudinary-media-extensions stringArray             Cloudinary supported media extensions (default 3ds,3g2,3gp,ai,arw,avi,avif,bmp,bw,cr2,cr3,djvu,dng,eps3,fbx,flif,flv,gif,glb,gltf,hdp,heic,heif,ico,indd,jp2,jpe,jpeg,jpg,jxl,jxr,m2ts,mov,mp4,mpeg,mts,mxf,obj,ogv,pdf,ply,png,psd,svg,tga,tif,tiff,ts,u3ma,usdz,wdp,webm,webp,wmv)
      --cloudinary-upload-prefix string                     Specify the API endpoint for environments out of the US
      --cloudinary-upload-preset string                     Upload Preset to select asset manipulation on upload
      --combine-description string                          Description of the remote
      --combine-upstreams SpaceSepList                      Upstreams for combining
      --compress-description string                         Description of the remote
      --compress-level string                               GZIP (levels -2 to 9):
      --compress-mode string                                Compression mode (default "gzip")
      --compress-ram-cache-limit SizeSuffix                 Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size (default 20Mi)
      --compress-remote string                              Remote to compress
  -L, --copy-links                                          Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item
      --crypt-description string                            Description of the remote
      --crypt-directory-name-encryption                     Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact (default true)
      --crypt-filename-encoding string                      How to encode the encrypted filename to text string (default "base32")
      --crypt-filename-encryption string                    How to encrypt the filenames (default "standard")
      --crypt-no-data-encryption                            Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted
      --crypt-pass-bad-blocks                               If set this will pass bad blocks through as all 0
      --crypt-password string                               Password or pass phrase for encryption (obscured)
      --crypt-password2 string                              Password or pass phrase for salt (obscured)
      --crypt-remote string                                 Remote to encrypt/decrypt
      --crypt-server-side-across-configs                    Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead
      --crypt-show-mapping                                  For all files listed show how the names encrypt
      --crypt-strict-names                                  If set, this will raise an error when crypt comes across a filename that can't be decrypted
      --crypt-suffix string                                 If this is set it will override the default suffix of ".bin" (default ".bin")
      --doi-description string                              Description of the remote
      --doi-doi string                                      The DOI or the doi.org URL
      --doi-doi-resolver-api-url string                     The URL of the DOI resolver API to use
      --doi-provider string                                 DOI provider
      --drime-access-token string                           API Access token
      --drime-chunk-size SizeSuffix                         Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
      --drime-description string                            Description of the remote
      --drime-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --drime-hard-delete                                   Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
      --drime-list-chunk int                                Number of items to list in each call (default 1000)
      --drime-root-folder-id string                         ID of the root folder
      --drime-upload-concurrency int                        Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies (default 4)
      --drime-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                      Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 5Mi)
      --drime-workspace-id string                           Account ID
      --drive-acknowledge-abuse                             Set to allow files which return cannotDownloadAbusiveFile to be downloaded
      --drive-allow-import-name-change                      Allow the filetype to change when uploading Google docs
      --drive-auth-owner-only                               Only consider files owned by the authenticated user
      --drive-auth-url string                               Auth server URL
      --drive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                         Upload chunk size (default 8Mi)
      --drive-client-credentials                            Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --drive-client-id string                              Google Application Client Id
      --drive-client-secret string                          Google Application Client Secret
      --drive-copy-shortcut-content                         Server side copy contents of shortcuts instead of the shortcut
      --drive-description string                            Description of the remote
      --drive-disable-http2                                 Disable drive using http2 (default true)
      --drive-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default InvalidUtf8)
      --drive-env-auth                                      Get IAM credentials from runtime (environment variables or instance meta data if no env vars)
      --drive-export-formats string                         Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs (default "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg")
      --drive-fast-list-bug-fix                             Work around a bug in Google Drive listing (default true)
      --drive-formats string                                Deprecated: See export_formats
      --drive-impersonate string                            Impersonate this user when using a service account
      --drive-import-formats string                         Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs
      --drive-keep-revision-forever                         Keep new head revision of each file forever
      --drive-list-chunk int                                Size of listing chunk 100-1000, 0 to disable (default 1000)
      --drive-metadata-enforce-expansive-access             Whether the request should enforce expansive access rules
      --drive-metadata-labels Bits                          Control whether labels should be read or written in metadata (default off)
      --drive-metadata-owner Bits                           Control whether owner should be read or written in metadata (default read)
      --drive-metadata-permissions Bits                     Control whether permissions should be read or written in metadata (default off)
      --drive-pacer-burst int                               Number of API calls to allow without sleeping (default 100)
      --drive-pacer-min-sleep Duration                      Minimum time to sleep between API calls (default 100ms)
      --drive-resource-key string                           Resource key for accessing a link-shared file
      --drive-root-folder-id string                         ID of the root folder
      --drive-scope string                                  Comma separated list of scopes that rclone should use when requesting access from drive
      --drive-server-side-across-configs                    Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead
      --drive-service-account-credentials string            Service Account Credentials JSON blob
      --drive-service-account-file string                   Service Account Credentials JSON file path
      --drive-shared-with-me                                Only show files that are shared with me
      --drive-show-all-gdocs                                Show all Google Docs including non-exportable ones in listings
      --drive-size-as-quota                                 Show sizes as storage quota usage, not actual size
      --drive-skip-checksum-gphotos                         Skip checksums on Google photos and videos only
      --drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts                       If set skip dangling shortcut files
      --drive-skip-gdocs                                    Skip google documents in all listings
      --drive-skip-shortcuts                                If set skip shortcut files
      --drive-starred-only                                  Only show files that are starred
      --drive-stop-on-download-limit                        Make download limit errors be fatal
      --drive-stop-on-upload-limit                          Make upload limit errors be fatal
      --drive-team-drive string                             ID of the Shared Drive (Team Drive)
      --drive-token string                                  OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --drive-token-url string                              Token server url
      --drive-trashed-only                                  Only show files that are in the trash
      --drive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                      Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 8Mi)
      --drive-use-created-date                              Use file created date instead of modified date
      --drive-use-shared-date                               Use date file was shared instead of modified date
      --drive-use-trash                                     Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently (default true)
      --drive-v2-download-min-size SizeSuffix               If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download (default off)
      --dropbox-auth-url string                             Auth server URL
      --dropbox-batch-mode string                           Upload file batching sync|async|off (default "sync")
      --dropbox-batch-size int                              Max number of files in upload batch
      --dropbox-batch-timeout Duration                      Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading (default 0s)
      --dropbox-chunk-size SizeSuffix                       Upload chunk size (< 150Mi) (default 48Mi)
      --dropbox-client-credentials                          Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --dropbox-client-id string                            OAuth Client Id
      --dropbox-client-secret string                        OAuth Client Secret
      --dropbox-description string                          Description of the remote
      --dropbox-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --dropbox-export-formats CommaSepList                 Comma separated list of preferred formats for exporting files (default html,md)
      --dropbox-impersonate string                          Impersonate this user when using a business account
      --dropbox-impersonate-admin string                    Team admin ID to use when performing actions as a team administrator
      --dropbox-pacer-min-sleep Duration                    Minimum time to sleep between API calls (default 10ms)
      --dropbox-root-namespace string                       Specify a different Dropbox namespace ID to use as the root for all paths
      --dropbox-shared-files                                Instructs rclone to work on individual shared files
      --dropbox-shared-folders                              Instructs rclone to work on shared folders
      --dropbox-show-all-exports                            Show all exportable files in listings
      --dropbox-skip-exports                                Skip exportable files in all listings
      --dropbox-skip-shared-folders                         Instructs rclone to skip all shared folders
      --dropbox-skip-unowned-folders                        Instructs rclone to skip shared folders not owned by the current user
      --dropbox-token string                                OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --dropbox-token-url string                            Token server url
      --fichier-api-key string                              Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl
      --fichier-cdn                                         Set if you wish to use CDN download links
      --fichier-description string                          Description of the remote
      --fichier-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --fichier-file-password string                        If you want to download a shared file that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
      --fichier-folder-password string                      If you want to list the files in a shared folder that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
      --fichier-shared-folder string                        If you want to download a shared folder, add this parameter
      --filefabric-description string                       Description of the remote
      --filefabric-encoding Encoding                        The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --filefabric-permanent-token string                   Permanent Authentication Token
      --filefabric-root-folder-id string                    ID of the root folder
      --filefabric-token string                             Session Token
      --filefabric-token-expiry string                      Token expiry time
      --filefabric-url string                               URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
      --filefabric-version string                           Version read from the file fabric
      --filelu-chunk-size SizeSuffix                        Chunk size to use for uploading. Used for multipart uploads (default 64Mi)
      --filelu-description string                           Description of the remote
      --filelu-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,CrLf,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,LeftTilde,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightPeriod,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot,SquareBracket,Semicolon,Exclamation)
      --filelu-key string                                   Your FileLu Rclone key from My Account
      --filelu-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                     Cutoff for switching to chunked upload. Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size (default 500Mi)
      --filen-api-key string                                API Key for your Filen account (obscured)
      --filen-auth-version string                           Authentication Version (internal use only)
      --filen-base-folder-uuid string                       UUID of Account Root Directory (internal use only)
      --filen-description string                            Description of the remote
      --filen-email string                                  Email of your Filen account
      --filen-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --filen-master-keys string                            Master Keys (internal use only)
      --filen-password string                               Password of your Filen account (obscured)
      --filen-private-key string                            Private RSA Key (internal use only)
      --filen-public-key string                             Public RSA Key (internal use only)
      --filen-upload-concurrency int                        Concurrency for chunked uploads (default 16)
      --filescom-api-key string                             The API key used to authenticate with Files.com
      --filescom-description string                         Description of the remote
      --filescom-encoding Encoding                          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --filescom-password string                            The password used to authenticate with Files.com (obscured)
      --filescom-site string                                Your site subdomain (e.g. mysite) or custom domain (e.g. myfiles.customdomain.com)
      --filescom-username string                            The username used to authenticate with Files.com
      --ftp-allow-insecure-tls-ciphers                      Allow insecure TLS ciphers
      --ftp-ask-password                                    Allow asking for FTP password when needed
      --ftp-close-timeout Duration                          Maximum time to wait for a response to close (default 1m0s)
      --ftp-concurrency int                                 Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited
      --ftp-description string                              Description of the remote
      --ftp-disable-epsv                                    Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support
      --ftp-disable-mlsd                                    Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support
      --ftp-disable-tls13                                   Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)
      --ftp-disable-utf8                                    Disable using UTF-8 even if server advertises support
      --ftp-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot)
      --ftp-explicit-tls                                    Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
      --ftp-force-list-hidden                               Use LIST -a to force listing of hidden files and folders. This will disable the use of MLSD
      --ftp-host string                                     FTP host to connect to
      --ftp-http-proxy string                               URL for HTTP CONNECT proxy
      --ftp-idle-timeout Duration                           Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
      --ftp-no-check-certificate                            Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server
      --ftp-no-check-upload                                 Don't check the upload is OK
      --ftp-pass string                                     FTP password (obscured)
      --ftp-port int                                        FTP port number (default 21)
      --ftp-shut-timeout Duration                           Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status (default 1m0s)
      --ftp-socks-proxy string                              Socks 5 proxy host
      --ftp-tls                                             Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
      --ftp-tls-cache-size int                              Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections (default 32)
      --ftp-user string                                     FTP username (default "$USER")
      --ftp-writing-mdtm                                    Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)
      --gcs-access-token string                             Short-lived access token
      --gcs-anonymous                                       Access public buckets and objects without credentials
      --gcs-auth-url string                                 Auth server URL
      --gcs-bucket-acl string                               Access Control List for new buckets
      --gcs-bucket-policy-only                              Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies
      --gcs-client-credentials                              Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --gcs-client-id string                                OAuth Client Id
      --gcs-client-secret string                            OAuth Client Secret
      --gcs-decompress                                      If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
      --gcs-description string                              Description of the remote
      --gcs-directory-markers                               Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created
      --gcs-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --gcs-endpoint string                                 Custom endpoint for the storage API. Leave blank to use the provider default
      --gcs-env-auth                                        Get GCP IAM credentials from runtime (environment variables or instance meta data if no env vars)
      --gcs-location string                                 Location for the newly created buckets
      --gcs-no-check-bucket                                 If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
      --gcs-object-acl string                               Access Control List for new objects
      --gcs-project-number string                           Project number
      --gcs-service-account-file string                     Service Account Credentials JSON file path
      --gcs-storage-class string                            The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage
      --gcs-token string                                    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --gcs-token-url string                                Token server url
      --gcs-user-project string                             User project
      --gofile-access-token string                          API Access token
      --gofile-account-id string                            Account ID
      --gofile-description string                           Description of the remote
      --gofile-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftPeriod,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot,Exclamation)
      --gofile-list-chunk int                               Number of items to list in each call (default 1000)
      --gofile-root-folder-id string                        ID of the root folder
      --gphotos-auth-url string                             Auth server URL
      --gphotos-batch-mode string                           Upload file batching sync|async|off (default "sync")
      --gphotos-batch-size int                              Max number of files in upload batch
      --gphotos-batch-timeout Duration                      Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading (default 0s)
      --gphotos-client-credentials                          Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --gphotos-client-id string                            OAuth Client Id
      --gphotos-client-secret string                        OAuth Client Secret
      --gphotos-description string                          Description of the remote
      --gphotos-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --gphotos-include-archived                            Also view and download archived media
      --gphotos-proxy string                                Use the gphotosdl proxy for downloading the full resolution images
      --gphotos-read-only                                   Set to make the Google Photos backend read only
      --gphotos-read-size                                   Set to read the size of media items
      --gphotos-start-year int                              Year limits the photos to be downloaded to those which are uploaded after the given year (default 2000)
      --gphotos-token string                                OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --gphotos-token-url string                            Token server url
      --hasher-auto-size SizeSuffix                         Auto-update checksum for files smaller than this size (disabled by default)
      --hasher-description string                           Description of the remote
      --hasher-hashes CommaSepList                          Comma separated list of supported checksum types (default md5,sha1)
      --hasher-max-age Duration                             Maximum time to keep checksums in cache (0 = no cache, off = cache forever) (default off)
      --hasher-remote string                                Remote to cache checksums for (e.g. myRemote:path)
      --hdfs-data-transfer-protection string                Kerberos data transfer protection: authentication|integrity|privacy
      --hdfs-description string                             Description of the remote
      --hdfs-encoding Encoding                              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Colon,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --hdfs-namenode CommaSepList                          Hadoop name nodes and ports
      --hdfs-service-principal-name string                  Kerberos service principal name for the namenode
      --hdfs-username string                                Hadoop user name
      --hidrive-auth-url string                             Auth server URL
      --hidrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                       Chunksize for chunked uploads (default 48Mi)
      --hidrive-client-credentials                          Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --hidrive-client-id string                            OAuth Client Id
      --hidrive-client-secret string                        OAuth Client Secret
      --hidrive-description string                          Description of the remote
      --hidrive-disable-fetching-member-count               Do not fetch number of objects in directories unless it is absolutely necessary
      --hidrive-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Dot)
      --hidrive-endpoint string                             Endpoint for the service (default "https://api.hidrive.strato.com/2.1")
      --hidrive-root-prefix string                          The root/parent folder for all paths (default "/")
      --hidrive-scope-access string                         Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive (default "rw")
      --hidrive-scope-role string                           User-level that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive (default "user")
      --hidrive-token string                                OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --hidrive-token-url string                            Token server url
      --hidrive-upload-concurrency int                      Concurrency for chunked uploads (default 4)
      --hidrive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff/Threshold for chunked uploads (default 96Mi)
      --http-description string                             Description of the remote
      --http-headers CommaSepList                           Set HTTP headers for all transactions
      --http-no-escape                                      Do not escape URL metacharacters in path names
      --http-no-head                                        Don't use HEAD requests
      --http-no-slash                                       Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /
      --http-url string                                     URL of HTTP host to connect to
      --huaweidrive-auth-url string                         Auth server URL
      --huaweidrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                   Upload chunk size (default 8Mi)
      --huaweidrive-client-credentials                      Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --huaweidrive-client-id string                        OAuth Client Id
      --huaweidrive-client-secret string                    OAuth Client Secret
      --huaweidrive-description string                      Description of the remote
      --huaweidrive-encoding Encoding                       The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --huaweidrive-list-chunk int                          Size of listing chunk 1-1000 (default 1000)
      --huaweidrive-root-folder-id string                   ID of the root folder
      --huaweidrive-token string                            OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --huaweidrive-token-url string                        Token server url
      --huaweidrive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                Cutoff for switching to resumable upload (default 20Mi)
      --iclouddrive-apple-id string                         Apple ID
      --iclouddrive-client-id string                        Client ID for iCloud API access (default "d39ba9916b7251055b22c7f910e2ea796ee65e98b2ddecea8f5dde8d9d1a815d")
      --iclouddrive-description string                      Description of the remote
      --iclouddrive-encoding Encoding                       The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --iclouddrive-password string                         Password (obscured)
      --iclouddrive-service string                          iCloud service to use (default "drive")
      --imagekit-description string                         Description of the remote
      --imagekit-encoding Encoding                          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Dollar,Question,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot,SquareBracket)
      --imagekit-endpoint string                            You can find your ImageKit.io URL endpoint in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
      --imagekit-only-signed Restrict unsigned image URLs   If you have configured Restrict unsigned image URLs in your dashboard settings, set this to true
      --imagekit-private-key string                         You can find your ImageKit.io private key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
      --imagekit-public-key string                          You can find your ImageKit.io public key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
      --imagekit-upload-tags string                         Tags to add to the uploaded files, e.g. "tag1,tag2"
      --imagekit-versions                                   Include old versions in directory listings
      --internetarchive-access-key-id string                IAS3 Access Key
      --internetarchive-description string                  Description of the remote
      --internetarchive-disable-checksum                    Don't ask the server to test against MD5 checksum calculated by rclone (default true)
      --internetarchive-encoding Encoding                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,CrLf,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --internetarchive-endpoint string                     IAS3 Endpoint (default "https://s3.us.archive.org")
      --internetarchive-front-endpoint string               Host of InternetArchive Frontend (default "https://archive.org")
      --internetarchive-item-derive                         Whether to trigger derive on the IA item or not. If set to false, the item will not be derived by IA upon upload (default true)
      --internetarchive-item-metadata stringArray           Metadata to be set on the IA item, this is different from file-level metadata that can be set using --metadata-set
      --internetarchive-secret-access-key string            IAS3 Secret Key (password)
      --internetarchive-wait-archive Duration               Timeout for waiting the server's processing tasks (specifically archive and book_op) to finish (default 0s)
      --internxt-chunk-size SizeSuffix                      Chunk size for multipart uploads (default 30Mi)
      --internxt-description string                         Description of the remote
      --internxt-email string                               Email of your Internxt account
      --internxt-encoding Encoding                          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,CrLf,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --internxt-pass string                                Password (obscured)
      --internxt-skip-hash-validation                       Skip hash validation when downloading files (default true)
      --internxt-upload-concurrency int                     Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 4)
      --internxt-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                   Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (default 100Mi)
      --jottacloud-auth-url string                          Auth server URL
      --jottacloud-client-credentials                       Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --jottacloud-client-id string                         OAuth Client Id
      --jottacloud-client-secret string                     OAuth Client Secret
      --jottacloud-description string                       Description of the remote
      --jottacloud-encoding Encoding                        The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --jottacloud-hard-delete                              Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
      --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit SizeSuffix              Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate the MD5 if required (default 10Mi)
      --jottacloud-no-versions                              Avoid server side versioning by deleting files and recreating files instead of overwriting them
      --jottacloud-token string                             OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --jottacloud-token-url string                         Token server url
      --jottacloud-trashed-only                             Only show files that are in the trash
      --jottacloud-upload-resume-limit SizeSuffix           Files bigger than this can be resumed if the upload fail's (default 10Mi)
      --koofr-description string                            Description of the remote
      --koofr-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --koofr-endpoint string                               The Koofr API endpoint to use
      --koofr-mountid string                                Mount ID of the mount to use
      --koofr-password string                               Your password for rclone generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password (obscured)
      --koofr-provider string                               Choose your storage provider
      --koofr-setmtime                                      Does the backend support setting modification time (default true)
      --koofr-user string                                   Your user name
      --linkbox-description string                          Description of the remote
      --linkbox-email string                                Email for login
      --linkbox-password string                             Password for login (obscured)
      --linkbox-token string                                Token from https://www.linkbox.to/admin/account
      --local-case-insensitive                              Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive
      --local-case-sensitive                                Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive
      --local-description string                            Description of the remote
      --local-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Dot)
      --local-fatal-if-no-space                             Make out-of-space errors fatal during transfers
      --local-hashes CommaSepList                           Comma separated list of supported checksum types
      --local-links                                         Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the local backend
      --local-metadata-restore-special-bits                 Restore the setuid, setgid and sticky bits from metadata
      --local-no-check-updated                              Don't check to see if the files change during upload
      --local-no-clone                                      Disable reflink cloning for server-side copies
      --local-no-preallocate                                Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files
      --local-no-set-modtime                                Disable setting modtime
      --local-no-sparse                                     Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads
      --local-nounc                                         Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows
      --local-time-type mtime|atime|btime|ctime             Set what kind of time is returned (default mtime)
      --local-unicode-normalization                         Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames
      --local-zero-size-links                               Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated)
      --mailru-auth-url string                              Auth server URL
      --mailru-check-hash                                   What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid (default true)
      --mailru-client-credentials                           Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --mailru-client-id string                             OAuth Client Id
      --mailru-client-secret string                         OAuth Client Secret
      --mailru-description string                           Description of the remote
      --mailru-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --mailru-pass string                                  Password (obscured)
      --mailru-speedup-enable                               Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash (default true)
      --mailru-speedup-file-patterns string                 Comma separated list of file name patterns eligible for speedup (put by hash) (default "*.mkv,*.avi,*.mp4,*.mp3,*.zip,*.gz,*.rar,*.pdf")
      --mailru-speedup-max-disk SizeSuffix                  This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files (default 3Gi)
      --mailru-speedup-max-memory SizeSuffix                Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk (default 32Mi)
      --mailru-token string                                 OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --mailru-token-url string                             Token server url
      --mailru-user string                                  User name (usually email)
      --mega-2fa string                                     The 2FA code of your MEGA account if the account is set up with one
      --mega-debug                                          Output more debug from Mega
      --mega-description string                             Description of the remote
      --mega-encoding Encoding                              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --mega-hard-delete                                    Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
      --mega-pass string                                    Password (obscured)
      --mega-use-https                                      Use HTTPS for transfers
      --mega-user string                                    User name
      --memory-description string                           Description of the remote
      --memory-discard                                      If set all writes will be discarded and reads will return an error
      --netstorage-account string                           Set the NetStorage account name
      --netstorage-description string                       Description of the remote
      --netstorage-host string                              Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to
      --netstorage-protocol string                          Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol (default "https")
      --netstorage-secret string                            Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication (obscured)
  -x, --one-file-system                                     Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only)
      --onedrive-access-scopes SpaceSepList                 Set scopes to be requested by rclone (default Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access)
      --onedrive-auth-url string                            Auth server URL
      --onedrive-av-override                                Allows download of files the server thinks has a virus
      --onedrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                      Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) (default 10Mi)
      --onedrive-client-credentials                         Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --onedrive-client-id string                           OAuth Client Id
      --onedrive-client-secret string                       OAuth Client Secret
      --onedrive-delta                                      If set rclone will use delta listing to implement recursive listings
      --onedrive-description string                         Description of the remote
      --onedrive-drive-id string                            The ID of the drive to use
      --onedrive-drive-type string                          The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary)
      --onedrive-encoding Encoding                          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --onedrive-expose-onenote-files                       Set to make OneNote files show up in directory listings
      --onedrive-hard-delete                                Permanently delete files on removal
      --onedrive-hash-type string                           Specify the hash in use for the backend (default "auto")
      --onedrive-link-password string                       Set the password for links created by the link command
      --onedrive-link-scope string                          Set the scope of the links created by the link command (default "anonymous")
      --onedrive-link-type string                           Set the type of the links created by the link command (default "view")
      --onedrive-list-chunk int                             Size of listing chunk (default 1000)
      --onedrive-metadata-permissions Bits                  Control whether permissions should be read or written in metadata (default off)
      --onedrive-no-versions                                Remove all versions on modifying operations
      --onedrive-region string                              Choose national cloud region for OneDrive (default "global")
      --onedrive-root-folder-id string                      ID of the root folder
      --onedrive-server-side-across-configs                 Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead
      --onedrive-tenant string                              ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID
      --onedrive-tenant-url string                          The tenant URL for non-admin OneDrive access
      --onedrive-token string                               OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --onedrive-token-url string                           Token server url
      --onedrive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                   Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default off)
      --oos-attempt-resume-upload                           If true attempt to resume previously started multipart upload for the object
      --oos-chunk-size SizeSuffix                           Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
      --oos-compartment string                              Specify compartment OCID, if you need to list buckets
      --oos-config-file string                              Path to OCI config file (default "~/.oci/config")
      --oos-config-profile string                           Profile name inside the oci config file (default "Default")
      --oos-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                          Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4.656Gi)
      --oos-copy-timeout Duration                           Timeout for copy (default 1m0s)
      --oos-decompress                                      If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
      --oos-description string                              Description of the remote
      --oos-disable-checksum                                Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
      --oos-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --oos-endpoint string                                 Endpoint for Object storage API
      --oos-leave-parts-on-error                            If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts for manual recovery
      --oos-max-upload-parts int                            Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload (default 10000)
      --oos-namespace string                                Object storage namespace
      --oos-no-check-bucket                                 If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
      --oos-provider string                                 Choose your Auth Provider (default "env_auth")
      --oos-region string                                   Object storage Region
      --oos-sse-customer-algorithm string                   If using SSE-C, the optional header that specifies "AES256" as the encryption algorithm
      --oos-sse-customer-key string                         To use SSE-C, the optional header that specifies the base64-encoded 256-bit encryption key to use to
      --oos-sse-customer-key-file string                    To use SSE-C, a file containing the base64-encoded string of the AES-256 encryption key associated
      --oos-sse-customer-key-sha256 string                  If using SSE-C, The optional header that specifies the base64-encoded SHA256 hash of the encryption
      --oos-sse-kms-key-id string                           if using your own master key in vault, this header specifies the
      --oos-storage-tier string                             The storage class to use when storing new objects in storage. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Concepts/understandingstoragetiers.htm (default "Standard")
      --oos-upload-concurrency int                          Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 10)
      --oos-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                        Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
      --opendrive-access string                             Files and folders will be uploaded with this access permission (default private) (default "private")
      --opendrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Files will be uploaded in chunks this size (default 10Mi)
      --opendrive-description string                        Description of the remote
      --opendrive-encoding Encoding                         The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --opendrive-password string                           Password (obscured)
      --opendrive-username string                           Username
      --pcloud-auth-url string                              Auth server URL
      --pcloud-client-credentials                           Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --pcloud-client-id string                             OAuth Client Id
      --pcloud-client-secret string                         OAuth Client Secret
      --pcloud-description string                           Description of the remote
      --pcloud-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --pcloud-hostname string                              Hostname to connect to (default "api.pcloud.com")
      --pcloud-password string                              Your pcloud password (obscured)
      --pcloud-root-folder-id string                        Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point (default "d0")
      --pcloud-token string                                 OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --pcloud-token-url string                             Token server url
      --pcloud-username string                              Your pcloud username
      --pikpak-chunk-size SizeSuffix                        Chunk size for multipart uploads (default 5Mi)
      --pikpak-description string                           Description of the remote
      --pikpak-device-id string                             Device ID used for authorization
      --pikpak-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --pikpak-hash-memory-limit SizeSuffix                 Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate hash if required (default 10Mi)
      --pikpak-no-media-link                                Use original file links instead of media links
      --pikpak-pass string                                  Pikpak password (obscured)
      --pikpak-root-folder-id string                        ID of the root folder
      --pikpak-trashed-only                                 Only show files that are in the trash
      --pikpak-upload-concurrency int                       Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 4)
      --pikpak-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                     Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
      --pikpak-use-trash                                    Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently (default true)
      --pikpak-user string                                  Pikpak username
      --pikpak-user-agent string                            HTTP user agent for pikpak (default "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0")
      --pixeldrain-api-key string                           API key for your pixeldrain account
      --pixeldrain-api-url string                           The API endpoint to connect to. In the vast majority of cases it's fine to leave (default "https://pixeldrain.com/api")
      --pixeldrain-description string                       Description of the remote
      --pixeldrain-root-folder-id string                    Root of the filesystem to use (default "me")
      --premiumizeme-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
      --premiumizeme-client-credentials                     Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --premiumizeme-client-id string                       OAuth Client Id
      --premiumizeme-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
      --premiumizeme-description string                     Description of the remote
      --premiumizeme-encoding Encoding                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --premiumizeme-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --premiumizeme-token-url string                       Token server url
      --protondrive-2fa string                              The 2FA code
      --protondrive-app-version string                      The app version string
      --protondrive-description string                      Description of the remote
      --protondrive-enable-caching                          Caches the files and folders metadata to reduce API calls (default true)
      --protondrive-encoding Encoding                       The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --protondrive-mailbox-password string                 The mailbox password of your two-password proton account (obscured)
      --protondrive-original-file-size                      Return the file size before encryption (default true)
      --protondrive-otp-secret-key string                   The OTP secret key (obscured)
      --protondrive-password string                         The password of your proton account (obscured)
      --protondrive-replace-existing-draft                  Create a new revision when filename conflict is detected
      --protondrive-username string                         The username of your proton account
      --putio-auth-url string                               Auth server URL
      --putio-client-credentials                            Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --putio-client-id string                              OAuth Client Id
      --putio-client-secret string                          OAuth Client Secret
      --putio-description string                            Description of the remote
      --putio-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --putio-token string                                  OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --putio-token-url string                              Token server url
      --qingstor-access-key-id string                       QingStor Access Key ID
      --qingstor-chunk-size SizeSuffix                      Chunk size to use for uploading (default 4Mi)
      --qingstor-connection-retries int                     Number of connection retries (default 3)
      --qingstor-description string                         Description of the remote
      --qingstor-encoding Encoding                          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
      --qingstor-endpoint string                            Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API
      --qingstor-env-auth                                   Get QingStor credentials from runtime
      --qingstor-secret-access-key string                   QingStor Secret Access Key (password)
      --qingstor-upload-concurrency int                     Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 1)
      --qingstor-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                   Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
      --qingstor-zone string                                Zone to connect to
      --quatrix-api-key string                              API key for accessing Quatrix account
      --quatrix-description string                          Description of the remote
      --quatrix-effective-upload-time string                Wanted upload time for one chunk (default "4s")
      --quatrix-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --quatrix-hard-delete                                 Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
      --quatrix-host string                                 Host name of Quatrix account
      --quatrix-maximal-summary-chunk-size SizeSuffix       The maximal summary for all chunks. It should not be less than 'transfers'*'minimal_chunk_size' (default 95.367Mi)
      --quatrix-minimal-chunk-size SizeSuffix               The minimal size for one chunk (default 9.537Mi)
      --quatrix-skip-project-folders                        Skip project folders in operations
      --s3-access-key-id string                             AWS Access Key ID
      --s3-acl string                                       Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects
      --s3-bucket-acl string                                Canned ACL used when creating buckets
      --s3-bucket-object-lock-enabled                       Enable Object Lock when creating new buckets
      --s3-bypass-governance-retention                      Allow deleting or modifying objects locked with GOVERNANCE mode
      --s3-chunk-size SizeSuffix                            Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
      --s3-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                           Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4.656Gi)
      --s3-decompress                                       If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
      --s3-description string                               Description of the remote
      --s3-directory-bucket                                 Set to use AWS Directory Buckets
      --s3-directory-markers                                Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created
      --s3-disable-checksum                                 Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
      --s3-disable-http2                                    Disable usage of http2 for S3 backends
      --s3-download-url string                              Custom endpoint for downloads
      --s3-encoding Encoding                                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --s3-endpoint string                                  Endpoint for S3 API
      --s3-env-auth                                         Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars)
      --s3-force-path-style                                 If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style (default true)
      --s3-ibm-api-key string                               IBM API Key to be used to obtain IAM token
      --s3-ibm-iam-endpoint string                          IBM IAM Endpoint to use for authentication
      --s3-ibm-resource-instance-id string                  IBM service instance id
      --s3-leave-parts-on-error                             If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery
      --s3-list-chunk int                                   Size of listing chunk (response list for each ListObject S3 request) (default 1000)
      --s3-list-url-encode Tristate                         Whether to url encode listings: true/false/unset (default unset)
      --s3-list-version int                                 Version of ListObjects to use: 1,2 or 0 for auto
      --s3-list-versions-oldest-first Tristate              Set if the backend returns object versions oldest first (default unset)
      --s3-location-constraint string                       Location constraint - must be set to match the Region
      --s3-max-upload-parts int                             Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload (default 10000)
      --s3-might-gzip Tristate                              Set this if the backend might gzip objects (default unset)
      --s3-no-check-bucket                                  If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
      --s3-no-head                                          If set, don't HEAD uploaded objects to check integrity
      --s3-no-head-object                                   If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
      --s3-no-system-metadata                               Suppress setting and reading of system metadata
      --s3-object-lock-legal-hold-status string             Object Lock legal hold status to apply when uploading or copying objects
      --s3-object-lock-mode string                          Object Lock mode to apply when uploading or copying objects
      --s3-object-lock-retain-until-date string             Object Lock retention until date to apply when uploading or copying objects
      --s3-object-lock-set-after-upload                     Set Object Lock via separate API calls after upload
      --s3-object-lock-supported Tristate                   Whether the provider supports S3 Object Lock (default unset)
      --s3-profile string                                   Profile to use in the shared credentials file
      --s3-provider string                                  Choose your S3 provider
      --s3-region string                                    Region to connect to
      --s3-requester-pays                                   Enables requester pays option when interacting with S3 bucket
      --s3-role-arn string                                  ARN of the IAM role to assume
      --s3-role-external-id string                          External ID for assumed role
      --s3-role-session-duration string                     Session duration for assumed role
      --s3-role-session-name string                         Session name for assumed role
      --s3-sdk-log-mode Bits                                Set to debug the SDK (default Off)
      --s3-secret-access-key string                         AWS Secret Access Key (password)
      --s3-server-side-encryption string                    The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
      --s3-session-token string                             An AWS session token
      --s3-shared-credentials-file string                   Path to the shared credentials file
      --s3-sign-accept-encoding Tristate                    Set if rclone should include Accept-Encoding as part of the signature (default unset)
      --s3-sse-customer-algorithm string                    If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
      --s3-sse-customer-key string                          To use SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key used to encrypt/decrypt your data
      --s3-sse-customer-key-base64 string                   If using SSE-C you must provide the secret encryption key encoded in base64 format to encrypt/decrypt your data
      --s3-sse-customer-key-md5 string                      If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional)
      --s3-sse-kms-key-id string                            If using KMS ID you must provide the ARN of Key
      --s3-storage-class string                             The storage class to use when storing new objects in S3
      --s3-upload-concurrency int                           Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies (default 4)
      --s3-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                         Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
      --s3-use-accelerate-endpoint                          If true use the AWS S3 accelerated endpoint
      --s3-use-accept-encoding-gzip Accept-Encoding: gzip   Whether to send Accept-Encoding: gzip header (default unset)
      --s3-use-already-exists Tristate                      Set if rclone should report BucketAlreadyExists errors on bucket creation (default unset)
      --s3-use-arn-region                                   If true, enables arn region support for the service
      --s3-use-data-integrity-protections Tristate          If true use AWS S3 data integrity protections (default unset)
      --s3-use-dual-stack                                   If true use AWS S3 dual-stack endpoint (IPv6 support)
      --s3-use-multipart-etag Tristate                      Whether to use ETag in multipart uploads for verification (default unset)
      --s3-use-multipart-uploads Tristate                   Set if rclone should use multipart uploads (default unset)
      --s3-use-presigned-request                            Whether to use a presigned request or PutObject for single part uploads
      --s3-use-unsigned-payload Tristate                    Whether to use an unsigned payload in PutObject (default unset)
      --s3-use-x-id Tristate                                Set if rclone should add x-id URL parameters (default unset)
      --s3-v2-auth                                          If true use v2 authentication
      --s3-version-at Time                                  Show file versions as they were at the specified time (default off)
      --s3-version-deleted                                  Show deleted file markers when using versions
      --s3-versions                                         Include old versions in directory listings
      --seafile-2fa                                         Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
      --seafile-create-library                              Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist
      --seafile-description string                          Description of the remote
      --seafile-encoding Encoding                           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --seafile-library string                              Name of the library
      --seafile-library-key string                          Library password (for encrypted libraries only) (obscured)
      --seafile-pass string                                 Password (obscured)
      --seafile-url string                                  URL of seafile host to connect to
      --seafile-user string                                 User name (usually email address)
      --sftp-ask-password                                   Allow asking for SFTP password when needed
      --sftp-blake3sum-command string                       The command used to read BLAKE3 hashes
      --sftp-chunk-size SizeSuffix                          Upload and download chunk size (default 32Ki)
      --sftp-ciphers SpaceSepList                           Space separated list of ciphers to be used for session encryption, ordered by preference
      --sftp-concurrency int                                The maximum number of outstanding requests for one file (default 64)
      --sftp-connections int                                Maximum number of SFTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited
      --sftp-copy-is-hardlink                               Set to enable server side copies using hardlinks
      --sftp-crc32sum-command string                        The command used to read CRC-32 hashes
      --sftp-description string                             Description of the remote
      --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads                       If set don't use concurrent reads
      --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes                      If set don't use concurrent writes
      --sftp-disable-hashcheck                              Disable the execution of SSH commands to determine if remote file hashing is available
      --sftp-encoding Encoding                              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,Dot)
      --sftp-hashes CommaSepList                            Comma separated list of supported checksum types
      --sftp-host string                                    SSH host to connect to
      --sftp-host-key-algorithms SpaceSepList               Space separated list of host key algorithms, ordered by preference
      --sftp-host-keys CommaSepList                         Pinned host keys for this remote, used to verify the server
      --sftp-http-proxy string                              URL for HTTP CONNECT proxy
      --sftp-idle-timeout Duration                          Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
      --sftp-key-exchange SpaceSepList                      Space separated list of key exchange algorithms, ordered by preference
      --sftp-key-file string                                Path to PEM-encoded private key file
      --sftp-key-file-pass string                           The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file (obscured)
      --sftp-key-pem string                                 Raw PEM-encoded private key
      --sftp-key-use-agent                                  When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent
      --sftp-known-hosts-file string                        Optional path to known_hosts file
      --sftp-macs SpaceSepList                              Space separated list of MACs (message authentication code) algorithms, ordered by preference
      --sftp-md5sum-command string                          The command used to read MD5 hashes
      --sftp-pass string                                    SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent (obscured)
      --sftp-path-override string                           Override path used by SSH shell commands
      --sftp-pin-host-key                                   Pin the server host key on first connection (Trust On First Use)
      --sftp-port int                                       SSH port number (default 22)
      --sftp-pubkey string                                  SSH public certificate for public certificate based authentication
      --sftp-pubkey-file string                             Optional path to public key file
      --sftp-server-command string                          Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host
      --sftp-set-env SpaceSepList                           Environment variables to pass to sftp and commands
      --sftp-set-modtime                                    Set the modified time on the remote if set (default true)
      --sftp-sha1sum-command string                         The command used to read SHA-1 hashes
      --sftp-sha256sum-command string                       The command used to read SHA-256 hashes
      --sftp-shell-type string                              The type of SSH shell on remote server, if any
      --sftp-skip-links                                     Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files
      --sftp-socks-proxy string                             Socks 5 proxy host
      --sftp-ssh SpaceSepList                               Path and arguments to external ssh binary
      --sftp-subsystem string                               Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host (default "sftp")
      --sftp-use-fstat                                      If set use fstat instead of stat
      --sftp-use-insecure-cipher                            Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods
      --sftp-user string                                    SSH username (default "$USER")
      --sftp-xxh128sum-command string                       The command used to read XXH128 hashes
      --sftp-xxh3sum-command string                         The command used to read XXH3 hashes
      --shade-api-key string                                An API key for your account
      --shade-chunk-size SizeSuffix                         Chunk size to use for uploading (default 64Mi)
      --shade-description string                            Description of the remote
      --shade-drive-id string                               The ID of your drive, see this in the drive settings. Individual rclone configs must be made per drive
      --shade-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --shade-endpoint string                               Endpoint for the service
      --shade-max-upload-parts int                          Maximum amount of parts in a multipart upload (default 10000)
      --shade-token string                                  JWT Token for performing Shade FS operations. Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically
      --shade-token-expiry string                           JWT Token Expiration time. Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically
      --shade-upload-concurrency int                        Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies. This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently for multipart uploads and copies (default 4)
      --sharefile-auth-url string                           Auth server URL
      --sharefile-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Upload chunk size (default 64Mi)
      --sharefile-client-credentials                        Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --sharefile-client-id string                          OAuth Client Id
      --sharefile-client-secret string                      OAuth Client Secret
      --sharefile-description string                        Description of the remote
      --sharefile-encoding Encoding                         The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --sharefile-endpoint string                           Endpoint for API calls
      --sharefile-root-folder-id string                     ID of the root folder
      --sharefile-token string                              OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --sharefile-token-url string                          Token server url
      --sharefile-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                  Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (default 128Mi)
      --sia-api-password string                             Sia Daemon API Password (obscured)
      --sia-api-url string                                  Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980 (default "http://127.0.0.1:9980")
      --sia-description string                              Description of the remote
      --sia-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --sia-user-agent string                               Siad User Agent (default "Sia-Agent")
      --skip-links                                          Don't warn about skipped symlinks
      --skip-specials                                       Don't warn about skipped pipes, sockets and device objects
      --smb-case-insensitive                                Whether the server is configured to be case-insensitive (default true)
      --smb-description string                              Description of the remote
      --smb-domain string                                   Domain name for NTLM authentication (default "WORKGROUP")
      --smb-encoding Encoding                               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --smb-hide-special-share                              Hide special shares (e.g. print$) which users aren't supposed to access (default true)
      --smb-host string                                     SMB server hostname to connect to
      --smb-idle-timeout Duration                           Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
      --smb-kerberos-ccache string                          Path to the Kerberos credential cache (krb5cc)
      --smb-pass string                                     SMB password (obscured)
      --smb-port int                                        SMB port number (default 445)
      --smb-spn string                                      Service principal name
      --smb-use-kerberos                                    Use Kerberos authentication
      --smb-user string                                     SMB username (default "$USER")
      --storj-access-grant string                           Access grant
      --storj-api-key string                                API key
      --storj-description string                            Description of the remote
      --storj-passphrase string                             Encryption passphrase
      --storj-provider string                               Choose an authentication method (default "existing")
      --storj-satellite-address string                      Satellite address (default "us1.storj.io")
      --sugarsync-access-key-id string                      Sugarsync Access Key ID
      --sugarsync-app-id string                             Sugarsync App ID
      --sugarsync-authorization string                      Sugarsync authorization
      --sugarsync-authorization-expiry string               Sugarsync authorization expiry
      --sugarsync-deleted-id string                         Sugarsync deleted folder id
      --sugarsync-description string                        Description of the remote
      --sugarsync-encoding Encoding                         The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --sugarsync-hard-delete                               Permanently delete files if true
      --sugarsync-private-access-key string                 Sugarsync Private Access Key
      --sugarsync-refresh-token string                      Sugarsync refresh token
      --sugarsync-root-id string                            Sugarsync root id
      --sugarsync-user string                               Sugarsync user
      --swift-application-credential-id string              Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID)
      --swift-application-credential-name string            Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME)
      --swift-application-credential-secret string          Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET)
      --swift-auth string                                   Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL)
      --swift-auth-token string                             Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
      --swift-auth-version int                              AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)
      --swift-chunk-size SizeSuffix                         Above this size files will be chunked (default 5Gi)
      --swift-description string                            Description of the remote
      --swift-domain string                                 User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)
      --swift-encoding Encoding                             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8)
      --swift-endpoint-type string                          Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE) (default "public")
      --swift-env-auth                                      Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form
      --swift-fetch-until-empty-page                        When paginating, always fetch unless we received an empty page
      --swift-key string                                    API key or password (OS_PASSWORD)
      --swift-leave-parts-on-error                          If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure
      --swift-no-chunk                                      Don't chunk files during streaming upload
      --swift-no-large-objects                              Disable support for static and dynamic large objects
      --swift-partial-page-fetch-threshold int              When paginating, fetch if the current page is within this percentage of the limit
      --swift-region string                                 Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)
      --swift-storage-policy string                         The storage policy to use when creating a new container
      --swift-storage-url string                            Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)
      --swift-tenant string                                 Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)
      --swift-tenant-domain string                          Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)
      --swift-tenant-id string                              Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)
      --swift-use-segments-container Tristate               Choose destination for large object segments (default unset)
      --swift-user string                                   User name to log in (OS_USERNAME)
      --swift-user-id string                                User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID)
      --ulozto-app-token string                             The application token identifying the app. An app API key can be either found in the API
      --ulozto-description string                           Description of the remote
      --ulozto-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --ulozto-list-page-size int                           The size of a single page for list commands. 1-500 (default 500)
      --ulozto-password string                              The password for the user (obscured)
      --ulozto-root-folder-slug string                      If set, rclone will use this folder as the root folder for all operations. For example,
      --ulozto-username string                              The username of the principal to operate as
      --union-action-policy string                          Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category (default "epall")
      --union-cache-time int                                Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds) (default 120)
      --union-create-policy string                          Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category (default "epmfs")
      --union-description string                            Description of the remote
      --union-min-free-space SizeSuffix                     Minimum viable free space for lfs/eplfs policies (default 1Gi)
      --union-search-policy string                          Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category (default "ff")
      --union-upstreams string                              List of space separated upstreams
      --webdav-auth-redirect                                Preserve authentication on redirect
      --webdav-bearer-token string                          Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon)
      --webdav-bearer-token-command string                  Command to run to get a bearer token
      --webdav-description string                           Description of the remote
      --webdav-encoding string                              The encoding for the backend
      --webdav-headers CommaSepList                         Set HTTP headers for all transactions
      --webdav-nextcloud-chunk-size SizeSuffix              Nextcloud upload chunk size (default 10Mi)
      --webdav-owncloud-exclude-mounts                      Exclude ownCloud mounted storages
      --webdav-owncloud-exclude-shares                      Exclude ownCloud shares
      --webdav-pacer-min-sleep Duration                     Minimum time to sleep between API calls (default 10ms)
      --webdav-pass string                                  Password (obscured)
      --webdav-unix-socket string                           Path to a unix domain socket to dial to, instead of opening a TCP connection directly
      --webdav-url string                                   URL of http host to connect to
      --webdav-user string                                  User name
      --webdav-vendor string                                Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using
      --yandex-auth-url string                              Auth server URL
      --yandex-client-credentials                           Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --yandex-client-id string                             OAuth Client Id
      --yandex-client-secret string                         OAuth Client Secret
      --yandex-description string                           Description of the remote
      --yandex-encoding Encoding                            The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
      --yandex-hard-delete                                  Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
      --yandex-spoof-ua                                     Set the user agent to match an official version of the yandex disk client. May help with upload performance (default true)
      --yandex-token string                                 OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --yandex-token-url string                             Token server url
      --yandex-upload-wait Duration                         Wait this long after an upload before setting the modification time (default 0s)
      --zoho-auth-url string                                Auth server URL
      --zoho-client-credentials                             Use client credentials OAuth flow
      --zoho-client-id string                               OAuth Client Id
      --zoho-client-secret string                           OAuth Client Secret
      --zoho-description string                             Description of the remote
      --zoho-encoding Encoding                              The encoding for the backend (default Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
      --zoho-list-folder-burst int                          Same-folder listings allowed back-to-back before --zoho-list-folder-limit paces them (default 6)
      --zoho-list-folder-limit int                          Max listings of the SAME folder allowed per --zoho-list-folder-window (default 19)
      --zoho-list-folder-window Duration                    The window for --zoho-list-folder-limit (default 1m0s)
      --zoho-region string                                  Zoho region to connect to
      --zoho-root-folder-id string                          ID of the root folder
      --zoho-token string                                   OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
      --zoho-token-url string                               Token server url
      --zoho-tpslimit float                                 Max number of API transactions per second (default 6)
      --zoho-tpslimit-burst int                             Number of API calls to allow back-to-back without sleeping, for --zoho-tpslimit (default 1)
      --zoho-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                       Cutoff for switching to large file upload api (>= 10 MiB) (default 10Mi)
```

# Docker Volume Plugin

## Introduction

Docker 1.9 has added support for creating
[named volumes](https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/) via
[command-line interface](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/volume_create/)
and mounting them in containers as a way to share data between them.
Since Docker 1.10 you can create named volumes with
[Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) by descriptions in
[docker-compose.yml](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#volume-configuration-reference)
files for use by container groups on a single host.
As of Docker 1.12 volumes are supported by
[Docker Swarm](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/key-concepts/)
included with Docker Engine and created from descriptions in
[swarm compose v3](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3/#volume-configuration-reference)
files for use with *swarm stacks* across multiple cluster nodes.

[Docker Volume Plugins](https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_volume/)
augment the default `local` volume driver included in Docker with stateful
volumes shared across containers and hosts. Unlike local volumes, your
data will *not* be deleted when such volume is removed. Plugins can run
managed by the docker daemon, as a native system service
(under systemd, *sysv* or *upstart*) or as a standalone executable.
Rclone can run as docker volume plugin in all these modes.
It interacts with the local docker daemon
via [plugin API](https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugin_api/) and
handles mounting of remote file systems into docker containers so it must
run on the same host as the docker daemon or on every Swarm node.

## Getting started

In the first example we will use the [SFTP](https://rclone.org/sftp/)
rclone volume with Docker engine on a standalone Ubuntu machine.

Start from [installing Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/)
on the host.

The *FUSE* driver is a prerequisite for rclone mounting and should be
installed on host:

```console
sudo apt-get -y install fuse3
```

Create two directories required by rclone docker plugin:

```console
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/config
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/cache
```

Install the managed rclone docker plugin for your architecture (here `amd64`):

```console
docker plugin install rclone/docker-volume-rclone:amd64 args="-v" --alias rclone --grant-all-permissions
docker plugin list
```

Create your [SFTP volume](https://rclone.org/sftp/#standard-options):

```console
docker volume create firstvolume -d rclone -o type=sftp -o sftp-host=_hostname_ -o sftp-user=_username_ -o sftp-pass=_password_ -o allow-other=true
```

Note that since all options are static, you don't even have to run
`rclone config` or create the `rclone.conf` file (but the `config` directory
should still be present). In the simplest case you can use `localhost`
as *hostname* and your SSH credentials as *username* and *password*.
You can also change the remote path to your home directory on the host,
for example `-o path=/home/username`.

Time to create a test container and mount the volume into it:

```console
docker run --rm -it -v firstvolume:/mnt --workdir /mnt ubuntu:latest bash
```

If all goes well, you will enter the new container and change right to
the mounted SFTP remote. You can type `ls` to list the mounted directory
or otherwise play with it. Type `exit` when you are done.
The container will stop but the volume will stay, ready to be reused.
When it's not needed anymore, remove it:

```console
docker volume list
docker volume remove firstvolume
```

Now let us try **something more elaborate**:
[Google Drive](https://rclone.org/drive/) volume on multi-node Docker Swarm.

You should start from installing Docker and FUSE, creating plugin
directories and installing rclone plugin on *every* swarm node.
Then [setup the Swarm](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-mode/).

Google Drive volumes need an access token which can be setup via web
browser and will be periodically renewed by rclone. The managed
plugin cannot run a browser so we will use a technique similar to the
[rclone setup on a headless box](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/).

Run [rclone config](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_create/)
on *another* machine equipped with *web browser* and graphical user interface.
Create the [Google Drive remote](https://rclone.org/drive/#standard-options).
When done, transfer the resulting `rclone.conf` to the Swarm cluster
and save as `/var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/config/rclone.conf`
on *every* node. By default this location is accessible only to the
root user so you will need appropriate privileges. The resulting config
will look like this:

```ini
[gdrive]
type = drive
scope = drive
drive_id = 1234567...
root_folder_id = 0Abcd...
token = {"access_token":...}
```

Now create the file named `example.yml` with a swarm stack description
like this:

```yaml
version: '3'
services:
  heimdall:
    image: linuxserver/heimdall:latest
    ports: [8080:80]
    volumes: [configdata:/config]
volumes:
  configdata:
    driver: rclone
    driver_opts:
      remote: 'gdrive:heimdall'
      allow_other: 'true'
      vfs_cache_mode: full
      poll_interval: 0
```

and run the stack:

```console
docker stack deploy example -c ./example.yml
```

After a few seconds docker will spread the parsed stack description
over cluster, create the `example_heimdall` service on port *8080*,
run service containers on one or more cluster nodes and request
the `example_configdata` volume from rclone plugins on the node hosts.
You can use the following commands to confirm results:

```console
docker service ls
docker service ps example_heimdall
docker volume ls
```

Point your browser to `http://cluster.host.address:8080` and play with
the service. Stop it with `docker stack remove example` when you are done.
Note that the `example_configdata` volume(s) created on demand at the
cluster nodes will not be automatically removed together with the stack
but stay for future reuse. You can remove them manually by invoking
the `docker volume remove example_configdata` command on every node.

## Creating Volumes via CLI

Volumes can be created with [docker volume create](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/volume_create/).
Here are a few examples:

```console
docker volume create vol1 -d rclone -o remote=storj: -o vfs-cache-mode=full
docker volume create vol2 -d rclone -o remote=:storj,access_grant=xxx:heimdall
docker volume create vol3 -d rclone -o type=storj -o path=heimdall -o storj-access-grant=xxx -o poll-interval=0
```

Note the `-d rclone` flag that tells docker to request volume from the
rclone driver. This works even if you installed managed driver by its full
name `rclone/docker-volume-rclone` because you provided the `--alias rclone`
option.

Volumes can be inspected as follows:

```console
docker volume list
docker volume inspect vol1
```

## Volume Configuration

Rclone flags and volume options are set via the `-o` flag to the
`docker volume create` command. They include backend-specific parameters
as well as mount and *VFS* options. Also there are a few
special `-o` options:
`remote`, `fs`, `type`, `path`, `mount-type` and `persist`.

`remote` determines an existing remote name from the config file, with
trailing colon and optionally with a remote path. See the full syntax in
the [rclone documentation](https://rclone.org/docs/#syntax-of-remote-paths).
This option can be aliased as `fs` to prevent confusion with the
*remote* parameter of such backends as *crypt* or *alias*.

The `remote=:backend:dir/subdir` syntax can be used to create
[on-the-fly (config-less) remotes](https://rclone.org/docs/#backend-path-to-dir),
while the `type` and `path` options provide a simpler alternative for this.
Using two split options

```text
-o type=backend -o path=dir/subdir
```

is equivalent to the combined syntax

```text
-o remote=:backend:dir/subdir
```

but is arguably easier to parameterize in scripts.
The `path` part is optional.

[Mount and VFS options](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_docker/#options)
as well as [backend parameters](https://rclone.org/flags/#backend) are named
like their twin command-line flags without the `--` CLI prefix.
Optionally you can use underscores instead of dashes in option names.
For example, `--vfs-cache-mode full` becomes
`-o vfs-cache-mode=full` or `-o vfs_cache_mode=full`.
Boolean CLI flags without value will gain the `true` value, e.g.
`--allow-other` becomes `-o allow-other=true` or `-o allow_other=true`.

Please note that you can provide parameters only for the backend immediately
referenced by the backend type of mounted `remote`.
If this is a wrapping backend like *alias, chunker or crypt*, you cannot
provide options for the referred to remote or backend. This limitation is
imposed by the rclone connection string parser. The only workaround is to
feed plugin with `rclone.conf` or configure plugin arguments (see below).

## Special Volume Options

`mount-type` determines the mount method and in general can be one of:
`mount`, `cmount`, or `mount2`. This can be aliased as `mount_type`.
It should be noted that the managed rclone docker plugin currently does
not support the `cmount` method and `mount2` is rarely needed.
This option defaults to the first found method, which is usually `mount`
so you generally won't need it.

`persist` is a reserved boolean (true/false) option.
In future it will allow to persist on-the-fly remotes in the plugin
`rclone.conf` file.

## Connection Strings

The `remote` value can be extended
with [connection strings](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings)
as an alternative way to supply backend parameters. This is equivalent
to the `-o` backend options with one *syntactic difference*.
Inside connection string the backend prefix must be dropped from parameter
names but in the `-o param=value` array it must be present.
For instance, compare the following option array

```text
-o remote=:sftp:/home -o sftp-host=localhost
```

with equivalent connection string:

```text
-o remote=:sftp,host=localhost:/home
```

This difference exists because flag options `-o key=val` include not only
backend parameters but also mount/VFS flags and possibly other settings.
Also it allows to discriminate the `remote` option from the `crypt-remote`
(or similarly named backend parameters) and arguably simplifies scripting
due to clearer value substitution.

## Using with Swarm or Compose

Both *Docker Swarm* and *Docker Compose* use
[YAML](http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html)-formatted text files to describe
groups (stacks) of containers, their properties, networks and volumes.
*Compose* uses the [compose v2](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#volume-configuration-reference)
format,
*Swarm* uses the [compose v3](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3/#volume-configuration-reference)
format.
They are mostly similar, differences are explained in the
[docker documentation](https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-versioning/#upgrading).

Volumes are described by the children of the top-level `volumes:` node.
Each of them should be named after its volume and have at least two
elements, the self-explanatory `driver: rclone` value and the
`driver_opts:` structure playing the same role as `-o key=val` CLI flags:

```yaml
volumes:
  volume_name_1:
    driver: rclone
    driver_opts:
      remote: 'gdrive:'
      allow_other: 'true'
      vfs_cache_mode: full
      token: '{"type": "borrower", "expires": "2021-12-31"}'
      poll_interval: 0
```

Notice a few important details:

- YAML prefers `_` in option names instead of `-`.
- YAML treats single and double quotes interchangeably.
  Simple strings and integers can be left unquoted.
- Boolean values must be quoted like `'true'` or `"false"` because
  these two words are reserved by YAML.
- The filesystem string is keyed with `remote` (or with `fs`).
  Normally you can omit quotes here, but if the string ends with colon,
  you **must** quote it like `remote: "storage_box:"`.
- YAML is picky about surrounding braces in values as this is in fact
  another [syntax for key/value mappings](http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2790832).
  For example, JSON access tokens usually contain double quotes and
  surrounding braces, so you must put them in single quotes.

## Installing as Managed Plugin

Docker daemon can install plugins from an image registry and run them managed.
We maintain the
[docker-volume-rclone](https://hub.docker.com/p/rclone/docker-volume-rclone/)
plugin image on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com).

Rclone volume plugin requires **Docker Engine >= 19.03.15**

The plugin requires presence of two directories on the host before it can
be installed. Note that plugin will **not** create them automatically.
By default they must exist on host at the following locations
(though you can tweak the paths):

- `/var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/config`
  is reserved for the `rclone.conf` config file and **must** exist
  even if it's empty and the config file is not present.
- `/var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/cache`
  holds the plugin state file as well as optional VFS caches.

You can [install managed plugin](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/plugin_install/)
with default settings as follows:

```console
docker plugin install rclone/docker-volume-rclone:amd64 --grant-all-permissions --alias rclone
```

The `:amd64` part of the image specification after colon is called a *tag*.
Usually you will want to install the latest plugin for your architecture. In
this case the tag will just name it, like `amd64` above. The following plugin
architectures are currently available:

- `amd64`
- `arm64`
- `arm-v7`

Sometimes you might want a concrete plugin version, not the latest one.
Then you should use image tag in the form `:ARCHITECTURE-VERSION`.
For example, to install plugin version `v1.56.2` on architecture `arm64`
you will use tag `arm64-1.56.2` (note the removed `v`) so the full image
specification becomes `rclone/docker-volume-rclone:arm64-1.56.2`.

We also provide the `latest` plugin tag, but since docker does not support
multi-architecture plugins as of the time of this writing, this tag is
currently an **alias for `amd64`**.
By convention the `latest` tag is the default one and can be omitted, thus
both `rclone/docker-volume-rclone:latest` and just `rclone/docker-volume-rclone`
will refer to the latest plugin release for the `amd64` platform.

Also the `amd64` part can be omitted from the versioned rclone plugin tags.
For example, rclone image reference `rclone/docker-volume-rclone:amd64-1.56.2`
can be abbreviated as `rclone/docker-volume-rclone:1.56.2` for convenience.
However, for non-intel architectures you still have to use the full tag as
`amd64` or `latest` will fail to start.

Managed plugin is in fact a special container running in a namespace separate
from normal docker containers. Inside it runs the `rclone serve docker`
command. The config and cache directories are bind-mounted into the
container at start. The docker daemon connects to a unix socket created
by the command inside the container. The command creates on-demand remote
mounts right inside, then docker machinery propagates them through kernel
mount namespaces and bind-mounts into requesting user containers.

You can tweak a few plugin settings after installation when it's disabled
(not in use), for instance:

```console
docker plugin disable rclone
docker plugin set rclone RCLONE_VERBOSE=2 config=/etc/rclone args="--vfs-cache-mode=writes --allow-other"
docker plugin enable rclone
docker plugin inspect rclone
```

Note that if docker refuses to disable the plugin, you should find and
remove all active volumes connected with it as well as containers and
swarm services that use them. This is rather tedious so please carefully
plan in advance.

You can tweak the following settings:
`args`, `config`, `cache`, `HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY`, `NO_PROXY`
and `RCLONE_VERBOSE`.
It's *your* task to keep plugin settings in sync across swarm cluster nodes.

`args` sets command-line arguments for the `rclone serve docker` command
(*none* by default). Arguments should be separated by space so you will
normally want to put them in quotes on the
[docker plugin set](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/plugin_set/)
command line. Both [serve docker flags](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_docker/#options)
and [generic rclone flags](https://rclone.org/flags/) are supported, including backend
parameters that will be used as defaults for volume creation.
Note that plugin will fail (due to [this docker bug](https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/v20.10.7/plugin/v2/plugin.go#L195))
if the `args` value is empty. Use e.g. `args="-v"` as a workaround.

`config=/host/dir` sets alternative host location for the config directory.
Plugin will look for `rclone.conf` here. It's not an error if the config
file is not present but the directory must exist. Please note that plugin
can periodically rewrite the config file, for example when it renews
storage access tokens. Keep this in mind and try to avoid races between
the plugin and other instances of rclone on the host that might try to
change the config simultaneously resulting in corrupted `rclone.conf`.
You can also put stuff like private key files for SFTP remotes in this
directory. Just note that it's bind-mounted inside the plugin container
at the predefined path `/data/config`. For example, if your key file is
named `sftp-box1.key` on the host, the corresponding volume config option
should read `-o sftp-key-file=/data/config/sftp-box1.key`.

`cache=/host/dir` sets alternative host location for the *cache* directory.
The plugin will keep VFS caches here. Also it will create and maintain
the `docker-plugin.state` file in this directory. When the plugin is
restarted or reinstalled, it will look in this file to recreate any volumes
that existed previously. However, they will not be re-mounted into
consuming containers after restart. Usually this is not a problem as
the docker daemon normally will restart affected user containers after
failures, daemon restarts or host reboots.

`RCLONE_VERBOSE` sets plugin verbosity from `0` (errors only, by default)
to `2` (debugging). Verbosity can be also tweaked via `args="-v [-v] ..."`.
Since arguments are more generic, you will rarely need this setting.
The plugin output by default feeds the docker daemon log on local host.
Log entries are reflected as *errors* in the docker log but retain their
actual level assigned by rclone in the encapsulated message string.

`HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY`, `NO_PROXY` customize the plugin proxy settings.

You can set custom plugin options right when you install it, *in one go*:

```console
docker plugin remove rclone
docker plugin install rclone/docker-volume-rclone:amd64 \
       --alias rclone --grant-all-permissions \
       args="-v --allow-other" config=/etc/rclone
docker plugin inspect rclone
```

## Healthchecks

The docker plugin volume protocol doesn't provide a way for plugins
to inform the docker daemon that a volume is (un-)available.
As a workaround you can setup a healthcheck to verify that the mount
is responding, for example:

```yaml
services:
  my_service:
    image: my_image
    healthcheck:
      test: ls /path/to/rclone/mount || exit 1
      interval: 1m
      timeout: 15s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 15s
```

## Running Plugin under Systemd

In most cases you should prefer managed mode. Moreover, MacOS and Windows
do not support native Docker plugins. Please use managed mode on these
systems. Proceed further only if you are on Linux.

First, [install rclone](https://rclone.org/install/).
You can just run it (type `rclone serve docker` and hit enter) for the test.

Install *FUSE*:

```console
sudo apt-get -y install fuse
```

Download two systemd configuration files:
[docker-volume-rclone.service](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rclone/rclone/master/contrib/docker-plugin/systemd/docker-volume-rclone.service)
and [docker-volume-rclone.socket](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rclone/rclone/master/contrib/docker-plugin/systemd/docker-volume-rclone.socket).

Put them to the `/etc/systemd/system/` directory:

```console
cp docker-volume-plugin.service /etc/systemd/system/
cp docker-volume-plugin.socket  /etc/systemd/system/
```

Please note that all commands in this section must be run as *root* but
we omit `sudo` prefix for brevity.
Now create directories required by the service:

```console
mkdir -p /var/lib/docker-volumes/rclone
mkdir -p /var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/config
mkdir -p /var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/cache
```

Run the docker plugin service in the socket activated mode:

```console
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start docker-volume-rclone.service
systemctl enable docker-volume-rclone.socket
systemctl start docker-volume-rclone.socket
systemctl restart docker
```

Or run the service directly:

- run `systemctl daemon-reload` to let systemd pick up new config
- run `systemctl enable docker-volume-rclone.service` to make the new
  service start automatically when you power on your machine.
- run `systemctl start docker-volume-rclone.service`
  to start the service now.
- run `systemctl restart docker` to restart docker daemon and let it
  detect the new plugin socket. Note that this step is not needed in
  managed mode where docker knows about plugin state changes.

The two methods are equivalent from the user perspective, but I personally
prefer socket activation.

## Troubleshooting

You can [see managed plugin settings](https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/#debugging-plugins)
with

```console
docker plugin list
docker plugin inspect rclone
```

Note that docker (including latest 20.10.7) will not show actual values
of `args`, just the defaults.

Use `journalctl --unit docker` to see managed plugin output as part of
the docker daemon log. Note that docker reflects plugin lines as *errors*
but their actual level can be seen from encapsulated message string.

You will usually install the latest version of managed plugin for your platform.
Use the following commands to print the actual installed version:

```console
PLUGID=$(docker plugin list --no-trunc | awk '/rclone/{print$1}')
sudo runc --root /run/docker/runtime-runc/plugins.moby exec $PLUGID rclone version
```

You can even use `runc` to run shell inside the plugin container:

```console
sudo runc --root /run/docker/runtime-runc/plugins.moby exec --tty $PLUGID bash
```

Also you can use curl to check the plugin socket connectivity:

```console
docker plugin list --no-trunc
PLUGID=123abc...
sudo curl -H Content-Type:application/json -XPOST -d {} --unix-socket /run/docker/plugins/$PLUGID/rclone.sock http://localhost/Plugin.Activate
```

though this is rarely needed.

If the plugin fails to work properly, and only as a last resort after you tried
diagnosing with the above methods, you can try clearing the state of the plugin.
**Note that all existing rclone docker volumes will probably have to be recreated.**
This might be needed because a reinstall don't cleanup existing state files to
allow for easy restoration, as stated above.

```console
docker plugin disable rclone # disable the plugin to ensure no interference
sudo rm /var/lib/docker-plugins/rclone/cache/docker-plugin.state # removing the plugin state
docker plugin enable rclone # re-enable the plugin afterward
```

## Caveats

Finally I'd like to mention a *caveat with updating volume settings*.
Docker CLI does not have a dedicated command like `docker volume update`.
It may be tempting to invoke `docker volume create` with updated options
on existing volume, but there is a gotcha. The command will do nothing,
it won't even return an error. I hope that docker maintainers will fix
this some day. In the meantime be aware that you must remove your volume
before recreating it with new settings:

```console
docker volume remove my_vol
docker volume create my_vol -d rclone -o opt1=new_val1 ...
```

and verify that settings did update:

```console
docker volume list
docker volume inspect my_vol
```

If docker refuses to remove the volume, you should find containers
or swarm services that use it and stop them first.

## Bisync

`bisync` is considered an **advanced command**, so use with care.
Make sure you have read and understood the entire
[manual](https://rclone.org/bisync) (especially the [Limitations](#limitations)
section) before using, or data loss can result. Questions can be asked in the
[Rclone Forum](https://forum.rclone.org/).

## Getting started {#getting-started}

- [Install rclone](https://rclone.org/install/) and setup your remotes.
- Bisync will create its working directory   at `~/.cache/rclone/bisync` on
  Linux, `/Users/yourusername/Library/Caches/rclone/bisync` on Mac,   or
  `C:\Users\MyLogin\AppData\Local\rclone\bisync` on Windows.   Make sure that this
  location is writable.
- Run bisync with the `--resync` flag, specifying the paths
  to the local and remote sync directory roots.
- For successive sync runs, leave off the `--resync` flag. (**Important!**)
- Consider using a [filters file](#filtering) for excluding
  unnecessary files and directories from the sync.
- Consider setting up the [--check-access](#check-access) feature
  for safety.
- On Linux or Mac, consider setting up a [crontab entry](#cron). bisync can
  safely run in concurrent cron jobs thanks to lock files it maintains.

For example, your first command might look like this:

```console
rclone bisync remote1:path1 remote2:path2 --create-empty-src-dirs --compare size,modtime,checksum --slow-hash-sync-only --resilient -MvP --drive-skip-gdocs --fix-case --resync --dry-run
```

If all looks good, run it again without `--dry-run`.
After that, remove `--resync` as well.

Here is a typical run log (with timestamps removed for clarity):

```console
rclone bisync /testdir/path1/ /testdir/path2/ --verbose
INFO  : Synching Path1 "/testdir/path1/" with Path2 "/testdir/path2/"
INFO  : Path1 checking for diffs
INFO  : - Path1    File is new                         - file11.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File is newer                       - file2.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File is newer                       - file5.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File is newer                       - file7.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File was deleted                    - file4.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File was deleted                    - file6.txt
INFO  : - Path1    File was deleted                    - file8.txt
INFO  : Path1:    7 changes:    1 new,    3 newer,    0 older,    3 deleted
INFO  : Path2 checking for diffs
INFO  : - Path2    File is new                         - file10.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File is newer                       - file1.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File is newer                       - file5.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File is newer                       - file6.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File was deleted                    - file3.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File was deleted                    - file7.txt
INFO  : - Path2    File was deleted                    - file8.txt
INFO  : Path2:    7 changes:    1 new,    3 newer,    0 older,    3 deleted
INFO  : Applying changes
INFO  : - Path1    Queue copy to Path2                 - /testdir/path2/file11.txt
INFO  : - Path1    Queue copy to Path2                 - /testdir/path2/file2.txt
INFO  : - Path2    Queue delete                        - /testdir/path2/file4.txt
NOTICE: - WARNING  New or changed in both paths        - file5.txt
NOTICE: - Path1    Renaming Path1 copy                 - /testdir/path1/file5.txt..path1
NOTICE: - Path1    Queue copy to Path2                 - /testdir/path2/file5.txt..path1
NOTICE: - Path2    Renaming Path2 copy                 - /testdir/path2/file5.txt..path2
NOTICE: - Path2    Queue copy to Path1                 - /testdir/path1/file5.txt..path2
INFO  : - Path2    Queue copy to Path1                 - /testdir/path1/file6.txt
INFO  : - Path1    Queue copy to Path2                 - /testdir/path2/file7.txt
INFO  : - Path2    Queue copy to Path1                 - /testdir/path1/file1.txt
INFO  : - Path2    Queue copy to Path1                 - /testdir/path1/file10.txt
INFO  : - Path1    Queue delete                        - /testdir/path1/file3.txt
INFO  : - Path2    Do queued copies to                 - Path1
INFO  : - Path1    Do queued copies to                 - Path2
INFO  : -          Do queued deletes on                - Path1
INFO  : -          Do queued deletes on                - Path2
INFO  : Updating listings
INFO  : Validating listings for Path1 "/testdir/path1/" vs Path2 "/testdir/path2/"
INFO  : Bisync successful
```

## Command line syntax

```console
$ rclone bisync --help
Usage:
  rclone bisync remote1:path1 remote2:path2 [flags]

Positional arguments:
  Path1, Path2  Local path, or remote storage with ':' plus optional path.
                Type 'rclone listremotes' for list of configured remotes.

Optional Flags:
      --backup-dir1 string                   --backup-dir for Path1. Must be a non-overlapping path on the same remote.
      --backup-dir2 string                   --backup-dir for Path2. Must be a non-overlapping path on the same remote.
      --check-access                         Ensure expected RCLONE_TEST files are found on both Path1 and Path2 filesystems, else abort.
      --check-filename string                Filename for --check-access (default: RCLONE_TEST)
      --check-sync string                    Controls comparison of final listings: true|false|only (default: true) (default "true")
      --compare string                       Comma-separated list of bisync-specific compare options ex. 'size,modtime,checksum' (default: 'size,modtime')
      --conflict-loser ConflictLoserAction   Action to take on the loser of a sync conflict (when there is a winner) or on both files (when there is no winner): , num, pathname, delete (default: num)
      --conflict-resolve string              Automatically resolve conflicts by preferring the version that is: none, path1, path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default: none) (default "none")
      --conflict-suffix string               Suffix to use when renaming a --conflict-loser. Can be either one string or two comma-separated strings to assign different suffixes to Path1/Path2. (default: 'conflict')
      --create-empty-src-dirs                Sync creation and deletion of empty directories. (Not compatible with --remove-empty-dirs)
      --download-hash                        Compute hash by downloading when otherwise unavailable. (warning: may be slow and use lots of data!)
      --filters-file string                  Read filtering patterns from a file
      --force                                Bypass --max-delete safety check and run the sync. Consider using with --verbose
  -h, --help                                 help for bisync
      --ignore-listing-checksum              Do not use checksums for listings (add --ignore-checksum to additionally skip post-copy checksum checks)
      --max-lock Duration                    Consider lock files older than this to be expired (default: 0 (never expire)) (minimum: 2m) (default 0s)
      --no-cleanup                           Retain working files (useful for troubleshooting and testing).
      --no-slow-hash                         Ignore listing checksums only on backends where they are slow
      --recover                              Automatically recover from interruptions without requiring --resync.
      --remove-empty-dirs                    Remove ALL empty directories at the final cleanup step.
      --resilient                            Allow future runs to retry after certain less-serious errors, instead of requiring --resync.
  -1, --resync                               Performs the resync run. Equivalent to --resync-mode path1. Consider using --verbose or --dry-run first.
      --resync-mode string                   During resync, prefer the version that is: path1, path2, newer, older, larger, smaller (default: path1 if --resync, otherwise none for no resync.) (default "none")
      --retries int                          Retry operations this many times if they fail (requires --resilient). (default 3)
      --retries-sleep Duration               Interval between retrying operations if they fail, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 0s)
      --slow-hash-sync-only                  Ignore slow checksums for listings and deltas, but still consider them during sync calls.
      --workdir string                       Use custom working dir - useful for testing. (default: {WORKDIR})
      --max-delete PERCENT                   Safety check on maximum percentage of deleted files allowed. If exceeded, the bisync run will abort. (default: 50%)
  -n, --dry-run                              Go through the motions - No files are copied/deleted.
  -v, --verbose                              Increases logging verbosity. May be specified more than once for more details.
```

Arbitrary rclone flags may be specified on the
[bisync command line](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_bisync/), for example
`rclone bisync ./testdir/path1/ gdrive:testdir/path2/ --drive-skip-gdocs -v -v
--timeout 10s`
Note that interactions of various rclone flags with bisync process flow
has not been fully tested yet.

### Paths

Path1 and Path2 arguments may be references to any mix of local directory
paths (absolute or relative), UNC paths (`//server/share/path`),
Windows drive paths (with a drive letter and `:`) or configured
[remotes](https://rclone.org/docs/#syntax-of-remote-paths) with optional subdirectory paths.
Cloud references are distinguished by having a `:` in the argument
(see [Windows support](#windows) below).

Path1 and Path2 are treated equally, in that neither has priority for file
changes (except during [`--resync`](#resync)), and access efficiency does not
change whether a remote is on Path1 or Path2.

The listings in bisync working directory (default: `~/.cache/rclone/bisync`)
are named based on the Path1 and Path2 arguments so that separate syncs
to individual directories within the tree may be set up, e.g.:
`path_to_local_tree..dropbox_subdir.lst`.

Any empty directories after the sync on both the Path1 and Path2 filesystems are
not deleted by default, unless `--create-empty-src-dirs` is specified. If the
`--remove-empty-dirs` flag is specified, then both paths will have ALL empty
directories purged as the last step in the process.

## Command-line flags

### --resync

This will effectively make both Path1 and Path2 filesystems contain a matching
superset of all files. By default, Path2 files that do not exist in Path1 will
be copied to Path1, and the process will then copy the Path1 tree to Path2.

The `--resync` sequence is roughly equivalent to the following
(but see [`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode) for other options):

```console
rclone copy Path2 Path1 --ignore-existing [--create-empty-src-dirs]
rclone copy Path1 Path2 [--create-empty-src-dirs]
```

The base directories on both Path1 and Path2 filesystems must exist
or bisync will fail. This is required for safety - that bisync can verify
that both paths are valid.

When using `--resync`, a newer version of a file on the Path2 filesystem
will (by default) be overwritten by the Path1 filesystem version.
(Note that this is [NOT entirely symmetrical](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/5681#issuecomment-938761815),
and more symmetrical options can be specified with the
[`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode) flag.)
Carefully evaluate deltas using [--dry-run](https://rclone.org/flags/#non-backend-flags).

For a resync run, one of the paths may be empty (no files in the path tree).
The resync run should result in files on both paths, else a normal non-resync
run will fail.

For a non-resync run, either path being empty (no files in the tree) fails with
`Empty current PathN listing. Cannot sync to an empty directory: X.pathN.lst`
This is a safety check that an unexpected empty path does not result in
deleting **everything** in the other path.

Note that `--resync` implies `--resync-mode path1` unless a different
[`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode)  is explicitly specified.
It is not necessary to use both the `--resync` and `--resync-mode` flags --
either one is sufficient without the other.

**Note:** `--resync` (including `--resync-mode`) should only be used under three
specific (rare) circumstances:

1. It is your *first* bisync run (between these two paths)
2. You've just made changes to your bisync settings (such as editing the
contents of your `--filters-file`)
3. There was an error on the prior run, and as a result, bisync now requires
`--resync` to recover

The rest of the time, you should *omit* `--resync`. The reason is because `--resync`
will only *copy* (not *sync*) each side to the other. Therefore, if you included
`--resync` for every bisync run, it would never be possible to delete a file -- the
deleted file would always keep reappearing at the end of every run (because it's
being copied from the other side where it still exists). Similarly, renaming a
file would always result in a duplicate copy (both old and new name) on both
sides.

If you find that frequent interruptions from #3 are an issue, rather than
automatically running `--resync`, the recommended alternative is to use the
[`--resilient`](#resilient), [`--recover`](#recover), and
[`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve) flags, (along with [Graceful
Shutdown](#graceful-shutdown) mode, when needed) for a very robust
"set-it-and-forget-it" bisync setup that can automatically bounce back from
almost any interruption it might encounter. Consider adding something like the
following:

```text
--resilient --recover --max-lock 2m --conflict-resolve newer
```

### --resync-mode CHOICE {#resync-mode}

In the event that a file differs on both sides during a `--resync`,
`--resync-mode` controls which version will overwrite the other. The supported
options are similar to [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve). For all of
the following options, the version that is kept is referred to as the "winner",
and the version that is overwritten (deleted) is referred to as the "loser".
The options are named after the "winner":

- `path1` - (the default) - the version from Path1 is unconditionally
considered the winner (regardless of `modtime` and `size`, if any). This can be
useful if one side is more trusted or up-to-date than the other, at the time of
the `--resync`.
- `path2` - same as `path1`, except the path2 version is considered the winner.
- `newer` - the newer file (by `modtime`) is considered the winner, regardless
of which side it came from. This may result in having a mix of some winners
from Path1, and some winners from Path2. (The implementation is analogous to
running `rclone copy --update` in both directions.)
- `older` - same as `newer`, except the older file is considered the winner,
and the newer file is considered the loser.
- `larger` - the larger file (by `size`) is considered the winner (regardless
of `modtime`, if any). This can be a useful option for remotes without
`modtime` support, or with the kinds of files (such as logs) that tend to grow
but not shrink, over time.
- `smaller` - the smaller file (by `size`) is considered the winner (regardless
of `modtime`, if any).

For all of the above options, note the following:

- If either of the underlying remotes lacks support for the chosen method, it
will be ignored and will fall back to the default of `path1`. (For example, if
`--resync-mode newer` is set, but one of the paths uses a remote that doesn't
support `modtime`.)
- If a winner can't be determined because the chosen method's attribute is
missing or equal, it will be ignored, and bisync will instead try to determine
whether the files differ by looking at the other `--compare` methods in effect.
(For example, if `--resync-mode newer` is set, but the Path1 and Path2 modtimes
are identical, bisync will compare the sizes.) If bisync concludes that they
differ, preference is given to whichever is the "source" at that moment. (In
practice, this gives a slight advantage to Path2, as the 2to1 copy comes before
the 1to2 copy.) If the files *do not* differ, nothing is copied (as both sides
are already correct).
- These options apply only to files that exist on both sides (with the same
name and relative path). Files that exist *only* on one side and not the other
are *always* copied to the other, during `--resync` (this is one of the main
differences between resync and non-resync runs.).
- `--conflict-resolve`, `--conflict-loser`, and `--conflict-suffix` do not
apply during `--resync`, and unlike these flags, nothing is renamed during
`--resync`. When a file differs on both sides during `--resync`, one version
always overwrites the other (much like in `rclone copy`.) (Consider using
[`--backup-dir`](#backup-dir1-and-backup-dir2) to retain a backup of the losing
version.)
- Unlike for `--conflict-resolve`, `--resync-mode none` is not a valid option
(or rather, it will be interpreted as "no resync", unless `--resync` has also
been specified, in which case it will be ignored.)
- Winners and losers are decided at the individual file-level only (there is
not currently an option to pick an entire winning directory atomically,
although the `path1` and `path2` options typically produce a similar result.)
- To maintain backward-compatibility, the `--resync` flag implies
`--resync-mode path1` unless a different `--resync-mode` is explicitly
specified. Similarly, all `--resync-mode` options (except `none`) imply
`--resync`, so it is not necessary to use both the `--resync` and
`--resync-mode` flags simultaneously -- either one is sufficient without the
other.

### --check-access

Access check files are an additional safety measure against data loss.
bisync will ensure it can find matching `RCLONE_TEST` files in the same places
in the Path1 and Path2 filesystems.
`RCLONE_TEST` files are not generated automatically.
For `--check-access` to succeed, you must first either:
**A)** Place one or more `RCLONE_TEST` files in both systems, or
**B)** Set `--check-filename` to a filename already in use in various locations
throughout your sync'd fileset. Recommended methods for **A)** include:

- `rclone touch Path1/RCLONE_TEST` (create a new file)
- `rclone copyto Path1/RCLONE_TEST Path2/RCLONE_TEST` (copy an existing file)
- `rclone copy Path1/RCLONE_TEST Path2/RCLONE_TEST  --include "RCLONE_TEST"`
(copy multiple files at once, recursively)
- create the files manually (outside of rclone)
- run `bisync` once *without* `--check-access` to set matching files on both filesystems
will also work, but is not preferred, due to potential for user error
(you are temporarily disabling the safety feature).

Note that `--check-access` is still enforced on `--resync`, so `bisync --resync --check-access`
will not work as a method of initially setting the files
(this is to ensure that bisync can't
[inadvertently circumvent its own safety switch](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=3.%20%2D%2Dcheck%2Daccess%20doesn%27t%20always%20fail%20when%20it%20should).)

Time stamps and file contents for `RCLONE_TEST` files are not important, just
the names and locations. If you have symbolic links in your sync tree it is
recommended to place `RCLONE_TEST` files in the linked-to directory tree to
protect against bisync assuming a bunch of deleted files if the linked-to tree
should not be accessible. See also the [--check-filename](--check-filename) flag.

### --check-filename

Name of the file(s) used in access health validation.
The default `--check-filename` is `RCLONE_TEST`.
One or more files having this filename must exist, synchronized between your
source and destination filesets, in order for `--check-access` to succeed.
See [--check-access](#check-access) for additional details.

### --compare

As of `v1.66`, bisync fully supports comparing based on any combination of
size, modtime, and checksum (lifting the prior restriction on backends without
modtime support.)

By default (without the `--compare` flag), bisync inherits the same comparison
options as `sync`
(that is: `size` and `modtime` by default, unless modified with flags such as
[`--checksum`](https://rclone.org/docs/#c-checksum) or [`--size-only`](/docs/#size-only).)

If the `--compare` flag is set, it will override these defaults. This can be
useful if you wish to compare based on combinations not currently supported in
`sync`, such as comparing all three of `size` AND `modtime` AND `checksum`
simultaneously (or just `modtime` AND `checksum`).

`--compare` takes a comma-separated list, with the currently supported values
being `size`, `modtime`, and `checksum`. For example, if you want to compare
size and checksum, but not modtime, you would do:

```text
--compare size,checksum
```

Or if you want to compare all three:

```text
--compare size,modtime,checksum
```

`--compare` overrides any conflicting flags. For example, if you set the
conflicting flags `--compare checksum --size-only`, `--size-only` will be
ignored, and bisync will compare checksum and not size. To avoid confusion, it
is recommended to use *either* `--compare` or the normal `sync` flags, but not
both.

If `--compare` includes `checksum` and both remotes support checksums but have
no hash types in common with each other, checksums will be considered *only*
for comparisons within the same side (to determine what has changed since the
prior sync), but not for comparisons against the opposite side. If one side
supports checksums and the other does not, checksums will only be considered on
the side that supports them.

When comparing with `checksum` and/or `size` without `modtime`, bisync cannot
determine whether a file is `newer` or `older` -- only whether it is `changed`
or `unchanged`. (If it is `changed` on both sides, bisync still does the
standard equality-check to avoid declaring a sync conflict unless it absolutely
has to.)

It is recommended to do a `--resync` when changing `--compare` settings, as
otherwise your prior listing files may not contain the attributes you wish to
compare (for example, they will not have stored checksums if you were not
previously comparing checksums.)

### --ignore-listing-checksum

When `--checksum` or `--compare checksum` is set, bisync will retrieve (or
generate) checksums (for backends that support them) when creating the listings
for both paths, and store the checksums in the listing files.
`--ignore-listing-checksum` will disable this behavior, which may speed things
up considerably, especially on backends (such as [local](https://rclone.org/local/)) where hashes
must be computed on the fly instead of retrieved. Please note the following:

- As of `v1.66`, `--ignore-listing-checksum` is now automatically set when
neither `--checksum` nor `--compare checksum` are in use (as the checksums
would not be used for anything.)
- `--ignore-listing-checksum` is NOT the same as
[`--ignore-checksum`](https://rclone.org/docs/#ignore-checksum),
and you may wish to use one or the other, or both. In a nutshell:
`--ignore-listing-checksum` controls whether checksums are considered when
scanning for diffs,
while `--ignore-checksum` controls whether checksums are considered during the
copy/sync operations that follow,
if there ARE diffs.
- Unless `--ignore-listing-checksum` is passed, bisync currently computes
hashes for one path
*even when there's no common hash with the other path*
(for example, a [crypt](https://rclone.org/crypt/#modification-times-and-hashes) remote.)
This can still be beneficial, as the hashes will still be used to detect
changes within the same side
(if `--checksum` or `--compare checksum` is set), even if they can't be used to
compare against the opposite side.
- If you wish to ignore listing checksums *only* on remotes where they are slow
to compute, consider using
[`--no-slow-hash`](#no-slow-hash) (or
[`--slow-hash-sync-only`](#slow-hash-sync-only)) instead of
`--ignore-listing-checksum`.
- If `--ignore-listing-checksum` is used simultaneously with `--compare
checksum` (or `--checksum`), checksums will be ignored for bisync deltas,
but still considered during the sync operations that follow (if deltas are
detected based on modtime and/or size.)

### --no-slow-hash

On some remotes (notably `local`), checksums can dramatically slow down a bisync
run, because hashes cannot be stored and need to be computed in real-time when
they are requested. On other remotes (such as `drive`), they add practically no
time at all. The `--no-slow-hash` flag will automatically skip checksums on remotes
where they are slow, while still comparing them on others (assuming
[`--compare`](#compare) includes `checksum`.) This can be useful when one of your
bisync paths is slow but you still want to check checksums on the other, for a
more robust sync.

### --slow-hash-sync-only

Same as [`--no-slow-hash`](#no-slow-hash), except slow hashes are still
considered during sync calls. They are still NOT considered for determining
deltas, nor or they included in listings. They are also skipped during
`--resync`. The main use case for this flag is when you have a large number of
files, but relatively few of them change from run to run -- so you don't want
to check your entire tree every time (it would take too long), but you still
want to consider checksums for the smaller group of files for which a `modtime`
or `size` change was detected. Keep in mind that this speed savings comes with
a safety trade-off: if a file's content were to change without a change to its
`modtime` or `size`, bisync would not detect it, and it would not be synced.

`--slow-hash-sync-only` is only useful if both remotes share a common hash
type (if they don't, bisync will automatically fall back to `--no-slow-hash`.)
Both `--no-slow-hash` and `--slow-hash-sync-only` have no effect without
`--compare checksum` (or `--checksum`).

### --download-hash

If `--download-hash` is set, bisync will use best efforts to obtain an MD5
checksum by downloading and computing on-the-fly, when checksums are not
otherwise available (for example, a remote that doesn't support them.) Note
that since rclone has to download the entire file, this may dramatically slow
down your bisync runs, and is also likely to use a lot of data, so it is
probably not practical for bisync paths with a large total file size. However,
it can be a good option for syncing small-but-important files with maximum
accuracy (for example, a source code repo on a `crypt` remote.) An additional
advantage over methods like [`cryptcheck`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cryptcheck/) is
that the original file is not required for comparison (for example,
`--download-hash` can be used to bisync two different crypt remotes with
different passwords.)

When `--download-hash` is set, bisync still looks for more efficient checksums
first, and falls back to downloading only when none are found. It takes
priority over conflicting flags such as `--no-slow-hash`. `--download-hash` is
not suitable for [Google Docs](#gdocs) and other files of unknown size, as
their checksums would change from run to run (due to small variances in the
internals of the generated export file.) Therefore, bisync automatically skips
`--download-hash` for files with a size less than 0.

See also: [`Hasher`](https://rclone.org/hasher/) backend,
[`cryptcheck`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cryptcheck/) command,
[`rclone check --download`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_check/) option,
[`md5sum`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_md5sum/) command

### --max-delete

As a safety check, if greater than the `--max-delete` percent of files were
deleted on either the Path1 or Path2 filesystem, then bisync will abort with
a warning message, without making any changes.
The default `--max-delete` is `50%`.
One way to trigger this limit is to rename a directory that contains more
than half of your files. This will appear to bisync as a bunch of deleted
files and a bunch of new files.
This safety check is intended to block bisync from deleting all of the
files on both filesystems due to a temporary network access issue, or if
the user had inadvertently deleted the files on one side or the other.
To force the sync, either set a different delete percentage limit,
e.g. `--max-delete 75` (allows up to 75% deletion), or use `--force`
to bypass the check.

Also see the [all files changed](#all-files-changed) check.

### --filters-file {#filters-file}

By using rclone filter features you can exclude file types or directory
sub-trees from the sync.
See the [bisync filters](#filtering) section and generic
[--filter-from](https://rclone.org/filtering/#filter-from-read-filtering-patterns-from-a-file)
documentation.
An [example filters file](#example-filters-file) contains filters for
non-allowed files for syncing with Dropbox.

If you make changes to your filters file then bisync requires a run
with `--resync`. This is a safety feature, which prevents existing files
on the Path1 and/or Path2 side from seeming to disappear from view
(since they are excluded in the new listings), which would fool bisync
into seeing them as deleted (as compared to the prior run listings),
and then bisync would proceed to delete them for real.

To block this from happening, bisync calculates an MD5 hash of the filters file
and stores the hash in a `.md5` file in the same place as your filters file.
On the next run with `--filters-file` set, bisync re-calculates the MD5 hash
of the current filters file and compares it to the hash stored in the `.md5` file.
If they don't match, the run aborts with a critical error and thus forces you
to do a `--resync`, likely avoiding a disaster.

### --conflict-resolve CHOICE {#conflict-resolve}

In bisync, a "conflict" is a file that is *new* or *changed* on *both sides*
(relative to the prior run) AND is *not currently identical* on both sides.
`--conflict-resolve` controls how bisync handles such a scenario. The currently
supported options are:

- `none` - (the default) - do not attempt to pick a winner, keep and rename
both files according to [`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser) and
[`--conflict-suffix`](#conflict-suffix) settings. For example, with the default
settings, `file.txt` on Path1 is renamed `file.txt.conflict1` and `file.txt` on
Path2 is renamed `file.txt.conflict2`. Both are copied to the opposite path
during the run, so both sides end up with a copy of both files. (As `none` is
the default, it is not necessary to specify `--conflict-resolve none` -- you
can just omit the flag.)
- `newer` - the newer file (by `modtime`) is considered the winner and is
copied without renaming. The older file (the "loser") is handled according to
`--conflict-loser` and `--conflict-suffix` settings (either renamed or
deleted.) For example, if `file.txt` on Path1 is newer than `file.txt` on
Path2, the result on both sides (with other default settings) will be `file.txt`
(winner from Path1) and `file.txt.conflict1` (loser from Path2).
- `older` - same as `newer`, except the older file is considered the winner,
and the newer file is considered the loser.
- `larger` - the larger file (by `size`) is considered the winner (regardless
of `modtime`, if any).
- `smaller` - the smaller file (by `size`) is considered the winner (regardless
of `modtime`, if any).
- `path1` - the version from Path1 is unconditionally considered the winner
(regardless of `modtime` and `size`, if any). This can be useful if one side is
usually more trusted or up-to-date than the other.
- `path2` - same as `path1`, except the path2 version is considered the
winner.

For all of the above options, note the following:

- If either of the underlying remotes lacks support for the chosen method, it
will be ignored and fall back to `none`. (For example, if `--conflict-resolve
newer` is set, but one of the paths uses a remote that doesn't support
`modtime`.)
- If a winner can't be determined because the chosen method's attribute is
missing or equal, it will be ignored and fall back to `none`. (For example, if
`--conflict-resolve newer` is set, but the Path1 and Path2 modtimes are
identical, even if the sizes may differ.)
- If the file's content is currently identical on both sides, it is not
considered a "conflict", even if new or changed on both sides since the prior
sync. (For example, if you made a change on one side and then synced it to the
other side by other means.) Therefore, none of the conflict resolution flags
apply in this scenario.
- The conflict resolution flags do not apply during a `--resync`, as there is
no "prior run" to speak of (but see [`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode) for similar
options.)

### --conflict-loser CHOICE {#conflict-loser}

`--conflict-loser` determines what happens to the "loser" of a sync conflict
(when [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve) determines a winner) or to both
files (when there is no winner.) The currently supported options are:

- `num` - (the default) - auto-number the conflicts by automatically appending
the next available number to the `--conflict-suffix`, in chronological order.
For example, with the default settings, the first conflict for `file.txt` will
be renamed `file.txt.conflict1`. If `file.txt.conflict1` already exists,
`file.txt.conflict2` will be used instead (etc., up to a maximum of
9223372036854775807 conflicts.)
- `pathname` - rename the conflicts according to which side they came from,
which was the default behavior prior to `v1.66`. For example, with
`--conflict-suffix path`, `file.txt` from Path1 will be renamed
`file.txt.path1`, and `file.txt` from Path2 will be renamed `file.txt.path2`.
If two non-identical suffixes are provided (ex. `--conflict-suffix
cloud,local`), the trailing digit is omitted. Importantly, note that with
`pathname`, there is no auto-numbering beyond `2`, so if `file.txt.path2`
somehow already exists, it will be overwritten. Using a dynamic date variable
in your `--conflict-suffix` (see below) is one possible way to avoid this. Note
also that conflicts-of-conflicts are possible, if the original conflict is not
manually resolved -- for example, if for some reason you edited
`file.txt.path1` on both sides, and those edits were different, the result
would be `file.txt.path1.path1` and `file.txt.path1.path2` (in addition to
`file.txt.path2`.)
- `delete` - keep the winner only and delete the loser, instead of renaming it.
If a winner cannot be determined (see `--conflict-resolve` for details on how
this could happen), `delete` is ignored and the default `num` is used instead
(i.e. both versions are kept and renamed, and neither is deleted.) `delete` is
inherently the most destructive option, so use it only with care.

For all of the above options, note that if a winner cannot be determined (see
`--conflict-resolve` for details on how this could happen), or if
`--conflict-resolve` is not in use, *both* files will be renamed.

### --conflict-suffix STRING[,STRING] {#conflict-suffix}

`--conflict-suffix` controls the suffix that is appended when bisync renames a
[`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser) (default: `conflict`).
`--conflict-suffix` will accept either one string or two comma-separated
strings to assign different suffixes to Path1 vs. Path2. This may be helpful
later in identifying the source of the conflict. (For example,
`--conflict-suffix dropboxconflict,laptopconflict`)

With `--conflict-loser num`, a number is always appended to the suffix. With
`--conflict-loser pathname`, a number is appended only when one suffix is
specified (or when two identical suffixes are specified.) i.e. with
`--conflict-loser pathname`, all of the following would produce exactly the
same result:

```text
--conflict-suffix path
--conflict-suffix path,path
--conflict-suffix path1,path2
```

Suffixes may be as short as 1 character. By default, the suffix is appended
after any other extensions (ex. `file.jpg.conflict1`), however, this can be
changed with the [`--suffix-keep-extension`](https://rclone.org/docs/#suffix-keep-extension) flag
(i.e. to instead result in `file.conflict1.jpg`).

`--conflict-suffix` supports several *dynamic date variables* when enclosed in
curly braces as globs. This can be helpful to track the date and/or time that
each conflict was handled by bisync. For example:

```text
--conflict-suffix {DateOnly}-conflict
// result: myfile.txt.2006-01-02-conflict1
```

All of the formats described [here (go Time.Layout
constants)](https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants) and [here (go Time.Format
examples)](https://pkg.go.dev/time#example-Time.Format) are supported, but take
care to ensure that your chosen format does not use any characters that are
illegal on your remotes (for example, macOS does not allow colons in filenames,
and slashes are also best avoided as they are often interpreted as directory
separators.) To address this particular issue, an additional `{MacFriendlyTime}`
(or just `{mac}`) option is supported, which results in `2006-01-02 0304PM`.

Note that `--conflict-suffix` is entirely separate from rclone's main
[`--sufix`](https://rclone.org/docs/#suffix-string) flag. This is intentional, as users may wish
to use both flags simultaneously, if also using
[`--backup-dir`](#backup-dir1-and-backup-dir2).

Finally, note that the default in bisync prior to `v1.66` was to rename
conflicts with `..path1` and `..path2` (with two periods, and `path` instead of
`conflict`.) Bisync now defaults to a single dot instead of a double dot, but
additional dots can be added by including them in the specified suffix string.
For example, for behavior equivalent to the previous default, use:

```text
[--conflict-resolve none] --conflict-loser pathname --conflict-suffix .path
```

### --check-sync

Enabled by default, the check-sync function checks that all of the same
files exist in both the Path1 and Path2 history listings. This *check-sync*
integrity check is performed at the end of the sync run by default.
Any untrapped failing copy/deletes between the two paths might result
in differences between the two listings and in the untracked file content
differences between the two paths. A resync run would correct the error.

Note that the default-enabled integrity check locally executes a load of both
the final Path1 and Path2 listings, and thus adds to the run time of a sync.
Using `--check-sync=false` will disable it and may significantly reduce the
sync run times for very large numbers of files.

The check may be run manually with `--check-sync=only`. It runs only the
integrity check and terminates without actually syncing.

Note that currently, `--check-sync` **only checks listing snapshots and NOT the
actual files on the remotes.** Note also that the listing snapshots will not
know about any changes that happened during or after the latest bisync run, as
those will be discovered on the next run. Therefore, while listings should
always match *each other* at the end of a bisync run, it is *expected* that
they will not match the underlying remotes, nor will the remotes match each
other, if there were changes during or after the run. This is normal, and any
differences will be detected and synced on the next run.

For a robust integrity check of the current state of the remotes (as opposed to
just their listing snapshots), consider using [`check`](commands/rclone_check/)
(or [`cryptcheck`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cryptcheck/), if at least one path is a
`crypt` remote) instead of `--check-sync`, keeping in mind that differences are
expected if files changed during or after your last bisync run.

For example, a possible sequence could look like this:

1. Normally scheduled bisync run:

    ```console
    rclone bisync Path1 Path2 -MPc --check-access --max-delete 10 --filters-file /path/to/filters.txt -v --no-cleanup --ignore-listing-checksum --disable ListR --checkers=16 --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms --create-empty-src-dirs --resilient
    ```

2. Periodic independent integrity check (perhaps scheduled nightly or weekly):

    ```console
    rclone check -MvPc Path1 Path2 --filter-from /path/to/filters.txt
    ```

3. If diffs are found, you have some choices to correct them.
If one side is more up-to-date and you want to make the other side match it,
you could run:

    ```console
    rclone sync Path1 Path2 --filter-from /path/to/filters.txt --create-empty-src-dirs -MPc -v
    ```

(or switch Path1 and Path2 to make Path2 the source-of-truth)

Or, if neither side is totally up-to-date, you could run a `--resync` to bring them
back into agreement (but remember that this could cause deleted files to
re-appear.)

*Note also that `rclone check` does not currently include empty directories,
so if you want to know if any empty directories are out of sync,
consider alternatively running the above `rclone sync` command with `--dry-run` added.

See also: [Concurrent modifications](#concurrent-modifications), [`--resilient`](#resilient)

### --resilient

By default, most errors or interruptions will cause bisync to abort and
require [`--resync`](#resync) to recover. This is a safety feature,  to prevent
bisync from running again until a user checks things out.  However, in some
cases, bisync can go too far and enforce a lockout when one isn't actually
necessary,  like for certain less-serious errors that might resolve themselves
on the next run.  When `--resilient` is specified, bisync tries its best to
recover and self-correct,  and only requires `--resync` as a last resort when a
human's involvement is absolutely necessary.  The intended use case is for
running bisync as a background process (such as via scheduled [cron](#cron)).

When using `--resilient` mode, bisync will still report the error and abort,
however it will not lock out future runs -- allowing the possibility of
retrying at the next normally scheduled time,  without requiring a `--resync`
first. Examples of such retryable errors include  access test failures, missing
listing files, and filter change detections.  These safety features will still
prevent the *current* run from proceeding --  the difference is that if
conditions have improved by the time of the *next* run,  that next run will be
allowed to proceed.  Certain more serious errors will still enforce a
`--resync` lockout, even in `--resilient` mode, to prevent data loss.

Behavior of `--resilient` may change in a future version. (See also:
[`--recover`](#recover), [`--max-lock`](#max-lock), [Graceful
Shutdown](#graceful-shutdown))

### --recover

If `--recover` is set, in the event of a sudden interruption or other
un-graceful shutdown, bisync will attempt to automatically recover on the next
run, instead of requiring `--resync`. Bisync is able to recover robustly by
keeping one "backup" listing at all times, representing the state of both paths
after the last known successful sync. Bisync can then compare the current state
with this snapshot to determine which changes it needs to retry. Changes that
were synced after this snapshot (during the run that was later interrupted)
will appear to bisync as if they are "new or changed on both sides", but in
most cases this is not a problem, as bisync will simply do its usual "equality
check" and learn that no action needs to be taken on these files, since they
are already identical on both sides.

In the rare event that a file is synced successfully during a run that later
aborts, and then that same file changes AGAIN before the next run, bisync will
think it is a sync conflict, and handle it accordingly. (From bisync's
perspective, the file has changed on both sides since the last trusted sync,
and the files on either side are not currently identical.) Therefore,
`--recover` carries with it a slightly increased chance of having conflicts --
though in practice this is pretty rare, as the conditions required to cause it
are quite specific. This risk can be reduced by using bisync's ["Graceful
Shutdown"](#graceful-shutdown) mode (triggered by sending `SIGINT` or
`Ctrl+C`), when you have the choice, instead of forcing a sudden termination.

`--recover` and `--resilient` are similar, but distinct -- the main difference
is that `--resilient` is about *retrying*, while `--recover` is about
*recovering*. Most users will probably want both. `--resilient` allows retrying
when bisync has chosen to abort itself due to safety features such as failing
`--check-access` or detecting a filter change. `--resilient` does not cover
external interruptions such as a user shutting down their computer in the
middle of a sync -- that is what `--recover` is for.

### --max-lock

Bisync uses [lock files](#lock-file) as a safety feature to prevent
interference from other bisync runs while it is running. Bisync normally
removes these lock files at the end of a run, but if bisync is abruptly
interrupted, these files will be left behind. By default, they will lock out
all future runs, until the user has a chance to manually check things out and
remove the lock. As an alternative, `--max-lock` can be used to make them
automatically expire after a certain period of time, so that future runs are
not locked out forever, and auto-recovery is possible. `--max-lock` can be any
duration `2m` or greater (or `0` to disable). If set, lock files older than
this will be considered "expired", and future runs will be allowed to disregard
them and proceed. (Note that the `--max-lock` duration must be set by the
process that left the lock file -- not the later one interpreting it.)

If set, bisync will also "renew" these lock files every `--max-lock minus one
minute` throughout a run, for extra safety. (For example, with `--max-lock 5m`,
bisync would renew the lock file (for another 5 minutes) every 4 minutes until
the run has completed.) In other words, it should not be possible for a lock
file to pass its expiration time while the process that created it is still
running -- and you can therefore be reasonably sure that any *expired* lock
file you may find was left there by an interrupted run, not one that is still
running and just taking awhile.

If a lock file exists but its contents are unreadable (for example, due to an
incomplete write or disk error), it is treated as expired when `--max-lock` is
set to a value greater than `0`. If `--max-lock` is `0` or not set, an
unreadable lock file will produce an error and block future runs until removed
manually.

If `--max-lock` is `0` or not set, the default is that lock files will never
expire, and will block future runs (of these same two bisync paths)
indefinitely.

For maximum resilience from disruptions, consider setting a relatively short
duration like `--max-lock 2m` along with [`--resilient`](#resilient) and
[`--recover`](#recover), and a relatively frequent [cron schedule](#cron). The
result will be a very robust "set-it-and-forget-it" bisync run that can
automatically bounce back from almost any interruption it might encounter,
without requiring the user to get involved and run a `--resync`. (See also:
[Graceful Shutdown](#graceful-shutdown) mode)

### --backup-dir1 and --backup-dir2

As of `v1.66`, [`--backup-dir`](https://rclone.org/docs/#backup-dir-string) is supported in bisync.
Because `--backup-dir` must be a non-overlapping path on the same remote,
Bisync has introduced new `--backup-dir1` and `--backup-dir2` flags to support
separate backup-dirs for `Path1` and `Path2` (bisyncing between different
remotes with `--backup-dir` would not otherwise be possible.) `--backup-dir1`
and `--backup-dir2` can use different remotes from each other, but
`--backup-dir1` must use the same remote as `Path1`, and `--backup-dir2` must
use the same remote as `Path2`. Each backup directory must not overlap its
respective bisync Path without being excluded by a filter rule.

The standard `--backup-dir` will also work, if both paths use the same remote
(but note that deleted files from both paths would be mixed together in the
same dir). If either `--backup-dir1` and `--backup-dir2` are set, they will
override `--backup-dir`.

Example:

```console
rclone bisync /Users/someuser/some/local/path/Bisync gdrive:Bisync --backup-dir1 /Users/someuser/some/local/path/BackupDir --backup-dir2 gdrive:BackupDir --suffix -2023-08-26 --suffix-keep-extension --check-access --max-delete 10 --filters-file /Users/someuser/some/local/path/bisync_filters.txt --no-cleanup --ignore-listing-checksum --checkers=16 --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms --create-empty-src-dirs --resilient -MvP --drive-skip-gdocs --fix-case
```

In this example, if the user deletes a file in
`/Users/someuser/some/local/path/Bisync`, bisync will propagate the delete to
the other side by moving the corresponding file from `gdrive:Bisync` to
`gdrive:BackupDir`. If the user deletes a file from `gdrive:Bisync`, bisync
moves it from `/Users/someuser/some/local/path/Bisync` to
`/Users/someuser/some/local/path/BackupDir`.

In the event of a [rename due to a sync conflict](#conflict-loser), the
rename is not considered a delete, unless a previous conflict with the same
name already exists and would get overwritten.

See also: [`--suffix`](https://rclone.org/docs/#suffix-string),
[`--suffix-keep-extension`](https://rclone.org/docs/#suffix-keep-extension)

## Operation

### Runtime flow details

bisync retains the listings of the `Path1` and `Path2` filesystems
from the prior run.
On each successive run it will:

- list files on `path1` and `path2`, and check for changes on each side.
  Changes include `New`, `Newer`, `Older`, and `Deleted` files.
- Propagate changes on `path1` to `path2`, and vice-versa.

### Safety measures

- Lock file prevents multiple simultaneous runs when taking a while.
  This can be particularly useful if bisync is run by cron scheduler.
- Handle change conflicts non-destructively by creating
  `.conflict1`, `.conflict2`, etc. file versions, according to
  [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve), [`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser),
  and [`--conflict-suffix`](#conflict-suffix) settings.
- File system access health check using `RCLONE_TEST` files
  (see the `--check-access` flag).
- Abort on excessive deletes - protects against a failed listing
  being interpreted as all the files were deleted.
  See the `--max-delete` and `--force` flags.
- If something evil happens, bisync goes into a safe state to block
  damage by later runs. (See [Error Handling](#error-handling))

### Normal sync checks

 Type         | Description                                   | Result                   | Implementation
--------------|-----------------------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------
Path2 new     | File is new on Path2, does not exist on Path1 | Path2 version survives   | `rclone copy` Path2 to Path1
Path2 newer   | File is newer on Path2, unchanged on Path1    | Path2 version survives   | `rclone copy` Path2 to Path1
Path2 deleted | File is deleted on Path2, unchanged on Path1  | File is deleted          | `rclone delete` Path1
Path1 new     | File is new on Path1, does not exist on Path2 | Path1 version survives   | `rclone copy` Path1 to Path2
Path1 newer   | File is newer on Path1, unchanged on Path2    | Path1 version survives   | `rclone copy` Path1 to Path2
Path1 older   | File is older on Path1, unchanged on Path2    | *Path1 version survives* | `rclone copy` Path1 to Path2
Path2 older   | File is older on Path2, unchanged on Path1    | *Path2 version survives* | `rclone copy` Path2 to Path1
Path1 deleted | File no longer exists on Path1                | File is deleted          | `rclone delete` Path2

### Unusual sync checks

 Type                           | Description                           | Result                             | Implementation
--------------------------------|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------|-----------------------
Path1 new/changed AND Path2 new/changed AND Path1 == Path2       | File is new/changed on Path1 AND new/changed on Path2 AND Path1 version is currently identical to Path2 | No change | None
Path1 new AND Path2 new         | File is new on Path1 AND new on Path2 (and Path1 version is NOT identical to Path2) | Conflicts handled according to [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve) & [`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser) settings | default: `rclone copy` renamed `Path2.conflict2` file to Path1, `rclone copy` renamed `Path1.conflict1` file to Path2
Path2 newer AND Path1 changed   | File is newer on Path2 AND also changed (newer/older/size) on Path1 (and Path1 version is NOT identical to Path2) | Conflicts handled according to [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve) & [`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser) settings | default: `rclone copy` renamed `Path2.conflict2` file to Path1, `rclone copy` renamed `Path1.conflict1` file to Path2
Path2 newer AND Path1 deleted   | File is newer on Path2 AND also deleted on Path1 | Path2 version survives  | `rclone copy` Path2 to Path1
Path2 deleted AND Path1 changed | File is deleted on Path2 AND changed (newer/older/size) on Path1 | Path1 version survives |`rclone copy` Path1 to Path2
Path1 deleted AND Path2 changed | File is deleted on Path1 AND changed (newer/older/size) on Path2 | Path2 version survives  | `rclone copy` Path2 to Path1

As of `rclone v1.64`, bisync is now better at detecting *false positive* sync
conflicts, which would previously have resulted in unnecessary renames and
duplicates. Now, when bisync comes to a file that it wants to rename (because it
is new/changed on both sides), it first checks whether the Path1 and Path2
versions are currently *identical* (using the same underlying function as
[`check`](commands/rclone_check/).) If bisync concludes that the files are
identical, it will skip them and move on. Otherwise, it will create renamed
duplicates, as before. This behavior also [improves the experience of renaming
directories](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=Renamed%20directories),
as a `--resync` is no longer required, so long as the same change has been made
on both sides.

### All files changed check {#all-files-changed}

If *all* prior existing files on either of the filesystems have changed
(e.g. timestamps have changed due to changing the system's timezone)
then bisync will abort without making any changes.
Any new files are not considered for this check. You could use `--force`
to force the sync (whichever side has the changed timestamp files wins).
Alternately, a `--resync` may be used (Path1 versions will be pushed
to Path2). Consider the situation carefully and perhaps use `--dry-run`
before you commit to the changes.

### Modification times

By default, bisync compares files by modification time and size.
If you or your application should change the content of a file
without changing the modification time and size, then bisync will *not*
notice the change, and thus will not copy it to the other side.
As an alternative, consider comparing by checksum (if your remotes support it).
See [`--compare`](#compare) for details.

### Error handling {#error-handling}

Certain bisync critical errors, such as file copy/move failing, will result in
a bisync lockout of following runs. The lockout is asserted because the sync
status and history of the Path1 and Path2 filesystems cannot be trusted,
so it is safer to block any further changes until someone checks things out.
The recovery is to do a `--resync` again.

It is recommended to use `--resync --dry-run --verbose` initially and
*carefully* review what changes will be made before running the `--resync`
without `--dry-run`.

Most of these events come up due to an error status from an internal call.
On such a critical error the `{...}.path1.lst` and `{...}.path2.lst`
listing files are renamed to extension `.lst-err`, which blocks any future
bisync runs (since the normal `.lst` files are not found).
Bisync keeps them under `bisync` subdirectory of the rclone cache directory,
typically at `${HOME}/.cache/rclone/bisync/` on Linux.

Some errors are considered temporary and re-running the bisync is not blocked.
The *critical return* blocks further bisync runs.

See also: [`--resilient`](#resilient), [`--recover`](#recover),
[`--max-lock`](#max-lock), [Graceful Shutdown](#graceful-shutdown)

### Lock file

When bisync is running, a lock file is created in the bisync working directory,
typically at `~/.cache/rclone/bisync/PATH1..PATH2.lck` on Linux.
If bisync should crash or hang, the lock file will remain in place and block
any further runs of bisync *for the same paths*.
Delete the lock file as part of debugging the situation.
The lock file effectively blocks follow-on (e.g., scheduled by *cron*) runs
when the prior invocation is taking a long time.
The lock file contains *PID* of the blocking process, which may help in debug.
Lock files can be set to automatically expire after a certain amount of time,
using the [`--max-lock`](#max-lock) flag.

**Note**
that while concurrent bisync runs are allowed, *be very cautious*
that there is no overlap in the trees being synched between concurrent runs,
lest there be replicated files, deleted files and general mayhem.

### Exit codes

`rclone bisync` returns the following codes to calling program:

- `0` on a successful run,
- `1` for a non-critical failing run (a rerun may be successful),
- `2` on syntax or usage error,
- `7` for a critically aborted run (requires a `--resync` to recover).

See also the section about [exit codes](https://rclone.org/docs/#exit-code) in main docs.

### Graceful Shutdown

Bisync has a "Graceful Shutdown" mode which is activated by sending `SIGINT` or
pressing `Ctrl+C` during a run. Once triggered, bisync will use best efforts to
exit cleanly before the timer runs out. If bisync is in the middle of
transferring files, it will attempt to cleanly empty its queue by finishing
what it has started but not taking more. If it cannot do so within 30 seconds,
it will cancel the in-progress transfers at that point and then give itself a
maximum of 60 seconds to wrap up, save its state for next time, and exit. With
the `-vP` flags you will see constant status updates and a final confirmation
of whether or not the graceful shutdown was successful.

At any point during the "Graceful Shutdown" sequence, a second `SIGINT` or
`Ctrl+C` will trigger an immediate, un-graceful exit, which will leave things
in a messier state. Usually a robust recovery will still be possible if using
[`--recover`](#recover) mode, otherwise you will need to do a `--resync`.

If you plan to use Graceful Shutdown mode, it is recommended to use
[`--resilient`](#resilient) and [`--recover`](#recover), and it is important to
NOT use [`--inplace`](https://rclone.org/docs/#inplace), otherwise you risk leaving
partially-written files on one side, which may be confused for real files on
the next run. Note also that in the event of an abrupt interruption, a [lock
file](#lock-file) will be left behind to block concurrent runs. You will need
to delete it before you can proceed with the next run (or wait for it to
expire on its own, if using `--max-lock`.)

## Limitations

### Supported backends

Bisync is integration-tested against all rclone backends to verify compatibility.
Most backends (including all backends not listed below) are deemed fully
supported with no known issues. Occasionally, however, these tests reveal issues
with particular backends, usually related to a provider-specific limitation
beyond rclone's control (for example, disallowed special characters and filename
encodings.)

The following backends have known issues that need more investigation:

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- `TestHuaweiDrive` (`huaweidrive`)
  - [`TestBisyncRemoteLocal/ext_paths`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/huaweidrive-cmd.bisync-TestHuaweiDrive-1.txt)
  - [`TestBisyncRemoteLocal/extended_filenames`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/huaweidrive-cmd.bisync-TestHuaweiDrive-1.txt)
  - [`TestBisyncRemoteLocal/normalization`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/huaweidrive-cmd.bisync-TestHuaweiDrive-1.txt)
  - [`TestBisyncLocalRemote/ext_paths`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/huaweidrive-cmd.bisync-TestHuaweiDrive-1.txt)
  - [`TestBisyncLocalRemote/extended_filenames`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/huaweidrive-cmd.bisync-TestHuaweiDrive-1.txt)
  - [4 more](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/)
- `TestPcloud` (`pcloud`)
  - [`TestBisyncRemoteRemote/check_access`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/pcloud-cmd.bisync-TestPcloud-1.txt)
  - [`TestBisyncRemoteRemote/rmdirs`](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/pcloud-cmd.bisync-TestPcloud-1.txt)
- Updated: 2026-07-31-010017
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The following backends either have not been tested recently or have known issues
that are deemed unfixable for the time being:

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- `TestArchive` (`archive`)
- `TestCache` (`cache`)
- `TestDrime` (`drime`)
- `TestDropbox` (`dropbox`)
  - `TestBisyncRemoteLocal/normalization`
  - `TestBisyncLocalRemote/normalization`
  - `TestBisyncRemoteRemote/normalization`
- `TestFileLu` (`filelu`)
- `TestFilesCom` (`filescom`)
- `TestImageKit` (`imagekit`)
- `TestJottacloud` (`jottacloud`)
- `TestLinkbox` (`linkbox`)
- `TestMailru` (`mailru`)
- `TestMega` (`mega`)
- `TestOpenDrive` (`opendrive`)
- `TestOracleObjectStorage` (`oracleobjectstorage`)
- `TestPikPak` (`pikpak`)
- `TestPixeldrain` (`pixeldrain`)
- `TestProtonDrive` (`protondrive`)
- `TestPutio` (`putio`)
- `TestQuatrix` (`quatrix`)
- `TestS3GCS` (`s3`)
  - `TestBisyncRemoteRemote/extended_filenames`
- `TestS3Rclone` (`s3`)
- `TestSFTPRsyncNet` (`sftp`)
- `TestStorj` (`storj`)
- `TestWebdavNextcloud` (`webdav`)
- `TestWebdavOwncloud` (`webdav`)
- `TestnStorage` (`netstorage`)
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([more info](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/fstest/test_all/config.yaml))

The above lists are updated for each stable release of rclone. For test results
updated nightly based on the latest beta, visit rclone's [integration test
status page](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/current/).

Early beta versions of `rclone bisync` required both underlying backends to support
modification times, and refused to run otherwise.
This limitation has been lifted as of `v1.66`, as bisync now supports comparing
checksum and/or size instead of (or in addition to) modtime.
See [`--compare`](#compare) for details.

### Concurrent modifications

When using **Local, FTP or SFTP** remotes with [`--inplace`](https://rclone.org/docs/#inplace),
rclone does not create *temporary* files at the destination when copying, and
thus if the connection is lost the created file may be corrupt, which will
likely propagate back to the original path on the next sync, resulting in data
loss. It is therefore recommended to *omit* `--inplace`.

Files that **change during** a bisync run may result in data loss. Prior to
`rclone v1.66`, this was commonly seen in highly dynamic environments, where the
filesystem was getting hammered by running processes during the sync. As of
`rclone v1.66`, bisync was redesigned to use a "snapshot" model, greatly
reducing the risks from changes during a sync. Changes that are not detected
during the current sync will now be detected during the following sync, and will
no longer cause the entire run to throw a critical error. There is additionally
a mechanism to mark files as needing to be internally rechecked next time, for
added safety. It should therefore no longer be necessary to sync only at quiet
times -- however, note that an error can still occur if a file happens to change
at the exact moment it's being read/written by bisync (same as would happen in
`rclone sync`.) (See also: [`--ignore-checksum`](https://rclone.org/docs/#ignore-checksum),
[`--local-no-check-updated`](https://rclone.org/local/#local-no-check-updated))

### Empty directories

By default, new/deleted empty directories on one path are *not* propagated to
the other side. This is because bisync (and rclone) natively works on files, not
directories. However, this can be changed with the `--create-empty-src-dirs` flag,
which works in much the same way as in [`sync`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/) and
[`copy`](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/). When used, empty directories created or
deleted on one side will also be created or deleted on the other side. The
following should be noted:

- `--create-empty-src-dirs` is not compatible with `--remove-empty-dirs`.
Use only one or the other (or neither).
- It is not recommended to switch back and forth between `--create-empty-src-dirs`
and the default (no `--create-empty-src-dirs`) without running `-- resync`. This
is because it may appear as though all directories (not just the empty ones) were
created/deleted, when actually you've just toggled between making them
visible/invisible to bisync. It looks scarier than it is, but it's still
probably best to stick to one or the other, and use `--resync` when you need to
switch.

### Renamed directories

By default, renaming a folder on the Path1 side results in deleting all files on
the Path2 side and then copying all files again from Path1 to Path2.
Bisync sees this as all files in the old directory name as deleted and all
files in the new directory name as new.

A recommended solution is to use [`--track-renames`](https://rclone.org/docs/#track-renames),
which is now supported in bisync as of `rclone v1.66`.
Note that `--track-renames` is not available during `--resync`,
as `--resync` does not delete anything (`--track-renames` only supports `sync`,
not `copy`.)

Otherwise, the most effective and efficient method of renaming a directory
is to rename it to the same name on both sides. (As of `rclone v1.64`,
a `--resync` is no longer required after doing so, as bisync will automatically
detect that Path1 and Path2 are in agreement.)

Note that although the flag --track-renames ensures that renamed/moved files won't
be deleted and uploaded again, they are still counted as deleted files for purposes
of the --max-delete flag (as this check happens before the rename detection
operation). See [this issue](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8685).

### `--fast-list` used by default

Unlike most other rclone commands, bisync uses [`--fast-list`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list)
by default, for backends that support it. In many cases this is desirable, however,
there are some scenarios in which bisync could be faster *without* `--fast-list`,
and there is also a [known issue concerning Google Drive users with many empty directories](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/cbf3d4356135814921382dd3285d859d15d0aa77).
For now, the recommended way to avoid using `--fast-list` is to add `--disable ListR`
to all bisync commands. The default behavior may change in a future version.

### Case (and unicode) sensitivity {#case-sensitivity}

As of `v1.66`, case and unicode form differences no longer cause critical errors,
and normalization (when comparing between filesystems) is handled according to
the same flags and defaults as `rclone sync`. See the following options (all of
which are supported by bisync) to control this behavior more granularly:

- [`--fix-case`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fix-case)
- [`--ignore-case-sync`](https://rclone.org/docs/#ignore-case-sync)
- [`--no-unicode-normalization`](https://rclone.org/docs/#no-unicode-normalization)
- [`--local-unicode-normalization`](https://rclone.org/local/#local-unicode-normalization) and
[`--local-case-sensitive`](https://rclone.org/local/#local-case-sensitive) (caution: these are
normally not what you want.)

Note that in the (probably rare) event that `--fix-case` is used AND a file is
new/changed on both sides AND the checksums match AND the filename case does not
match, the Path1 filename is considered the winner, for the purposes of
`--fix-case` (Path2 will be renamed to match it).

## Windows support {#windows}

Bisync has been tested on Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and on Windows
GitHub runners.

Drive letters are allowed, including drive letters mapped to network drives
(`rclone bisync J:\localsync GDrive:`).
If a drive letter is omitted, the shell current drive is the default.
Drive letters are a single character follows by `:`, so cloud names
must be more than one character long.

Absolute paths (with or without a drive letter), and relative paths
(with or without a drive letter) are supported.

Working directory is created at `C:\Users\MyLogin\AppData\Local\rclone\bisync`.

Note that bisync output may show a mix of forward `/` and back `\` slashes.

Be careful of case independent directory and file naming on Windows
vs. case dependent Linux

## Filtering {#filtering}

See [filtering documentation](https://rclone.org/filtering/)
for how filter rules are written and interpreted.

Bisync's [`--filters-file`](#filters-file) flag slightly extends the rclone's
[--filter-from](https://rclone.org/filtering/#filter-from-read-filtering-patterns-from-a-file)
filtering mechanism.
For a given bisync run you may provide *only one* `--filters-file`.
The `--include*`, `--exclude*`, and `--filter` flags are also supported.

### How to filter directories

Filtering portions of the directory tree is a critical feature for syncing.

Examples of directory trees (always beneath the Path1/Path2 root level)
you may want to exclude from your sync:

- Directory trees containing only software build intermediate files.
- Directory trees containing application temporary files and data
  such as the Windows `C:\Users\MyLogin\AppData\` tree.
- Directory trees containing files that are large, less important,
  or are getting thrashed continuously by ongoing processes.

On the other hand, there may be only select directories that you
actually want to sync, and exclude all others. See the
[Example include-style filters for Windows user directories](#include-filters)
below.

### Filters file writing guidelines

1. Begin with excluding directory trees:
    - e.g. `- /AppData/`
    - `**` on the end is not necessary. Once a given directory level
      is excluded then everything beneath it won't be looked at by rclone.
    - Exclude such directories that are unneeded, are big, dynamically thrashed,
      or where there may be access permission issues.
    - Excluding such dirs first will make rclone operations (much) faster.
    - Specific files may also be excluded, as with the Dropbox exclusions
      example below.
2. Decide if it's easier (or cleaner) to:
    - Include select directories and therefore *exclude everything else* -- or --
    - Exclude select directories and therefore *include everything else*
3. Include select directories:
    - Add lines like: `+ /Documents/PersonalFiles/**` to select which
      directories to include in the sync.
    - `**` on the end specifies to include the full depth of the specified tree.
    - With Include-style filters, files at the Path1/Path2 root are not included.
      They may be included with `+ /*`.
    - Place RCLONE_TEST files within these included directory trees.
      They will only be looked for in these directory trees.
    - Finish by excluding everything else by adding `- **` at the end
      of the filters file.
    - Disregard step 4.
4. Exclude select directories:
    - Add more lines like in step 1.
      For example: `-/Desktop/tempfiles/`, or `- /testdir/`.
      Again, a `**` on the end is not necessary.
    - Do *not* add a `- **` in the file. Without this line, everything
      will be included that has not been explicitly excluded.
    - Disregard step 3.

A few rules for the syntax of a filter file expanding on
[filtering documentation](https://rclone.org/filtering/):

- Lines may start with spaces and tabs - rclone strips leading whitespace.
- If the first non-whitespace character is a `#` then the line is a comment
  and will be ignored.
- Blank lines are ignored.
- The first non-whitespace character on a filter line must be a `+` or `-`.
- Exactly 1 space is allowed between the `+/-` and the path term.
- Only forward slashes (`/`) are used in path terms, even on Windows.
- The rest of the line is taken as the path term.
  Trailing whitespace is taken literally, and probably is an error.

### Example include-style filters for Windows user directories {#include-filters}

This Windows *include-style* example is based on the sync root (Path1)
set to `C:\Users\MyLogin`. The strategy is to select specific directories
to be synched with a network drive (Path2).

- `- /AppData/` excludes an entire tree of Windows stored stuff
  that need not be synched.
  In my case, AppData has >11 GB of stuff I don't care about, and there are
  some subdirectories beneath AppData that are not accessible to my
  user login, resulting in bisync critical aborts.
- Windows creates cache files starting with both upper and
  lowercase `NTUSER` at `C:\Users\MyLogin`. These files may be dynamic,
  locked, and are generally *don't care*.
- There are just a few directories with *my* data that I do want synched,
  in the form of `+ /<path>`. By selecting only the directory trees I
  want to avoid the dozen plus directories that various apps make
  at `C:\Users\MyLogin\Documents`.
- Include files in the root of the sync point, `C:\Users\MyLogin`,
  by adding the `+ /*` line.
- This is an Include-style filters file, therefore it ends with `- **`
  which excludes everything not explicitly included.

```text
- /AppData/
- NTUSER*
- ntuser*
+ /Documents/Family/**
+ /Documents/Sketchup/**
+ /Documents/Microcapture_Photo/**
+ /Documents/Microcapture_Video/**
+ /Desktop/**
+ /Pictures/**
+ /*
- **
```

Note also that Windows implements several "library" links such as
`C:\Users\MyLogin\My Documents\My Music` pointing to `C:\Users\MyLogin\Music`.
rclone sees these as links, so you must add `--links` to the
bisync command line if you which to follow these links. I find that I get
permission errors in trying to follow the links, so I don't include the
rclone `--links` flag, but then you get lots of `Can't follow symlink…`
noise from rclone about not following the links. This noise can be
quashed by adding `--quiet` to the bisync command line.

## Example exclude-style filters files for use with Dropbox {#exclude-filters}

- Dropbox disallows syncing the listed temporary and configuration/data files.
  The `- <filename>` filters exclude these files where ever they may occur
  in the sync tree. Consider adding similar exclusions for file types
  you don't need to sync, such as core dump and software build files.
- bisync testing creates `/testdir/` at the top level of the sync tree,
  and usually deletes the tree after the test. If a normal sync should run
  while the `/testdir/` tree exists the `--check-access` phase may fail
  due to unbalanced RCLONE_TEST files.
  The `- /testdir/` filter blocks this tree from being synched.
  You don't need this exclusion if you are not doing bisync development testing.
- Everything else beneath the Path1/Path2 root will be synched.
- RCLONE_TEST files may be placed anywhere within the tree, including the root.

### Example filters file for Dropbox {#example-filters-file}

```text
# Filter file for use with bisync
# See https://rclone.org/filtering/ for filtering rules
# NOTICE: If you make changes to this file you MUST do a --resync run.
#         Run with --dry-run to see what changes will be made.

# Dropbox won't sync some files so filter them away here.
# See https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/files-not-syncing
- .dropbox.attr
- ~*.tmp
- ~$*
- .~*
- desktop.ini
- .dropbox

# Used for bisync testing, so excluded from normal runs
- /testdir/

# Other example filters
#- /TiBU/
#- /Photos/
```

### How --check-access handles filters

At the start of a bisync run, listings are gathered for Path1 and Path2
while using the user's `--filters-file`. During the check access phase,
bisync scans these listings for `RCLONE_TEST` files.
Any `RCLONE_TEST` files hidden by the `--filters-file` are *not* in the
listings and thus not checked during the check access phase.

## Troubleshooting {#troubleshooting}

### Reading bisync logs

Here are two normal runs. The first one has a newer file on the remote.
The second has no deltas between local and remote.

```text
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Synching Path1 "/path/to/local/tree/" with Path2 "dropbox:/"
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Path1 checking for diffs
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : - Path1    File is new                         - file.txt
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Path1:    1 changes:    1 new,    0 newer,    0 older,    0 deleted
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Path2 checking for diffs
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Applying changes
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : - Path1    Queue copy to Path2                 - dropbox:/file.txt
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : - Path1    Do queued copies to                 - Path2
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Updating listings
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Validating listings for Path1 "/path/to/local/tree/" vs Path2 "dropbox:/"
2021/05/16 00:24:38 INFO  : Bisync successful

2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Synching Path1 "/path/to/local/tree/" with Path2 "dropbox:/"
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Path1 checking for diffs
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Path2 checking for diffs
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : No changes found
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Updating listings
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Validating listings for Path1 "/path/to/local/tree/" vs Path2 "dropbox:/"
2021/05/16 00:36:52 INFO  : Bisync successful
```

### Dry run oddity

The `--dry-run` messages may indicate that it would try to delete some files.
For example, if a file is new on Path2 and does not exist on Path1 then
it would normally be copied to Path1, but with `--dry-run` enabled those
copies don't happen, which leads to the attempted delete on Path2,
blocked again by --dry-run: `... Not deleting as --dry-run`.

This whole confusing situation is an artifact of the `--dry-run` flag.
Scrutinize the proposed deletes carefully, and if the files would have been
copied to Path1 then the threatened deletes on Path2 may be disregarded.

### Retries

Rclone has built-in retries. If you run with `--verbose` you'll see
error and retry messages such as shown below. This is usually not a bug.
If at the end of the run, you see `Bisync successful` and not
`Bisync critical error` or `Bisync aborted` then the run was successful,
and you can ignore the error messages.

The following run shows an intermittent fail. Lines *5* and *6* are
low-level messages. Line *6* is a bubbled-up *warning* message, conveying
the error. Rclone normally retries failing commands, so there may be
numerous such messages in the log.

Since there are no final error/warning messages on line *7*, rclone has
recovered from failure after a retry, and the overall sync was successful.

```text
1: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 INFO  : Synching Path1 "/path/to/local/tree" with Path2 "dropbox:"
2: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 INFO  : Path1 checking for diffs
3: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 INFO  : Path2 checking for diffs
4: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 INFO  : Path2:  113 changes:   22 new,    0 newer,    0 older,   91 deleted
5: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 ERROR : /path/to/local/tree/objects/af: error listing: unexpected end of JSON input
6: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 NOTICE: WARNING  listing try 1 failed.                 - dropbox:
7: 2021/05/14 00:44:12 INFO  : Bisync successful
```

This log shows a *Critical failure* which requires a `--resync` to recover from.
See the [Runtime Error Handling](#error-handling) section.

```text
2021/05/12 00:49:40 INFO  : Google drive root '': Waiting for checks to finish
2021/05/12 00:49:40 INFO  : Google drive root '': Waiting for transfers to finish
2021/05/12 00:49:40 INFO  : Google drive root '': not deleting files as there were IO errors
2021/05/12 00:49:40 ERROR : Attempt 3/3 failed with 3 errors and: not deleting files as there were IO errors
2021/05/12 00:49:40 ERROR : Failed to sync: not deleting files as there were IO errors
2021/05/12 00:49:40 NOTICE: WARNING  rclone sync try 3 failed.           - /path/to/local/tree/
2021/05/12 00:49:40 ERROR : Bisync aborted. Must run --resync to recover.
```

### Denied downloads of "infected" or "abusive" files

Google Drive has a filter for certain file types (`.exe`, `.apk`, et cetera)
that by default cannot be copied from Google Drive to the local filesystem.
If you are having problems, run with `--verbose` to see specifically which
files are generating complaints. If the error is
`This file has been identified as malware or spam and cannot be downloaded`,
consider using the flag
[--drive-acknowledge-abuse](https://rclone.org/drive/#drive-acknowledge-abuse).

### Google Docs (and other files of unknown size) {#gdocs}

As of `v1.66`, [Google Docs](https://rclone.org/drive/#import-export-of-google-documents)
(including Google Sheets, Slides, etc.) are now supported in bisync, subject to
the same options, defaults, and limitations as in `rclone sync`. When bisyncing
drive with non-drive backends, the drive -> non-drive direction is controlled
by [`--drive-export-formats`](https://rclone.org/drive/#drive-export-formats) (default
`"docx,xlsx,pptx,svg"`) and the non-drive -> drive direction is controlled by
[`--drive-import-formats`](https://rclone.org/drive/#drive-import-formats) (default none.)

For example, with the default export/import formats, a Google Sheet on the
drive side will be synced to an `.xlsx` file on the non-drive side. In the
reverse direction, `.xlsx` files with filenames that match an existing Google
Sheet will be synced to that Google Sheet, while `.xlsx` files that do NOT
match an existing Google Sheet will be copied to drive as normal `.xlsx` files
(without conversion to Sheets, although the Google Drive web browser UI may
still give you the option to open it as one.)

If `--drive-import-formats` is set (it's not, by default), then all of the
specified formats will be converted to Google Docs, if there is no existing
Google Doc with a matching name. Caution: such conversion can be quite lossy,
and in most cases it's probably not what you want!

To bisync Google Docs as URL shortcut links (in a manner similar to "Drive for
Desktop"), use: `--drive-export-formats url` (or
[alternatives](https://rclone.org/drive/#exportformats:~:text=available%20Google%20Documents.-,Extension,macOS,-Standard%20options).)

Note that these link files cannot be edited on the non-drive side -- you will
get errors if you try to sync an edited link file back to drive. They CAN be
deleted (it will result in deleting the corresponding Google Doc.) If you
create a `.url` file on the non-drive side that does not match an existing
Google Doc, bisyncing it will just result in copying the literal `.url` file
over to drive (no Google Doc will be created.) So, as a general rule of thumb,
think of them as read-only placeholders on the non-drive side, and make all
your changes on the drive side.

Likewise, even with other export-formats, it is best to only move/rename Google
Docs on the drive side. This is because otherwise, bisync will interpret this
as a file deleted and another created, and accordingly, it will delete the
Google Doc and create a new file at the new path. (Whether or not that new file
is a Google Doc depends on `--drive-import-formats`.)

Lastly, take note that all Google Docs on the drive side have a size of `-1`
and no checksum. Therefore, they cannot be reliably synced with the
`--checksum` or `--size-only` flags. (To be exact: they will still get
created/deleted, and bisync's delta engine will notice changes and queue them
for syncing, but the underlying sync function will consider them identical and
skip them.) To work around this, use the default (modtime and size) instead of
`--checksum` or `--size-only`.

To ignore Google Docs entirely, use
[`--drive-skip-gdocs`](https://rclone.org/drive/#drive-skip-gdocs).

## Usage examples

### Cron {#cron}

Rclone does not yet have a built-in capability to monitor the local file
system for changes and must be blindly run periodically.
On Windows this can be done using a *Task Scheduler*,
on Linux you can use *Cron* which is described below.

The 1st example runs a sync every 5 minutes between a local directory
and an OwnCloud server, with output logged to a runlog file:

```text
# Minute (0-59)
#      Hour (0-23)
#           Day of Month (1-31)
#                Month (1-12 or Jan-Dec)
#                     Day of Week (0-6 or Sun-Sat)
#                         Command
  */5  *    *    *    *   /path/to/rclone bisync /local/files MyCloud: --check-access --filters-file /path/to/bysync-filters.txt --log-file /path/to//bisync.log
```

See [crontab syntax](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/crontab.1p.html#INPUT_FILES)
for the details of crontab time interval expressions.

If you run `rclone bisync` as a cron job, redirect stdout/stderr to a file.
The 2nd example runs a sync to Dropbox every hour and logs all stdout (via the `>>`)
and stderr (via `2>&1`) to a log file.

```text
0 * * * * /path/to/rclone bisync /path/to/local/dropbox Dropbox: --check-access --filters-file /home/user/filters.txt >> /path/to/logs/dropbox-run.log 2>&1
```

### Sharing an encrypted folder tree between hosts

bisync can keep a local folder in sync with a cloud service,
but what if you have some highly sensitive files to be synched?

Usage of a cloud service is for exchanging both routine and sensitive
personal files between one's home network, one's personal notebook when on the
road, and with one's work computer. The routine data is not sensitive.
For the sensitive data, configure an rclone [crypt remote](https://rclone.org/crypt/) to point to
a subdirectory within the local disk tree that is bisync'd to Dropbox,
and then set up an bisync for this local crypt directory to a directory
outside of the main sync tree.

### Linux server setup

- `/path/to/DBoxroot` is the root of my local sync tree.
  There are numerous subdirectories.
- `/path/to/DBoxroot/crypt` is the root subdirectory for files
  that are encrypted. This local directory target is setup as an
  rclone crypt remote named `Dropcrypt:`.
  See [rclone.conf](#rclone-conf-snippet) snippet below.
- `/path/to/my/unencrypted/files` is the root of my sensitive
  files - not encrypted, not within the tree synched to Dropbox.
- To sync my local unencrypted files with the encrypted Dropbox versions
  I manually run `bisync /path/to/my/unencrypted/files DropCrypt:`.
  This step could be bundled into a script to run before and after
  the full Dropbox tree sync in the last step,
  thus actively keeping the sensitive files in sync.
- `bisync /path/to/DBoxroot Dropbox:` runs periodically via cron,
  keeping my full local sync tree in sync with Dropbox.

### Windows notebook setup

- The Dropbox client runs keeping the local tree `C:\Users\MyLogin\Dropbox`
  always in sync with Dropbox. I could have used `rclone bisync` instead.
- A separate directory tree at `C:\Users\MyLogin\Documents\DropLocal`
  hosts the tree of unencrypted files/folders.
- To sync my local unencrypted files with the encrypted
  Dropbox versions I manually run the following command:
  `rclone bisync C:\Users\MyLogin\Documents\DropLocal Dropcrypt:`.
- The Dropbox client then syncs the changes with Dropbox.

### rclone.conf snippet {#rclone-conf-snippet}

```ini
[Dropbox]
type = dropbox
...

[Dropcrypt]
type = crypt
remote = /path/to/DBoxroot/crypt          # on the Linux server
remote = C:\Users\MyLogin\Dropbox\crypt   # on the Windows notebook
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = ...
...
```

## Testing {#testing}

You should read this section only if you are developing for rclone.
You need to have rclone source code locally to work with bisync tests.

Bisync has a dedicated test framework implemented in the `bisync_test.go`
file located in the rclone source tree. The test suite is based on the
`go test` command. Series of tests are stored in subdirectories below the
`cmd/bisync/testdata` directory. Individual tests can be invoked by their
directory name, e.g.
`go test . -case basic -remote local -remote2 gdrive: -v`

Tests will make a temporary folder on remote and purge it afterwards.
If during test run there are intermittent errors and rclone retries,
these errors will be captured and flagged as invalid MISCOMPAREs.
Rerunning the test will let it pass. Consider such failures as noise.

### Test command syntax

```text
usage: go test ./cmd/bisync [options...]

Options:
  -case NAME        Name(s) of the test case(s) to run. Multiple names should
                    be separated by commas. You can remove the `test_` prefix
                    and replace `_` by `-` in test name for convenience.
                    If not `all`, the name(s) should map to a directory under
                    `./cmd/bisync/testdata`.
                    Use `all` to run all tests (default: all)
  -remote PATH1     `local` or name of cloud service with `:` (default: local)
  -remote2 PATH2    `local` or name of cloud service with `:` (default: local)
  -no-compare       Disable comparing test results with the golden directory
                    (default: compare)
  -no-cleanup       Disable cleanup of Path1 and Path2 testdirs.
                    Useful for troubleshooting. (default: cleanup)
  -golden           Store results in the golden directory (default: false)
                    This flag can be used with multiple tests.
  -debug            Print debug messages
  -stop-at NUM      Stop test after given step number. (default: run to the end)
                    Implies `-no-compare` and `-no-cleanup`, if the test really
                    ends prematurely. Only meaningful for a single test case.
  -refresh-times    Force refreshing the target modtime, useful for Dropbox
                    (default: false)
  -verbose          Run tests verbosely
```

Note: unlike rclone flags which must be prefixed by double dash (`--`), the
test command flags can be equally prefixed by a single `-` or double dash.

### Running tests

- `go test . -case basic -remote local -remote2 local`
  runs the `test_basic` test case using only the local filesystem,
  syncing one local directory with another local directory.
  Test script output is to the console, while commands within scenario.txt
  have their output sent to the `.../workdir/test.log` file,
  which is finally compared to the golden copy.
- The first argument after `go test` should be a relative name of the
  directory containing bisync source code. If you run tests right from there,
  the argument will be `.` (current directory) as in most examples below.
  If you run bisync tests from the rclone source directory, the command
  should be `go test ./cmd/bisync ...`.
- The test engine will mangle rclone output to ensure comparability
  with golden listings and logs.
- Test scenarios are located in `./cmd/bisync/testdata`. The test `-case`
  argument should match the full name of a subdirectory under that
  directory. Every test subdirectory name on disk must start with `test_`,
  this prefix can be omitted on command line for brevity. Also, underscores
  in the name can be replaced by dashes for convenience.
- `go test . -remote local -remote2 local -case all` runs all tests.
- Path1 and Path2 may either be the keyword `local`
  or may be names of configured cloud services.
  `go test . -remote gdrive: -remote2 dropbox: -case basic`
  will run the test between these two services, without transferring
  any files to the local filesystem.
- Test run stdout and stderr console output may be directed to a file, e.g.
  `go test . -remote gdrive: -remote2 local -case all > runlog.txt 2>&1`

### Test execution flow

1. The base setup in the `initial` directory of the testcase is applied
   on the Path1 and Path2 filesystems (via rclone copy the initial directory
   to Path1, then rclone sync Path1 to Path2).
2. The commands in the scenario.txt file are applied, with output directed
   to the `test.log` file in the test working directory.
   Typically, the first actual command in the `scenario.txt` file is
   to do a `--resync`, which establishes the baseline
   `{...}.path1.lst` and `{...}.path2.lst` files in the test working
   directory (`.../workdir/` relative to the temporary test directory).
   Various commands and listing snapshots are done within the test.
3. Finally, the contents of the test working directory are compared
   to the contents of the testcase's golden directory.

### Notes about testing

- Test cases are in individual directories beneath `./cmd/bisync/testdata`.
  A command line reference to a test is understood to reference a directory
  beneath `testdata`. For example,
  `go test ./cmd/bisync -case dry-run -remote gdrive: -remote2 local`
  refers to the test case in `./cmd/bisync/testdata/test_dry_run`.
- The test working directory is located at `.../workdir` relative to a
  temporary test directory, usually under `/tmp` on Linux.
- The local test sync tree is created at a temporary directory named
  like `bisync.XXX` under system temporary directory.
- The remote test sync tree is located at a temporary directory
  under `<remote:>/bisync.XXX/`.
- `path1` and/or `path2` subdirectories are created in a temporary
  directory under the respective local or cloud test remote.
- By default, the Path1 and Path2 test dirs and workdir will be deleted
  after each test run. The `-no-cleanup` flag disables purging these
  directories when validating and debugging a given test.
  These directories will be flushed before running another test,
  independent of the `-no-cleanup` usage.
- You will likely want to add `- /testdir/` to your normal
  bisync `--filters-file` so that normal syncs do not attempt to sync
  the test temporary directories, which may have `RCLONE_TEST` miscompares
  in some testcases which would otherwise trip the `--check-access` system.
  The `--check-access` mechanism is hard-coded to ignore `RCLONE_TEST`
  files beneath `bisync/testdata`, so the test cases may reside on the
  synched tree even if there are check file mismatches in the test tree.
- Some Dropbox tests can fail, notably printing the following message:
  `src and dst identical but can't set mod time without deleting and re-uploading`
  This is expected and happens due to the way Dropbox handles modification times.
  You should use the `-refresh-times` test flag to make up for this.
- If Dropbox tests hit request limit for you and print error message
  `too_many_requests/...: Too many requests or write operations.`
  then follow the
  [Dropbox App ID instructions](https://rclone.org/dropbox/#get-your-own-dropbox-app-id).

### Updating golden results

Sometimes even a slight change in the bisync source can cause little changes
spread around many log files. Updating them manually would be a nightmare.

The `-golden` flag will store the `test.log` and `*.lst` listings from each
test case into respective golden directories. Golden results will
automatically contain generic strings instead of local or cloud paths which
means that they should match when run with a different cloud service.

Your normal workflow might be as follows:

1. Git-clone the rclone sources locally
2. Modify bisync source and check that it builds
3. Run the whole test suite `go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local`
4. If some tests show log difference, recheck them individually, e.g.:
   `go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local -case basic`
5. If you are convinced with the difference, goldenize all tests at once:
   `go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local -golden`
6. Use word diff: `git diff --word-diff ./cmd/bisync/testdata/`.
   Please note that normal line-level diff is generally useless here.
7. Check the difference *carefully*!
8. Commit the change (`git commit`) *only* if you are sure.
   If unsure, save your code changes then wipe the log diffs from git:
   `git reset [--hard]`.

### Structure of test scenarios

- `<testname>/initial/` contains a tree of files that will be set
  as the initial condition on both Path1 and Path2 testdirs.
- `<testname>/modfiles/` contains files that will be used to
  modify the Path1 and/or Path2 filesystems.
- `<testname>/golden/` contains the expected content of the test
  working directory (`workdir`) at the completion of the testcase.
- `<testname>/scenario.txt` contains the body of the test, in the form of
  various commands to modify files, run bisync, and snapshot listings.
  Output from these commands is captured to `.../workdir/test.log`
  for comparison to the golden files.

### Supported test commands

- `test <some message>`
  Print the line to the console and to the `test.log`:
  `test sync is working correctly with options x, y, z`
- `copy-listings <prefix>`
  Save a copy of all `.lst` listings in the test working directory
  with the specified prefix:
  `save-listings exclude-pass-run`
- `move-listings <prefix>`
  Similar to `copy-listings` but removes the source
- `purge-children <dir>`
  This will delete all child files and purge all child subdirs under given
  directory but keep the parent intact. This behavior is important for tests
  with Google Drive because removing and re-creating the parent would change
  its ID.
- `delete-file <file>`
  Delete a single file.
- `delete-glob <dir> <pattern>`
  Delete a group of files located one level deep in the given directory
  with names matching a given glob pattern.
- `touch-glob YYYY-MM-DD <dir> <pattern>`
  Change modification time on a group of files.
- `touch-copy YYYY-MM-DD <source-file> <dest-dir>`
  Change file modification time then copy it to destination.
- `copy-file <source-file> <dest-dir>`
  Copy a single file to given directory.
- `copy-as <source-file> <dest-file>`
  Similar to above but destination must include both directory
  and the new file name at destination.
- `copy-dir <src> <dst>` and `sync-dir <src> <dst>`
  Copy/sync a directory. Equivalent of `rclone copy` and `rclone sync`.
- `list-dirs <dir>`
  Equivalent to `rclone lsf -R --dirs-only <dir>`
- `bisync [options]`
  Runs bisync against `-remote` and `-remote2`.

### Supported substitution terms

- `{testdir/}` - the root dir of the testcase
- `{datadir/}` - the `modfiles` dir under the testcase root
- `{workdir/}` - the temporary test working directory
- `{path1/}` - the root of the Path1 test directory tree
- `{path2/}` - the root of the Path2 test directory tree
- `{session}` - base name of the test listings
- `{/}` - OS-specific path separator
- `{spc}`, `{tab}`, `{eol}` - whitespace
- `{chr:HH}` - raw byte with given hexadecimal code

Substitution results of the terms named like `{dir/}` will end with
`/` (or backslash on Windows), so it is not necessary to include
slash in the usage, for example `delete-file {path1/}file1.txt`.

## Benchmarks

*This section is work in progress.*

Here are a few data points for scale, execution times, and memory usage.

The first set of data was taken between a local disk to Dropbox.
The [speedtest.net](https://speedtest.net) download speed was ~170 Mbps,
and upload speed was ~10 Mbps. 500 files (~9.5 MB each) had been already
synched. 50 files were added in a new directory, each ~9.5 MB, ~475 MB total.

Change                                | Operations and times                                   | Overall run time
--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|------------------
500 files synched (nothing to move)   | 1x listings for Path1 & Path2                          | 1.5 sec
500 files synched with --check-access | 1x listings for Path1 & Path2                          | 1.5 sec
50 new files on remote                | Queued 50 copies down: 27 sec                          |  29 sec
Moved local dir                       | Queued 50 copies up: 410 sec, 50 deletes up: 9 sec     | 421 sec
Moved remote dir                      | Queued 50 copies down: 31 sec, 50 deletes down: <1 sec |  33 sec
Delete local dir                      | Queued 50 deletes up: 9 sec                            |  13 sec

This next data is from a user's application. They had ~400GB of data
over 1.96 million files being sync'ed between a Windows local disk and some
remote cloud. The file full path length was on average 35 characters
(which factors into load time and RAM required).

- Loading the prior listing into memory (1.96 million files, listing file
  size 140 MB) took ~30 sec and occupied about 1 GB of RAM.
- Getting a fresh listing of the local file system (producing the
  140 MB output file) took about XXX sec.
- Getting a fresh listing of the remote file system (producing the 140 MB
  output file) took about XXX sec. The network download speed was measured
  at XXX Mb/s.
- Once the prior and current Path1 and Path2 listings were loaded (a total
  of four to be loaded, two at a time), determining the deltas was pretty
  quick (a few seconds for this test case), and the transfer time for any
  files to be copied was dominated by the network bandwidth.

## References

rclone's bisync implementation was derived from
the [rclonesync-V2](https://github.com/cjnaz/rclonesync-V2) project,
including documentation and test mechanisms,
with [@cjnaz](https://github.com/cjnaz)'s full support and encouragement.

`rclone bisync` is similar in nature to a range of other projects:

- [unison](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison)
- [syncthing](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing)
- [cjnaz/rclonesync](https://github.com/cjnaz/rclonesync-V2)
- [ConorWilliams/rsinc](https://github.com/ConorWilliams/rsinc)
- [jwink3101/syncrclone](https://github.com/Jwink3101/syncrclone)
- [DavideRossi/upback](https://github.com/DavideRossi/upback)

Bisync adopts the differential synchronization technique, which is
based on keeping history of changes performed by both synchronizing sides.
See the *Dual Shadow Method* section in
[Neil Fraser's article](https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/).

Also note a number of academic publications by
[Benjamin Pierce](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization)
about *Unison* and synchronization in general.

## Changelog

### `v1.74.2`

- Fixed an issue causing `--conflict-loser pathname` to produce unexpected
behavior if using a non-default `--conflict-resolve` value.

### `v1.74`

- Added several missing `rc` parameters.
- Optional `rc` parameters are now truly optional.
- `rc` output now provides more structured information.

### `v1.71`

- `bisync` is now officially released from beta.

- Fixed an issue causing hash type to be set incorrectly if `path2` had slow
hashes and `--no-slow-hash` or `--slow-hash-sync-only` was in use.

- Fixed an issue causing errors when running concurrent bisync runs through the `rc`.

### `v1.69.1`

- Fixed an issue causing listings to not capture concurrent modifications under
certain conditions

### `v1.68`

- Fixed an issue affecting backends that round modtimes to a lower precision.

### `v1.67`

- Added integration tests against all backends.

### `v1.66`

- Copies and deletes are now handled in one operation instead of two

- `--track-renames` and `--backup-dir` are now supported
- Partial uploads known issue on `local`/`ftp`/`sftp` has been resolved (unless
using `--inplace`)
- Final listings are now generated from sync results, to avoid needing to re-list
- Bisync is now much more resilient to changes that happen during a bisync run,
and far less prone to critical errors / undetected changes
- Bisync is now capable of rolling a file listing back in cases of uncertainty,
essentially marking the file as needing to be rechecked next time.
- A few basic terminal colors are now supported, controllable with
[`--color`](https://rclone.org/docs/#color) (`AUTO`|`NEVER`|`ALWAYS`)
- Initial listing snapshots of Path1 and Path2 are now generated concurrently,
using the same "march" infrastructure as `check` and `sync`,
for performance improvements and less
[risk of error](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=4.%20Listings%20should%20alternate%20between%20paths%20to%20minimize%20errors).
- Fixed handling of unicode normalization and case insensitivity, support for
[`--fix-case`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fix-case), [`--ignore-case-sync`](/docs/#ignore-case-sync),
[`--no-unicode-normalization`](https://rclone.org/docs/#no-unicode-normalization)
- `--resync` is now much more efficient (especially for users of `--create-empty-src-dirs`)
- Google Docs (and other files of unknown size) are now supported (with the same
options as in `sync`)
- Equality checks before a sync conflict rename now fall back to `cryptcheck`
(when possible) or `--download`,
instead of of `--size-only`, when `check` is not available.
- Bisync no longer fails to find the correct listing file when configs are
overridden with backend-specific flags.
- Bisync now fully supports comparing based on any combination of size, modtime,
and checksum, lifting the prior restriction on backends without modtime support.
- Bisync now supports a "Graceful Shutdown" mode to cleanly cancel a run early
without requiring `--resync`.
- New `--recover` flag allows robust recovery in the event of interruptions,
without requiring `--resync`.
- A new `--max-lock` setting allows lock files to automatically renew and expire,
for better automatic recovery when a run is interrupted.
- Bisync now supports auto-resolving sync conflicts and customizing rename
behavior with new [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve),
[`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser), and
[`--conflict-suffix`](#conflict-suffix) flags.
- A new [`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode) flag allows more control over which
version of a file gets kept during a `--resync`.
- Bisync now supports [`--retries`](https://rclone.org/docs/#retries-int) and [`--retries-sleep`](/docs/#retries-sleep-time)
(when [`--resilient`](#resilient) is set.)

### `v1.64`

- Fixed an [issue](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=1.%20Dry%20runs%20are%20not%20completely%20dry)
causing dry runs to inadvertently commit filter changes

- Fixed an [issue](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=2.%20%2D%2Dresync%20deletes%20data%2C%20contrary%20to%20docs)
causing `--resync` to erroneously delete empty folders and duplicate files
unique to Path2
- `--check-access` is now enforced during `--resync`, preventing data loss in
[certain user error scenarios](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=%2D%2Dcheck%2Daccess%20doesn%27t%20always%20fail%20when%20it%20should)
- Fixed an [issue](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=5.%20Bisync%20reads%20files%20in%20excluded%20directories%20during%20delete%20operations)
causing bisync to consider more files than necessary due to overbroad filters
during delete operations
- [Improved detection of false positive change conflicts](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=1.%20Identical%20files%20should%20be%20left%20alone%2C%20even%20if%20new/newer/changed%20on%20both%20sides)
(identical files are now left alone instead of renamed)
- Added [support for `--create-empty-src-dirs`](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=3.%20Bisync%20should%20create/delete%20empty%20directories%20as%20sync%20does%2C%20when%20%2D%2Dcreate%2Dempty%2Dsrc%2Ddirs%20is%20passed)
- Added experimental `--resilient` mode to allow
[recovery from self-correctable errors](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=2.%20Bisync%20should%20be%20more%20resilient%20to%20self%2Dcorrectable%20errors)
- Added [new `--ignore-listing-checksum` flag](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=6.%20%2D%2Dignore%2Dchecksum%20should%20be%20split%20into%20two%20flags%20for%20separate%20purposes)
to distinguish from `--ignore-checksum`
- [Performance improvements](https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=6.%20Deletes%20take%20several%20times%20longer%20than%20copies)
for large remotes
- Documentation and testing improvements

# Release signing

The hashes of the binary artefacts of the rclone release are signed
with a public PGP/GPG key. This can be verified manually as described
below.

The same mechanism is also used by [rclone selfupdate](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_selfupdate/)
to verify that the release has not been tampered with before the new
update is installed. This checks the SHA256 hash and the signature
with a public key compiled into the rclone binary.

## Release signing key

You may obtain the release signing key from:

- From [KEYS](/KEYS) on this website - this file contains all past signing keys also.
- The git repository hosted on GitHub - <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/docs/content/KEYS>
- `gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --search nick@craig-wood.com`
- `gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --search nick@craig-wood.com`
- <https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/pub/pgp-key.txt>

After importing the key, verify that the fingerprint of one of the
keys matches: `FBF737ECE9F8AB18604BD2AC93935E02FF3B54FA` ads this key is used
for signing.

We recommend that you cross-check the fingerprint shown above through
the domains listed below. By cross-checking the integrity of the
fingerprint across multiple domains you can be confident that you
obtained the correct key.

- The [source for this page on GitHub](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/docs/content/release_signing.md).
- Through DNS `dig key.rclone.org txt`

If you find anything that doesn't not match, please contact the
developers at once.

## How to verify the release

In the release directory you will see the release files and some files
called `MD5SUMS`, `SHA1SUMS` and `SHA256SUMS`.

```console
$ rclone lsf --http-url https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.63.1 :http:
MD5SUMS
SHA1SUMS
SHA256SUMS
rclone-v1.63.1-freebsd-386.zip
rclone-v1.63.1-freebsd-amd64.zip
...
rclone-v1.63.1-windows-arm64.zip
rclone-v1.63.1.tar.gz
version.txt
```

The `MD5SUMS`, `SHA1SUMS` and `SHA256SUMS` contain hashes of the
binary files in the release directory along with a signature.

For example:

```console
$ rclone cat --http-url https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.63.1 :http:SHA256SUMS
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

f6d1b2d7477475ce681bdce8cb56f7870f174cb6b2a9ac5d7b3764296ea4a113  rclone-v1.63.1-freebsd-386.zip
7266febec1f01a25d6575de51c44ddf749071a4950a6384e4164954dff7ac37e  rclone-v1.63.1-freebsd-amd64.zip
...
66ca083757fb22198309b73879831ed2b42309892394bf193ff95c75dff69c73  rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip
bbb47c16882b6c5f2e8c1b04229378e28f68734c613321ef0ea2263760f74cd0  rclone-v1.63.1-windows-arm64.zip
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iF0EARECAB0WIQT79zfs6firGGBL0qyTk14C/ztU+gUCZLVKJQAKCRCTk14C/ztU
+pZuAJ0XJ+QWLP/3jCtkmgcgc4KAwd/rrwCcCRZQ7E+oye1FPY46HOVzCFU3L7g=
=8qrL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
```

### Download the files

The first step is to download the binary and SUMs file and verify that
the SUMs you have downloaded match. Here we download
`rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip` - choose the binary (or binaries)
appropriate to your architecture. We've also chosen the `SHA256SUMS`
as these are the most secure. You could verify the other types of hash
also for extra security. `rclone selfupdate` verifies just the
`SHA256SUMS`.

```console
mkdir /tmp/check
cd /tmp/check
rclone copy --http-url https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.63.1 :http:SHA256SUMS .
rclone copy --http-url https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.63.1 :http:rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip .
```

### Verify the signatures

First verify the signatures on the SHA256 file.

Import the key. See above for ways to verify this key is correct.

```console
$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --receive-keys FBF737ECE9F8AB18604BD2AC93935E02FF3B54FA
gpg: key 93935E02FF3B54FA: public key "Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
```

Then check the signature:

```console
$ gpg --verify SHA256SUMS 
gpg: Signature made Mon 17 Jul 2023 15:03:17 BST
gpg:                using DSA key FBF737ECE9F8AB18604BD2AC93935E02FF3B54FA
gpg: Good signature from "Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>" [ultimate]
```

Verify the signature was good and is using the fingerprint shown above.

Repeat for `MD5SUMS` and `SHA1SUMS` if desired.

### Verify the hashes

Now that we know the signatures on the hashes are OK we can verify the
binaries match the hashes, completing the verification.

```console
$ sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS 2>&1 | grep OK
rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip: OK
```

Or do the check with rclone

```console
$ rclone hashsum sha256 -C SHA256SUMS rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip 
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: SHA256SUMS: improperly formatted checksum line 0
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: SHA256SUMS: improperly formatted checksum line 1
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: SHA256SUMS: improperly formatted checksum line 49
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: SHA256SUMS: 4 warning(s) suppressed...
= rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: Local file system at /tmp/check: 0 differences found
2023/09/11 10:53:58 NOTICE: Local file system at /tmp/check: 1 matching files
```

### Verify signatures and hashes together

You can verify the signatures and hashes in one command line like this:

```console
$ h=$(gpg --decrypt SHA256SUMS) && echo "$h" | sha256sum - -c --ignore-missing
gpg: Signature made Mon 17 Jul 2023 15:03:17 BST
gpg:                using DSA key FBF737ECE9F8AB18604BD2AC93935E02FF3B54FA
gpg: Good signature from "Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>" [ultimate]
gpg:                 aka "Nick Craig-Wood <nick@memset.com>" [unknown]
rclone-v1.63.1-windows-amd64.zip: OK
```

# 1Fichier

This is a backend for the [1fichier](https://1fichier.com) cloud
storage service. Note that a Premium subscription is required to use
the API.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for 1Fichier involves getting the API key from the website
which you need to do in your browser.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / 1Fichier
   \ "fichier"
[snip]
Storage> fichier
** See help for fichier backend at: https://rclone.org/fichier/ **

Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
api_key> example_key

Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> 
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: fichier
- api_key: example_key
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):


List directories in top level of your 1Fichier account

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your 1Fichier account

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a 1Fichier directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

1Fichier does not support modification times. It supports the Whirlpool hash algorithm.

### Duplicated files

1Fichier can have two files with exactly the same name and path (unlike a
normal file system).

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see
messages in the log about duplicates.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜           |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞           |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂           |
| $         | 0x24  | ＄           |
| `         | 0x60  | ｀           |
| '         | 0x27  | ＇           |

File names can also not start or end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the
name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/fichier/fichier.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

#### --fichier-api-key

Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl.

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

#### --fichier-shared-folder

If you want to download a shared folder, add this parameter.

Properties:

- Config:      shared_folder
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_SHARED_FOLDER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --fichier-file-password

If you want to download a shared file that is password protected, add this parameter.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      file_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_FILE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --fichier-folder-password

If you want to list the files in a shared folder that is password protected, add this parameter.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      folder_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_FOLDER_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --fichier-cdn

Set if you wish to use CDN download links.

Properties:

- Config:      cdn
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_CDN
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --fichier-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --fichier-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FICHIER_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the 1Fichier backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Alias

The `alias` remote provides a new name for another remote.

Paths may be as deep as required or a local path,
e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory` or `/directory/subdirectory`.

During the initial setup with `rclone config` you will specify the target
remote. The target remote can either be a local path or another remote.

Subfolders can be used in target remote. Assume an alias remote named `backup`
with the target `mydrive:private/backup`. Invoking `rclone mkdir backup:desktop`
is exactly the same as invoking `rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/desktop`.

There will be no special handling of paths containing `..` segments.
Invoking `rclone mkdir backup:../desktop` is exactly the same as invoking
`rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/../desktop`.
The empty path is not allowed as a remote. To alias the current directory
use `.` instead.

The target remote can also be a [connection string](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings).
This can be used to modify the config of a remote for different uses, e.g.
the alias  `myDriveTrash` with the target remote `myDrive,trashed_only:`
can be used to only show the trashed files in `myDrive`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make an alias called `remote` for local folder.
First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Alias for an existing remote
   \ "alias"
[snip]
Storage> alias
Remote or path to alias.
Can be "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket", "myremote:" or "/local/path".
remote> /mnt/storage/backup
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: alias
- remote: /mnt/storage/backup
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               alias

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level in `/mnt/storage/backup`

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in `/mnt/storage/backup`

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

Copy another local directory to the alias directory called source

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:source
```

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/alias/alias.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to alias (Alias for an existing remote).

#### --alias-remote

Remote or path to alias.

Can be "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket", "myremote:" or "/local/path".

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ALIAS_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to alias (Alias for an existing remote).

#### --alias-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ALIAS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# Amazon S3 Storage Providers

The S3 backend can be used with a number of different providers:

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- AWS S3
- Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS)
- Ceph
- China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)
- Cloudflare R2
- Arvan Cloud Object Storage (AOS)
- Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage
- Cubbit DS3
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- Dreamhost
- Exaba
- Fastly Object Storage
- FileLu S5 (S3-Compatible Object Storage)
- GCS
- Hetzner
- Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
- Huawei OBS
- IBM COS S3
- IDrive e2
- Impossible Cloud
- Intercolo Object Storage
- IONOS Cloud
- Leviia Object Storage
- Liara Object Storage
- Linode Object Storage
- Magalu Object Storage
- MEGA S4 Object Storage
- Minio
- Outscale
- OVHcloud
- Petabox
- Pure Storage FlashBlade
- Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo)
- Rabata Cloud Storage
- RackCorp Object Storage
- Rclone Serve S3
- Scaleway
- Scality (RING / ARTESCA)
- Seagate Lyve Cloud
- SeaweedFS
- Selectel
- Servercore Object Storage
- Spectra Logic
- Storj
- Synology C2 Object Storage
- Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)
- US3
- Wasabi
- Zadara Object Storage
- Zata
- Zero Services (ZERO-Z3)


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Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

Once you have made a remote (see the provider specific section above)
you can use it like this:

See all buckets

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new bucket

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

List the contents of a bucket

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote bucket, deleting any excess
files in the bucket.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:bucket
```

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an s3 configuration for the AWS S3 provider.
Most applies to the other providers as well, any differences are described [below](#providers).

First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
   \ "AWS"
 2 / Ceph Object Storage
   \ "Ceph"
 3 / DigitalOcean Spaces
   \ "DigitalOcean"
 4 / Dreamhost DreamObjects
   \ "Dreamhost"
 5 / IBM COS S3
   \ "IBMCOS"
 6 / Minio Object Storage
   \ "Minio"
 7 / Wasabi Object Storage
   \ "Wasabi"
 8 / Any other S3 compatible provider
   \ "Other"
provider> 1
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> XXX
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YYY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
   / US East (Ohio) Region
 2 | Needs location constraint us-east-2.
   \ "us-east-2"
   / US West (Oregon) Region
 3 | Needs location constraint us-west-2.
   \ "us-west-2"
   / US West (Northern California) Region
 4 | Needs location constraint us-west-1.
   \ "us-west-1"
   / Canada (Central) Region
 5 | Needs location constraint ca-central-1.
   \ "ca-central-1"
   / EU (Ireland) Region
 6 | Needs location constraint EU or eu-west-1.
   \ "eu-west-1"
   / EU (London) Region
 7 | Needs location constraint eu-west-2.
   \ "eu-west-2"
   / EU (Frankfurt) Region
 8 | Needs location constraint eu-central-1.
   \ "eu-central-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
 9 | Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
   \ "ap-southeast-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
10 | Needs location constraint ap-southeast-2.
   \ "ap-southeast-2"
   / Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
11 | Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
   \ "ap-northeast-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Seoul)
12 | Needs location constraint ap-northeast-2.
   \ "ap-northeast-2"
   / Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
13 | Needs location constraint ap-south-1.
   \ "ap-south-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
14 | Needs location constraint ap-east-1.
   \ "ap-east-1"
   / South America (Sao Paulo) Region
15 | Needs location constraint sa-east-1.
   \ "sa-east-1"
region> 1
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using AWS to use the default endpoint for the region.
endpoint>
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   \ ""
 2 / US East (Ohio) Region.
   \ "us-east-2"
 3 / US West (Oregon) Region.
   \ "us-west-2"
 4 / US West (Northern California) Region.
   \ "us-west-1"
 5 / Canada (Central) Region.
   \ "ca-central-1"
 6 / EU (Ireland) Region.
   \ "eu-west-1"
 7 / EU (London) Region.
   \ "eu-west-2"
 8 / EU Region.
   \ "EU"
 9 / Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
   \ "ap-southeast-1"
10 / Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
   \ "ap-southeast-2"
11 / Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
   \ "ap-northeast-1"
12 / Asia Pacific (Seoul)
   \ "ap-northeast-2"
13 / Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
   \ "ap-south-1"
14 / Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
   \ "ap-east-1"
15 / South America (Sao Paulo) Region.
   \ "sa-east-1"
location_constraint> 1
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
 2 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ "public-read"
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
 3 | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ "public-read-write"
 4 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ "authenticated-read"
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL. Bucket owner gets READ access.
 5 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ "bucket-owner-read"
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ "bucket-owner-full-control"
acl> 1
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption> 1
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
 3 / Reduced redundancy storage class
   \ "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
 4 / Standard Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "STANDARD_IA"
 5 / One Zone Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "ONEZONE_IA"
 6 / Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class
   \ "GLACIER"
 7 / Glacier Deep Archive storage class
   \ "DEEP_ARCHIVE"
 8 / Intelligent-Tiering storage class
   \ "INTELLIGENT_TIERING"
 9 / Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class
   \ "GLACIER_IR"
storage_class> 1
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: AWS
- env_auth: false
- access_key_id: XXX
- secret_access_key: YYY
- region: us-east-1
- endpoint:
- location_constraint:
- acl: private
- server_side_encryption:
- storage_class:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>
```

### Modification times and hashes

#### Modification times

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as
`X-Amz-Meta-Mtime` as floating point since the epoch, accurate to 1 ns.

If the modification time needs to be updated rclone will attempt to perform a server
side copy to update the modification if the object can be copied in a single part.
In the case the object is larger than 5Gb or is in Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive
storage the object will be uploaded rather than copied.

Note that reading this from the object takes an additional `HEAD`
request as the metadata isn't returned in object listings.

#### Hashes

For small objects which weren't uploaded as multipart uploads (objects
sized below `--s3-upload-cutoff` if uploaded with rclone) rclone uses
the `ETag:` header as an MD5 checksum.

However for objects which were uploaded as multipart uploads or with
server side encryption (SSE-AWS or SSE-C) the `ETag` header is no
longer the MD5 sum of the data, so rclone adds an additional piece of
metadata `X-Amz-Meta-Md5chksum` which is a base64 encoded MD5 hash (in
the same format as is required for `Content-MD5`).  You can use base64 -d and
hexdump to check this value manually:

```console
echo 'VWTGdNx3LyXQDfA0e2Edxw==' | base64 -d | hexdump
```

or you can use `rclone check` to verify the hashes are OK.

For large objects, calculating this hash can take some time so the
addition of this hash can be disabled with `--s3-disable-checksum`.
This will mean that these objects do not have an MD5 checksum.

Note that reading this from the object takes an additional `HEAD`
request as the metadata isn't returned in object listings.

### Reducing costs

#### Avoiding HEAD requests to read the modification time

By default, rclone will use the modification time of objects stored in
S3 for syncing.  This is stored in object metadata which unfortunately
takes an extra HEAD request to read which can be expensive (in time
and money).

The modification time is used by default for all operations that
require checking the time a file was last updated. It allows rclone to
treat the remote more like a true filesystem, but it is inefficient on
S3 because it requires an extra API call to retrieve the metadata.

The extra API calls can be avoided when syncing (using `rclone sync`
or `rclone copy`) in a few different ways, each with its own
tradeoffs.

- `--size-only`
  - Only checks the size of files.
  - Uses no extra transactions.
  - If the file doesn't change size then rclone won't detect it has
    changed.
  - `rclone sync --size-only /path/to/source s3:bucket`
- `--checksum`
  - Checks the size and MD5 checksum of files.
  - Uses no extra transactions.
  - The most accurate detection of changes possible.
  - Will cause the source to read an MD5 checksum which, if it is a
    local disk, will cause lots of disk activity.
  - If the source and destination are both S3 this is the
    **recommended** flag to use for maximum efficiency.
  - `rclone sync --checksum /path/to/source s3:bucket`
- `--update --use-server-modtime`
  - Uses no extra transactions.
  - Modification time becomes the time the object was uploaded.
  - For many operations this is sufficient to determine if it needs
    uploading.
  - Using `--update` along with `--use-server-modtime`, avoids the
    extra API call and uploads files whose local modification time
    is newer than the time it was last uploaded.
  - Files created with timestamps in the past will be missed by the sync.
  - `rclone sync --update --use-server-modtime /path/to/source s3:bucket`

These flags can and should be used in combination with `--fast-list` -
see below.

If using `rclone mount` or any command using the VFS (eg `rclone
serve`) commands then you might want to consider using the VFS flag
`--no-modtime` which will stop rclone reading the modification time
for every object. You could also use `--use-server-modtime` if you are
happy with the modification times of the objects being the time of
upload.

#### Avoiding GET requests to read directory listings

Rclone's default directory traversal is to process each directory
individually.  This takes one API call per directory.  Using the
`--fast-list` flag will read all info about the objects into
memory first using a smaller number of API calls (one per 1000
objects). See the [rclone docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

```console
rclone sync --fast-list --checksum /path/to/source s3:bucket
```

`--fast-list` trades off API transactions for memory use. As a rough
guide rclone uses 1k of memory per object stored, so using
`--fast-list` on a sync of a million objects will use roughly 1 GiB of
RAM.

If you are only copying a small number of files into a big repository
then using `--no-traverse` is a good idea. This finds objects directly
instead of through directory listings. You can do a "top-up" sync very
cheaply by using `--max-age` and `--no-traverse` to copy only recent
files, eg

```console
rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse /path/to/source s3:bucket
```

You'd then do a full `rclone sync` less often.

Note that `--fast-list` isn't required in the top-up sync.

#### Avoiding HEAD requests after PUT

By default, rclone will HEAD every object it uploads. It does this to
check the object got uploaded correctly.

You can disable this with the [--s3-no-head](#s3-no-head) option - see
there for more details.

Setting this flag increases the chance for undetected upload failures.

### Increasing performance

#### Using server-side copy

If you are copying objects between S3 buckets in the same region, you should
use server-side copy. This is much faster than downloading and re-uploading
the objects, as no data is transferred.

For rclone to use server-side copy, you must use the same remote for the
source and destination.

```console
rclone copy s3:source-bucket s3:destination-bucket
```

When using server-side copy, the performance is limited by the rate at which
rclone issues API requests to S3. See below for how to increase the number of
API requests rclone makes.

#### Increasing the rate of API requests

You can increase the rate of API requests to S3 by increasing the parallelism
using `--transfers` and `--checkers` options.

Rclone uses a very conservative defaults for these settings, as not all
providers support high rates of requests. Depending on your provider, you can
increase significantly the number of transfers and checkers.

For example, with AWS S3, if you can increase the number of checkers to values
like 200. If you are doing a server-side copy, you can also increase the number
of transfers to 200.

```console
rclone sync --transfers 200 --checkers 200 --checksum s3:source-bucket s3:destination-bucket
```

You will need to experiment with these values to find the optimal settings for
your setup.

### Data integrity

Rclone does its best to verify every part of an upload or download to
the s3 provider using various hashes.

Every HTTP transaction to/from the provider has a
`X-Amz-Content-Sha256` or a `Content-Md5` header to guard against
corruption of the HTTP body. The HTTP Header is protected by the
signature passed in the `Authorization` header.

All communications with the provider is done over https for encryption
and additional error protection.

#### Single part uploads

- Rclone uploads single part uploads with a `Content-Md5` using the
  MD5 hash read from the source. The provider checks this is correct
  on receipt of the data.

- Rclone then does a HEAD request (disable with `--s3-no-head`) to
  read the `ETag` back which is the MD5 of the file and checks that with
  what it sent.

Note that if the source does not have an MD5 then the single part
uploads will not have hash protection. In this case it is recommended
to use `--s3-upload-cutoff 0` so all files are uploaded as multipart
uploads.

#### Multipart uploads

For files above `--s3-upload-cutoff` rclone splits the file into
multiple parts for upload.

- Each part is protected with both an `X-Amz-Content-Sha256` and a
  `Content-Md5`

When rclone has finished the upload of all the parts it then completes
the upload by sending:

- The MD5 hash of each part
- The number of parts
- This info is all protected with a `X-Amz-Content-Sha256`

The provider checks the MD5 for all the parts it has received against
what rclone sends and if it is good it returns OK.

Rclone then does a HEAD request (disable with `--s3-no-head`) and
checks the ETag is what it expects (in this case it should be the MD5
sum of all the MD5 sums of all the parts with the number of parts on
the end).

If the source has an MD5 sum then rclone will attach the
`X-Amz-Meta-Md5chksum` with it as the `ETag` for a multipart upload
can't easily be checked against the file as the chunk size must be
known in order to calculate it.

#### Downloads

Rclone checks the MD5 hash of the data downloaded against either the
ETag or the `X-Amz-Meta-Md5chksum` metadata (if present) which rclone
uploads with multipart uploads.

#### Further checking

At each stage rclone and the provider are sending and checking hashes of
**everything**. Rclone deliberately HEADs each object after upload to
check it arrived safely for extra security. (You can disable this with
`--s3-no-head`).

If you require further assurance that your data is intact you can use
`rclone check` to check the hashes locally vs the remote.

And if you are feeling ultimately paranoid use `rclone check --download`
which will download the files and check them against the local copies.
(Note that this doesn't use disk to do this - it streams them in
memory).

### Versions

When bucket versioning is enabled (this can be done with rclone with
the [`rclone backend versioning`](#versioning) command) when rclone
uploads a new version of a file it creates a
[new version of it](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versioning.html)
Likewise when you delete a file, the old version will be marked hidden
and still be available.

Old versions of files, where available, are visible using the
[`--s3-versions`](#s3-versions) flag.

It is also possible to view a bucket as it was at a certain point in
time, using the [`--s3-version-at`](#s3-version-at) flag. This will
show the file versions as they were at that time, showing files that
have been deleted afterwards, and hiding files that were created
since.

If you wish to remove all the old versions then you can use the
[`rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote:bucket`](#cleanup-hidden)
command which will delete all the old hidden versions of files,
leaving the current ones intact. You can also supply a path and only
old versions under that path will be deleted, e.g.
`rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote:bucket/path/to/stuff`.

When you `purge` a bucket, the current and the old versions will be
deleted then the bucket will be deleted.

However `delete` will cause the current versions of the files to
become hidden old versions.

Here is a session showing the listing and retrieval of an old
version followed by a `cleanup` of the old versions.

Show current version and all the versions with `--s3-versions` flag.

```console
$ rclone -q ls s3:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --s3-versions ls s3:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
        8 one-v2016-07-04-141032-000.txt
       16 one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
       15 one-v2016-07-02-155621-000.txt
```

Retrieve an old version

```console
$ rclone -q --s3-versions copy s3:cleanup-test/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt /tmp

$ ls -l /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ncw ncw 16 Jul  2 17:46 /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
```

Clean up all the old versions and show that they've gone.

```console
$ rclone -q backend cleanup-hidden s3:cleanup-test

$ rclone -q ls s3:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --s3-versions ls s3:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
```

#### Versions naming caveat

When using `--s3-versions` flag rclone is relying on the file name
to work out whether the objects are versions or not. Versions' names
are created by inserting timestamp between file name and its extension.

```text
        9 file.txt
        8 file-v2023-07-17-161032-000.txt
       16 file-v2023-06-15-141003-000.txt
```

If there are real files present with the same names as versions, then
behaviour of `--s3-versions` can be unpredictable.

### Cleanup

If you run `rclone cleanup s3:bucket` then it will remove all pending
multipart uploads older than 24 hours. You can use the `--interactive`/`i`
or `--dry-run` flag to see exactly what it will do. If you want more control
over the expiry date then run `rclone backend cleanup s3:bucket -o max-age=1h`
to expire all uploads older than one hour. You can use `rclone backend
list-multipart-uploads s3:bucket` to see the pending multipart
uploads.

### Restricted filename characters

S3 allows any valid UTF-8 string as a key.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8), as
they can't be used in XML.

The following characters are replaced since these are problematic when
dealing with the REST API:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |

The encoding will also encode these file names as they don't seem to
work with the SDK properly:

| File name | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----------:|
| .         | ．          |
| ..        | ．．         |

#### Important note about double slashes (`//`)

Object keys containing consecutive forward slashes (`//`) are **not supported** by rclone. 

When rclone encounters an object key with `//` (e.g., `a//b`), it will normalize the path to use a single slash (e.g., `a/b`). This normalization can cause "object not found" errors when trying to access the original object, as rclone will look for the normalized path instead of the actual object key.

**Example:**
- Original S3 object key: `folder//file.txt`
- rclone interprets it as: `folder/file.txt`
- Result: "object not found" error when trying to access `folder//file.txt`

**Workaround:**
Avoid using consecutive forward slashes (`//`) in S3 object keys when using rclone. If you have existing objects with `//` in their keys, you will need to rename them to use single slashes or access them through other means.

### Multipart uploads

rclone supports multipart uploads with S3 which means that it can
upload files bigger than 5 GiB.

Note that files uploaded *both* with multipart upload *and* through
crypt remotes do not have MD5 sums.

rclone switches from single part uploads to multipart uploads at the
point specified by `--s3-upload-cutoff`.  This can be a maximum of 5 GiB
and a minimum of 0 (ie always upload multipart files).

The chunk sizes used in the multipart upload are specified by
`--s3-chunk-size` and the number of chunks uploaded concurrently is
specified by `--s3-upload-concurrency`.

Multipart uploads will use extra memory equal to: `--transfers` ×
`--s3-upload-concurrency` × `--s3-chunk-size`. Single part uploads do not
use extra memory.

Single part transfers can be faster than multipart transfers or slower
depending on your latency from S3 - the more latency, the more likely
single part transfers will be faster.

Increasing `--s3-upload-concurrency` will increase throughput (8 would
be a sensible value) and increasing `--s3-chunk-size` also increases
throughput (16M would be sensible).  Increasing either of these will
use more memory.  The default values are high enough to gain most of
the possible performance without using too much memory.

### Buckets and Regions

With Amazon S3 you can list buckets (`rclone lsd`) using any region,
but you can only access the content of a bucket from the region it was
created in.  If you attempt to access a bucket from the wrong region,
you will get an error, `incorrect region, the bucket is not in 'XXX'
region`.

### Authentication

There are a number of ways to supply `rclone` with a set of AWS
credentials, with and without using the environment.

The different authentication methods are tried in this order:

- Directly in the rclone configuration file (`env_auth = false` in the config file):
  - `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key` are required.
  - `session_token` can be optionally set when using AWS STS.
- Runtime configuration (`env_auth = true` in the config file):
  - Export the following environment variables before running `rclone`:
    - Access Key ID: `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` or `AWS_ACCESS_KEY`
    - Secret Access Key: `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `AWS_SECRET_KEY`
    - Session Token: `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN` (optional)
  - Or, use a [named profile](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html):
    - Profile files are standard files used by AWS CLI tools
    - By default it will use the profile in your home directory (e.g. `~/.aws/credentials`
      on unix based systems) file and the "default" profile, to change set these
      environment variables or config keys:
      - `AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE` to control which file or the `shared_credentials_file`
        config key.
      - `AWS_PROFILE` to control which profile to use or the `profile` config key.
  - Or, run `rclone` in an ECS task with an IAM role (AWS only).
  - Or, run `rclone` on an EC2 instance with an IAM role (AWS only).
  - Or, run `rclone` in an EKS pod with an IAM role that is associated with a
    service account (AWS only).
  - Or, use [process credentials](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/feature-process-credentials.html)
    to read config from an external program.

With `env_auth = true` rclone (which uses the SDK for Go v2) should support
[all authentication methods](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/standardized-credentials.html)
that the `aws` CLI tool does and the other AWS SDKs.

If none of these option actually end up providing `rclone` with AWS
credentials then S3 interaction will be non-authenticated (see the
[anonymous access](#anonymous-access) section for more info).

#### Assume Role (Cross-Account Access)

If you need to access S3 resources in a different AWS account, you can use IAM role assumption.
This is useful for cross-account access scenarios where you have credentials in one account
but need to access resources in another account.

To use assume role, configure the following parameters:

- `role_arn` - The ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of the IAM role to assume in the target account.
  Format: `arn:aws:iam::ACCOUNT-ID:role/ROLE-NAME`
- `role_session_name` (optional) - A name for the assumed role session. If not specified,
  rclone will generate one automatically.
- `role_session_duration` (optional) - Duration for which the assumed role credentials are valid.
  If not specified, AWS default duration will be used (typically 1 hour).
- `role_external_id` (optional) - An external ID required by the role's trust policy for additional security.
  This is typically used when the role is accessed by a third party.

The assume role feature works with both direct credentials (`env_auth = false`) and environment-based
authentication (`env_auth = true`). Rclone will first authenticate using the base credentials, then
use those credentials to assume the specified role.

Example configuration for cross-account access:

```
[s3-cross-account]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = true
region = us-east-1
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CrossAccountS3Role
role_session_name = rclone-session
role_external_id = unique-role-external-id-12345
```

In this example:
- Base credentials are obtained from the environment (IAM role, credentials file, or environment variables)
- These credentials are then used to assume the role `CrossAccountS3Role` in account `123456789012`
- An external ID is provided for additional security as required by the role's trust policy

The target role's trust policy in the destination account must allow the source account or user to assume it.
Example trust policy:

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::SOURCE-ACCOUNT-ID:root"
      },
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "sts:ExternalID": "unique-role-external-id-12345"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### S3 Permissions

When using the `sync` subcommand of `rclone` the following minimum
permissions are required to be available on the bucket being written to:

- `ListBucket`
- `DeleteObject`
- `GetObject`
- `PutObject`
- `PutObjectACL`
- `CreateBucket` (unless using [s3-no-check-bucket](#s3-no-check-bucket))

When using the `lsd` subcommand, the `ListAllMyBuckets` permission is required.

Example policy:

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::USER_SID:user/USER_NAME"
      },
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
    }
  ]
}
```

Notes on above:

1. This is a policy that can be used when creating bucket. It assumes
   that `USER_NAME` has been created.
2. The Resource entry must include both resource ARNs, as one implies
   the bucket and the other implies the bucket's objects.
3. When using [s3-no-check-bucket](#s3-no-check-bucket) and the bucket already
exists, the `"arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME"` doesn't have to be included.

For reference, [here's an Ansible script](https://gist.github.com/ebridges/ebfc9042dd7c756cd101cfa807b7ae2b)
that will generate one or more buckets that will work with `rclone sync`.

### Key Management System (KMS)

If you are using server-side encryption with KMS then you must make
sure rclone is configured with `server_side_encryption = aws:kms`
otherwise you will find you can't transfer small objects - these will
create checksum errors.

### Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive

You can upload objects using the glacier storage class or transition them to
glacier using a [lifecycle policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/create-lifecycle.html).
The bucket can still be synced or copied into normally, but if rclone
tries to access data from the glacier storage class you will see an error like below.

```text
2017/09/11 19:07:43 Failed to sync: failed to open source object: Object in GLACIER, restore first: path/to/file
```

In this case you need to [restore](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/restore-archived-objects.html)
the object(s) in question before accessing object contents.
The [restore](#restore) section below shows how to do this with rclone.

Note that rclone only speaks the S3 API it does not speak the Glacier
Vault API, so rclone cannot directly access Glacier Vaults.

### Object-lock enabled S3 bucket

According to AWS's [documentation on S3 Object Lock](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock-overview.html#object-lock-permission):

> If you configure a default retention period on a bucket, requests to upload
objects in such a bucket must include the Content-MD5 header.

Rclone automatically computes and includes the Content-MD5 header when
uploading objects with Object Lock parameters set. No special
configuration is needed.

#### Setting Object Lock retention

Rclone supports setting Object Lock retention on uploaded objects with
the following options:

- `--s3-object-lock-mode` - Set the Object Lock mode (GOVERNANCE or COMPLIANCE)
- `--s3-object-lock-retain-until-date` - Set the retention date (RFC3339 format or duration like `365d`, `24h`)
- `--s3-object-lock-legal-hold-status` - Set legal hold (ON or OFF)

Example - upload files with 1 year GOVERNANCE retention:

    rclone copy local:/data remote:bucket \
        --s3-object-lock-mode GOVERNANCE \
        --s3-object-lock-retain-until-date 365d

#### Copying Object Lock settings from source

When using `--metadata`, you can use the special value `copy` to preserve
the source object's Object Lock settings:

    rclone copy source:bucket dest:bucket \
        --metadata \
        --s3-object-lock-mode copy \
        --s3-object-lock-retain-until-date copy

You can also mix copied and explicit values. For example, to change the
mode from COMPLIANCE to GOVERNANCE while preserving the original retention date:

    rclone copy source:bucket dest:bucket \
        --metadata \
        --s3-object-lock-mode GOVERNANCE \
        --s3-object-lock-retain-until-date copy

#### Additional Object Lock options

- `--s3-bypass-governance-retention` - Required to delete or overwrite objects
  with GOVERNANCE mode retention before the retention date expires
- `--s3-bucket-object-lock-enabled` - Enable Object Lock when creating a new
  bucket with `rclone mkdir`
- `--s3-object-lock-set-after-upload` - Set Object Lock via separate API calls
  after upload (for providers that don't support Object Lock headers during PUT)

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to s3 (Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, BizflyCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, Cubbit, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, Exaba, Fastly, FileLu, FlashBlade, GCS, HCP, Hetzner, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, ImpossibleCloud, Intercolo, IONOS, Leviia, Liara, Linode, LyveCloud, Magalu, Mega, Minio, Netease, Outscale, OVHcloud, Petabox, Qiniu, Rabata, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, Scality, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Servercore, SpectraLogic, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, US3, Wasabi, Zadara, Zata, ZeroServices, Other).

#### --s3-provider

Choose your S3 provider.

Properties:

- Config:      provider
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_PROVIDER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "AWS"
    - Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
  - "Alibaba"
    - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage System (OSS) formerly Aliyun
  - "ArvanCloud"
    - Arvan Cloud Object Storage (AOS)
  - "BizflyCloud"
    - Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage
  - "Ceph"
    - Ceph Object Storage
  - "ChinaMobile"
    - China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)
  - "Cloudflare"
    - Cloudflare R2 Storage
  - "Cubbit"
    - Cubbit DS3 Object Storage
  - "DigitalOcean"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces
  - "Dreamhost"
    - Dreamhost DreamObjects
  - "Exaba"
    - Exaba Object Storage
  - "Fastly"
    - Fastly Object Storage
  - "FileLu"
    - FileLu S5 (S3-Compatible Object Storage)
  - "FlashBlade"
    - Pure Storage FlashBlade Object Storage
  - "GCS"
    - Google Cloud Storage
  - "HCP"
    - Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
  - "Hetzner"
    - Hetzner Object Storage
  - "HuaweiOBS"
    - Huawei Object Storage Service
  - "IBMCOS"
    - IBM COS S3
  - "IDrive"
    - IDrive e2
  - "ImpossibleCloud"
    - Impossible Cloud Object Storage
  - "Intercolo"
    - Intercolo Object Storage
  - "IONOS"
    - IONOS Cloud
  - "Leviia"
    - Leviia Object Storage
  - "Liara"
    - Liara Object Storage
  - "Linode"
    - Linode Object Storage
  - "LyveCloud"
    - Seagate Lyve Cloud
  - "Magalu"
    - Magalu Object Storage
  - "Mega"
    - MEGA S4 Object Storage
  - "Minio"
    - Minio Object Storage
  - "Netease"
    - Netease Object Storage (NOS)
  - "Outscale"
    - OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS)
  - "OVHcloud"
    - OVHcloud Object Storage
  - "Petabox"
    - Petabox Object Storage
  - "Qiniu"
    - Qiniu Object Storage (Kodo)
  - "Rabata"
    - Rabata Cloud Storage
  - "RackCorp"
    - RackCorp Object Storage
  - "Rclone"
    - Rclone S3 Server
  - "Scaleway"
    - Scaleway Object Storage
  - "Scality"
    - Scality (RING / ARTESCA)
  - "SeaweedFS"
    - SeaweedFS S3
  - "Selectel"
    - Selectel Object Storage
  - "Servercore"
    - Servercore Object Storage
  - "SpectraLogic"
    - Spectra Logic Black Pearl
  - "Storj"
    - Storj (S3 Compatible Gateway)
  - "Synology"
    - Synology C2 Object Storage
  - "TencentCOS"
    - Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)
  - "US3"
    - US3 Object Storage
  - "Wasabi"
    - Wasabi Object Storage
  - "Zadara"
    - Zadara Object Storage
  - "Zata"
    - Zata (S3 compatible Gateway)
  - "ZeroServices"
    - Zero Services GmbH (ZERO-Z3)
  - "Other"
    - Any other S3 compatible provider

#### --s3-env-auth

Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).

Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
  - "true"
    - Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).

#### --s3-access-key-id

AWS Access Key ID.

Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Properties:

- Config:      access_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-secret-access-key

AWS Secret Access Key (password).

Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Properties:

- Config:      secret_access_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-region

Region to connect to.

Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.

Properties:

- Config:      region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_REGION
- Provider:    AWS,BizflyCloud,Ceph,Cloudflare,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,Fastly,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IBMCOS,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,LyveCloud,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,Rabata,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,Selectel,Servercore,Synology,Wasabi,Zadara,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "us-east-1"
    - The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
    - US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
    - Leave location constraint empty.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-east-2"
    - US East (Ohio) Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-east-2.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-west-1"
    - US West (Northern California) Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-west-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-west-2"
    - US West (Oregon) Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-west-2.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ca-central-1"
    - Canada (Central) Region.
    - Needs location constraint ca-central-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-1"
    - EU (Ireland) Region.
    - Needs location constraint EU or eu-west-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-2"
    - EU (London) Region.
    - Needs location constraint eu-west-2.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-3"
    - EU (Paris) Region.
    - Needs location constraint eu-west-3.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-north-1"
    - EU (Stockholm) Region.
    - Needs location constraint eu-north-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-south-1"
    - EU (Milan) Region.
    - Needs location constraint eu-south-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-central-1"
    - EU (Frankfurt) Region.
    - Needs location constraint eu-central-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
    - Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-southeast-2"
    - Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
    - Needs location constraint ap-southeast-2.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
    - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-2"
    - Asia Pacific (Seoul).
    - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-2.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-3"
    - Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local).
    - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-3.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-south-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
    - Needs location constraint ap-south-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-east-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.
    - Needs location constraint ap-east-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "sa-east-1"
    - South America (Sao Paulo) Region.
    - Needs location constraint sa-east-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "il-central-1"
    - Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
    - Needs location constraint il-central-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "me-south-1"
    - Middle East (Bahrain) Region.
    - Needs location constraint me-south-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "af-south-1"
    - Africa (Cape Town) Region.
    - Needs location constraint af-south-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "cn-north-1"
    - China (Beijing) Region.
    - Needs location constraint cn-north-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "cn-northwest-1"
    - China (Ningxia) Region.
    - Needs location constraint cn-northwest-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-gov-east-1"
    - AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-gov-east-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-gov-west-1"
    - AWS GovCloud (US) Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-gov-west-1.
    - Provider: AWS
  - "hn"
    - Ha Noi
    - Provider: BizflyCloud
  - "hcm"
    - Ho Chi Minh
    - Provider: BizflyCloud
  - ""
    - Use this if unsure.
    - Will use v4 signatures and an empty region.
    - Provider: Ceph,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,GCS,HCP,IBMCOS,Leviia,LyveCloud,Minio,Netease,Scality,SeaweedFS,Wasabi,Other
  - "other-v2-signature"
    - Use this only if v4 signatures don't work.
    - E.g. pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.
    - Provider: Ceph,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,GCS,HCP,IBMCOS,Leviia,LyveCloud,Minio,Netease,Scality,SeaweedFS,Wasabi,Other
  - "auto"
    - R2 buckets are automatically distributed across Cloudflare's data centers for low latency.
    - Provider: Cloudflare
  - "eu-west-1"
    - Europe West
    - Provider: Cubbit
  - "au-east-1"
    - AU East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-central"
    - EU Central
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-south-1"
    - EU South 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-west-1"
    - EU West 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "jp-central-1"
    - JP Central 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "uk-east-1"
    - UK East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-central-1"
    - US Central 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-east"
    - US East
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-east-1"
    - US East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-west"
    - US West
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-west-1"
    - US West 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "global"
    - Global
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "us-east"
    - North America (US-East)
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "eu-central"
    - Europe (EU-Central)
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "ap-southeast"
    - Asia Pacific (AP-Southeast)
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "me-central"
    - Middle East (ME-Central)
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "hel1"
    - Helsinki
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "fsn1"
    - Falkenstein
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "nbg1"
    - Nuremberg
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "af-south-1"
    - AF-Johannesburg
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "ap-southeast-2"
    - AP-Bangkok
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "ap-southeast-3"
    - AP-Singapore
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "cn-east-3"
    - CN East-Shanghai1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "cn-east-2"
    - CN East-Shanghai2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "cn-north-1"
    - CN North-Beijing1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "cn-north-4"
    - CN North-Beijing4
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "cn-south-1"
    - CN South-Guangzhou
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - CN-Hong Kong
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "sa-argentina-1"
    - LA-Buenos Aires1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "sa-peru-1"
    - LA-Lima1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "na-mexico-1"
    - LA-Mexico City1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "sa-chile-1"
    - LA-Santiago2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "sa-brazil-1"
    - LA-Sao Paulo1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "ru-northwest-2"
    - RU-Moscow2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "eu-central-2"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-1"
    - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-2"
    - London, UK
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-3"
    - Paris, France
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-east-1"
    - Poznań, Poland
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-north-1"
    - Copenhagen, Denmark
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "us-east-1"
    - New York, USA
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "de-fra"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: Intercolo
  - "de"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS,OVHcloud
  - "eu-central-2"
    - Berlin, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "eu-central-3"
    - Berlin, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "eu-central-4"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "eu-south-2"
    - Logrono, Spain
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "us-central-1"
    - Lenexa, USA
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "eu-west-2"
    - Paris, France
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "us-east-2"
    - New Jersey, USA
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "us-west-1"
    - California, USA
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "cloudgouv-eu-west-1"
    - SecNumCloud, Paris, France
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "ap-northeast-1"
    - Tokyo, Japan
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "gra"
    - Gravelines, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "rbx"
    - Roubaix, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "sbg"
    - Strasbourg, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "eu-west-par"
    - Paris, France (3AZ)
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "uk"
    - London, United Kingdom
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "waw"
    - Warsaw, Poland
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "bhs"
    - Beauharnois, Canada
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "ca-east-tor"
    - Toronto, Canada
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "sgp"
    - Singapore
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "ap-southeast-syd"
    - Sydney, Australia
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "ap-south-mum"
    - Mumbai, India
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "us-east-va"
    - Vint Hill, Virginia, USA
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "us-west-or"
    - Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "rbx-archive"
    - Roubaix, France (Cold Archive)
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "us-east-1"
    - US East (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Petabox,Rabata
  - "eu-central-1"
    - Europe (Frankfurt)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Singapore)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "me-south-1"
    - Middle East (Bahrain)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "sa-east-1"
    - South America (São Paulo)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "cn-east-1"
    - The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
    - East China Region 1.
    - Needs location constraint cn-east-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-east-2"
    - East China Region 2.
    - Needs location constraint cn-east-2.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-north-1"
    - North China Region 1.
    - Needs location constraint cn-north-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-south-1"
    - South China Region 1.
    - Needs location constraint cn-south-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "us-north-1"
    - North America Region.
    - Needs location constraint us-north-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - Southeast Asia Region 1.
    - Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "ap-northeast-1"
    - Northeast Asia Region 1.
    - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "eu-west-1"
    - EU (Ireland)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "eu-west-2"
    - EU (London)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "global"
    - Global CDN (All locations) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au"
    - Australia (All states)
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-nsw"
    - NSW (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-qld"
    - QLD (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-vic"
    - VIC (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-wa"
    - Perth (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "ph"
    - Manila (Philippines) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "th"
    - Bangkok (Thailand) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "hk"
    - HK (Hong Kong) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "mn"
    - Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "kg"
    - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "id"
    - Jakarta (Indonesia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "jp"
    - Tokyo (Japan) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "sg"
    - SG (Singapore) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "de"
    - Frankfurt (Germany) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us"
    - USA (AnyCast) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-east-1"
    - New York (USA) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-west-1"
    - Freemont (USA) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "nz"
    - Auckland (New Zealand) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "nl-ams"
    - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "fr-par"
    - Paris, France
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "pl-waw"
    - Warsaw, Poland
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "ru-1"
    - St. Petersburg
    - Provider: Selectel,Servercore
  - "ru-3"
    - St. Petersburg
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "ru-7"
    - Moscow
    - Provider: Selectel,Servercore
  - "gis-1"
    - Moscow
    - Provider: Selectel,Servercore
  - "kz-1"
    - Kazakhstan
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "uz-2"
    - Uzbekistan
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "uz-2"
    - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    - Provider: Servercore
  - "kz-1"
    - Almaty, Kazakhstan
    - Provider: Servercore
  - "eu-001"
    - Europe Region 1
    - Provider: Synology
  - "eu-002"
    - Europe Region 2
    - Provider: Synology
  - "us-001"
    - US Region 1
    - Provider: Synology
  - "us-002"
    - US Region 2
    - Provider: Synology
  - "tw-001"
    - Asia (Taiwan)
    - Provider: Synology
  - "us-east-1"
    - The default region.
    - Leave location constraint empty.
    - Provider: Zadara
  - "us-east-1"
    - Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
    - Provider: Zata
  - "zero-fra1"
    - Frankfurt 1
    - Provider: ZeroServices
  - "zero-fra2"
    - Frankfurt 2
    - Provider: ZeroServices
  - "zero-eyl1"
    - Eyl 1
    - Provider: ZeroServices

#### --s3-endpoint

Endpoint for S3 API.

Required when using an S3 clone.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ENDPOINT
- Provider:    AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cloudflare,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,Fastly,FileLu,FlashBlade,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IBMCOS,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Mega,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,Rabata,RackCorp,Rclone,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,Selectel,Servercore,SpectraLogic,Storj,Synology,TencentCOS,US3,Wasabi,Zadara,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com"
    - Global Accelerate
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-accelerate-overseas.aliyuncs.com"
    - Global Accelerate (outside mainland China)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"
    - East China 1 (Hangzhou)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com"
    - East China 2 (Shanghai)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-qingdao.aliyuncs.com"
    - North China 1 (Qingdao)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com"
    - North China 2 (Beijing)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com"
    - North China 3 (Zhangjiakou)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-huhehaote.aliyuncs.com"
    - North China 5 (Hohhot)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-wulanchabu.aliyuncs.com"
    - North China 6 (Ulanqab)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-shenzhen.aliyuncs.com"
    - South China 1 (Shenzhen)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-heyuan.aliyuncs.com"
    - South China 2 (Heyuan)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-guangzhou.aliyuncs.com"
    - South China 3 (Guangzhou)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-chengdu.aliyuncs.com"
    - West China 1 (Chengdu)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com"
    - Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-us-west-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - US West 1 (Silicon Valley)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-us-east-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - US East 1 (Virginia)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - Southeast Asia Southeast 1 (Singapore)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-southeast-2.aliyuncs.com"
    - Asia Pacific Southeast 2 (Sydney)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-southeast-3.aliyuncs.com"
    - Southeast Asia Southeast 3 (Kuala Lumpur)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-southeast-5.aliyuncs.com"
    - Asia Pacific Southeast 5 (Jakarta)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-northeast-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - Asia Pacific Northeast 1 (Japan)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-ap-south-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - Asia Pacific South 1 (Mumbai)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - Central Europe 1 (Frankfurt)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-eu-west-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - West Europe (London)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "oss-me-east-1.aliyuncs.com"
    - Middle East 1 (Dubai)
    - Provider: Alibaba
  - "s3.ir-thr-at1.arvanstorage.ir"
    - The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
    - Tehran Iran (Simin)
    - Provider: ArvanCloud
  - "s3.ir-tbz-sh1.arvanstorage.ir"
    - Tabriz Iran (Shahriar)
    - Provider: ArvanCloud
  - "hn.ss.bfcplatform.vn"
    - Hanoi endpoint
    - Provider: BizflyCloud
  - "hcm.ss.bfcplatform.vn"
    - Ho Chi Minh endpoint
    - Provider: BizflyCloud
  - "eos-wuxi-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
    - East China (Suzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-jinan-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - East China (Jinan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-ningbo-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - East China (Hangzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-shanghai-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - East China (Shanghai-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-zhengzhou-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Central China (Zhengzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-hunan-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Central China (Changsha-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-zhuzhou-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Central China (Changsha-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-guangzhou-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - South China (Guangzhou-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-dongguan-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - South China (Guangzhou-3)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-beijing-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - North China (Beijing-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-beijing-2.cmecloud.cn"
    - North China (Beijing-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-beijing-4.cmecloud.cn"
    - North China (Beijing-3)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-huhehaote-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - North China (Huhehaote)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-chengdu-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Southwest China (Chengdu)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-chongqing-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Southwest China (Chongqing)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-guiyang-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Southwest China (Guiyang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-xian-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Nouthwest China (Xian)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-yunnan.cmecloud.cn"
    - Yunnan China (Kunming)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-yunnan-2.cmecloud.cn"
    - Yunnan China (Kunming-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-tianjin-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Tianjin China (Tianjin)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-jilin-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Jilin China (Changchun)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-hubei-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Hubei China (Xiangyan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-jiangxi-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Jiangxi China (Nanchang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-gansu-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Gansu China (Lanzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-shanxi-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Shanxi China (Taiyuan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-liaoning-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Liaoning China (Shenyang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-hebei-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Hebei China (Shijiazhuang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-fujian-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Fujian China (Xiamen)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-guangxi-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Guangxi China (Nanning)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "eos-anhui-1.cmecloud.cn"
    - Anhui China (Huainan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "s3.cubbit.eu"
    - Cubbit DS3 Object Storage endpoint
    - Provider: Cubbit
  - "s3.{tenant_name}.cubbit.eu"
    - Multi-tenant endpoint - replace {tenant_name} with your actual tenant name. Do not select this directly
    - Provider: Cubbit
  - "syd1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Sydney 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces San Francisco 3
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces San Francisco 2
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Frankfurt 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces New York 3
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Amsterdam 3
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Singapore 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces London 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "tor1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Toronto 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "blr1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    - DigitalOcean Spaces Bangalore 1
    - Provider: DigitalOcean
  - "objects-us-east-1.dream.io"
    - Dream Objects endpoint
    - Provider: Dreamhost
  - "au-east-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - AU East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-central.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - EU Central
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-south-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - EU South 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "eu-west-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - EU West 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "jp-central-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - JP Central 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "uk-east-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - UK East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-central-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - US Central 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-east.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - US East
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-east-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - US East 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-west.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - US West
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "us-west-1.object.fastlystorage.app"
    - US West 1
    - Provider: Fastly
  - "s5lu.com"
    - Global FileLu S5 endpoint
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "us.s5lu.com"
    - North America (US-East) region endpoint
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "eu.s5lu.com"
    - Europe (EU-Central) region endpoint
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "ap.s5lu.com"
    - Asia Pacific (AP-Southeast) region endpoint
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "me.s5lu.com"
    - Middle East (ME-Central) region endpoint
    - Provider: FileLu
  - "https://storage.googleapis.com"
    - Google Cloud Storage endpoint
    - Provider: GCS
  - "hel1.your-objectstorage.com"
    - Helsinki
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "fsn1.your-objectstorage.com"
    - Falkenstein
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "nbg1.your-objectstorage.com"
    - Nuremberg
    - Provider: Hetzner
  - "obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - AF-Johannesburg
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.ap-southeast-2.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - AP-Bangkok
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.ap-southeast-3.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - AP-Singapore
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN East-Shanghai1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.cn-east-2.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN East-Shanghai2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.cn-north-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN North-Beijing1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN North-Beijing4
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.cn-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN South-Guangzhou
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - CN-Hong Kong
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.sa-argentina-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - LA-Buenos Aires1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.sa-peru-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - LA-Lima1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.na-mexico-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - LA-Mexico City1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.sa-chile-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - LA-Santiago2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.sa-brazil-1.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - LA-Sao Paulo1
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "obs.ru-northwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com"
    - RU-Moscow2
    - Provider: HuaweiOBS
  - "s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.dal.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Dallas Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.wdc.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Washington DC Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.sjc.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region San Jose Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.dal.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Dallas Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.wdc.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region Washington DC Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.sjc.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Cross Region San Jose Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.us-east.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Region East Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.us-east.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Region East Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.us-south.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Region South Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.us-south.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - US Region South Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.fra.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Frankfurt Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.mil.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Milan Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.ams.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Amsterdam Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.fra.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Frankfurt Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.mil.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Milan Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.ams.eu.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Cross Region Amsterdam Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.eu-gb.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Great Britain Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.eu-gb.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Great Britain Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Region DE Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - EU Region DE Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.tok.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Tokyo Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.hkg.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Hong Kong Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.seo.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Seoul Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.tok.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Tokyo Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.hkg.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Hong Kong Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.seo.ap.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Cross Regional Seoul Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.jp-tok.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Region Japan Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.jp-tok.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Region Japan Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.au-syd.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Region Australia Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.au-syd.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - APAC Region Australia Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.ams03.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Amsterdam Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.ams03.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Amsterdam Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.che01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Chennai Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.che01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Chennai Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.mel01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Melbourne Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.mel01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Melbourne Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.osl01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Oslo Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.osl01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Oslo Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.tor01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Toronto Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.tor01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Toronto Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.seo01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Seoul Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.seo01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Seoul Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.mon01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Montreal Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.mon01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Montreal Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.mex01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Mexico Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.mex01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Mexico Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.sjc04.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - San Jose Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.sjc04.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - San Jose Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.mil01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Milan Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.mil01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Milan Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.hkg02.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Hong Kong Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.hkg02.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Hong Kong Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.par01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Paris Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.par01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Paris Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.sng01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Singapore Single Site Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "s3.private.sng01.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud"
    - Singapore Single Site Private Endpoint
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-1.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-2.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - London, UK
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-west-3.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - Paris, France
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-east-1.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - Poznań, Poland
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "eu-north-1.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - Copenhagen, Denmark
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "us-east-1.storage.impossibleapi.net"
    - New York, USA
    - Provider: ImpossibleCloud
  - "de-fra.i3storage.com"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: Intercolo
  - "s3.eu-central-1.ionoscloud.com"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.eu-central-2.ionoscloud.com"
    - Berlin, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.eu-central-3.ionoscloud.com"
    - Berlin, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.eu-central-4.ionoscloud.com"
    - Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.eu-south-2.ionoscloud.com"
    - Logrono, Spain
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.us-central-1.ionoscloud.com"
    - Lenexa, USA
    - Provider: IONOS
  - "s3.leviia.com"
    - The default endpoint
    - Leviia
    - Provider: Leviia
  - "storage.iran.liara.space"
    - The default endpoint
    - Iran
    - Provider: Liara
  - "nl-ams-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Amsterdam, NL (nl-ams-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-southeast-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Atlanta, GA, US (us-southeast-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "in-maa-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Chennai, IN (in-maa-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-ord-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Chicago, IL, US (us-ord-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Frankfurt, DE (eu-central-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "id-cgk-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Jakarta, ID (id-cgk-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "gb-lon-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - London 2, UK (gb-lon-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-lax-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Los Angeles, CA, US (us-lax-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "es-mad-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Madrid, ES (es-mad-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-mia-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Miami, FL, US (us-mia-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "it-mil-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Milan, IT (it-mil-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-east-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Newark, NJ, US (us-east-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "jp-osa-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Osaka, JP (jp-osa-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "fr-par-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Paris, FR (fr-par-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "br-gru-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Sao Paulo, BR (br-gru-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-sea-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Seattle, WA, US (us-sea-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Singapore, SG (ap-south-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "sg-sin-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Singapore 2, SG (sg-sin-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "se-sto-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Stockholm, SE (se-sto-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "jp-tyo-1.linodeobjects.com"
    - Tokyo 3, JP (jp-tyo-1)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "us-iad-10.linodeobjects.com"
    - Washington, DC, US (us-iad-10)
    - Provider: Linode
  - "s3.us-west-1.{account_name}.lyve.seagate.com"
    - US West 1 - California
    - Provider: LyveCloud
  - "s3.eu-west-1.{account_name}.lyve.seagate.com"
    - EU West 1 - Ireland
    - Provider: LyveCloud
  - "br-se1.magaluobjects.com"
    - São Paulo, SP (BR), br-se1
    - Provider: Magalu
  - "br-ne1.magaluobjects.com"
    - Fortaleza, CE (BR), br-ne1
    - Provider: Magalu
  - "s3.eu-amsterdam.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Amsterdam
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.eu-luxembourg.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Luxembourg
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.eu-paris.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Paris
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.eu-barcelona.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Barcelona
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.ca-montreal.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Montreal
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.ca-vancouver.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Vancouver
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.ap-tokyo.megas4.com"
    - Mega S4 Tokyo
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.eu-central-1.s4.mega.io"
    - Mega S4 eu-central-1 (Amsterdam, legacy)
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.eu-central-2.s4.mega.io"
    - Mega S4 eu-central-2 (Bettembourg, legacy)
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.ca-central-1.s4.mega.io"
    - Mega S4 ca-central-1 (Montreal, legacy)
    - Provider: Mega
  - "s3.ca-west-1.s4.mega.io"
    - Mega S4 ca-west-1 (Vancouver, legacy)
    - Provider: Mega
  - "oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com"
    - Outscale EU West 2 (Paris)
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "oos.us-east-2.outscale.com"
    - Outscale US east 2 (New Jersey)
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "oos.us-west-1.outscale.com"
    - Outscale EU West 1 (California)
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "oos.cloudgouv-eu-west-1.outscale.com"
    - Outscale SecNumCloud (Paris)
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "oos.ap-northeast-1.outscale.com"
    - Outscale AP Northeast 1 (Japan)
    - Provider: Outscale
  - "s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Gravelines, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.rbx.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Roubaix, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.sbg.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Strasbourg, France
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.eu-west-par.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Paris, France (3AZ)
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.de.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Frankfurt, Germany
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.uk.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud London, United Kingdom
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.waw.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Warsaw, Poland
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Beauharnois, Canada
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.ca-east-tor.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Toronto, Canada
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.sgp.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Singapore
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.ap-southeast-syd.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Sydney, Australia
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.ap-south-mum.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Mumbai, India
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.us-east-va.io.cloud.ovh.us"
    - OVHcloud Vint Hill, Virginia, USA
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.us-west-or.io.cloud.ovh.us"
    - OVHcloud Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.rbx-archive.io.cloud.ovh.net"
    - OVHcloud Roubaix, France (Cold Archive)
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "s3.petabox.io"
    - US East (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3.us-east-1.petabox.io"
    - US East (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3.eu-central-1.petabox.io"
    - Europe (Frankfurt)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3.ap-southeast-1.petabox.io"
    - Asia Pacific (Singapore)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3.me-south-1.petabox.io"
    - Middle East (Bahrain)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3.sa-east-1.petabox.io"
    - South America (São Paulo)
    - Provider: Petabox
  - "s3-cn-east-1.qiniucs.com"
    - East China Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-cn-east-2.qiniucs.com"
    - East China Endpoint 2
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-cn-north-1.qiniucs.com"
    - North China Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-cn-south-1.qiniucs.com"
    - South China Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-us-north-1.qiniucs.com"
    - North America Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-ap-southeast-1.qiniucs.com"
    - Southeast Asia Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3-ap-northeast-1.qiniucs.com"
    - Northeast Asia Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "s3.us-east-1.rabata.io"
    - US East (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "s3.eu-west-1.rabata.io"
    - EU West (Ireland)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "s3.eu-west-2.rabata.io"
    - EU West (London)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Global (AnyCast) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Australia (Anycast) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-nsw.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Sydney (Australia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-qld.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Brisbane (Australia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-vic.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Melbourne (Australia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-wa.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Perth (Australia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "ph.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Manila (Philippines) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "th.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Bangkok (Thailand) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "hk.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - HK (Hong Kong) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "mn.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "kg.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "id.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Jakarta (Indonesia) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "jp.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Tokyo (Japan) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "sg.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - SG (Singapore) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "de.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Frankfurt (Germany) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - USA (AnyCast) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-east-1.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - New York (USA) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-west-1.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Freemont (USA) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "nz.s3.rackcorp.com"
    - Auckland (New Zealand) Endpoint
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud"
    - Amsterdam Endpoint
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "s3.fr-par.scw.cloud"
    - Paris Endpoint
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "s3.pl-waw.scw.cloud"
    - Warsaw Endpoint
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "localhost:8333"
    - SeaweedFS S3 localhost
    - Provider: SeaweedFS
  - "s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - St. Petersburg
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "s3.ru-3.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - St. Petersburg
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - Moscow
    - Provider: Selectel,Servercore
  - "s3.gis-1.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - Moscow
    - Provider: Selectel,Servercore
  - "s3.kz-1.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - Kazakhstan
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "s3.uz-2.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - Uzbekistan
    - Provider: Selectel
  - "s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru"
    - Saint Petersburg
    - Provider: Servercore
  - "s3.uz-2.srvstorage.uz"
    - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    - Provider: Servercore
  - "s3.kz-1.srvstorage.kz"
    - Almaty, Kazakhstan
    - Provider: Servercore
  - "gateway.storjshare.io"
    - Global Hosted Gateway
    - Provider: Storj
  - "eu-001.s3.synologyc2.net"
    - EU Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Synology
  - "eu-002.s3.synologyc2.net"
    - EU Endpoint 2
    - Provider: Synology
  - "us-001.s3.synologyc2.net"
    - US Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Synology
  - "us-002.s3.synologyc2.net"
    - US Endpoint 2
    - Provider: Synology
  - "tw-001.s3.synologyc2.net"
    - TW Endpoint 1
    - Provider: Synology
  - "cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com"
    - Beijing Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com"
    - Nanjing Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-shanghai.myqcloud.com"
    - Shanghai Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com"
    - Guangzhou Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-chengdu.myqcloud.com"
    - Chengdu Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-chongqing.myqcloud.com"
    - Chongqing Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-hongkong.myqcloud.com"
    - Hong Kong (China) Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-singapore.myqcloud.com"
    - Singapore Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-mumbai.myqcloud.com"
    - Mumbai Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-seoul.myqcloud.com"
    - Seoul Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-bangkok.myqcloud.com"
    - Bangkok Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.ap-tokyo.myqcloud.com"
    - Tokyo Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.na-siliconvalley.myqcloud.com"
    - Silicon Valley Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.na-ashburn.myqcloud.com"
    - Virginia Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.na-toronto.myqcloud.com"
    - Toronto Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.eu-frankfurt.myqcloud.com"
    - Frankfurt Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.eu-moscow.myqcloud.com"
    - Moscow Region
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "cos.accelerate.myqcloud.com"
    - Use Tencent COS Accelerate Endpoint
    - Provider: TencentCOS
  - "s3-cn-bj.ufileos.com"
    - North China (Beijing 2)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-cn-wlcb.ufileos.com"
    - North China (Ulanqab)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-cn-sh2.ufileos.com"
    - Shanghai
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-cn-gd.ufileos.com"
    - South China (Guangzhou)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-hk.ufileos.com"
    - Hongkong
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-us-ca.ufileos.com"
    - United States (Los Angeles)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-sg.ufileos.com"
    - Singapore
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-idn-jakarta.ufileos.com"
    - Indonesia (Jakarta)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-tw-tp.ufileos.com"
    - Taiwan (Taipei)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-afr-nigeria.ufileos.com"
    - Nigeria (Lagos)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-bra-saopaulo.ufileos.com"
    - Brazil (São Paulo)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-uae-dubai.ufileos.com"
    - United Arab Emirates (Dubai)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-ge-fra.ufileos.com"
    - Germany (Frankfurt)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-vn-sng.ufileos.com"
    - Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-us-ws.ufileos.com"
    - United States (Washington)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-ind-mumbai.ufileos.com"
    - India (Mumbai)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-kr-seoul.ufileos.com"
    - Seoul (South Korea)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-jpn-tky.ufileos.com"
    - Japan (Tokyo)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-th-bkk.ufileos.com"
    - Bangkok (Thailand)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-uk-london.ufileos.com"
    - United Kingdom (London)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-rus-mosc.ufileos.com"
    - Russia (Moscow)
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-cn-guiyang1.ufileos.com"
    - Guiyang 1
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3-pk-khi.ufileos.com"
    - Pakistan
    - Provider: US3
  - "s3.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi US East 1 (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi US East 2 (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.us-central-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi US Central 1 (Texas)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi US West 1 (Oregon)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.ca-central-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi CA Central 1 (Toronto)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi EU Central 1 (Amsterdam)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi EU Central 2 (Frankfurt)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.eu-west-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi EU West 1 (London)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.eu-west-2.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi EU West 2 (Paris)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.eu-south-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi EU South 1 (Milan)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.ap-northeast-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo) endpoint
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.ap-northeast-2.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi AP Northeast 2 (Osaka) endpoint
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.ap-southeast-1.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi AP Southeast 1 (Singapore)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "s3.ap-southeast-2.wasabisys.com"
    - Wasabi AP Southeast 2 (Sydney)
    - Provider: Wasabi
  - "idr01.zata.ai"
    - South Asia Endpoint
    - Provider: Zata
  - "fra1.s3.zeroservices.eu"
    - Frankfurt 1
    - Provider: ZeroServices
  - "fra.s3.zeroservices.eu"
    - Frankfurt 2
    - Provider: ZeroServices
  - "eyl1.s3.zeroservices.eu"
    - Eyl 1
    - Provider: ZeroServices

#### --s3-location-constraint

Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.

Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.

Properties:

- Config:      location_constraint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LOCATION_CONSTRAINT
- Provider:    AWS,ArvanCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,IBMCOS,ImpossibleCloud,LyveCloud,Minio,Netease,Qiniu,Rabata,RackCorp,Scality,SeaweedFS,Synology,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-east-2"
    - US East (Ohio) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-west-1"
    - US West (Northern California) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-west-2"
    - US West (Oregon) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ca-central-1"
    - Canada (Central) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-1"
    - EU (Ireland) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-2"
    - EU (London) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-west-3"
    - EU (Paris) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-north-1"
    - EU (Stockholm) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "eu-south-1"
    - EU (Milan) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "EU"
    - EU Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-southeast-2"
    - Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-2"
    - Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-northeast-3"
    - Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-south-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ap-east-1"
    - Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "sa-east-1"
    - South America (Sao Paulo) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "il-central-1"
    - Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "me-south-1"
    - Middle East (Bahrain) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "af-south-1"
    - Africa (Cape Town) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "cn-north-1"
    - China (Beijing) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "cn-northwest-1"
    - China (Ningxia) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-gov-east-1"
    - AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "us-gov-west-1"
    - AWS GovCloud (US) Region
    - Provider: AWS
  - "ir-thr-at1"
    - Tehran Iran (Simin)
    - Provider: ArvanCloud
  - "ir-tbz-sh1"
    - Tabriz Iran (Shahriar)
    - Provider: ArvanCloud
  - "wuxi1"
    - East China (Suzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "jinan1"
    - East China (Jinan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "ningbo1"
    - East China (Hangzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "shanghai1"
    - East China (Shanghai-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "zhengzhou1"
    - Central China (Zhengzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "hunan1"
    - Central China (Changsha-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "zhuzhou1"
    - Central China (Changsha-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "guangzhou1"
    - South China (Guangzhou-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "dongguan1"
    - South China (Guangzhou-3)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "beijing1"
    - North China (Beijing-1)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "beijing2"
    - North China (Beijing-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "beijing4"
    - North China (Beijing-3)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "huhehaote1"
    - North China (Huhehaote)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "chengdu1"
    - Southwest China (Chengdu)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "chongqing1"
    - Southwest China (Chongqing)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "guiyang1"
    - Southwest China (Guiyang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "xian1"
    - Northwest China (Xian)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "yunnan"
    - Yunnan China (Kunming)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "yunnan2"
    - Yunnan China (Kunming-2)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "tianjin1"
    - Tianjin China (Tianjin)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "jilin1"
    - Jilin China (Changchun)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "hubei1"
    - Hubei China (Xiangyan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "jiangxi1"
    - Jiangxi China (Nanchang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "gansu1"
    - Gansu China (Lanzhou)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "shanxi1"
    - Shanxi China (Taiyuan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "liaoning1"
    - Liaoning China (Shenyang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "hebei1"
    - Hebei China (Shijiazhuang)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "fujian1"
    - Fujian China (Xiamen)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "guangxi1"
    - Guangxi China (Nanning)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "anhui1"
    - Anhui China (Huainan)
    - Provider: ChinaMobile
  - "us-standard"
    - US Cross Region Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-vault"
    - US Cross Region Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-cold"
    - US Cross Region Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-flex"
    - US Cross Region Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-east-standard"
    - US East Region Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-east-vault"
    - US East Region Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-east-cold"
    - US East Region Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-east-flex"
    - US East Region Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-south-standard"
    - US South Region Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-south-vault"
    - US South Region Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-south-cold"
    - US South Region Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "us-south-flex"
    - US South Region Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-standard"
    - EU Cross Region Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-vault"
    - EU Cross Region Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-cold"
    - EU Cross Region Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-flex"
    - EU Cross Region Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-gb-standard"
    - Great Britain Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-gb-vault"
    - Great Britain Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-gb-cold"
    - Great Britain Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "eu-gb-flex"
    - Great Britain Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "ap-standard"
    - APAC Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "ap-vault"
    - APAC Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "ap-cold"
    - APAC Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "ap-flex"
    - APAC Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "mel01-standard"
    - Melbourne Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "mel01-vault"
    - Melbourne Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "mel01-cold"
    - Melbourne Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "mel01-flex"
    - Melbourne Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "tor01-standard"
    - Toronto Standard
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "tor01-vault"
    - Toronto Vault
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "tor01-cold"
    - Toronto Cold
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "tor01-flex"
    - Toronto Flex
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "cn-east-1"
    - East China Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-east-2"
    - East China Region 2
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-north-1"
    - North China Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "cn-south-1"
    - South China Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "us-north-1"
    - North America Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "ap-southeast-1"
    - Southeast Asia Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "ap-northeast-1"
    - Northeast Asia Region 1
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "us-east-1"
    - US East (N. Virginia)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "eu-west-1"
    - EU (Ireland)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "eu-west-2"
    - EU (London)
    - Provider: Rabata
  - "global"
    - Global CDN Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au"
    - Australia (All locations)
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-nsw"
    - NSW (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-qld"
    - QLD (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-vic"
    - VIC (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "au-wa"
    - Perth (Australia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "ph"
    - Manila (Philippines) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "th"
    - Bangkok (Thailand) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "hk"
    - HK (Hong Kong) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "mn"
    - Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "kg"
    - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "id"
    - Jakarta (Indonesia) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "jp"
    - Tokyo (Japan) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "sg"
    - SG (Singapore) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "de"
    - Frankfurt (Germany) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us"
    - USA (AnyCast) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-east-1"
    - New York (USA) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "us-west-1"
    - Fremont (USA) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp
  - "nz"
    - Auckland (New Zealand) Region
    - Provider: RackCorp

#### --s3-acl

Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.

This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.

For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl

Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.

If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.


Properties:

- Config:      acl
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ACL
- Provider:    AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IBMCOS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,US3,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "private"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - No one else has access rights (default).
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,US3,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "public-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ access.
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,US3,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "public-read-write"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
    - Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "authenticated-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "bucket-owner-read"
    - Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - Bucket owner gets READ access.
    - If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "bucket-owner-full-control"
    - Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
    - If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,Scality,SeaweedFS,TencentCOS,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
  - "private"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - No one else has access rights (default).
    - This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise COS.
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "public-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ access.
    - This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise IBM COS.
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "public-read-write"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
    - This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), On-Premise IBM COS.
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "authenticated-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
    - Not supported on Buckets.
    - This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra) and On-Premise IBM COS.
    - Provider: IBMCOS
  - "default"
    - Owner gets Full_CONTROL.
    - No one else has access rights (default).
    - Provider: TencentCOS

#### --s3-server-side-encryption

The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.

Properties:

- Config:      server_side_encryption
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None
    - Provider: AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
  - "AES256"
    - AES256
    - Provider: AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
  - "aws:kms"
    - aws:kms
    - Provider: AWS,Ceph,Minio

#### --s3-sse-kms-key-id

If using KMS ID you must provide the ARN of Key.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_kms_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SSE_KMS_KEY_ID
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None
  - "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:*"
    - arn:aws:kms:*

#### --s3-storage-class

The storage class to use when storing new objects in S3.

Properties:

- Config:      storage_class
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_STORAGE_CLASS
- Provider:    AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,ChinaMobile,Liara,Magalu,OVHcloud,Qiniu,Scaleway,TencentCOS,US3
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Default
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ChinaMobile,OVHcloud,TencentCOS,US3
  - "STANDARD"
    - Standard storage class
    - Provider: AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,ChinaMobile,Liara,Magalu,OVHcloud,Qiniu,TencentCOS,US3
  - "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
    - Reduced redundancy storage class
    - Provider: AWS
  - "STANDARD_IA"
    - Standard Infrequent Access storage class
    - Provider: AWS,OVHcloud
  - "ONEZONE_IA"
    - One Zone Infrequent Access storage class
    - Provider: AWS
  - "GLACIER"
    - Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class
    - Provider: AWS
  - "DEEP_ARCHIVE"
    - Glacier Deep Archive storage class
    - Provider: AWS
  - "INTELLIGENT_TIERING"
    - Intelligent-Tiering storage class
    - Provider: AWS
  - "GLACIER_IR"
    - Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class
    - Provider: AWS,Magalu
  - "GLACIER"
    - Archive storage mode
    - Provider: Alibaba,ChinaMobile,Qiniu
  - "STANDARD_IA"
    - Infrequent access storage mode
    - Provider: Alibaba,ChinaMobile,TencentCOS,US3
  - "EXPRESS_ONEZONE"
    - High Performance storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "ONEZONE_IA"
    - Standard Infrequent Access storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "GLACIER"
    - Active Archive storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "GLACIER_IR"
    - Active Archive storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "DEEP_ARCHIVE"
    - Cold Archive storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "INTELLIGENT_TIERING"
    - Standard storage class
    - Provider: OVHcloud
  - "LINE"
    - Infrequent access storage mode
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - "DEEP_ARCHIVE"
    - Deep archive storage mode
    - Provider: Qiniu
  - ""
    - Default.
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "STANDARD"
    - The Standard class for any upload.
    - Suitable for on-demand content like streaming or CDN.
    - Available in all regions.
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "GLACIER"
    - Archived storage.
    - Prices are lower, but it needs to be restored first to be accessed.
    - Available in the FR-PAR region only.
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "ONEZONE_IA"
    - One Zone - Infrequent Access.
    - A good choice for storing secondary backup copies or easily re-creatable data.
    - Available in all regions.
    - Provider: Scaleway
  - "ARCHIVE"
    - Archive storage mode
    - Provider: TencentCOS,US3

#### --s3-ibm-api-key

IBM API Key to be used to obtain IAM token

Properties:

- Config:      ibm_api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_IBM_API_KEY
- Provider:    IBMCOS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-ibm-resource-instance-id

IBM service instance id

Properties:

- Config:      ibm_resource_instance_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_IBM_RESOURCE_INSTANCE_ID
- Provider:    IBMCOS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-bucket-object-lock-enabled

Enable Object Lock when creating new buckets.

Properties:

- Config:      bucket_object_lock_enabled
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_BUCKET_OBJECT_LOCK_ENABLED
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to s3 (Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, BizflyCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, Cubbit, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, Exaba, Fastly, FileLu, FlashBlade, GCS, HCP, Hetzner, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, ImpossibleCloud, Intercolo, IONOS, Leviia, Liara, Linode, LyveCloud, Magalu, Mega, Minio, Netease, Outscale, OVHcloud, Petabox, Qiniu, Rabata, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, Scality, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Servercore, SpectraLogic, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, US3, Wasabi, Zadara, Zata, ZeroServices, Other).

#### --s3-bucket-acl

Canned ACL used when creating buckets.

For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl

Note that this ACL is applied when only when creating buckets.  If it
isn't set then "acl" is used instead.

If the "acl" and "bucket_acl" are empty strings then no X-Amz-Acl:
header is added and the default (private) will be used.


Properties:

- Config:      bucket_acl
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_BUCKET_ACL
- Provider:    AWS,Alibaba,ArvanCloud,BizflyCloud,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Cubbit,DigitalOcean,Dreamhost,Exaba,FileLu,GCS,HCP,Hetzner,HuaweiOBS,IBMCOS,IDrive,ImpossibleCloud,Intercolo,IONOS,Leviia,Liara,Linode,LyveCloud,Magalu,Mega,Minio,Netease,Outscale,OVHcloud,Petabox,Qiniu,RackCorp,Scaleway,SeaweedFS,Servercore,TencentCOS,US3,Wasabi,Zata,ZeroServices,Other
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "private"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - No one else has access rights (default).
  - "public-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ access.
  - "public-read-write"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
    - Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
  - "authenticated-read"
    - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    - The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.

#### --s3-requester-pays

Enables requester pays option when interacting with S3 bucket.

Properties:

- Config:      requester_pays
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_REQUESTER_PAYS
- Provider:    AWS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-sse-customer-algorithm

If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_algorithm
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SSE_CUSTOMER_ALGORITHM
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None
  - "AES256"
    - AES256

#### --s3-sse-customer-key

To use SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key used to encrypt/decrypt your data.

Alternatively you can provide --sse-customer-key-base64.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --s3-sse-customer-key-base64

If using SSE-C you must provide the secret encryption key encoded in base64 format to encrypt/decrypt your data.

Alternatively you can provide --sse-customer-key.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_base64
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_BASE64
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --s3-sse-customer-key-md5

If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional).

If you leave it blank, this is calculated automatically from the sse_customer_key provided.


Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_md5
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_MD5
- Provider:    AWS,Ceph,ChinaMobile,Minio
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --s3-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     200Mi

#### --s3-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff or files with unknown
size (e.g. from "rclone rcat" or uploaded with "rclone mount" or google
photos or google docs) they will be uploaded as multipart uploads
using this chunk size.

Note that "--s3-upload-concurrency" chunks of this size are buffered
in memory per transfer.

If you are transferring large files over high-speed links and you have
enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of known size to stay below the 10,000 chunks limit.

Files of unknown size are uploaded with the configured
chunk_size. Since the default chunk size is 5 MiB and there can be at
most 10,000 chunks, this means that by default the maximum size of
a file you can stream upload is 48 GiB.  If you wish to stream upload
larger files then you will need to increase chunk_size.

Increasing the chunk size decreases the accuracy of the progress
statistics displayed with "-P" flag. Rclone treats chunk as sent when
it's buffered by the AWS SDK, when in fact it may still be uploading.
A bigger chunk size means a bigger AWS SDK buffer and progress
reporting more deviating from the truth.


Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi

#### --s3-max-upload-parts

Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload.

This option defines the maximum number of multipart chunks to use
when doing a multipart upload.

This can be useful if a service does not support the AWS S3
specification of 10,000 chunks.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of a known size to stay below this number of chunks limit.


Properties:

- Config:      max_upload_parts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_MAX_UPLOAD_PARTS
- Type:        int
- Default:     10000

#### --s3-copy-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be
copied in chunks of this size.

The minimum is 1 byte and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_COPY_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4.656Gi

#### --s3-disable-checksum

Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great
for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files
to start uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_checksum
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-shared-credentials-file

Path to the shared credentials file.

If env_auth = true then rclone can use a shared credentials file.

If this variable is empty rclone will look for the
"AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE" env variable. If the env value is empty
it will default to the current user's home directory.

    Linux/OSX: "$HOME/.aws/credentials"
    Windows:   "%USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials"


Properties:

- Config:      shared_credentials_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-profile

Profile to use in the shared credentials file.

If env_auth = true then rclone can use a shared credentials file. This
variable controls which profile is used in that file.

If empty it will default to the environment variable "AWS_PROFILE" or
"default" if that environment variable is also not set.


Properties:

- Config:      profile
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_PROFILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-session-token

An AWS session token.

Properties:

- Config:      session_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SESSION_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-role-arn

ARN of the IAM role to assume.
			
Leave blank if not using assume role.

Properties:

- Config:      role_arn
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ROLE_ARN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-role-session-name

Session name for assumed role.
			
If empty, a session name will be generated automatically.

Properties:

- Config:      role_session_name
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ROLE_SESSION_NAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-role-session-duration

Session duration for assumed role.
			
If empty, the default session duration will be used.

Properties:

- Config:      role_session_duration
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ROLE_SESSION_DURATION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-role-external-id

External ID for assumed role.
			
Leave blank if not using an external ID.

Properties:

- Config:      role_external_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ROLE_EXTERNAL_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently for multipart uploads and copies.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --s3-force-path-style

If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style.

If this is true (the default) then rclone will use path style access,
if false then rclone will use virtual path style. See [the AWS S3
docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html)
for more info.

Some providers (e.g. AWS, Aliyun OSS, Netease COS, or Tencent COS) require this set to
false - rclone will do this automatically based on the provider
setting.

Note that if your bucket isn't a valid DNS name, i.e. has '.' or '_' in,
you'll need to set this to true.


Properties:

- Config:      force_path_style
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --s3-v2-auth

If true use v2 authentication.

If this is false (the default) then rclone will use v4 authentication.
If it is set then rclone will use v2 authentication.

Use this only if v4 signatures don't work, e.g. pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.

Properties:

- Config:      v2_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_V2_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-dual-stack

If true use AWS S3 dual-stack endpoint (IPv6 support).

See [AWS Docs on Dualstack Endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/dual-stack-endpoints.html)

Properties:

- Config:      use_dual_stack
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_DUAL_STACK
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-accelerate-endpoint

If true use the AWS S3 accelerated endpoint.

See: [AWS S3 Transfer acceleration](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acceleration-examples.html)

Properties:

- Config:      use_accelerate_endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_ACCELERATE_ENDPOINT
- Provider:    AWS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-arn-region

If true, enables arn region support for the service.

Properties:

- Config:      use_arn_region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_ARN_REGION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-leave-parts-on-error

If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery.

It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

WARNING: Storing parts of an incomplete multipart upload counts towards space usage on S3 and will add additional costs if not cleaned up.


Properties:

- Config:      leave_parts_on_error
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LEAVE_PARTS_ON_ERROR
- Provider:    AWS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk (response list for each ListObject S3 request).

This option is also known as "MaxKeys", "max-items", or "page-size" from the AWS S3 specification.
Most services truncate the response list to 1000 objects even if requested more than that.
In AWS S3 this is a global maximum and cannot be changed, see [AWS S3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/ls.html).
In Ceph, this can be increased with the "rgw list buckets max chunk" option.


Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --s3-list-version

Version of ListObjects to use: 1,2 or 0 for auto.

When S3 originally launched it only provided the ListObjects call to
enumerate objects in a bucket.

However in May 2016 the ListObjectsV2 call was introduced. This is
much higher performance and should be used if at all possible.

If set to the default, 0, rclone will guess according to the provider
set which list objects method to call. If it guesses wrong, then it
may be set manually here.


Properties:

- Config:      list_version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LIST_VERSION
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --s3-list-url-encode

Whether to url encode listings: true/false/unset

Some providers support URL encoding listings and where this is
available this is more reliable when using control characters in file
names. If this is set to unset (the default) then rclone will choose
according to the provider setting what to apply, but you can override
rclone's choice here.


Properties:

- Config:      list_url_encode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LIST_URL_ENCODE
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-no-check-bucket

If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.

This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.

It can also be needed if the user you are using does not have bucket
creation permissions. Before v1.52.0 this would have passed silently
due to a bug.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_bucket
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_NO_CHECK_BUCKET
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-no-head

If set, don't HEAD uploaded objects to check integrity.

This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does.

Setting it means that if rclone receives a 200 OK message after
uploading an object with PUT then it will assume that it got uploaded
properly.

In particular it will assume:

- the metadata, including modtime, storage class and content type was as uploaded
- the size was as uploaded

It reads the following items from the response for a single part PUT:

- the MD5SUM
- The uploaded date

For multipart uploads these items aren't read.

If an source object of unknown length is uploaded then rclone **will** do a
HEAD request.

Setting this flag increases the chance for undetected upload failures,
in particular an incorrect size, so it isn't recommended for normal
operation. In practice the chance of an undetected upload failure is
very small even with this flag.


Properties:

- Config:      no_head
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_NO_HEAD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-no-head-object

If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects.

Properties:

- Config:      no_head_object
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_NO_HEAD_OBJECT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --s3-disable-http2

Disable usage of http2 for S3 backends.

There is currently an unsolved issue with the s3 (specifically minio) backend
and HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is enabled by default for the s3 backend but can be
disabled here.  When the issue is solved this flag will be removed.

See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4673, https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3631



Properties:

- Config:      disable_http2
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DISABLE_HTTP2
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-download-url

Custom endpoint for downloads.
This is usually set to a CloudFront CDN URL as AWS S3 offers
cheaper egress for data downloaded through the CloudFront network.

Properties:

- Config:      download_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DOWNLOAD_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-directory-markers

Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created

Empty folders are unsupported for bucket based remotes, this option creates an empty
object ending with "/", to persist the folder.


Properties:

- Config:      directory_markers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DIRECTORY_MARKERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-multipart-etag

Whether to use ETag in multipart uploads for verification

This should be true, false or left unset to use the default for the provider.


Properties:

- Config:      use_multipart_etag
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_MULTIPART_ETAG
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-use-unsigned-payload

Whether to use an unsigned payload in PutObject

Rclone has to avoid the AWS SDK seeking the body when calling
PutObject. The AWS provider can add checksums in the trailer to avoid
seeking but other providers can't.

This should be true, false or left unset to use the default for the provider.


Properties:

- Config:      use_unsigned_payload
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_UNSIGNED_PAYLOAD
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-use-presigned-request

Whether to use a presigned request or PutObject for single part uploads

If this is false rclone will use PutObject from the AWS SDK to upload
an object.

Versions of rclone < 1.59 use presigned requests to upload a single
part object and setting this flag to true will re-enable that
functionality. This shouldn't be necessary except in exceptional
circumstances or for testing.


Properties:

- Config:      use_presigned_request
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_PRESIGNED_REQUEST
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-data-integrity-protections

If true use AWS S3 data integrity protections.

See [AWS Docs on Data Integrity Protections](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/feature-dataintegrity.html)

Properties:

- Config:      use_data_integrity_protections
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_DATA_INTEGRITY_PROTECTIONS
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-versions

Include old versions in directory listings.

Properties:

- Config:      versions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_VERSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-version-at

Show file versions as they were at the specified time.

The parameter should be a date, "2006-01-02", datetime "2006-01-02
15:04:05" or a duration for that long ago, eg "100d" or "1h".

Note that when using this no file write operations are permitted,
so you can't upload files or delete them.

See [the time option docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#time-options) for valid formats.


Properties:

- Config:      version_at
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_VERSION_AT
- Type:        Time
- Default:     off

#### --s3-version-deleted

Show deleted file markers when using versions.

This shows deleted file markers in the listing when using versions. These will appear
as 0 size files. The only operation which can be performed on them is deletion.

Deleting a delete marker will reveal the previous version.

Deleted files will always show with a timestamp.


Properties:

- Config:      version_deleted
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_VERSION_DELETED
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-decompress

If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects.

It is possible to upload objects to S3 with "Content-Encoding: gzip"
set. Normally rclone will download these files as compressed objects.

If this flag is set then rclone will decompress these files with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" as they are received. This means that rclone
can't check the size and hash but the file contents will be decompressed.


Properties:

- Config:      decompress
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DECOMPRESS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-might-gzip

Set this if the backend might gzip objects.

Normally providers will not alter objects when they are downloaded. If
an object was not uploaded with `Content-Encoding: gzip` then it won't
be set on download.

However some providers may gzip objects even if they weren't uploaded
with `Content-Encoding: gzip` (eg Cloudflare).

A symptom of this would be receiving errors like

    ERROR corrupted on transfer: sizes differ NNN vs MMM

If you set this flag and rclone downloads an object with
Content-Encoding: gzip set and chunked transfer encoding, then rclone
will decompress the object on the fly.

If this is set to unset (the default) then rclone will choose
according to the provider setting what to apply, but you can override
rclone's choice here.


Properties:

- Config:      might_gzip
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_MIGHT_GZIP
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-use-accept-encoding-gzip

Whether to send `Accept-Encoding: gzip` header.

By default, rclone will append `Accept-Encoding: gzip` to the request to download
compressed objects whenever possible.

However some providers such as Google Cloud Storage may alter the HTTP headers, breaking
the signature of the request.

A symptom of this would be receiving errors like

	SignatureDoesNotMatch: The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided.

In this case, you might want to try disabling this option.


Properties:

- Config:      use_accept_encoding_gzip
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_ACCEPT_ENCODING_GZIP
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-no-system-metadata

Suppress setting and reading of system metadata

Properties:

- Config:      no_system_metadata
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_NO_SYSTEM_METADATA
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-use-already-exists

Set if rclone should report BucketAlreadyExists errors on bucket creation.

At some point during the evolution of the s3 protocol, AWS started
returning an `AlreadyOwnedByYou` error when attempting to create a
bucket that the user already owned, rather than a
`BucketAlreadyExists` error.

Unfortunately exactly what has been implemented by s3 clones is a
little inconsistent, some return `AlreadyOwnedByYou`, some return
`BucketAlreadyExists` and some return no error at all.

This is important to rclone because it ensures the bucket exists by
creating it on quite a lot of operations (unless
`--s3-no-check-bucket` is used).

If rclone knows the provider can return `AlreadyOwnedByYou` or returns
no error then it can report `BucketAlreadyExists` errors when the user
attempts to create a bucket not owned by them. Otherwise rclone
ignores the `BucketAlreadyExists` error which can lead to confusion.

This should be automatically set correctly for all providers rclone
knows about - please make a bug report if not.


Properties:

- Config:      use_already_exists
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_ALREADY_EXISTS
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-use-multipart-uploads

Set if rclone should use multipart uploads.

You can change this if you want to disable the use of multipart uploads.
This shouldn't be necessary in normal operation.

This should be automatically set correctly for all providers rclone
knows about - please make a bug report if not.


Properties:

- Config:      use_multipart_uploads
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_MULTIPART_UPLOADS
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-list-versions-oldest-first

Set if the backend returns object versions oldest first.

The S3 standard returns object versions newest first. Some backends
(e.g. Hitachi HCP) return them oldest first instead.

Set this quirk if --s3-version-at or --s3-versions produce incorrect
results with your backend.

This should be automatically set correctly for all providers rclone
knows about - please make a bug report if not.


Properties:

- Config:      list_versions_oldest_first
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_LIST_VERSIONS_OLDEST_FIRST
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-use-x-id

Set if rclone should add x-id URL parameters.

You can change this if you want to disable the AWS SDK from
adding x-id URL parameters.

This shouldn't be necessary in normal operation.

This should be automatically set correctly for all providers rclone
knows about - please make a bug report if not.


Properties:

- Config:      use_x_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_USE_X_ID
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-sign-accept-encoding

Set if rclone should include Accept-Encoding as part of the signature.

You can change this if you want to stop rclone including
Accept-Encoding as part of the signature.

This shouldn't be necessary in normal operation.

This should be automatically set correctly for all providers rclone
knows about - please make a bug report if not.


Properties:

- Config:      sign_accept_encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SIGN_ACCEPT_ENCODING
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-directory-bucket

Set to use AWS Directory Buckets

If you are using an AWS Directory Bucket then set this flag.

This will ensure no `Content-Md5` headers are sent and ensure `ETag`
headers are not interpreted as MD5 sums. `X-Amz-Meta-Md5chksum` will
be set on all objects whether single or multipart uploaded.

This also sets `no_check_bucket = true`.

Note that Directory Buckets do not support:

- Versioning
- `Content-Encoding: gzip`

Rclone limitations with Directory Buckets:

- rclone does not support creating Directory Buckets with `rclone mkdir`
- ... or removing them with `rclone rmdir` yet
- Directory Buckets do not appear when doing `rclone lsf` at the top level.
- Rclone can't remove auto created directories yet. In theory this should
  work with `directory_markers = true` but it doesn't.
- Directories don't seem to appear in recursive (ListR) listings.


Properties:

- Config:      directory_bucket
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DIRECTORY_BUCKET
- Provider:    AWS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-sdk-log-mode

Set to debug the SDK

This can be set to a comma separated list of the following functions:

- `Signing`
- `Retries`
- `Request`
- `RequestWithBody`
- `Response`
- `ResponseWithBody`
- `DeprecatedUsage`
- `RequestEventMessage`
- `ResponseEventMessage`

Use `Off` to disable and `All` to set all log levels. You will need to
use `-vv` to see the debug level logs.


Properties:

- Config:      sdk_log_mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_SDK_LOG_MODE
- Type:        Bits
- Default:     Off

#### --s3-ibm-iam-endpoint

IBM IAM Endpoint to use for authentication.

Leave blank to use the default public endpoint.

Properties:

- Config:      ibm_iam_endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_IBM_IAM_ENDPOINT
- Provider:    IBMCOS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --s3-object-lock-mode

Object Lock mode to apply when uploading or copying objects.

Set this to apply Object Lock retention mode to objects.
If not set, no Object Lock mode is applied (even with --metadata).

Note: To enable Object Lock retention, you must set BOTH object_lock_mode
AND object_lock_retain_until_date. Setting only one has no effect.

- GOVERNANCE: Set Object Lock mode to GOVERNANCE
- COMPLIANCE: Set Object Lock mode to COMPLIANCE
- copy: Copy the mode from the source object (requires --metadata)

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock.html

Properties:

- Config:      object_lock_mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_OBJECT_LOCK_MODE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "GOVERNANCE"
    - Set Object Lock mode to GOVERNANCE
  - "COMPLIANCE"
    - Set Object Lock mode to COMPLIANCE
  - "copy"
    - Copy from source object (requires --metadata)

#### --s3-object-lock-retain-until-date

Object Lock retention until date to apply when uploading or copying objects.

Set this to apply Object Lock retention date to objects.
If not set, no retention date is applied (even with --metadata).

Note: To enable Object Lock retention, you must set BOTH object_lock_mode
AND object_lock_retain_until_date. Setting only one has no effect.

Accepts:
- RFC 3339 format: 2030-01-02T15:04:05Z
- Duration from now: 365d, 1y, 6M (days, years, months)
- copy: Copy the date from the source object (requires --metadata)

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock.html

Properties:

- Config:      object_lock_retain_until_date
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_OBJECT_LOCK_RETAIN_UNTIL_DATE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "copy"
    - Copy from source object (requires --metadata)
  - "2030-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    - Set specific date (RFC 3339 format)
  - "365d"
    - Set retention for 365 days from now
  - "1y"
    - Set retention for 1 year from now

#### --s3-object-lock-legal-hold-status

Object Lock legal hold status to apply when uploading or copying objects.

Set this to apply Object Lock legal hold to objects.
If not set, no legal hold is applied (even with --metadata).

Note: Legal hold is independent of retention and can be set separately.

- ON: Enable legal hold
- OFF: Disable legal hold
- copy: Copy the legal hold status from the source object (requires --metadata)

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock.html

Properties:

- Config:      object_lock_legal_hold_status
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_OBJECT_LOCK_LEGAL_HOLD_STATUS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "ON"
    - Enable legal hold
  - "OFF"
    - Disable legal hold
  - "copy"
    - Copy from source object (requires --metadata)

#### --s3-bypass-governance-retention

Allow deleting or modifying objects locked with GOVERNANCE mode.

Properties:

- Config:      bypass_governance_retention
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_BYPASS_GOVERNANCE_RETENTION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-object-lock-set-after-upload

Set Object Lock via separate API calls after upload.

Use this for S3-compatible providers that don't support setting Object Lock
headers during PUT operations. When enabled, Object Lock is set via separate
PutObjectRetention and PutObjectLegalHold API calls after the upload completes.

This adds extra API calls per object, so only enable if your provider requires it.

Properties:

- Config:      object_lock_set_after_upload
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_OBJECT_LOCK_SET_AFTER_UPLOAD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --s3-object-lock-supported

Whether the provider supports S3 Object Lock.

This should be true, false or left unset to use the default for the provider.

Set to false for providers that don't fully support the S3 Object Lock API
(e.g. GCS which uses non-standard headers for bypass governance retention
and doesn't implement Legal Hold via the S3 API).


Properties:

- Config:      object_lock_supported
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_OBJECT_LOCK_SUPPORTED
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --s3-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_S3_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

User metadata is stored as x-amz-meta- keys. S3 metadata keys are case insensitive and are always returned in lower case.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the s3 backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) read from Last-Modified header | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | **Y** |
| cache-control | Cache-Control header | string | no-cache | N |
| content-disposition | Content-Disposition header | string | inline | N |
| content-encoding | Content-Encoding header | string | gzip | N |
| content-language | Content-Language header | string | en-US | N |
| content-type | Content-Type header | string | text/plain | N |
| mtime | Time of last modification, read from rclone metadata | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| object-lock-legal-hold-status | Object Lock legal hold status: ON or OFF | string | OFF | N |
| object-lock-mode | Object Lock mode: GOVERNANCE or COMPLIANCE | string | GOVERNANCE | N |
| object-lock-retain-until-date | Object Lock retention until date | RFC 3339 | 2030-01-02T15:04:05Z | N |
| tier | Tier of the object | string | GLACIER | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the s3 backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### restore

Restore objects from GLACIER or INTELLIGENT-TIERING archive tier.

```console
rclone backend restore remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command can be used to restore one or more objects from GLACIER to normal
storage or from INTELLIGENT-TIERING Archive Access / Deep Archive Access tier
to the Frequent Access tier.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend restore s3:bucket/path/to/ --include /object -o priority=PRIORITY -o lifetime=DAYS
rclone backend restore s3:bucket/path/to/directory -o priority=PRIORITY -o lifetime=DAYS
rclone backend restore s3:bucket -o priority=PRIORITY -o lifetime=DAYS
rclone backend restore s3:bucket/path/to/directory -o priority=PRIORITY
```

This flag also obeys the filters. Test first with --interactive/-i or --dry-run
flags.

```console
rclone --interactive backend restore --include "*.txt" s3:bucket/path -o priority=Standard -o lifetime=1
```

All the objects shown will be marked for restore, then:

```console
rclone backend restore --include "*.txt" s3:bucket/path -o priority=Standard -o lifetime=1
```

It returns a list of status dictionaries with Remote and Status
keys. The Status will be OK if it was successful or an error message
if not.

```json
[
    {
        "Status": "OK",
        "Remote": "test.txt"
    },
    {
        "Status": "OK",
        "Remote": "test/file4.txt"
    }
]
```

Options:

- "description": The optional description for the job.
- "lifetime": Lifetime of the active copy in days, ignored for INTELLIGENT-TIERING
storage.
- "priority": Priority of restore: Standard|Expedited|Bulk

### restore-status

Show the status for objects being restored from GLACIER or INTELLIGENT-TIERING.

```console
rclone backend restore-status remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command can be used to show the status for objects being restored from
GLACIER to normal storage or from INTELLIGENT-TIERING Archive Access / Deep
Archive Access tier to the Frequent Access tier.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend restore-status s3:bucket/path/to/object
rclone backend restore-status s3:bucket/path/to/directory
rclone backend restore-status -o all s3:bucket/path/to/directory
```

This command does not obey the filters.

It returns a list of status dictionaries:

```json
[
    {
        "Remote": "file.txt",
        "VersionID": null,
        "RestoreStatus": {
            "IsRestoreInProgress": true,
            "RestoreExpiryDate": "2023-09-06T12:29:19+01:00"
        },
        "StorageClass": "GLACIER"
    },
    {
        "Remote": "test.pdf",
        "VersionID": null,
        "RestoreStatus": {
            "IsRestoreInProgress": false,
            "RestoreExpiryDate": "2023-09-06T12:29:19+01:00"
        },
        "StorageClass": "DEEP_ARCHIVE"
    },
    {
        "Remote": "test.gz",
        "VersionID": null,
        "RestoreStatus": {
            "IsRestoreInProgress": true,
            "RestoreExpiryDate": "null"
        },
        "StorageClass": "INTELLIGENT_TIERING"
    }
]
```

Options:

- "all": If set then show all objects, not just ones with restore status.

### list-multipart-uploads

List the unfinished multipart uploads.

```console
rclone backend list-multipart-uploads remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command lists the unfinished multipart uploads in JSON format.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend list-multipart s3:bucket/path/to/object
```

It returns a dictionary of buckets with values as lists of unfinished
multipart uploads.

You can call it with no bucket in which case it lists all bucket, with
a bucket or with a bucket and path.

```json
{
    "rclone": [
        {
            "Initiated": "2020-06-26T14:20:36Z",
            "Initiator": {
                "DisplayName": "XXX",
                "ID": "arn:aws:iam::XXX:user/XXX"
            },
            "Key": "KEY",
            "Owner": {
                "DisplayName": null,
                "ID": "XXX"
            },
            "StorageClass": "STANDARD",
            "UploadId": "XXX"
        }
    ],
    "rclone-1000files": [],
    "rclone-dst": []
}
```

### cleanup

Remove unfinished multipart uploads.

```console
rclone backend cleanup remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command removes unfinished multipart uploads of age greater than
max-age which defaults to 24 hours.

Note that you can use --interactive/-i or --dry-run with this command to see
what it would do.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend cleanup s3:bucket/path/to/object
rclone backend cleanup -o max-age=7w s3:bucket/path/to/object
```

Durations are parsed as per the rest of rclone, 2h, 7d, 7w etc.

Options:

- "max-age": Max age of upload to delete.

### cleanup-hidden

Remove old versions of files.

```console
rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command removes any old hidden versions of files
on a versions enabled bucket.

Note that you can use --interactive/-i or --dry-run with this command to see
what it would do.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend cleanup-hidden s3:bucket/path/to/dir
```

### versioning

Set/get versioning support for a bucket.

```console
rclone backend versioning remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command sets versioning support if a parameter is
passed and then returns the current versioning status for the bucket
supplied.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend versioning s3:bucket # read status only
rclone backend versioning s3:bucket Enabled
rclone backend versioning s3:bucket Suspended
```

It may return "Enabled", "Suspended" or "Unversioned". Note that once
versioning has been enabled the status can't be set back to "Unversioned".

### set

Set command for updating the config parameters.

```console
rclone backend set remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This set command can be used to update the config parameters
for a running s3 backend.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend set s3: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=s3: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=s3: -o session_token=X -o access_key_id=X -o secret_access_key=X
```

The option keys are named as they are in the config file.

This rebuilds the connection to the s3 backend when it is called with
the new parameters. Only new parameters need be passed as the values
will default to those currently in use.

It doesn't return anything.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

### Anonymous access to public buckets {#anonymous-access}

If you want to use rclone to access a public bucket, configure with a
blank `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key`.  Your config should end
up looking like this:

```ini
[anons3]
type = s3
provider = AWS
```

Then use it as normal with the name of the public bucket, e.g.

```console
rclone lsd anons3:1000genomes
```

You will be able to list and copy data but not upload it.

You can also do this entirely on the command line

```console
rclone lsd :s3,provider=AWS:1000genomes
```

## Providers

### AWS S3

This is the provider used as main example and described in the [configuration](#configuration)
section above.

### AWS Directory Buckets

From rclone v1.69 [Directory Buckets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/directory-buckets-overview.html)
are supported.

You will need to set the `directory_buckets = true` config parameter
or use `--s3-directory-buckets`.

Note that rclone cannot yet:

- Create directory buckets
- List directory buckets

See [the --s3-directory-buckets flag](#s3-directory-buckets) for more info

### AWS Snowball Edge

[AWS Snowball](https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/) is a hardware
appliance used for transferring bulk data back to AWS. Its main
software interface is S3 object storage.

To use rclone with AWS Snowball Edge devices, configure as standard
for an 'S3 Compatible Service'.

If using rclone pre v1.59 be sure to set `upload_cutoff = 0` otherwise
you will run into authentication header issues as the snowball device
does not support query parameter based authentication.

With rclone v1.59 or later setting `upload_cutoff` should not be necessary.

eg.

```ini
[snowball]
type = s3
provider = Other
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
endpoint = http://[IP of Snowball]:8080
upload_cutoff = 0
```

### Alibaba OSS {#alibaba-oss}

Here is an example of making an [Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) OSS](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oss/)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> oss
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Choose your S3 provider.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
   \ "AWS"
 2 / Alibaba Cloud Object Storage System (OSS) formerly Aliyun
   \ "Alibaba"
 3 / Ceph Object Storage
   \ "Ceph"
[snip]
provider> Alibaba
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
access_key_id> accesskeyid
AWS Secret Access Key (password)
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
secret_access_key> secretaccesskey
Endpoint for OSS API.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / East China 1 (Hangzhou)
   \ "oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"
 2 / East China 2 (Shanghai)
   \ "oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com"
 3 / North China 1 (Qingdao)
   \ "oss-cn-qingdao.aliyuncs.com"
[snip]
endpoint> 1
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.

Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
 2 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ "public-read"
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
[snip]
acl> 1
The storage class to use when storing new objects in OSS.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
 3 / Archive storage mode.
   \ "GLACIER"
 4 / Infrequent access storage mode.
   \ "STANDARD_IA"
storage_class> 1
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
--------------------
[oss]
type = s3
provider = Alibaba
env_auth = false
access_key_id = accesskeyid
secret_access_key = secretaccesskey
endpoint = oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
acl = private
storage_class = Standard
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### ArvanCloud {#arvan-cloud}

[ArvanCloud](https://www.arvancloud.com/en/products/cloud-storage) ArvanCloud
Object Storage goes beyond the limited traditional file storage.
It gives you access to backup and archived files and allows sharing.
Files like profile image in the app, images sent by users or scanned documents
can be stored securely and easily in our Object Storage service.

ArvanCloud provides an S3 interface which can be configured for use with
rclone like this.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> ArvanCloud
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, ChinaMobile, ArvanCloud, Liara, Minio)
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> YOURACCESSKEY
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
[snip]
region> 
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using ArvanCloud to use the default endpoint for the region.
Specify if using an S3 clone such as Ceph.
endpoint> s3.arvanstorage.com
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for Iran-Tehran Region.
   \ ""
[snip]
location_constraint>
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
[snip]
acl>
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption>
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
storage_class>
Remote config
--------------------
[ArvanCloud]
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region = ir-thr-at1
endpoint = s3.arvanstorage.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[ArvanCloud]
type = s3
provider = ArvanCloud
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region =
endpoint = s3.arvanstorage.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

### BizflyCloud {#bizflycloud}

[Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage](https://bizflycloud.vn/simple-storage) is an
S3-compatible service with regions in Hanoi (HN) and Ho Chi Minh City (HCM).

Use the endpoint for your region:

- HN: `hn.ss.bfcplatform.vn`
- HCM: `hcm.ss.bfcplatform.vn`

A minimal configuration looks like this.

```ini
[bizfly]
type = s3
provider = BizflyCloud
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region = HN
endpoint = hn.ss.bfcplatform.vn
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

Switch `region` and `endpoint` to `HCM` and `hcm.ss.bfcplatform.vn` for Ho Chi
Minh City.

### Ceph

[Ceph](https://ceph.com/) is an open-source, unified, distributed
storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and
scalability.  It has an S3 compatible object storage interface.

To use rclone with Ceph, configure as above but leave the region blank
and set the endpoint.  You should end up with something like this in
your config:

```ini
[ceph]
type = s3
provider = Ceph
env_auth = false
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = YYY
region =
endpoint = https://ceph.endpoint.example.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

If you are using an older version of CEPH (e.g. 10.2.x Jewel) and a
version of rclone before v1.59 then you may need to supply the
parameter `--s3-upload-cutoff 0` or put this in the config file as
`upload_cutoff 0` to work around a bug which causes uploading of small
files to fail.

Note also that Ceph sometimes puts `/` in the passwords it gives
users.  If you read the secret access key using the command line tools
you will get a JSON blob with the `/` escaped as `\/`.  Make sure you
only write `/` in the secret access key.

Eg the dump from Ceph looks something like this (irrelevant keys
removed).

```json
{
    "user_id": "xxx",
    "display_name": "xxxx",
    "keys": [
        {
            "user": "xxx",
            "access_key": "xxxxxx",
            "secret_key": "xxxxxx\/xxxx"
        }
    ],
}
```

Because this is a json dump, it is encoding the `/` as `\/`, so if you
use the secret key as `xxxxxx/xxxx`  it will work fine.

### China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS) {#china-mobile-ecloud-eos}

Here is an example of making an [China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)](https:///ecloud.10086.cn/home/product-introduction/eos/)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> ChinaMobile
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
 ...
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
 ...
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 ...
 4 / China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)
   \ (ChinaMobile)
 ...
provider> ChinaMobile
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> accesskeyid
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> secretaccesskey
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS) API.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | East China (Suzhou)
   \ (eos-wuxi-1.cmecloud.cn)
 2 / East China (Jinan)
   \ (eos-jinan-1.cmecloud.cn)
 3 / East China (Hangzhou)
   \ (eos-ningbo-1.cmecloud.cn)
 4 / East China (Shanghai-1)
   \ (eos-shanghai-1.cmecloud.cn)
 5 / Central China (Zhengzhou)
   \ (eos-zhengzhou-1.cmecloud.cn)
 6 / Central China (Changsha-1)
   \ (eos-hunan-1.cmecloud.cn)
 7 / Central China (Changsha-2)
   \ (eos-zhuzhou-1.cmecloud.cn)
 8 / South China (Guangzhou-2)
   \ (eos-guangzhou-1.cmecloud.cn)
 9 / South China (Guangzhou-3)
   \ (eos-dongguan-1.cmecloud.cn)
10 / North China (Beijing-1)
   \ (eos-beijing-1.cmecloud.cn)
11 / North China (Beijing-2)
   \ (eos-beijing-2.cmecloud.cn)
12 / North China (Beijing-3)
   \ (eos-beijing-4.cmecloud.cn)
13 / North China (Huhehaote)
   \ (eos-huhehaote-1.cmecloud.cn)
14 / Southwest China (Chengdu)
   \ (eos-chengdu-1.cmecloud.cn)
15 / Southwest China (Chongqing)
   \ (eos-chongqing-1.cmecloud.cn)
16 / Southwest China (Guiyang)
   \ (eos-guiyang-1.cmecloud.cn)
17 / Nouthwest China (Xian)
   \ (eos-xian-1.cmecloud.cn)
18 / Yunnan China (Kunming)
   \ (eos-yunnan.cmecloud.cn)
19 / Yunnan China (Kunming-2)
   \ (eos-yunnan-2.cmecloud.cn)
20 / Tianjin China (Tianjin)
   \ (eos-tianjin-1.cmecloud.cn)
21 / Jilin China (Changchun)
   \ (eos-jilin-1.cmecloud.cn)
22 / Hubei China (Xiangyan)
   \ (eos-hubei-1.cmecloud.cn)
23 / Jiangxi China (Nanchang)
   \ (eos-jiangxi-1.cmecloud.cn)
24 / Gansu China (Lanzhou)
   \ (eos-gansu-1.cmecloud.cn)
25 / Shanxi China (Taiyuan)
   \ (eos-shanxi-1.cmecloud.cn)
26 / Liaoning China (Shenyang)
   \ (eos-liaoning-1.cmecloud.cn)
27 / Hebei China (Shijiazhuang)
   \ (eos-hebei-1.cmecloud.cn)
28 / Fujian China (Xiamen)
   \ (eos-fujian-1.cmecloud.cn)
29 / Guangxi China (Nanning)
   \ (eos-guangxi-1.cmecloud.cn)
30 / Anhui China (Huainan)
   \ (eos-anhui-1.cmecloud.cn)
endpoint> 1
Option location_constraint.
Location constraint - must match endpoint.
Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / East China (Suzhou)
   \ (wuxi1)
 2 / East China (Jinan)
   \ (jinan1)
 3 / East China (Hangzhou)
   \ (ningbo1)
 4 / East China (Shanghai-1)
   \ (shanghai1)
 5 / Central China (Zhengzhou)
   \ (zhengzhou1)
 6 / Central China (Changsha-1)
   \ (hunan1)
 7 / Central China (Changsha-2)
   \ (zhuzhou1)
 8 / South China (Guangzhou-2)
   \ (guangzhou1)
 9 / South China (Guangzhou-3)
   \ (dongguan1)
10 / North China (Beijing-1)
   \ (beijing1)
11 / North China (Beijing-2)
   \ (beijing2)
12 / North China (Beijing-3)
   \ (beijing4)
13 / North China (Huhehaote)
   \ (huhehaote1)
14 / Southwest China (Chengdu)
   \ (chengdu1)
15 / Southwest China (Chongqing)
   \ (chongqing1)
16 / Southwest China (Guiyang)
   \ (guiyang1)
17 / Nouthwest China (Xian)
   \ (xian1)
18 / Yunnan China (Kunming)
   \ (yunnan)
19 / Yunnan China (Kunming-2)
   \ (yunnan2)
20 / Tianjin China (Tianjin)
   \ (tianjin1)
21 / Jilin China (Changchun)
   \ (jilin1)
22 / Hubei China (Xiangyan)
   \ (hubei1)
23 / Jiangxi China (Nanchang)
   \ (jiangxi1)
24 / Gansu China (Lanzhou)
   \ (gansu1)
25 / Shanxi China (Taiyuan)
   \ (shanxi1)
26 / Liaoning China (Shenyang)
   \ (liaoning1)
27 / Hebei China (Shijiazhuang)
   \ (hebei1)
28 / Fujian China (Xiamen)
   \ (fujian1)
29 / Guangxi China (Nanning)
   \ (guangxi1)
30 / Anhui China (Huainan)
   \ (anhui1)
location_constraint> 1
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 3 | The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
   | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ (public-read-write)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 4 | The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (authenticated-read)
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
acl> private
Option server_side_encryption.
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / None
   \ ()
 2 / AES256
   \ (AES256)
server_side_encryption>
Option storage_class.
The storage class to use when storing new objects in ChinaMobile.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Default
   \ ()
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ (STANDARD)
 3 / Archive storage mode
   \ (GLACIER)
 4 / Infrequent access storage mode
   \ (STANDARD_IA)
storage_class>
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
--------------------
[ChinaMobile]
type = s3
provider = ChinaMobile
access_key_id = accesskeyid
secret_access_key = secretaccesskey
endpoint = eos-wuxi-1.cmecloud.cn
location_constraint = wuxi1
acl = private
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Cloudflare R2 {#cloudflare-r2}

[Cloudflare R2](https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-open-beta/) Storage
allows developers to store large amounts of unstructured data without
the costly egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage
services.

Here is an example of making a Cloudflare R2 configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

Note that all buckets are private, and all are stored in the same
"auto" region. It is necessary to use Cloudflare workers to share the
content of a bucket publicly.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> r2
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
...
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, China Mobile, Cloudflare, ArvanCloud, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, Huawei OBS, IBM COS, Lyve Cloud, Minio, Magalu, Netease, RackCorp, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Storj, Synology, Tencent COS and Wasabi
   \ (s3)
...
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
...
XX / Cloudflare R2 Storage
   \ (Cloudflare)
...
provider> Cloudflare
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Option region.
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / R2 buckets are automatically distributed across Cloudflare's data centers for low latency.
   \ (auto)
region> 1
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave your config looking something like:

```ini
[r2]
type = s3
provider = Cloudflare
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
region = auto
endpoint = https://ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com
acl = private
```

Now run `rclone lsf r2:` to see your buckets and `rclone lsf
r2:bucket` to look within a bucket.

For R2 tokens with the "Object Read & Write" permission, you may also
need to add `no_check_bucket = true` for object uploads to work
correctly.

Note that Cloudflare decompresses files uploaded with
`Content-Encoding: gzip` by default which is a deviation from what AWS
does. If this is causing a problem then upload the files with
`--header-upload "Cache-Control: no-transform"`

A consequence of this is that `Content-Encoding: gzip` will never
appear in the metadata on Cloudflare.

### Cubbit DS3 {#Cubbit}

[Cubbit Object Storage](https://www.cubbit.io/ds3-cloud) is a geo-distributed
cloud object storage platform.

To connect to Cubbit DS3 you will need an access key and secret key pair. You
can follow this [guide](https://docs.cubbit.io/getting-started/quickstart#api-keys)
to retrieve these keys. They will be needed when prompted by `rclone config`.

Default region will correspond to `eu-west-1` and the endpoint has to be specified
as `s3.cubbit.eu`. If you set a custom tenant endpoint, you must use
`s3.{tenant_name}.cubbit.eu`, because the generic `s3.cubbit.eu` endpoint will not
work in this case.

Going through the whole process of creating a new remote by running `rclone config`,
each prompt should be answered as shown below:

```console
name> cubbit-ds3 (or any name you like)
Storage> s3
provider> Cubbit
env_auth> false
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region> eu-west-1 (or leave empty)
endpoint> s3.cubbit.eu (or s3.{tenant_name}.cubbit.eu)
acl>
```

The resulting configuration file should look like:

```ini
[cubbit-ds3]
type = s3
provider = Cubbit
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY
region = eu-west-1
endpoint = s3.cubbit.eu
```

You can then start using Cubbit DS3 with rclone. For example, to create a new
bucket and copy files into it, you can run:

```console
rclone mkdir cubbit-ds3:my-bucket
rclone copy /path/to/files cubbit-ds3:my-bucket
```

### DigitalOcean Spaces

[Spaces](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/object-storage/) is an
[S3-interoperable](https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/spaces/)
object storage service from cloud provider DigitalOcean.

To connect to DigitalOcean Spaces you will need an access key and secret key.
These can be retrieved on the [Applications & API](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens)
page of the DigitalOcean control panel. They will be needed when prompted by
`rclone config` for your `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key`.

When prompted for a `region` or `location_constraint`, press enter to use the
default value. The region must be included in the `endpoint` setting (e.g.
`nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com`). The default values can be used for other settings.

Going through the whole process of creating a new remote by running `rclone config`,
each prompt should be answered as shown below:

```console
Storage> s3
env_auth> 1
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region>
endpoint> nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
location_constraint>
acl>
storage_class>
```

The resulting configuration file should look like:

```ini
[spaces]
type = s3
provider = DigitalOcean
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region =
endpoint = nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

Once configured, you can create a new Space and begin copying files. For example:

```console
rclone mkdir spaces:my-new-space
rclone copy /path/to/files spaces:my-new-space
```

### Dreamhost

Dreamhost [DreamObjects](https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/) is
an object storage system based on CEPH.

To use rclone with Dreamhost, configure as above but leave the region blank
and set the endpoint.  You should end up with something like this in
your config:

```ini
[dreamobjects]
type = s3
provider = DreamHost
env_auth = false
access_key_id = your_access_key
secret_access_key = your_secret_key
region =
endpoint = objects-us-west-1.dream.io
location_constraint =
acl = private
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

### Exaba {#exaba}

[Exaba](https://exaba.com/) is an on-premises, S3-compatible storage
for service providers and large enterprises. It is quick to deploy,
with dynamic node management, tenant accounting, and a built-in key
management system. It delivers secure, high-performance data storage
with flexible, usage-based pricing.

A container version
[exaba/exaba](https://hub.docker.com/r/exaba/exaba) is free for
end-users and on that page you can find instructions on how to set it
up. You will need to log into the admin first (on port 9006 by
default) to set up the container, then you can use the service on port
9000.

You can also join the [exaba support
slack](https://join.slack.com/t/exabasupport/shared_invite/zt-3b5jycjs3-0gDNyv60xKsAdNgjX72amQ)
if you need more help.

An `rclone config` walkthrough might look like this but details may
vary depending exactly on how you have set up the container.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> exaba

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
provider> Exaba

Option env_auth.
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
access_key_id> XXX

Option secret_access_key.
secret_access_key> YYY

Option region.
region>

Option endpoint.
endpoint> http://127.0.0.1:9000/

Option location_constraint.
location_constraint>

Option acl.
acl>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
```

And the config generated will end up looking like this:

```ini
[exaba]
type = s3
provider = Exaba
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = XXX
endpoint = http://127.0.0.1:9000/
```

### Fastly Object Storage {#fastly}

[Fastly Object Storage](https://www.fastly.com/products/storage) is an
S3-compatible object storage service from Fastly. It provides three
regions (US East, US West, and EU Central) with mandatory server-side
encryption.

Here is an example of making a configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> fastly

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
provider> Fastly

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
env_auth> false

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY

Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
region> us-east

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
endpoint> us-east.object.fastlystorage.app

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Fastly
- access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
- region: us-east
- endpoint: us-east.object.fastlystorage.app
Keep this "fastly" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

The resulting configuration file should look like:

```ini
[fastly]
type = s3
provider = Fastly
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region = us-east
endpoint = us-east.object.fastlystorage.app
```

### Google Cloud Storage

[GoogleCloudStorage](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs) is an
[S3-interoperable](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability) object
storage service from Google Cloud Platform.

To connect to Google Cloud Storage you will need an access key and secret key.
These can be retrieved by creating an [HMAC key](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/authentication/managing-hmackeys).

```ini
[gs]
type = s3
provider = GCS
access_key_id = your_access_key
secret_access_key = your_secret_key
endpoint = https://storage.googleapis.com
```

**Note** that `--s3-versions` does not work with GCS when it needs to do
directory paging. Rclone will return the error:

```text
s3 protocol error: received versions listing with IsTruncated set with no NextKeyMarker
```

This is Google bug [#312292516](https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/312292516).

### Hetzner Object Storage {#hetzner}

Here is an example of making a [Hetzner Object Storage](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/)
configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> my-hetzner
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, GCS, Hetzner, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, IONOS, LyveCloud, Leviia, Liara, Linode, Magalu, Minio, Netease, Outscale, Petabox, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, Wasabi, Qiniu and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Hetzner Object Storage
   \ (Hetzner)
[snip]
provider> Hetzner
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_KEY
Option region.
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Helsinki
   \ (hel1)
 2 / Falkenstein
   \ (fsn1)
 3 / Nuremberg
   \ (nbg1)
region> 
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Hetzner Object Storage
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Helsinki
   \ (hel1.your-objectstorage.com)
 2 / Falkenstein
   \ (fsn1.your-objectstorage.com)
 3 / Nuremberg
   \ (nbg1.your-objectstorage.com)
endpoint> 
Option location_constraint.
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
location_constraint> 
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
acl> 
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Hetzner
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
Keep this "my-hetzner" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
my-hetzner           s3

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> 
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[my-hetzner]
type = s3
provider = Hetzner
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY
region = hel1
endpoint = hel1.your-objectstorage.com
acl = private
```

### Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) {#hcp}

Here is an example of making a [Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)](https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/content-platform.html)
configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> my-hcp
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, GCS, HCP, Hetzner, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, IONOS, LyveCloud, Leviia, Liara, Linode, Magalu, Minio, Netease, Outscale, Petabox, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, Wasabi, Qiniu and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
   \ (HCP)
[snip]
provider> HCP
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_KEY
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for HCP S3 compatible API.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://hcp.example.com
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: HCP
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
- endpoint: https://hcp.example.com
Keep this "my-hcp" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
my-hcp               s3

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> 
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[my-hcp]
type = s3
provider = HCP
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY
endpoint = https://hcp.example.com
```

#### Known limitations

These limitations have been observed with HCP version 9.7.x.

**Automatic directory objects**

HCP automatically creates zero-byte directory objects (keys ending in `/`) for
every path component when an object is stored. These directory objects are
managed by HCP internally: deleting one via the S3 API does not remove it but
instead creates a delete marker with a special version ID (`-3`) that cannot
itself be deleted. As a result, rclone cannot fully purge a bucket on HCP —
leftover directory objects will remain after a `purge` or `delete` operation.

**Transparent gzip decompression**

HCP [transparently decompresses](https://docs.hitachivantara.com/r/en-us/content-platform/9.6.x/mk-95hcph002/using-the-hitachi-api-for-amazon-s3/working-with-objects/creating-an-object)
objects uploaded with `Content-Encoding: gzip` before storing them. This means
the stored object contains the raw (uncompressed) data, while the `Content-MD5`
sent by rclone was computed over the compressed bytes. HCP will reject such
uploads with a `BadDigest` error. To avoid this, do not set
`content-encoding: gzip` in object metadata when using HCP.

### Huawei OBS {#huawei-obs}

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides stable, secure, efficient, and easy-to-use
cloud storage that lets you store virtually any volume of unstructured data in
any format and access it from anywhere.

OBS provides an S3 interface, you can copy and modify the following configuration
and add it to your rclone configuration file.

```ini
[obs]
type = s3
provider = HuaweiOBS
access_key_id = your-access-key-id
secret_access_key = your-secret-access-key
region = af-south-1
endpoint = obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com
acl = private
```

Or you can also configure via the interactive command line:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> obs
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
 9 / Huawei Object Storage Service
   \ (HuaweiOBS)
[snip]
provider> 9
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> your-access-key-id
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> your-secret-access-key
Option region.
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / AF-Johannesburg
   \ (af-south-1)
 2 / AP-Bangkok
   \ (ap-southeast-2)
[snip]
region> 1
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for OBS API.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / AF-Johannesburg
   \ (obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com)
 2 / AP-Bangkok
   \ (obs.ap-southeast-2.myhuaweicloud.com)
[snip]
endpoint> 1
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
[snip]
acl> 1
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>
--------------------
[obs]
type = s3
provider = HuaweiOBS
access_key_id = your-access-key-id
secret_access_key = your-secret-access-key
region = af-south-1
endpoint = obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com
acl = private
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
obs                  s3

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

### IBM COS (S3)

Information stored with IBM Cloud Object Storage is encrypted and dispersed across
multiple geographic locations, and accessed through an implementation of the S3 API.
This service makes use of the distributed storage technologies provided by IBM’s
Cloud Object Storage System (formerly Cleversafe). For more information visit:
<http://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage>

To configure access to IBM COS S3, follow the steps below:

1. Run rclone config and select n for a new remote.

   ```text
   2018/02/14 14:13:11 NOTICE: Config file "C:\\Users\\a\\.config\\rclone\\rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
   No remotes found, make a new one?
   n) New remote
   s) Set configuration password
   q) Quit config
   n/s/q> n
   ```

2. Enter the name for the configuration

   ```text
   name> <YOUR NAME>
   ```

3. Select "s3" storage.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   [snip]
   XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
      \ "s3"
   [snip]
   Storage> s3
   ```

4. Select IBM COS as the S3 Storage Provider.

   ```text
   Choose the S3 provider.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
      1 / Choose this option to configure Storage to AWS S3
        \ "AWS"
      2 / Choose this option to configure Storage to Ceph Systems
        \ "Ceph"
      3 /  Choose this option to configure Storage to Dreamhost
        \ "Dreamhost"
      4 / Choose this option to the configure Storage to IBM COS S3
        \ "IBMCOS"
      5 / Choose this option to the configure Storage to Minio
        \ "Minio"
      Provider>4
   ```

5. Enter the Access Key and Secret.

   ```text
   AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   access_key_id> <>
   AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   secret_access_key> <>
   ```

6. Specify the endpoint for IBM COS. For Public IBM COS, choose from the option
below. For On Premise IBM COS, enter an endpoint address.

   ```text
   Endpoint for IBM COS S3 API.
   Specify if using an IBM COS On Premise.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / US Cross Region Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
    2 / US Cross Region Dallas Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.dal.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
    3 / US Cross Region Washington DC Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
    4 / US Cross Region San Jose Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
    5 / US Cross Region Private Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
    6 / US Cross Region Dallas Private Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.dal-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
    7 / US Cross Region Washington DC Private Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
    8 / US Cross Region San Jose Private Endpoint
      \ "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
    9 / US Region East Endpoint
      \ "s3.us-east.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
   10 / US Region East Private Endpoint
      \ "s3.us-east.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
   11 / US Region South Endpoint
   [snip]
   34 / Toronto Single Site Private Endpoint
      \ "s3.tor01.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
   endpoint>1
   ```

7. Specify a IBM COS Location Constraint. The location constraint must match
endpoint when using IBM Cloud Public. For on-prem COS, do not make a selection
from this list, hit enter

   ```text
    1 / US Cross Region Standard
      \ "us-standard"
    2 / US Cross Region Vault
      \ "us-vault"
    3 / US Cross Region Cold
      \ "us-cold"
    4 / US Cross Region Flex
      \ "us-flex"
    5 / US East Region Standard
      \ "us-east-standard"
    6 / US East Region Vault
      \ "us-east-vault"
    7 / US East Region Cold
      \ "us-east-cold"
    8 / US East Region Flex
      \ "us-east-flex"
    9 / US South Region Standard
      \ "us-south-standard"
   10 / US South Region Vault
      \ "us-south-vault"
   [snip]
   32 / Toronto Flex
      \ "tor01-flex"
   location_constraint>1
   ```

8. Specify a canned ACL. IBM Cloud (Storage) supports "public-read" and "private".
IBM Cloud(Infra) supports all the canned ACLs. On-Premise COS supports all the
canned ACLs.

   ```text
   Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
   For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
         1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default). This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise COS
         \ "private"
         2  / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise IBM COS
         \ "public-read"
         3 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), On-Premise IBM COS
         \ "public-read-write"
         4  / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access. Not supported on Buckets. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra) and On-Premise IBM COS
         \ "authenticated-read"
   acl> 1
   ```

9. Review the displayed configuration and accept to save the "remote" then quit.
The config file should look like this

   ```ini
   [xxx]
   type = s3
   Provider = IBMCOS
   access_key_id = xxx
   secret_access_key = yyy
   endpoint = s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net
   location_constraint = us-standard
   acl = private
   ```

10. Execute rclone commands

   ```text
   1) Create a bucket.
      rclone mkdir IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
   2) List available buckets.
      rclone lsd IBM-COS-XREGION:
      -1 2017-11-08 21:16:22        -1 test
      -1 2018-02-14 20:16:39        -1 newbucket
   3) List contents of a bucket.
       rclone ls IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
       18685952 test.exe
   4) Copy a file from local to remote.
      rclone copy /Users/file.txt IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
   5) Copy a file from remote to local.
      rclone copy IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket/file.txt .
   6) Delete a file on remote.
      rclone delete IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket/file.txt
   ```

#### IBM IAM authentication

If using IBM IAM authentication with IBM API KEY you need to fill in these
additional parameters

1. Select false for env_auth
2. Leave `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key` blank
3. Paste your `ibm_api_key`

   ```text
   Option ibm_api_key.
   IBM API Key to be used to obtain IAM token
   Enter a value of type string. Press Enter for the default (1).
   ibm_api_key>
   ```

4. Paste your `ibm_resource_instance_id`

   ```text
   Option ibm_resource_instance_id.
   IBM service instance id
   Enter a value of type string. Press Enter for the default (2).
   ibm_resource_instance_id>
   ```

5. In advanced settings type true for `v2_auth`

   ```text
   Option v2_auth.
   If true use v2 authentication.
   If this is false (the default) then rclone will use v4 authentication.
   If it is set then rclone will use v2 authentication.
   Use this only if v4 signatures don't work, e.g. pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.
   Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default (true).
   v2_auth>
   ```

### IDrive e2 {#idrive-e2}

Here is an example of making an [IDrive e2](https://www.idrive.com/e2/)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> e2

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / IDrive e2
   \ (IDrive)
[snip]
provider> IDrive

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 3 | The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
   | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ (public-read-write)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 4 | The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (authenticated-read)
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 5 | Bucket owner gets READ access.
   | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-read)
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-full-control)
acl> 

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: IDrive
- access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
- endpoint: q9d9.la12.idrivee2-5.com
Keep this "e2" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Impossible Cloud {#impossible-cloud}

[Impossible Cloud](https://www.impossiblecloud.com/) is a European
S3-compatible object storage provider with regions in Europe and the
US.

Note: Impossible Cloud does not preserve the `Cache-Control`,
`Content-Disposition`, `Content-Encoding` or `Content-Language` system
metadata fields on retrieval, even when they were set at upload time.
Because the `Content-Encoding` response header is also dropped, the
`--s3-decompress` flag has no effect on objects stored there. Other
metadata such as `Content-Type` and the modification time round-trip
normally.

Here is an example of making an Impossible Cloud configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> my-impossible-cloud
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, GCS, Hetzner, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, ImpossibleCloud, IONOS, LyveCloud, Leviia, Liara, Linode, Magalu, Minio, Netease, Outscale, Petabox, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, Wasabi, Qiniu and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Impossible Cloud Object Storage
   \ (ImpossibleCloud)
[snip]
provider> ImpossibleCloud
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_KEY
Option region.
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (eu-central-2)
 2 / Amsterdam, Netherlands
   \ (eu-west-1)
 3 / London, UK
   \ (eu-west-2)
 4 / Paris, France
   \ (eu-west-3)
 5 / Poznań, Poland
   \ (eu-east-1)
 6 / Copenhagen, Denmark
   \ (eu-north-1)
 7 / New York, USA
   \ (us-east-1)
region> 1
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Impossible Cloud Object Storage
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 2 / Amsterdam, Netherlands
   \ (eu-west-1.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 3 / London, UK
   \ (eu-west-2.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 4 / Paris, France
   \ (eu-west-3.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 5 / Poznań, Poland
   \ (eu-east-1.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 6 / Copenhagen, Denmark
   \ (eu-north-1.storage.impossibleapi.net)
 7 / New York, USA
   \ (us-east-1.storage.impossibleapi.net)
endpoint> 1
Option location_constraint.
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
location_constraint> 
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
acl> 
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: ImpossibleCloud
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
- region: eu-central-2
- endpoint: eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net
Keep this "my-impossible-cloud" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
my-impossible-cloud  s3

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> 
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[my-impossible-cloud]
type = s3
provider = ImpossibleCloud
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY
region = eu-central-2
endpoint = eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net
acl = private
```

### Intercolo Object Storage {#intercolo}

[Intercolo Object Storage](https://intercolo.de/object-storage) offers
GDPR-compliant, transparently priced, S3-compatible
cloud storage hosted in Frankfurt, Germany.

Here's an example of making a configuration for Intercolo.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> intercolo

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 xx / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
xx / Intercolo Object Storage
   \ (Intercolo)
[snip]
provider> Intercolo

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> false

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_KEY

Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (de-fra)
region> 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Intercolo Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (de-fra.i3storage.com)
endpoint> 1

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
 [snip]
acl> 

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Intercolo
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
- region: de-fra
- endpoint: de-fra.i3storage.com
Keep this "intercolo" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[intercolo]
type = s3
provider = Intercolo
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_KEY
region = de-fra
endpoint = de-fra.i3storage.com
```

### IONOS Cloud {#ionos}

[IONOS S3 Object Storage](https://cloud.ionos.com/storage/object-storage) is a
service offered by IONOS for storing and accessing unstructured data.
To connect to the service, you will need an access key and a secret key. These
can be found in the [Data Center Designer](https://dcd.ionos.com/), by
selecting **Manager resources** > **Object Storage Key Manager**.

Here is an example of a configuration. First, run `rclone config`. This will
walk you through an interactive setup process. Type `n` to add the new remote,
and then enter a name:

```text
Enter name for new remote.
name> ionos-fra
```

Type `s3` to choose the connection type:

```text
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
```

Type `IONOS`:

```text
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / IONOS Cloud
   \ (IONOS)
[snip]
provider> IONOS
```

Press Enter to choose the default option `Enter AWS credentials in the next step`:

```text
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>
```

Enter your Access Key and Secret key. These can be retrieved in the
[Data Center Designer](https://dcd.ionos.com/), click on the menu
"Manager resources" / "Object Storage Key Manager".

```text
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY
```

Choose the region where your bucket is located:

```text
Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (de)
 2 / Berlin, Germany
   \ (eu-central-2)
 3 / Logrono, Spain
   \ (eu-south-2)
region> 2
```

Choose the endpoint from the same region:

```text
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for IONOS S3 Object Storage.
Specify the endpoint from the same region.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (s3-eu-central-1.ionoscloud.com)
 2 / Berlin, Germany
   \ (s3-eu-central-2.ionoscloud.com)
 3 / Logrono, Spain
   \ (s3-eu-south-2.ionoscloud.com)
endpoint> 1
```

Press Enter to choose the default option or choose the desired ACL setting:

```text
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
[snip]
acl>
```

Press Enter to skip the advanced config:

```text
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>
```

Press Enter to save the configuration, and then `q` to quit the configuration process:

```text
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: IONOS
- access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
- endpoint: s3-eu-central-1.ionoscloud.com
Keep this "ionos-fra" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Done! Now you can try some commands (for macOS, use `./rclone` instead of `rclone`).

1) Create a bucket (the name must be unique within the whole IONOS S3)

   ```console
   rclone mkdir ionos-fra:my-bucket
   ```

2) List available buckets

   ```console
   rclone lsd ionos-fra:
   ```

3) Copy a file from local to remote

   ```console
   rclone copy /Users/file.txt ionos-fra:my-bucket
   ```

4) List contents of a bucket

   ```console
   rclone ls ionos-fra:my-bucket
   ```

5) Copy a file from remote to local

   ```console
   rclone copy ionos-fra:my-bucket/file.txt
   ```

### Leviia Cloud Object Storage {#leviia}

[Leviia Object Storage](https://www.leviia.com/object-storage/), backup and secure
your data in a 100% French cloud, independent of GAFAM..

To configure access to Leviia, follow the steps below:

1. Run `rclone config` and select `n` for a new remote.

   ```text
   rclone config
   No remotes found, make a new one?
   n) New remote
   s) Set configuration password
   q) Quit config
   n/s/q> n
   ```

2. Give the name of the configuration. For example, name it 'leviia'.

   ```text
   name> leviia
   ```

3. Select `s3` storage.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   [snip]
   XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
      \ (s3)
   [snip]
   Storage> s3
   ```

4. Select `Leviia` provider.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
      \ "AWS"
   [snip]
   15 / Leviia Object Storage
      \ (Leviia)
   [snip]
   provider> Leviia
   ```

5. Enter your SecretId and SecretKey of Leviia.

   ```text
   Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
   Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
   Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
      \ "false"
    2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
      \ "true"
   env_auth> 1
   AWS Access Key ID.
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   access_key_id> ZnIx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   AWS Secret Access Key (password)
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   secret_access_key> xxxxxxxxxxx
   ```

6. Select endpoint for Leviia.

   ```text
      / The default endpoint
    1 | Leviia.
      \ (s3.leviia.com)
   [snip]
   endpoint> 1
   ```

7. Choose acl.

   ```text
   Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
   doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
      / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    1 | No one else has access rights (default).
      \ (private)
      / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
      \ (public-read)
   [snip]
   acl> 1
   Edit advanced config? (y/n)
   y) Yes
   n) No (default)
   y/n> n
   Remote config
   --------------------
   [leviia]
   - type: s3
   - provider: Leviia
   - access_key_id: ZnIx.xxxxxxx
   - secret_access_key: xxxxxxxx
   - endpoint: s3.leviia.com
   - acl: private
   --------------------
   y) Yes this is OK (default)
   e) Edit this remote
   d) Delete this remote
   y/e/d> y
   Current remotes:
   
   Name                 Type
   ====                 ====
   leviia                s3
   ```

### Liara {#liara-cloud}

Here is an example of making a [Liara Object Storage](https://liara.ir/landing/object-storage)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> Liara
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, ChinaMobile, ArvanCloud, Liara, Minio)
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> YOURACCESSKEY
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
[snip]
region>
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using Liara to use the default endpoint for the region.
Specify if using an S3 clone such as Ceph.
endpoint> storage.iran.liara.space
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
[snip]
acl>
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption>
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
storage_class>
Remote config
--------------------
[Liara]
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
endpoint = storage.iran.liara.space
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[Liara]
type = s3
provider = Liara
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region =
endpoint = storage.iran.liara.space
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

### Linode {#linode}

Here is an example of making a [Linode Object Storage](https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> linode

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...Linode, ...and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Linode Object Storage
   \ (Linode)
[snip]
provider> Linode

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Linode Object Storage API.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Amsterdam (Netherlands), nl-ams-1
   \ (nl-ams-1.linodeobjects.com)
 2 / Atlanta, GA (USA), us-southeast-1
   \ (us-southeast-1.linodeobjects.com)
 3 / Chennai (India), in-maa-1
   \ (in-maa-1.linodeobjects.com)
 4 / Chicago, IL (USA), us-ord-1
   \ (us-ord-1.linodeobjects.com)
 5 / Frankfurt (Germany), eu-central-1
   \ (eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com)
 6 / Jakarta (Indonesia), id-cgk-1
   \ (id-cgk-1.linodeobjects.com)
 7 / London 2 (Great Britain), gb-lon-1
   \ (gb-lon-1.linodeobjects.com)
 8 / Los Angeles, CA (USA), us-lax-1
   \ (us-lax-1.linodeobjects.com)
 9 / Madrid (Spain), es-mad-1
   \ (es-mad-1.linodeobjects.com)
10 / Melbourne (Australia), au-mel-1
   \ (au-mel-1.linodeobjects.com)
11 / Miami, FL (USA), us-mia-1
   \ (us-mia-1.linodeobjects.com)
12 / Milan (Italy), it-mil-1
   \ (it-mil-1.linodeobjects.com)
13 / Newark, NJ (USA), us-east-1
   \ (us-east-1.linodeobjects.com)
14 / Osaka (Japan), jp-osa-1
   \ (jp-osa-1.linodeobjects.com)
15 / Paris (France), fr-par-1
   \ (fr-par-1.linodeobjects.com)
16 / São Paulo (Brazil), br-gru-1
   \ (br-gru-1.linodeobjects.com)
17 / Seattle, WA (USA), us-sea-1
   \ (us-sea-1.linodeobjects.com)
18 / Singapore, ap-south-1
   \ (ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com)
19 / Singapore 2, sg-sin-1
   \ (sg-sin-1.linodeobjects.com)
20 / Stockholm (Sweden), se-sto-1
   \ (se-sto-1.linodeobjects.com)
21 / Washington, DC, (USA), us-iad-1
   \ (us-iad-1.linodeobjects.com)
endpoint> 5

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
[snip]
acl> 

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Linode
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- endpoint: eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com
Keep this "linode" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[linode]
type = s3
provider = Linode
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
endpoint = eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com
```

### Magalu {#magalu}

Here is an example of making a [Magalu Object Storage](https://magalu.cloud/object-storage/)
configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> magalu

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...Magalu, ...and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Magalu Object Storage
   \ (Magalu)
[snip]
provider> Magalu

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Magalu Object Storage API.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / São Paulo, SP (BR), br-se1
   \ (br-se1.magaluobjects.com)
 2 / Fortaleza, CE (BR), br-ne1
   \ (br-ne1.magaluobjects.com)
endpoint> 2

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
[snip]
acl> 

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: magalu
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- endpoint: br-ne1.magaluobjects.com
Keep this "magalu" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[magalu]
type = s3
provider = Magalu
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
endpoint = br-ne1.magaluobjects.com
```

### MEGA S4 {#mega}

[MEGA S4 Object Storage](https://mega.io/objectstorage) is an S3
compatible object storage system. It has a single pricing tier with no
additional charges for data transfers or API requests and it is
included in existing Pro plans.

Here is an example of making a configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> megas4

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS,... Mega, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / MEGA S4 Object Storage
   \ (Mega)
[snip]
provider> Mega

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> XXX

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> XXX

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Mega S4 eu-central-1 (Amsterdam)
   \ (s3.eu-central-1.s4.mega.io)
 2 / Mega S4 eu-central-2 (Bettembourg)
   \ (s3.eu-central-2.s4.mega.io)
 3 / Mega S4 ca-central-1 (Montreal)
   \ (s3.ca-central-1.s4.mega.io)
 4 / Mega S4 ca-west-1 (Vancouver)
   \ (s3.ca-west-1.s4.mega.io)
endpoint> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Mega
- access_key_id: XXX
- secret_access_key: XXX
- endpoint: s3.eu-central-1.s4.mega.io
Keep this "megas4" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[megas4]
type = s3
provider = Mega
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = XXX
endpoint = s3.eu-central-1.s4.mega.io
```

### Minio

[Minio](https://minio.io/) is an object storage server built for cloud application
developers and devops.

It is very easy to install and provides an S3 compatible server which can be used
by rclone.

To use it, install Minio following the instructions [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-quickstart-guide).

When it configures itself Minio will print something like this

```text
Endpoint:  http://192.168.1.106:9000  http://172.23.0.1:9000
AccessKey: USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
SecretKey: MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
Region:    us-east-1
SQS ARNs:  arn:minio:sqs:us-east-1:1:redis arn:minio:sqs:us-east-1:2:redis

Browser Access:
   http://192.168.1.106:9000  http://172.23.0.1:9000

Command-line Access: https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide
   $ mc config host add myminio http://192.168.1.106:9000 USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03

Object API (Amazon S3 compatible):
   Go:         https://docs.minio.io/docs/golang-client-quickstart-guide
   Java:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/java-client-quickstart-guide
   Python:     https://docs.minio.io/docs/python-client-quickstart-guide
   JavaScript: https://docs.minio.io/docs/javascript-client-quickstart-guide
   .NET:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/dotnet-client-quickstart-guide

Drive Capacity: 26 GiB Free, 165 GiB Total
```

These details need to go into `rclone config` like this.  Note that it
is important to put the region in as stated above.

```text
env_auth> 1
access_key_id> USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
secret_access_key> MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
region> us-east-1
endpoint> http://192.168.1.106:9000
location_constraint>
server_side_encryption>
```

Which makes the config file look like this

```ini
[minio]
type = s3
provider = Minio
env_auth = false
access_key_id = USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
secret_access_key = MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
region = us-east-1
endpoint = http://192.168.1.106:9000
location_constraint =
server_side_encryption =
```

So once set up, for example, to copy files into a bucket

```console
rclone copy /path/to/files minio:bucket
```

### Netease NOS

For Netease NOS configure as per the configurator `rclone config`
setting the provider `Netease`.  This will automatically set
`force_path_style = false` which is necessary for it to run properly.

### Outscale

[OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS)](https://en.outscale.com/storage/outscale-object-storage/)
is an enterprise-grade, S3-compatible storage service provided by OUTSCALE,
a brand of Dassault Systèmes. For more information about OOS, see the
[official documentation](https://docs.outscale.com/en/userguide/OUTSCALE-Object-Storage-OOS.html).

Here is an example of an OOS configuration that you can paste into your rclone
configuration file:

```ini
[outscale]
type = s3
provider = Outscale
env_auth = false
access_key_id = ABCDEFGHIJ0123456789
secret_access_key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
region = eu-west-2
endpoint = oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com
acl = private
```

You can also run `rclone config` to go through the interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
```

```text
Enter name for new remote.
name> outscale
```

```text
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 X / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...Outscale, ...and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> outscale
```

```text
Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS)
   \ (Outscale)
[snip]
provider> Outscale
```

```text
Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 
```

```text
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ABCDEFGHIJ0123456789
```

```text
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
```

```text
Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Paris, France
   \ (eu-west-2)
 2 / New Jersey, USA
   \ (us-east-2)
 3 / California, USA
   \ (us-west-1)
 4 / SecNumCloud, Paris, France
   \ (cloudgouv-eu-west-1)
 5 / Tokyo, Japan
   \ (ap-northeast-1)
region> 1
```

```text
Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Outscale EU West 2 (Paris)
   \ (oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com)
 2 / Outscale US east 2 (New Jersey)
   \ (oos.us-east-2.outscale.com)
 3 / Outscale EU West 1 (California)
   \ (oos.us-west-1.outscale.com)
 4 / Outscale SecNumCloud (Paris)
   \ (oos.cloudgouv-eu-west-1.outscale.com)
 5 / Outscale AP Northeast 1 (Japan)
   \ (oos.ap-northeast-1.outscale.com)
endpoint> 1
```

```text
Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
[snip]
acl> 1
```

```text
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
```

```text
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Outscale
- access_key_id: ABCDEFGHIJ0123456789
- secret_access_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- endpoint: oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com
Keep this "outscale" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### OVHcloud {#ovhcloud}

[OVHcloud Object Storage](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/object-storage/)
is an S3-compatible general-purpose object storage platform available in all
OVHcloud regions. To use the platform, you will need an access key and secret key.
To know more about it and how to interact with the platform, take a look at the
[documentation](https://ovh.to/8stqhuo).

Here is an example of making an OVHcloud Object Storage configuration with
`rclone config`:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> ovhcloud-rbx

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[...]
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, GCS, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, IONOS, LyveCloud, Leviia, Liara, Linode, Magalu, Minio, Netease, Outscale, OVHcloud, Petabox, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, Wasabi, Qiniu and others
   \ (s3)
[...]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[...]
XX / OVHcloud Object Storage
   \ (OVHcloud)
[...]
provider> OVHcloud

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> my_access

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> my_secret

Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Gravelines, France
   \ (gra)
 2 / Roubaix, France
   \ (rbx)
 3 / Strasbourg, France
   \ (sbg)
 4 / Paris, France (3AZ)
   \ (eu-west-par)
 5 / Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (de)
 6 / London, United Kingdom
   \ (uk)
 7 / Warsaw, Poland
   \ (waw)
 8 / Beauharnois, Canada
   \ (bhs)
 9 / Toronto, Canada
   \ (ca-east-tor)
10 / Singapore
   \ (sgp)
11 / Sydney, Australia
   \ (ap-southeast-syd)
12 / Mumbai, India
   \ (ap-south-mum)
13 / Vint Hill, Virginia, USA
   \ (us-east-va)
14 / Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
   \ (us-west-or)
15 / Roubaix, France (Cold Archive)
   \ (rbx-archive)
region> 2

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for OVHcloud Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / OVHcloud Gravelines, France
   \ (s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 2 / OVHcloud Roubaix, France
   \ (s3.rbx.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 3 / OVHcloud Strasbourg, France
   \ (s3.sbg.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 4 / OVHcloud Paris, France (3AZ)
   \ (s3.eu-west-par.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 5 / OVHcloud Frankfurt, Germany
   \ (s3.de.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 6 / OVHcloud London, United Kingdom
   \ (s3.uk.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 7 / OVHcloud Warsaw, Poland
   \ (s3.waw.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 8 / OVHcloud Beauharnois, Canada
   \ (s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net)
 9 / OVHcloud Toronto, Canada
   \ (s3.ca-east-tor.io.cloud.ovh.net)
10 / OVHcloud Singapore
   \ (s3.sgp.io.cloud.ovh.net)
11 / OVHcloud Sydney, Australia
   \ (s3.ap-southeast-syd.io.cloud.ovh.net)
12 / OVHcloud Mumbai, India
   \ (s3.ap-south-mum.io.cloud.ovh.net)
13 / OVHcloud Vint Hill, Virginia, USA
   \ (s3.us-east-va.io.cloud.ovh.us)
14 / OVHcloud Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
   \ (s3.us-west-or.io.cloud.ovh.us)
15 / OVHcloud Roubaix, France (Cold Archive)
   \ (s3.rbx-archive.io.cloud.ovh.net)
endpoint> 2

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 3 | The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
   | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ (public-read-write)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 4 | The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (authenticated-read)
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 5 | Bucket owner gets READ access.
   | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-read)
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-full-control)
acl> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: OVHcloud
- access_key_id: my_access
- secret_access_key: my_secret
- region: rbx
- endpoint: s3.rbx.io.cloud.ovh.net
- acl: private
Keep this "ovhcloud-rbx" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Your configuration file should now look like this:

```ini
[ovhcloud-rbx]
type = s3
provider = OVHcloud
access_key_id = my_access
secret_access_key = my_secret
region = rbx
endpoint = s3.rbx.io.cloud.ovh.net
acl = private
```

### Petabox

Here is an example of making a [Petabox](https://petabox.io/)
configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> My Petabox Storage

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Petabox Object Storage
   \ (Petabox)
[snip]
provider> Petabox

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (us-east-1)
 2 / Europe (Frankfurt)
   \ (eu-central-1)
 3 / Asia Pacific (Singapore)
   \ (ap-southeast-1)
 4 / Middle East (Bahrain)
   \ (me-south-1)
 5 / South America (São Paulo)
   \ (sa-east-1)
region> 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Petabox S3 Object Storage.
Specify the endpoint from the same region.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
 1 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (s3.petabox.io)
 2 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (s3.us-east-1.petabox.io)
 3 / Europe (Frankfurt)
   \ (s3.eu-central-1.petabox.io)
 4 / Asia Pacific (Singapore)
   \ (s3.ap-southeast-1.petabox.io)
 5 / Middle East (Bahrain)
   \ (s3.me-south-1.petabox.io)
 6 / South America (São Paulo)
   \ (s3.sa-east-1.petabox.io)
endpoint> 1

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 3 | The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
   | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ (public-read-write)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 4 | The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (authenticated-read)
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 5 | Bucket owner gets READ access.
   | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-read)
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-full-control)
acl> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> No

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Petabox
- access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- region: us-east-1
- endpoint: s3.petabox.io
Keep this "My Petabox Storage" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[My Petabox Storage]
type = s3
provider = Petabox
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
region = us-east-1
endpoint = s3.petabox.io
```

### Pure Storage FlashBlade

[Pure Storage FlashBlade](https://www.purestorage.com/products/unstructured-data-storage.html)
is a high performance S3-compatible object store.

FlashBlade supports most modern S3 features including:

- ListObjectsV2
- Multipart uploads with AWS-compatible ETags
- Advanced checksum algorithms (SHA256, CRC32, CRC32C) with trailer support
  (Purity//FB 4.4.2+)
- Object versioning and lifecycle management
- Virtual hosted-style requests (requires DNS configuration)

To configure rclone for Pure Storage FlashBlade:

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> flashblade

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, ChinaMobile, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, FlashBlade, GCS, HuaweiOBS, IBMCOS, IDrive, IONOS, LyveCloud, Leviia, Liara, Linode, Magalu, Minio, Netease, Outscale, Petabox, RackCorp, Rclone, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Storj, Synology, TencentCOS, Wasabi, Qiniu and others
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
 9 / Pure Storage FlashBlade Object Storage
   \ (FlashBlade)
[snip]
provider> FlashBlade

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY_ID

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://s3.flashblade.example.com

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: FlashBlade
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY_ID
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- endpoint: https://s3.flashblade.example.com
Keep this "flashblade" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This results in the following configuration being stored in `~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf`:

```ini
[flashblade]
type = s3
provider = FlashBlade
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY_ID
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
endpoint = https://s3.flashblade.example.com
```

Note: The FlashBlade endpoint should be the S3 data VIP. For virtual-hosted style
requests, ensure proper DNS configuration: subdomains of the endpoint hostname should
resolve to a FlashBlade data VIP. For example, if your endpoint is `https://s3.flashblade.example.com`,
then `bucket-name.s3.flashblade.example.com` should also resolve to the data VIP.

### Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo) {#qiniu}

[Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo)](https://www.qiniu.com/en/products/kodo), a
completely independent-researched core technology which is proven by repeated
customer experience has occupied absolute leading market leader position. Kodo
can be widely applied to mass data management.

To configure access to Qiniu Kodo, follow the steps below:

1. Run `rclone config` and select `n` for a new remote.

   ```text
   rclone config
   No remotes found, make a new one?
   n) New remote
   s) Set configuration password
   q) Quit config
   n/s/q> n
   ```

2. Give the name of the configuration. For example, name it 'qiniu'.

   ```text
   name> qiniu
   ```

3. Select `s3` storage.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   [snip]
   XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
      \ (s3)
   [snip]
   Storage> s3
   ```

4. Select `Qiniu` provider.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
      \ "AWS"
   [snip]
   22 / Qiniu Object Storage (Kodo)
      \ (Qiniu)
   [snip]
   provider> Qiniu
   ```

5. Enter your SecretId and SecretKey of Qiniu Kodo.

   ```text
   Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
   Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
   Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
      \ "false"
    2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
      \ "true"
   env_auth> 1
   AWS Access Key ID.
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   access_key_id> AKIDxxxxxxxxxx
   AWS Secret Access Key (password)
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   secret_access_key> xxxxxxxxxxx
   ```

6. Select endpoint for Qiniu Kodo. This is the standard endpoint for different region.

   ```text
      / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
    1 | East China Region 1.
      | Needs location constraint cn-east-1.
      \ (cn-east-1)
      / East China Region 2.
    2 | Needs location constraint cn-east-2.
      \ (cn-east-2)
      / North China Region 1.
    3 | Needs location constraint cn-north-1.
      \ (cn-north-1)
      / South China Region 1.
    4 | Needs location constraint cn-south-1.
      \ (cn-south-1)
      / North America Region.
    5 | Needs location constraint us-north-1.
      \ (us-north-1)
      / Southeast Asia Region 1.
    6 | Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
      \ (ap-southeast-1)
      / Northeast Asia Region 1.
    7 | Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
      \ (ap-northeast-1)
   [snip]
   endpoint> 1
   
   Option endpoint.
   Endpoint for Qiniu Object Storage.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
   Press Enter to leave empty.
    1 / East China Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-cn-east-1.qiniucs.com)
    2 / East China Endpoint 2
      \ (s3-cn-east-2.qiniucs.com)
    3 / North China Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-cn-north-1.qiniucs.com)
    4 / South China Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-cn-south-1.qiniucs.com)
    5 / North America Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-us-north-1.qiniucs.com)
    6 / Southeast Asia Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-ap-southeast-1.qiniucs.com)
    7 / Northeast Asia Endpoint 1
      \ (s3-ap-northeast-1.qiniucs.com)
   endpoint> 1
   
   Option location_constraint.
   Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
   Used when creating buckets only.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
   Press Enter to leave empty.
    1 / East China Region 1
      \ (cn-east-1)
    2 / East China Region 2
      \ (cn-east-2)
    3 / North China Region 1
      \ (cn-north-1)
    4 / South China Region 1
      \ (cn-south-1)
    5 / North America Region 1
      \ (us-north-1)
    6 / Southeast Asia Region 1
      \ (ap-southeast-1)
    7 / Northeast Asia Region 1
      \ (ap-northeast-1)
   location_constraint> 1
   ```

7. Choose acl and storage class.

   ```text
   Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
   doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
      / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    1 | No one else has access rights (default).
      \ (private)
      / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
    2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
      \ (public-read)
   [snip]
   acl> 2
   The storage class to use when storing new objects in Tencent COS.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Standard storage class
      \ (STANDARD)
    2 / Infrequent access storage mode
      \ (LINE)
    3 / Archive storage mode
      \ (GLACIER)
    4 / Deep archive storage mode
      \ (DEEP_ARCHIVE)
   [snip]
   storage_class> 1
   Edit advanced config? (y/n)
   y) Yes
   n) No (default)
   y/n> n
   Remote config
   --------------------
   [qiniu]
   - type: s3
   - provider: Qiniu
   - access_key_id: xxx
   - secret_access_key: xxx
   - region: cn-east-1
   - endpoint: s3-cn-east-1.qiniucs.com
   - location_constraint: cn-east-1
   - acl: public-read
   - storage_class: STANDARD
   --------------------
   y) Yes this is OK (default)
   e) Edit this remote
   d) Delete this remote
   y/e/d> y
   Current remotes:
   
   Name                 Type
   ====                 ====
   qiniu                s3
   ```

### FileLu S5 {#filelu-s5}

[FileLu S5 Object Storage](https://s5lu.com) is an S3-compatible object storage
system. It provides multiple region options (Global, US-East, EU-Central,
AP-Southeast, and ME-Central) while using a single endpoint (`s5lu.com`).
FileLu S5 is designed for scalability, security, and simplicity, with predictable
pricing and no hidden charges for data transfers or API requests.

Here is an example of making a configuration.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> s5lu

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS,... FileLu, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / FileLu S5 Object Storage
   \ (FileLu)
[snip]
provider> FileLu

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> XXX

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> XXX

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Global
   \ (global)
 2 / North America (US-East)
   \ (us-east)
 3 / Europe (EU-Central)
   \ (eu-central)
 4 / Asia Pacific (AP-Southeast)
   \ (ap-southeast)
 5 / Middle East (ME-Central)
   \ (me-central)
region> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: FileLu
- access_key_id: XXX
- secret_access_key: XXX
- endpoint: s5lu.com
Keep this "s5lu" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[s5lu]
type = s3
provider = FileLu
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = XXX
endpoint = s5lu.com
```

### Rabata {#Rabata}

[Rabata](https://rabata.io) is an S3-compatible secure cloud storage service that
offers flat, transparent pricing (no API request fees) while supporting standard
S3 APIs. It is suitable for backup, application storage,media workflows, and
archive use cases.

Server side copy is not implemented with Rabata, also meaning modification time
of objects cannot be updated.

Rclone config:

```text
rclone config
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> Rabata

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Rabata Cloud Storage
   \ (Rabata)
[snip]
provider> Rabata

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY_ID

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option region.
Region where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (us-east-1)
 2 / EU (Ireland)
   \ (eu-west-1)
 3 / EU (London)
   \ (eu-west-2)
region> 3

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Rabata Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (s3.us-east-1.rabata.io)
 2 / EU West (Ireland)
   \ (s3.eu-west-1.rabata.io)
 3 / EU West (London)
   \ (s3.eu-west-2.rabata.io)
endpoint> 3

Option location_constraint.
location where your bucket will be created and your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / US East (N. Virginia)
   \ (us-east-1)
 2 / EU (Ireland)
   \ (eu-west-1)
 3 / EU (London)
   \ (eu-west-2)
location_constraint> 3

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Rabata
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY_ID
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- region: eu-west-2
- endpoint: s3.eu-west-2.rabata.io
- location_constraint: eu-west-2
Keep this "rabata" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
rabata               s3
```

### RackCorp {#RackCorp}

[RackCorp Object Storage](https://www.rackcorp.com/storage/s3storage) is an S3
compatible object storage platform from your friendly cloud provider RackCorp.
The service is fast, reliable, well priced and located in many strategic
locations unserviced by others, to ensure you can maintain data sovereignty.

Before you can use RackCorp Object Storage, you'll need to
[sign up](https://www.rackcorp.com/signup) for an account on our [portal](https://portal.rackcorp.com).
Next you can create an `access key`, a `secret key` and `buckets`, in your
location of choice with ease. These details are required for the next steps of
configuration, when `rclone config` asks for your `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key`.

Your config should end up looking a bit like this:

```ini
[RCS3-demo-config]
type = s3
provider = RackCorp
env_auth = true
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region = au-nsw
endpoint = s3.rackcorp.com
location_constraint = au-nsw
```

### Rclone Serve S3 {#rclone}

Rclone can serve any remote over the S3 protocol. For details see the
[rclone serve s3](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_s3/) documentation.

For example, to serve `remote:path` over s3, run the server like this:

```console
rclone serve s3 --auth-key ACCESS_KEY_ID,SECRET_ACCESS_KEY remote:path
```

This will be compatible with an rclone remote which is defined like this:

```ini
[serves3]
type = s3
provider = Rclone
endpoint = http://127.0.0.1:8080/
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY_ID
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
use_multipart_uploads = false
```

Note that setting `use_multipart_uploads = false` is to work around
[a bug](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_s3/#bugs) which will be fixed in due course.

### Scaleway

[Scaleway](https://www.scaleway.com/object-storage/) The Object Storage platform
allows you to store anything from backups, logs and web assets to documents and photos.
Files can be dropped from the Scaleway console or transferred through our API and
CLI or using any S3-compatible tool.

Scaleway provides an S3 interface which can be configured for use with rclone
like this:

```ini
[scaleway]
type = s3
provider = Scaleway
env_auth = false
endpoint = s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud
access_key_id = SCWXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
secret_access_key = 1111111-2222-3333-44444-55555555555555
region = nl-ams
location_constraint = nl-ams
acl = private
upload_cutoff = 5M
chunk_size = 5M
copy_cutoff = 5M
```

[Scaleway Glacier](https://www.scaleway.com/en/glacier-cold-storage/) is the
low-cost S3 Glacier alternative from Scaleway and it works the same way as on
S3 by accepting the "GLACIER" `storage_class`. So you can configure your remote
with the `storage_class = GLACIER` option to upload directly to Scaleway Glacier.
Don't forget that in this state you can't read files back after, you will need
to restore them to "STANDARD" storage_class first before being able to read
them (see "restore" section above)

### Scality {#scality}

[Scality](https://www.scality.com/) RING and ARTESCA both expose an
S3-compatible object storage API that works with rclone using `s3` as the
type and `Scality` as the provider.

Both products are S3 clones, so you always need to set the `endpoint` to the
S3 API of your deployment (the S3 Connector service on RING, or the S3
data-service endpoint on ARTESCA). The `Scality` provider uses path-style
addressing (`endpoint/bucket/key`) which is supported out of the box and does
not require any wildcard/virtual-host DNS entries.

Get your access key, secret key and endpoint from your Scality administrator
(on ARTESCA these are created per account under *Identity > Accounts* in the
UI; on RING they are created with `vaultclient` or the S3 Console).

Here is an example of making a Scality configuration. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> scality

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...Scaleway, Scality, SeaweedFS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Scality (RING / ARTESCA)
   \ (Scality)
[snip]
provider> Scality

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> S3_ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> S3_SECRET_KEY

Option region.
Region to connect to.
Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Use this if unsure.
 1 | Will use v4 signatures and an empty region.
   \ ()
   / Use this only if v4 signatures don't work.
 2 | E.g. pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.
   \ (other-v2-signature)
region>

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://s3.example.com

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Scality
- access_key_id: S3_ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: S3_SECRET_KEY
- endpoint: https://s3.example.com
Keep this "scality" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[scality]
type = s3
provider = Scality
access_key_id = S3_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = S3_SECRET_KEY
endpoint = https://s3.example.com
```

### Seagate Lyve Cloud {#lyve}

[Seagate Lyve Cloud](https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/services/cloud/storage/) is
an S3 compatible object storage platform from [Seagate](https://seagate.com/)
intended for enterprise use.

Here is a config run through for a remote called `remote` - you may
choose a different name of course. Note that to create an access key
and secret key you will need to create a service account first.

```console
$ rclone config
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
```

Choose `s3` backend

```text
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3
```

Choose `LyveCloud` as S3 provider

```text
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Seagate Lyve Cloud
   \ (LyveCloud)
[snip]
provider> LyveCloud
```

Take the default (just press enter) to enter access key and secret in the
config file.

```text
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>
```

```text
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> XXX
```

```text
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> YYY
```

Leave region blank

```text
Region to connect to.
Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Use this if unsure.
 1 | Will use v4 signatures and an empty region.
   \ ()
   / Use this only if v4 signatures don't work.
 2 | E.g. pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.
   \ (other-v2-signature)
region>
```

Enter your Lyve Cloud endpoint. This field cannot be kept empty.

```text
Endpoint for Lyve Cloud S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Please type in your LyveCloud endpoint.
Examples:
- s3.us-west-1.{account_name}.lyve.seagate.com (US West 1 - California)
- s3.eu-west-1.{account_name}.lyve.seagate.com (US West 1 - Ireland)
Enter a value.
endpoint> s3.us-west-1.global.lyve.seagate.com
```

Leave location constraint blank

```text
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
location_constraint>
```

Choose default ACL (`private`).

```text
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
[snip]
acl>
```

And the config file should end up looking like this:

```ini
[remote]
type = s3
provider = LyveCloud
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = YYY
endpoint = s3.us-east-1.lyvecloud.seagate.com
```

### SeaweedFS

[SeaweedFS](https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/) is a distributed storage
system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, with O(1) disk seek and a
scalable file metadata store. It has an S3 compatible object storage interface.
SeaweedFS can also act as a  [gateway to remote S3 compatible object store](https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remote-Object-Storage)
to cache data and metadata with asynchronous write back, for fast local speed
and minimize access cost.

Assuming the SeaweedFS are configured with `weed shell` as such:

```text
> s3.bucket.create -name foo
> s3.configure -access_key=any -secret_key=any -buckets=foo -user=me -actions=Read,Write,List,Tagging,Admin -apply
{
  "identities": [
    {
      "name": "me",
      "credentials": [
        {
          "accessKey": "any",
          "secretKey": "any"
        }
      ],
      "actions": [
        "Read:foo",
        "Write:foo",
        "List:foo",
        "Tagging:foo",
        "Admin:foo"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

To use rclone with SeaweedFS, above configuration should end up with something
like this in your config:

```ini
[seaweedfs_s3]
type = s3
provider = SeaweedFS
access_key_id = any
secret_access_key = any
endpoint = localhost:8333
```

So once set up, for example to copy files into a bucket

```console
rclone copy /path/to/files seaweedfs_s3:foo
```

### Selectel

[Selectel Cloud Storage](https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/)
is an S3 compatible storage system which features triple redundancy
storage, automatic scaling, high availability and a comprehensive IAM
system.

Selectel have a section on their website for [configuring
rclone](https://docs.selectel.ru/en/cloud/object-storage/tools/rclone/)
which shows how to make the right API keys.

From rclone v1.69 Selectel is a supported operator - please choose the
`Selectel` provider type.

Note that you should use "vHosted" access for the buckets (which is
the recommended default), not "path style".

You can use `rclone config` to make a new provider like this

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> selectel

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including ..., Selectel, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Selectel Object Storage
   \ (Selectel)
[snip]
provider> Selectel

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option region.
Region where your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / St. Petersburg
   \ (ru-1)
region> 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Selectel Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Saint Petersburg
   \ (s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru)
endpoint> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Selectel
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- region: ru-1
- endpoint: s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru
Keep this "selectel" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

And your config should end up looking like this:

```ini
[selectel]
type = s3
provider = Selectel
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
region = ru-1
endpoint = s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru
```

### Servercore {#servercore}

[Servercore Object Storage](https://servercore.com/services/object-storage/) is an S3
compatible object storage system that provides scalable and secure storage
solutions for businesses of all sizes.

rclone config example:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> servercore

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including ..., Servercore, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / Servercore Object Storage
   \ (Servercore)
[snip]
provider> Servercore

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option region.
Region where your is data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / St. Petersburg
   \ (ru-1)
 2 / Moscow
   \ (gis-1)
 3 / Moscow
   \ (ru-7)
 4 / Tashkent, Uzbekistan
   \ (uz-2)
 5 / Almaty, Kazakhstan
   \ (kz-1)
region> 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Servercore Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Saint Petersburg
   \ (s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru)
 2 / Moscow
   \ (s3.gis-1.storage.selcloud.ru)
 3 / Moscow
   \ (s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru)
 4 / Tashkent, Uzbekistan
   \ (s3.uz-2.srvstorage.uz)
 5 / Almaty, Kazakhstan
   \ (s3.kz-1.srvstorage.kz)
endpoint> 1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Servercore
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- region: ru-1
- endpoint: s3.ru-1.storage.selcloud.ru
Keep this "servercore" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Spectra Logic {#spectralogic}

[Spectra Logic](https://www.spectralogic.com/blackpearl-nearline-object-gateway)
is an on-prem S3-compatible object storage gateway that exposes local object
storage and policy-tiers data to Spectra tape and public clouds under a single
namespace for backup and archiving.

The S3 compatible gateway is configured using `rclone config` with a
type of `s3` and with a provider name of `SpectraLogic`. Here is an example
run of the configurator.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> spectralogic

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including ..., SpectraLogic, ...
   \ (s3)
[snip]
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
[snip]
XX / SpectraLogic BlackPearl
   \ (SpectraLogic)
[snip]
provider> SpectraLogic

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://bp.example.com

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: SpectraLogic
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- endpoint: https://bp.example.com
Keep this "spectratest" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

And your config should end up looking like this:

```ini
[spectratest]
type = s3
provider = SpectraLogic
access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
endpoint = https://bp.example.com
```

### Storj

Storj is a decentralized cloud storage which can be used through its
native protocol or an S3 compatible gateway.

The S3 compatible gateway is configured using `rclone config` with a
type of `s3` and with a provider name of `Storj`. Here is an example
run of the configurator.

```text
Type of storage to configure.
Storage> s3
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1
Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> XXXX (as shown when creating the access grant)
Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> XXXX (as shown when creating the access grant)
Option endpoint.
Endpoint of the Shared Gateway.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / EU1 Shared Gateway
   \ (gateway.eu1.storjshare.io)
 2 / US1 Shared Gateway
   \ (gateway.us1.storjshare.io)
 3 / Asia-Pacific Shared Gateway
   \ (gateway.ap1.storjshare.io)
endpoint> 1 (as shown when creating the access grant)
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
```

Note that s3 credentials are generated when you [create an access
grant](https://docs.storj.io/dcs/api-reference/s3-compatible-gateway#usage).

#### Backend quirks

- `--chunk-size` is forced to be 64 MiB or greater. This will use more
  memory than the default of 5 MiB.
- Server side copy is disabled as it isn't currently supported in the
  gateway.
- GetTier and SetTier are not supported.

#### Backend bugs

Due to [issue #39](https://github.com/storj/gateway-mt/issues/39)
uploading multipart files via the S3 gateway causes them to lose their
metadata. For rclone's purpose this means that the modification time
is not stored, nor is any MD5SUM (if one is available from the
source).

This has the following consequences:

- Using `rclone rcat` will fail as the metadata doesn't match after upload
- Uploading files with `rclone mount` will fail for the same reason
  - This can worked around by using `--vfs-cache-mode writes` or
    `--vfs-cache-mode full` or setting `--s3-upload-cutoff` large
- Files uploaded via a multipart upload won't have their modtimes
  - This will mean that `rclone sync` will likely keep trying to upload
    files bigger than `--s3-upload-cutoff`
  - This can be worked around with `--checksum` or `--size-only` or
    setting `--s3-upload-cutoff` large
  - The maximum value for `--s3-upload-cutoff` is 5GiB though

One general purpose workaround is to set `--s3-upload-cutoff 5G`. This
means that rclone will upload files smaller than 5GiB as single parts.
Note that this can be set in the config file with `upload_cutoff = 5G`
or configured in the advanced settings. If you regularly transfer
files larger than 5G then using `--checksum` or `--size-only` in
`rclone sync` is the recommended workaround.

#### Comparison with the native protocol

Use the [the native protocol](/storj) to take advantage of
client-side encryption as well as to achieve the best possible
download performance. Uploads will be erasure-coded locally, thus a
1gb upload will result in 2.68gb of data being uploaded to storage
nodes across the network.

Use this backend and the S3 compatible Hosted Gateway to increase
upload performance and reduce the load on your systems and network.
Uploads will be encrypted and erasure-coded server-side, thus a 1GB
upload will result in only in 1GB of data being uploaded to storage
nodes across the network.

For more detailed comparison please check the documentation of the
[storj](/storj) backend.

### Synology C2 Object Storage {#synology-c2}

[Synology C2 Object Storage](https://c2.synology.com/en-global/object-storage/overview)
provides a secure, S3-compatible, and cost-effective cloud storage solution
without API request, download fees, and deletion penalty.

The S3 compatible gateway is configured using `rclone config` with a
type of `s3` and with a provider name of `Synology`. Here is an example
run of the configurator.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config

n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.1
name> syno

Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value

XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ "s3"

Storage> s3

Choose your S3 provider.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 24 / Synology C2 Object Storage
   \ (Synology)

provider> Synology

Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"

env_auth> 1

AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").

access_key_id> accesskeyid

AWS Secret Access Key (password)
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").

secret_access_key> secretaccesskey

Region where your data stored.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Europe Region 1
   \ (eu-001)
 2 / Europe Region 2
   \ (eu-002)
 3 / US Region 1
   \ (us-001)
 4 / US Region 2
   \ (us-002)
 5 / Asia (Taiwan)
   \ (tw-001)

region > 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Synology C2 Object Storage API.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / EU Endpoint 1
   \ (eu-001.s3.synologyc2.net)
 2 / US Endpoint 1
   \ (us-001.s3.synologyc2.net)
 3 / TW Endpoint 1
   \ (tw-001.s3.synologyc2.net)

endpoint> 1

Option location_constraint.
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
location_constraint>

Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y

Option no_check_bucket.
If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.
This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.
It can also be needed if the user you are using does not have bucket
creation permissions. Before v1.52.0 this would have passed silently
due to a bug.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default (true).

no_check_bucket> true

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Synology
- region: eu-001
- endpoint: eu-001.s3.synologyc2.net
- no_check_bucket: true
Keep this "syno" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote

y/e/d> y
```

### Tencent COS {#tencent-cos}

[Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)](https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/cos)
is a distributed storage service offered by Tencent Cloud for unstructured data.
It is secure, stable, massive, convenient, low-delay and low-cost.

To configure access to Tencent COS, follow the steps below:

1. Run `rclone config` and select `n` for a new remote.

   ```text
   rclone config
   No remotes found, make a new one?
   n) New remote
   s) Set configuration password
   q) Quit config
   n/s/q> n
   ```

2. Give the name of the configuration. For example, name it 'cos'.

   ```text
   name> cos
   ```

3. Select `s3` storage.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   [snip]
   XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
      \ "s3"
   [snip]
   Storage> s3
   ```

4. Select `TencentCOS` provider.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
      \ "AWS"
   [snip]
   11 / Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)
      \ "TencentCOS"
   [snip]
   provider> TencentCOS
   ```

5. Enter your SecretId and SecretKey of Tencent Cloud.

   ```text
   Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
   Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
   Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
      \ "false"
    2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
      \ "true"
   env_auth> 1
   AWS Access Key ID.
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   access_key_id> AKIDxxxxxxxxxx
   AWS Secret Access Key (password)
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   secret_access_key> xxxxxxxxxxx
   ```

6. Select endpoint for Tencent COS. This is the standard endpoint for different region.

   ```text
    1 / Beijing Region.
      \ "cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com"
    2 / Nanjing Region.
      \ "cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com"
    3 / Shanghai Region.
      \ "cos.ap-shanghai.myqcloud.com"
    4 / Guangzhou Region.
      \ "cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com"
   [snip]
   endpoint> 4
   ```

7. Choose acl and storage class.

   ```text
   Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
   doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Owner gets Full_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
      \ "default"
   [snip]
   acl> 1
   The storage class to use when storing new objects in Tencent COS.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Default
      \ ""
   [snip]
   storage_class> 1
   Edit advanced config? (y/n)
   y) Yes
   n) No (default)
   y/n> n
   Remote config
   --------------------
   [cos]
   type = s3
   provider = TencentCOS
   env_auth = false
   access_key_id = xxx
   secret_access_key = xxx
   endpoint = cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com
   acl = default
   --------------------
   y) Yes this is OK (default)
   e) Edit this remote
   d) Delete this remote
   y/e/d> y
   Current remotes:
   
   Name                 Type
   ====                 ====
   cos                  s3
   ```

#### Tencent COS Global Acceleration Endpoint

When using the Global Acceleration Endpoint (`cos.accelerate.myqcloud.com`),
rclone automatically sets `no_check_bucket = true` because this acceleration
endpoint does not support the `CreateBucket` call which is used for ensuring
a bucket's existence by rclone. Global Acceleration is a per-bucket feature,
so you should first create the bucket in one physical region, then enable it
in the Tencent Cloud console.

### US3 {#us3}
[US3](https://www.ucloud.cn/site/product/ufile.html) Object Storage is a service that provides cloud storage for unstructured files for internet applications.

To configure access to US3, follow the steps below:
1. First run:
    ```console
    rclone config
    No remotes found, make a new one?
    n) New remote
    s) Set configuration password
    q) Quit config
    n/s/q> n
    ```
2. Give the name of the configuration. For example, name it 'US3'.

   ```text
   name> US3
   ```
3. Select `s3` storage.

   ```text
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   [snip]
   XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
      \ "s3"
   [snip]
   Storage> s3
   ```
4. Select `US3` provider.
   
   ```text
    Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    XX / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
       \ (AWS)
    [snip]
    XX / UCloud Object Storage (US3)
       \ (US3)
    [snip]
    provider> US3
   ```
5. Enter your SecretId and SecretKey of US3.

   ```text
   Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
   Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
   Press Enter for the default (false).
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
      \ "false"
    2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
      \ "true"
   env_auth> 1
   Option access_key_id.
   AWS Access Key ID.
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
   access_key_id> AKIDxxxxxxxxxx
   AWS Secret Access Key (password)
   Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   secret_access_key> xxxxxxxxxxx
   ```

6. Select endpoint.
   ```text
    Option endpoint.
    Endpoint for S3 API.
    Required when using an S3 clone.
    Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    Press Enter to leave empty.
    1 / North China (Beijing 2).
      \ "s3-cn-bj.ufileos.com"
    2 / North China (Ulanqab).
      \ "s3-cn-wlcb.ufileos.com"
    3 / Shanghai.
      \ "s3-cn-sh2.ufileos.com"
    4 / South China (Guangzhou).
      \ "s3-cn-gd.ufileos.com"
   [snip]
   endpoint> 1
   ```

7. Choose acl and storage class.

   ```text
   Option acl.
   Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
   This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
   For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
   Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
   doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
   If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
   the default (private) will be used.
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
   Press Enter to leave empty.
     / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
   1 | No one else has access rights (default).
     \ (private)
     / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
   2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
     \ (public-read)
   acl> 1
       
   The storage class to use when storing new objects in US3.
   Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
   Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    1 / Default
      \ ""
   [snip]
   storage_class> 1
   Edit advanced config? (y/n)
   y) Yes
   n) No (default)
   y/n> n

    Configuration complete. 
    Options:
    - type: s3
    - provider: US3
    - access_key_id: xx
    - secret_access_key: xx
    - endpoint: s3-cn-bj.ufileos.com
    - acl: private
    
    Keep this "US3" remote?
    y) Yes this is OK (default)
    e) Edit this remote
    d) Delete this remote
    y/e/d> y
    Current remotes:
    
    Name                 Type
    ====                 ====
    US3                  s3
    ```

### Wasabi

[Wasabi](https://wasabi.com) is a cloud-based object storage service for a
broad range of applications and use cases. Wasabi is designed for
individuals and organizations that require a high-performance,
reliable, and secure data storage infrastructure at minimal cost.

Wasabi provides an S3 interface which can be configured for use with
rclone like this.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> wasabi
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, ChinaMobile, ArvanCloud, Minio, Liara)
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> YOURACCESSKEY
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
[snip]
region> us-east-1
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using AWS to use the default endpoint for the region.
Specify if using an S3 clone such as Ceph.
endpoint> s3.wasabisys.com
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia, or Pacific Northwest.
   \ ""
[snip]
location_constraint>
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
[snip]
acl>
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption>
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
 3 / Reduced redundancy storage class
   \ "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
 4 / Standard Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "STANDARD_IA"
storage_class>
Remote config
--------------------
[wasabi]
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region = us-east-1
endpoint = s3.wasabisys.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[wasabi]
type = s3
provider = Wasabi
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region =
endpoint = s3.wasabisys.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
```

### Zadara Object Storage {#zadara}

[Zadara Object Storage](https://www.zadara.com) is a fully-managed, 
enterprise-grade, S3-compatible storage solution that provides scalable, 
multi-tenant object storage with flexible deployment options (on-prem, 
hybrid, or cloud). 

Zadara Object Storage can be configured using `rclone config` with `s3` as 
the type and `Zadara` as the provider name. Here is an example
run of the configurator.

Authentication and endpoint information, including the region field, 
should be fetched from Zadara’s Object Storage management interface

To configure access to Zadara Object Storage, first run:

```console
rclone config
```

```text
This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> Zadara-Object-Storage

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
 
 XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS ...
   \ (s3)

Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 
XX / Zadara Object Storage
   \ (Zadara)

provider> Zadara

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> S3_ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> S3_SECRET_KEY

Option region.
Region to connect to.
Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / The default region.
 1 | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ (us-east-1)
region> 

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> https://vsa-00000001-public-zadara-cloud-01.zadarazios.com

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Zadara
- access_key_id: S3_ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: S3_SECRET_KEY
- endpoint: https://vsa-00000001-public-zadara-cloud-01.zadarazios.com
Keep this "Zadara-Object-Storage" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[Zadara-Object-Storage]
type = s3
provider = Zadara
access_key_id = S3_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = S3_SECRET_KEY
endpoint = https://vsa-00000001-public-zadara-cloud-01.zadarazios.com
```

### Zata Object Storage {#Zata}

[Zata Object Storage](https://zata.ai/) provides a secure, S3-compatible cloud
storage solution designed for scalability and performance, ideal for a variety
of data storage needs.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

```text
This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> my zata storage 

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
 
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ...
   \ (s3)
 
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 
XX / Zata (S3 compatible Gateway)
   \ (Zata)

provider> Zata

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own boolean value (true or false).
Press Enter for the default (false).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth>

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> "your key"

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> "your secret key"

Option region.
Region where you can connect with.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
   \ (us-east-1)
region> 1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Zata Object Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / South Asia Endpoint
   \ (idr01.zata.ai)
endpoint> 1

Option location_constraint.
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
location_constraint>

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
This ACL is used for creating objects and if bucket_acl isn't set, for creating buckets too.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Note that this ACL is applied when server-side copying objects as S3
doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.
If the acl is an empty string then no X-Amz-Acl: header is added and
the default (private) will be used.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 1 | No one else has access rights (default).
   \ (private)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 2 | The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (public-read)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 3 | The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
   | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ (public-read-write)
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 4 | The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ (authenticated-read)
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL.
 5 | Bucket owner gets READ access.
   | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-read)
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ (bucket-owner-full-control)
acl>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: Zata
- access_key_id: xxx
- secret_access_key: xxx
- region: us-east-1
- endpoint: idr01.zata.ai
Keep this "my zata storage" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>
```

This will leave the config file looking like this.

```ini
[my zata storage]
type = s3
provider = Zata
access_key_id = xxx
secret_access_key = xxx
region = us-east-1
endpoint = idr01.zata.ai
```

### Zero Services (ZERO-Z3) {#zero-z3}

[Zero Services GmbH](https://lp.zeroservices.eu/zero-z3/) offers ZERO-Z3, S3-compatible
object storage hosted in the EU on its own network (AS215197). It is built on
Ceph RADOS Gateway.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

```text
This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

n) New remote
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> zero-z3

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, ..., ZeroServices, ... and others
   \ (s3)
Storage> s3

Option provider.
Choose your S3 provider.
[snip]
XX / Zero Services GmbH (ZERO-Z3)
   \ (ZeroServices)
provider> ZeroServices

Option env_auth.
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
   \ (false)
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
   \ (true)
env_auth> 1

Option access_key_id.
AWS Access Key ID.
access_key_id> ACCESS_KEY

Option secret_access_key.
AWS Secret Access Key (password).
secret_access_key> SECRET_KEY

Option region.
Region to connect to.
 1 / Frankfurt 1
   \ (zero-fra1)
 2 / Frankfurt 2
   \ (zero-fra2)
 3 / Eyl 1
   \ (zero-eyl1)
region> 2

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for ZERO-Z3.
 1 / Frankfurt 1
   \ (fra1.s3.zeroservices.eu)
 2 / Frankfurt 2
   \ (fra.s3.zeroservices.eu)
 3 / Eyl 1
   \ (eyl1.s3.zeroservices.eu)
endpoint> 2

Option acl.
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.
[snip]
acl> 1

Edit advanced config?
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: s3
- provider: ZeroServices
- access_key_id: ACCESS_KEY
- secret_access_key: SECRET_KEY
- region: zero-fra2
- endpoint: fra.s3.zeroservices.eu
Keep this "zero-z3" remote?
y/e/d> y
```

## Memory usage {#memory}

The most common cause of rclone using lots of memory is a single
directory with millions of files in. Despite s3 not really having the
concepts of directories, rclone does the sync on a directory by
directory basis to be compatible with normal filing systems.

Rclone loads each directory into memory as rclone objects. Each rclone
object takes 0.5k-1k of memory, so approximately 1GB per 1,000,000
files, and the sync for that directory does not begin until it is
entirely loaded in memory. So the sync can take a long time to start
for large directories.

To sync a directory with 100,000,000 files in you would need approximately
100 GB of memory. At some point the amount of memory becomes difficult
to provide so there is
[a workaround for this](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/Big-syncs-with-millions-of-files)
which involves a bit of scripting.

At some point rclone will gain a sync mode which is effectively this
workaround but built in to rclone.

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the S3 backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Archive

The Archive backend allows read only access to the content of archive
files on cloud storage without downloading the complete archive. This
means you could mount a large archive file and use only the parts of
it your application requires, rather than having to extract it.

The archive files are recognised by their extension.

| Archive  | Extension |
| -------- | --------- |
| Zip      | `.zip`    |
| Squashfs | `.sqfs`   |

The supported archive file types are cloud friendly - a single file
can be found and downloaded without downloading the whole archive.

If you just want to create, list or extract archives and don't want to
mount them then you may find the `rclone archive` commands more
convenient.

- [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/)
- [rclone archive list](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_list/)
- [rclone archive extract](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_extract/)

These commands supports a wider range of non cloud friendly archives
(but not squashfs) but can't be used for `rclone mount` or any other
rclone commands (eg `rclone check`).

## Configuration

This backend is best used without configuration.

Use it by putting the string `:archive:` in front of another remote,
say `remote:dir` to make `:archive:remote:dir`.

Any archives in `remote:dir` will become directories and any files may
be read out of them individually.

For example

```
$ rclone lsf s3:rclone/dir
100files.sqfs
100files.zip
```

Note that `100files.zip` and `100files.sqfs` are now directories:

```
$ rclone lsf :archive:s3:rclone/dir
100files.sqfs/
100files.zip/
```

Which we can look inside:

```
$ rclone lsf :archive:s3:rclone/dir/100files.zip/
cofofiy5jun
gigi
hevupaz5z
kacak/
kozemof/
lamapaq4
qejahen
quhenen2rey
soboves8
vibat/
wose
xade
zilupot
```

Files not in an archive can be read and written as normal. Files in an archive can only be read.

The archive backend can also be used in a configuration file. Use the `remote` variable to point to the destination of the archive.

```
[remote]
type = archive
remote = s3:rclone/dir/100files.zip
```

Gives

```
$ rclone lsf remote:
cofofiy5jun
gigi
hevupaz5z
kacak/
...
```


## Modification times

Modification times are preserved with an accuracy depending on the archive type.

```
$ rclone lsl --max-depth 1 :archive:s3:rclone/dir/100files.zip
       12 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 cofofiy5jun
       81 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 gigi
       58 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 hevupaz5z
        6 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 lamapaq4
       43 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 qejahen
       66 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 quhenen2rey
       95 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 soboves8
       71 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 wose
       76 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 xade
       15 2025-10-27 14:39:20.000000000 zilupot
```

For `zip` and `squashfs` files this is 1s.

## Hashes

Which hash is supported depends on the archive type. Zip files use
CRC32, Squashfs don't support any hashes. For example:

```
$ rclone hashsum crc32 :archive:s3:rclone/dir/100files.zip/
b2288554  cofofiy5jun
a87e62b6  wose
f90f630b  xade
c7d0ef29  gigi
f1c64740  soboves8
cb7b4a5d  quhenen2rey
5115242b  kozemof/fonaxo
afeabd9a  qejahen
71202402  kozemof/fijubey5di
bd99e512  kozemof/napux
...
```

Hashes will be checked when the file is read from the archive and used
as part of syncing if possible.

```
$ rclone copy -vv :archive:s3:rclone/dir/100files.zip /tmp/100files
...
2025/10/27 14:56:44 DEBUG : kacak/turovat5c/yuyuquk: crc32 = abd05cc8 OK
2025/10/27 14:56:44 DEBUG : kacak/turovat5c/yuyuquk.aeb661dc.partial: renamed to: kacak/turovat5c/yuyuquk
2025/10/27 14:56:44 INFO  : kacak/turovat5c/yuyuquk: Copied (new)
...
```

## Zip

The [Zip file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format))
is a widely used archive format that bundles one or more files and
folders into a single file, primarily for easier storage or
transmission. It typically uses compression (most commonly the DEFLATE
algorithm) to reduce the overall size of the archived content. Zip
files are supported natively by most modern operating systems.

Rclone does not support the following advanced features of Zip files:

- Splitting large archives into smaller parts
- Password protection
- Zstd compression

## Squashfs

Squashfs is a compressed, read-only file system format primarily used
in Linux-based systems. It's designed to compress entire file systems
(including files, directories, and metadata) into a single archive
file, which can then be mounted and read directly, appearing as a
normal directory structure. Because it's read-only and highly
compressed, Squashfs is ideal for live CDs/USBs, embedded devices with
limited storage, and software package distribution, as it saves space
and ensures the integrity of the original files.

Rclone supports the following squashfs compression formats:

- `Gzip`
- `Lzma`
- `Xz`
- `Zstd`

These are not yet working:

- `Lzo` - Not yet supported
- `Lz4` - Broken with "error decompressing: lz4: bad magic number"

Rclone works fastest with large squashfs block sizes. For example:

```
mksquashfs 100files 100files.sqfs -comp zstd -b 1M
```

## Limitations

Files in the archive backend are read only. It isn't possible to
create archives with the archive backend yet. However you **can** create
archives with [rclone archive create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_create/).

Only `.zip` and `.sqfs` archives are supported as these are the only
common archiving formats which make it easy to read directory listings
from the archive without downloading the whole archive.

Internally the archive backend uses the VFS to access files. It isn't
possible to configure the internal VFS yet which might be useful.

## Archive Formats

Here's a table rating common archive formats on their Cloud
Optimization which is based on their ability to access a single file
without reading the entire archive.

This capability depends on whether the format has a central **index**
(or "table of contents") that a program can read first to find the
exact location of a specific file.

| Format | Extensions | Cloud Optimized | Explanation |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **ZIP** | `.zip` | **Excellent** | **Zip files have an index** (the "central directory") stored at the *end* of the file. A program can seek to the end, read the index to find a file's location and size, and then seek directly to that file's data to extract it. |
| **SquashFS** | `.squashfs`, `.sqfs`, `.sfs` | **Excellent** | This is a compressed read-only *filesystem image*, not just an archive. It is **specifically designed for random access**. It uses metadata and index tables to allow the system to find and decompress individual files or data blocks on demand. |
| **ISO Image** | `.iso` | **Excellent** | Like SquashFS, this is a *filesystem image* (for optical media). It contains a filesystem (like ISO 9660 or UDF) with a **table of contents at a known location**, allowing for direct access to any file without reading the whole disk. |
| **RAR** | `.rar` | **Good** | RAR supports "non-solid" and "solid" modes. In the common **non-solid** mode, files are compressed separately, and an index allows for easy single-file extraction (like ZIP). In "solid" mode, this rating would be "Very Poor." |
| **7z** | `.7z` | **Poor** | By default, 7z uses "solid" archives to maximize compression. This compresses files as one continuous stream. To extract a file from the middle, all preceding files must be decompressed first. (If explicitly created as "non-solid," its rating would be "Excellent"). |
| **tar** | `.tar` | **Poor** | "Tape Archive" is a *streaming* format with **no central index**. To find a file, you must read the archive from the beginning, checking each file header one by one until you find the one you want. This is slow but doesn't require decompressing data. |
| **Gzipped Tar** | `.tar.gz`, `.tgz` | **Very Poor** | This is a `tar` file (already "Poor") compressed with `gzip` as a **single, non-seekable stream**. You cannot seek. To get *any* file, you must decompress the *entire* archive from the beginning up to that file. |
| **Bzipped/XZ Tar** | `.tar.bz2`, `.tar.xz` | **Very Poor** | This is the same principle as `tar.gz`. The entire archive is one large compressed block, making random access impossible. |

## Ideas for improvements

It would be possible to add ISO support fairly easily as the library we use ([go-diskfs](https://github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs/)) supports it. We could also add `ext4` and `fat32` the same way, however in my experience these are not very common as files so probably not worth it. Go-diskfs can also read partitions which we could potentially take advantage of.

It would be possible to add write support, but this would only be for creating new archives, not for updating existing archives.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/archive/archive.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to archive (Read archives).

#### --archive-remote

Remote to wrap to read archives from.

Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or "myremote:".

If this is left empty, then the archive backend will use the root as
the remote.

This means that you can use :archive:remote:path and it will be
equivalent to setting remote="remote:path".


Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ARCHIVE_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to archive (Read archives).

#### --archive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ARCHIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# Backblaze B2

B2 is [Backblaze's cloud storage system](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage).

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a b2 configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.  To authenticate
you will either need your Account ID (a short hex number) and Master
Application Key (a long hex number) OR an Application Key, which is the
recommended method. See below for further details on generating and using
an Application Key.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
q) Quit config
n/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
[snip]
Storage> b2
Account ID or Application Key ID
account> 123456789abc
Application Key
key> 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally.
endpoint>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: b2
- account: 123456789abc
- key: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
- endpoint:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all buckets

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Create a new bucket

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

List the contents of a bucket

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote bucket, deleting any
excess files in the bucket.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:bucket
```

### Application Keys

B2 supports multiple [Application Keys for different access permission
to B2 Buckets](https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-application-keys).

You can use these with rclone too; you will need to use rclone version 1.43
or later.

Follow Backblaze's docs to create an Application Key with the required
permission and add the `applicationKeyId` as the `account` and the
`Application Key` itself as the `key`.

Note that you must put the *applicationKeyId* as the `account` – you
can't use the master Account ID.  If you try then B2 will return 401
errors.

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### Modification times

The modification time is stored as metadata on the object as
`X-Bz-Info-src_last_modified_millis` as milliseconds since 1970-01-01
in the Backblaze standard.  Other tools should be able to use this as
a modified time.

Modified times are used in syncing and are fully supported. Note that
if a modification time needs to be updated on an object then it will
create a new version of the object.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

Note that in 2020-05 Backblaze started allowing \ characters in file
names. Rclone hasn't changed its encoding as this could cause syncs to
re-transfer files. If you want rclone not to replace \ then see the
`--b2-encoding` flag below and remove the `BackSlash` from the
string. This can be set in the config.

### SHA1 checksums

The SHA1 checksums of the files are checked on upload and download and
will be used in the syncing process.

Large files (bigger than the limit in `--b2-upload-cutoff`) which are
uploaded in chunks will store their SHA1 on the object as
`X-Bz-Info-large_file_sha1` as recommended by Backblaze.

For a large file to be uploaded with an SHA1 checksum, the source
needs to support SHA1 checksums. The local disk supports SHA1
checksums so large file transfers from local disk will have an SHA1.
See [the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#features) for exactly which remotes
support SHA1.

Sources which don't support SHA1, in particular `crypt` will upload
large files without SHA1 checksums.  This may be fixed in the future
(see [#1767](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1767)).

Files sizes below `--b2-upload-cutoff` will always have an SHA1
regardless of the source.

### Transfers

Backblaze recommends that you do lots of transfers simultaneously for
maximum speed.  In tests from my SSD equipped laptop the optimum
setting is about `--transfers 32` though higher numbers may be used
for a slight speed improvement. The optimum number for you may vary
depending on your hardware, how big the files are, how much you want
to load your computer, etc.  The default of `--transfers 4` is
definitely too low for Backblaze B2 though.

Note that uploading big files (bigger than 200 MiB by default) will use
a 96 MiB RAM buffer by default.  There can be at most `--transfers` of
these in use at any moment, so this sets the upper limit on the memory
used.

### Versions

The default setting of B2 is to keep old versions of files. This means
when rclone uploads a new version of a file it creates a [new version
of it](https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-file-versions).
Likewise when you delete a file, the old version will be marked hidden
and still be available.

Whether B2 keeps old versions of files or not can be adjusted on a per
bucket basis using the "Lifecycle settings" on the B2 control panel or
when creating the bucket using the [--b2-lifecycle](#b2-lifecycle)
flag or after creation using the [rclone backend lifecycle](#lifecycle)
command.

You may opt in to a "hard delete" of files with the `--b2-hard-delete`
flag which permanently removes files on deletion instead of hiding
them.

Old versions of files, where available, are visible using the
`--b2-versions` flag. These can be deleted as required with `delete`.

It is also possible to view a bucket as it was at a certain point in time,
using the `--b2-version-at` flag. This will show the file versions as they
were at that time, showing files that have been deleted afterwards, and
hiding files that were created since.

If you wish to remove all the old versions, and unfinished large file
uploads, then you can use the `rclone cleanup remote:bucket` command
which will delete all the old versions of files, leaving the current ones
intact.  You can also supply a path and only old versions under that path
will be deleted, e.g. `rclone cleanup remote:bucket/path/to/stuff`.

Note that `cleanup` will remove partially uploaded files from the bucket
if they are more than a day old. If you want more control over the
expiry date then run `rclone backend cleanup b2:bucket -o max-age=1h`
to remove all unfinished large file uploads older than one hour, leaving
old versions intact.

If you wish to remove all the old versions, leaving current files and
unfinished large files intact, then you can use the
[`rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote:bucket`](#cleanup-hidden)
command. You can also supply a path and only old versions under that
path will be deleted, e.g.
`rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote:bucket/path/to/stuff`.

When you `purge` a bucket, the current and the old versions will be
deleted then the bucket will be deleted.

However `delete` will cause the current versions of the files to
become hidden old versions.

Here is a session showing the listing and retrieval of an old
version followed by a `cleanup` of the old versions.

Show current version and all the versions with `--b2-versions` flag.

```console
$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
        8 one-v2016-07-04-141032-000.txt
       16 one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
       15 one-v2016-07-02-155621-000.txt
```

Retrieve an old version

```console
$ rclone -q --b2-versions copy b2:cleanup-test/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt /tmp

$ ls -l /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ncw ncw 16 Jul  2 17:46 /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
```

Clean up all the old versions and show that they've gone.

```console
$ rclone -q cleanup b2:cleanup-test

$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
```

#### Versions naming caveat

When using `--b2-versions` flag rclone is relying on the file name
to work out whether the objects are versions or not. Versions' names
are created by inserting timestamp between file name and its extension.

```console
        9 file.txt
        8 file-v2023-07-17-161032-000.txt
       16 file-v2023-06-15-141003-000.txt
```

If there are real files present with the same names as versions, then
behaviour of `--b2-versions` can be unpredictable.

### Data usage

It is useful to know how many requests are sent to the server in different scenarios.

All copy commands send the following 4 requests:

```text
/b2api/v4/b2_authorize_account
/b2api/v1/b2_create_bucket
/b2api/v1/b2_list_buckets
/b2api/v1/b2_list_file_names
```

The `b2_list_file_names` request will be sent once for every 1k files
in the remote path, providing the checksum and modification time of
the listed files. As of version 1.33 issue
[#818](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/818) causes extra requests
to be sent when using B2 with Crypt. When a copy operation does not
require any files to be uploaded, no more requests will be sent.

Uploading files that do not require chunking, will send 2 requests per
file upload:

```text
/b2api/v1/b2_get_upload_url
/b2api/v1/b2_upload_file/
```

Uploading files requiring chunking, will send 2 requests (one each to
start and finish the upload) and another 2 requests for each chunk:

```text
/b2api/v1/b2_start_large_file
/b2api/v1/b2_get_upload_part_url
/b2api/v1/b2_upload_part/
/b2api/v1/b2_finish_large_file
```

### Viewing versions with --b2-versions

Versions can be viewed with the `--b2-versions` flag. When it is set
rclone will show and act on older versions of files.  For example

Listing without `--b2-versions`

```console
$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
```

And with

```console
$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
        8 one-v2016-07-04-141032-000.txt
       16 one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
       15 one-v2016-07-02-155621-000.txt
```

Showing that the current version is unchanged but older versions can
be seen.  These have the UTC date that they were uploaded to the
server to the nearest millisecond appended to them.

Note that when using `--b2-versions` no file write operations are
permitted, so you can't upload files or delete them.

### B2 and rclone link

Rclone supports generating file share links for private B2 buckets.
They can either be for a file for example:

```console
./rclone link B2:bucket/path/to/file.txt
https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/to/file.txt?Authorization=xxxxxxxx

```

or if run on a directory you will get:

```console
./rclone link B2:bucket/path
https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
```

you can then use the authorization token (the part of the url from the
 `?Authorization=` on) on any file path under that directory. For example:

```text
https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/to/file1?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/file2?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/folder/file3?Authorization=xxxxxxxx

```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

#### --b2-account

Account ID or Application Key ID.

Properties:

- Config:      account
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_ACCOUNT
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --b2-key

Application Key.

Properties:

- Config:      key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --b2-hard-delete

Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

#### --b2-endpoint

Endpoint for the service.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --b2-test-mode

A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header for debugging.

This is for debugging purposes only. Setting it to one of the strings
below will cause b2 to return specific errors:

  * "fail_some_uploads"
  * "expire_some_account_authorization_tokens"
  * "force_cap_exceeded"

These will be set in the "X-Bz-Test-Mode" header which is documented
in the [b2 integrations checklist](https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-integration-checklist).

Properties:

- Config:      test_mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_TEST_MODE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --b2-versions

Include old versions in directory listings.

Note that when using this no file write operations are permitted,
so you can't upload files or delete them.

Properties:

- Config:      versions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_VERSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --b2-version-at

Show file versions as they were at the specified time.

Note that when using this no file write operations are permitted,
so you can't upload files or delete them.

Properties:

- Config:      version_at
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_VERSION_AT
- Type:        Time
- Default:     off

#### --b2-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Files above this size will be uploaded in chunks of "--b2-chunk-size".

This value should be set no larger than 4.657 GiB (== 5 GB).

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     200Mi

#### --b2-copy-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be
copied in chunks of this size.

The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 4.6 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_COPY_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4Gi

#### --b2-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

When uploading large files, chunk the file into this size.

Must fit in memory. These chunks are buffered in memory and there
might a maximum of "--transfers" chunks in progress at once.

5,000,000 Bytes is the minimum size.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     96Mi

#### --b2-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently.

Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--b2-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --b2-disable-checksum

Disable checksums for large (> upload cutoff) files.

Normally rclone will calculate the SHA1 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great
for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files
to start uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_checksum
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --b2-download-url

Custom endpoint for downloads.

This is usually set to a Cloudflare CDN URL as Backblaze offers
free egress for data downloaded through the Cloudflare network.
Rclone works with private buckets by sending an "Authorization" header.
If the custom endpoint rewrites the requests for authentication,
e.g., in Cloudflare Workers, this header needs to be handled properly.
Leave blank if you want to use the endpoint provided by Backblaze.

The URL provided here SHOULD have the protocol and SHOULD NOT have
a trailing slash or specify the /file/bucket subpath as rclone will
request files with "{download_url}/file/{bucket_name}/{path}".

Example:
> https://mysubdomain.mydomain.tld
(No trailing "/", "file" or "bucket")

Properties:

- Config:      download_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_DOWNLOAD_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --b2-download-auth-duration

Time before the public link authorization token will expire in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d.

This is used in combination with "rclone link" for making files
accessible to the public and sets the duration before the download
authorization token will expire.

The minimum value is 1 second. The maximum value is one week.

Properties:

- Config:      download_auth_duration
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_DOWNLOAD_AUTH_DURATION
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1w

#### --b2-lifecycle

Set the number of days deleted files should be kept when creating a bucket.

On bucket creation, this parameter is used to create a lifecycle rule
for the entire bucket.

If lifecycle is 0 (the default) it does not create a lifecycle rule so
the default B2 behaviour applies. This is to create versions of files
on delete and overwrite and to keep them indefinitely.

If lifecycle is >0 then it creates a single rule setting the number of
days before a file that is deleted or overwritten is deleted
permanently. This is known as daysFromHidingToDeleting in the b2 docs.

The minimum value for this parameter is 1 day.

You can also enable hard_delete in the config also which will mean
deletions won't cause versions but overwrites will still cause
versions to be made.

See: [rclone backend lifecycle](#lifecycle) for setting lifecycles after bucket creation.


Properties:

- Config:      lifecycle
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_LIFECYCLE
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --b2-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --b2-sse-customer-algorithm

If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in B2.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_algorithm
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_SSE_CUSTOMER_ALGORITHM
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None
  - "AES256"
    - Advanced Encryption Standard (256 bits key length)

#### --b2-sse-customer-key

To use SSE-C, you may provide the secret encryption key encoded in a UTF-8 compatible string to encrypt/decrypt your data

Alternatively you can provide --sse-customer-key-base64.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --b2-sse-customer-key-base64

To use SSE-C, you may provide the secret encryption key encoded in Base64 format to encrypt/decrypt your data

Alternatively you can provide --sse-customer-key.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_base64
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_BASE64
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --b2-sse-customer-key-md5

If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional).

If you leave it blank, this is calculated automatically from the sse_customer_key provided.


Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_md5
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_MD5
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --b2-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_B2_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the b2 backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### lifecycle

Read or set the lifecycle for a bucket.

```console
rclone backend lifecycle remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command can be used to read or set the lifecycle for a bucket.

To show the current lifecycle rules:

```console
rclone backend lifecycle b2:bucket
```

This will dump something like this showing the lifecycle rules.

```json
[
    {
        "daysFromHidingToDeleting": 1,
        "daysFromUploadingToHiding": null,
        "daysFromStartingToCancelingUnfinishedLargeFiles": null,
        "fileNamePrefix": ""
    }
]
```

If there are no lifecycle rules (the default) then it will just return `[]`.

To reset the current lifecycle rules:

```console
rclone backend lifecycle b2:bucket -o daysFromHidingToDeleting=30
rclone backend lifecycle b2:bucket -o daysFromUploadingToHiding=5 -o daysFromHidingToDeleting=1
```

This will run and then print the new lifecycle rules as above.

Rclone only lets you set lifecycles for the whole bucket with the
fileNamePrefix = "".

You can't disable versioning with B2. The best you can do is to set
the daysFromHidingToDeleting to 1 day. You can enable hard_delete in
the config also which will mean deletions won't cause versions but
overwrites will still cause versions to be made.

```console
rclone backend lifecycle b2:bucket -o daysFromHidingToDeleting=1
```

See: <https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-lifecycle-rules>

Options:

- "daysFromHidingToDeleting": After a file has been hidden for this many days
it is deleted. 0 is off.
- "daysFromStartingToCancelingUnfinishedLargeFiles": Cancels any unfinished
large file versions after this many days.
- "daysFromUploadingToHiding": This many days after uploading a file is hidden.

### cleanup

Remove unfinished large file uploads.

```console
rclone backend cleanup remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command removes unfinished large file uploads of age greater than
max-age, which defaults to 24 hours.

Note that you can use --interactive/-i or --dry-run with this command to see what
it would do.

```console
rclone backend cleanup b2:bucket/path/to/object
rclone backend cleanup -o max-age=7w b2:bucket/path/to/object
```

Durations are parsed as per the rest of rclone, 2h, 7d, 7w etc.

Options:

- "max-age": Max age of upload to delete.

### cleanup-hidden

Remove old versions of files.

```console
rclone backend cleanup-hidden remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command removes any old hidden versions of files.

Note that you can use --interactive/-i or --dry-run with this command to see what
it would do.

```console
rclone backend cleanup-hidden b2:bucket/path/to/dir
```

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the B2 backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Box

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

The initial setup for Box involves getting a token from Box which you
can do either in your browser, or with a config.json downloaded from Box
to use JWT authentication.  `rclone config` walks you through it.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Box
   \ "box"
[snip]
Storage> box
Box App Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id> 
Box App Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Box App config.json location
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
box_config_file>
Box App Primary Access Token
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
access_token>

Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("user").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Rclone should act on behalf of a user
   \ "user"
 2 / Rclone should act on behalf of a service account
   \ "enterprise"
box_sub_type>
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: box
- client_id:
- client_secret:
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"XXX"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Box. This only runs from the moment it opens
your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.  This
is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this may require you to unblock
it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Box

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Box

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Box directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Using rclone with an Enterprise account with SSO

If you have an "Enterprise" account type with Box with single sign on
(SSO), you need to create a password to use Box with rclone. This can
be done at your Enterprise Box account by going to Settings, "Account"
Tab, and then set the password in the "Authentication" field.

Once you have done this, you can setup your Enterprise Box account
using the same procedure detailed above in the, using the password you
have just set.

### Invalid refresh token

According to the [box docs](https://developer.box.com/v2.0/docs/oauth-20#section-6-using-the-access-and-refresh-tokens):

> Each refresh_token is valid for one use in 60 days.

This means that if you

- Don't use the box remote for 60 days
- Copy the config file with a box refresh token in and use it in two places
- Get an error on a token refresh

then rclone will return an error which includes the text `Invalid
refresh token`.

To fix this you will need to use oauth2 again to update the refresh
token.  You can use the methods in [the remote setup
docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/), bearing in mind that if you use the copy the
config file method, you should not use that remote on the computer you
did the authentication on.

Here is how to do it.

```console
$ rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               box

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> e
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 > remote
remote> remote
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: box
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2017-07-08T23:40:08.059167677+01:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
Edit remote
Value "client_id" = ""
Edit? (y/n)>
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Value "client_secret" = ""
Edit? (y/n)>
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Token already configured - replace it?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: box
- token: {"access_token":"YYY","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"YYY","expiry":"2017-07-23T12:22:29.259137901+01:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Modification times and hashes

Box allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second.  These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.

Box supports SHA1 type hashes, so you can use the `--checksum`
flag.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

File names can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Transfers

For files above 50 MiB rclone will use a chunked transfer.  Rclone will
upload up to `--transfers` chunks at the same time (shared among all
the multipart uploads).  Chunks are buffered in memory and are
normally 8 MiB so increasing `--transfers` will increase memory use.

### Deleting files

Depending on the enterprise settings for your user, the item will
either be actually deleted from Box or moved to the trash.

Emptying the trash is supported via the rclone however cleanup command
however this deletes every trashed file and folder individually so it
may take a very long time.
Emptying the trash via the  WebUI does not have this limitation
so it is advised to empty the trash via the WebUI.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory
(identified by its `Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your Box drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display.  This will be the last segment
of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the Box web
interface.

So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like
`https://app.box.com/folder/11xxxxxxxxx8`
in the browser, then you use `11xxxxxxxxx8` as
the `root_folder_id` in the config.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to box (Box).

#### --box-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-box-config-file

Box App config.json location

Leave blank normally.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      box_config_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_BOX_CONFIG_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-access-token

Box App Primary Access Token

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      access_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-box-sub-type



Properties:

- Config:      box_sub_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_BOX_SUB_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "user"
- Examples:
  - "user"
    - Rclone should act on behalf of a user.
  - "enterprise"
    - Rclone should act on behalf of a service account.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to box (Box).

#### --box-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --box-root-folder-id

Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Default:     "0"

#### --box-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB).

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     50Mi

#### --box-commit-retries

Max number of times to try committing a multipart file.

Properties:

- Config:      commit_retries
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_COMMIT_RETRIES
- Type:        int
- Default:     100

#### --box-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk 1-1000.

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --box-owned-by

Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in.

Properties:

- Config:      owned_by
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_OWNED_BY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-impersonate

Impersonate this user ID when using a service account.

Setting this flag allows rclone, when using a JWT service account, to
act on behalf of another user by setting the as-user header.

The user ID is the Box identifier for a user. User IDs can found for
any user via the GET /users endpoint, which is only available to
admins, or by calling the GET /users/me endpoint with an authenticated
user session.

See: https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/jwt/as-user/


Properties:

- Config:      impersonate
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_IMPERSONATE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --box-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --box-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_BOX_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

Note that Box is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

Box file names can't have the `\` character in.  rclone maps this to
and from an identical looking unicode equivalent `＼` (U+FF3C Fullwidth
Reverse Solidus).

Box only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

Box has [API rate limits](https://developer.box.com/guides/api-calls/permissions-and-errors/rate-limits/)
that sometimes reduce the speed of rclone.

`rclone about` is not supported by the Box backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

## Get your own Box App ID

Here is how to create your own Box App ID for rclone:

1. Go to the [Box Developer Console](https://app.box.com/developers/console)
and login, then click `My Apps` on the sidebar. Click `Create New App`
and select `Custom App`.

2. In the first screen on the box that pops up, you can pretty much enter
whatever you want. The `App Name` can be whatever. For `Purpose` choose
automation to avoid having to fill out anything else. Click `Next`.

3. In the second screen of the creation screen, select
`User Authentication (OAuth 2.0)`. Then click `Create App`.

4. You should now be on the `Configuration` tab of your new app. If not,
click on it at the top of the webpage. Copy down `Client ID`
and `Client Secret`, you'll need those for rclone.

5. Under "OAuth 2.0 Redirect URI", add `http://127.0.0.1:53682/`

6. For `Application Scopes`, select `Read all files and folders stored in Box`
and `Write all files and folders stored in box` (assuming you want to do both).
Leave others unchecked. Click `Save Changes` at the top right.

# Cache

The `cache` remote wraps another existing remote and stores file structure
and its data for long running tasks like `rclone mount`.

It is **deprecated** so not recommended for use with new installations
and may be removed at some point.

## Status

The cache backend code is working but it currently doesn't
have a maintainer so there are [outstanding bugs](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+label%3A%22Remote%3A+Cache%22) which aren't getting fixed.

The cache backend is due to be phased out in favour of the VFS caching
layer eventually which is more tightly integrated into rclone.

Until this happens we recommend only using the cache backend if you
find you can't work without it. There are many docs online describing
the use of the cache backend to minimize API hits and by-and-large
these are out of date and the cache backend isn't needed in those
scenarios any more.

## Configuration

To get started you just need to have an existing remote which can be configured
with `cache`.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `test-cache`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> test-cache
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
[snip]
Storage> cache
Remote to cache.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
remote> local:/test
Optional: The URL of the Plex server
plex_url> http://127.0.0.1:32400
Optional: The username of the Plex user
plex_username> dummyusername
Optional: The password of the Plex user
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
The size of a chunk. Lower value good for slow connections but can affect seamless reading.
Default: 5M
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1 MiB
   \ "1M"
 2 / 5 MiB
   \ "5M"
 3 / 10 MiB
   \ "10M"
chunk_size> 2
How much time should object info (file size, file hashes, etc.) be stored in cache. Use a very high value if you don't plan on changing the source FS from outside the cache.
Accepted units are: "s", "m", "h".
Default: 5m
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1 hour
   \ "1h"
 2 / 24 hours
   \ "24h"
 3 / 24 hours
   \ "48h"
info_age> 2
The maximum size of stored chunks. When the storage grows beyond this size, the oldest chunks will be deleted.
Default: 10G
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 500 MiB
   \ "500M"
 2 / 1 GiB
   \ "1G"
 3 / 10 GiB
   \ "10G"
chunk_total_size> 3
Remote config
--------------------
[test-cache]
remote = local:/test
plex_url = http://127.0.0.1:32400
plex_username = dummyusername
plex_password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
chunk_size = 5M
info_age = 48h
chunk_total_size = 10G
```

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your drive

```console
rclone lsd test-cache:
```

List all the files in your drive

```console
rclone ls test-cache:
```

To start a cached mount

```console
rclone mount --allow-other test-cache: /var/tmp/test-cache
```

### Write Features

### Offline uploading

In an effort to make writing through cache more reliable, the backend 
now supports this feature which can be activated by specifying a
`cache-tmp-upload-path`.

A files goes through these states when using this feature:

1. An upload is started (usually by copying a file on the cache remote)
2. When the copy to the temporary location is complete the file is part 
of the cached remote and looks and behaves like any other file (reading included)
3. After `cache-tmp-wait-time` passes and the file is next in line, `rclone move` 
is used to move the file to the cloud provider
4. Reading the file still works during the upload but most modifications on it will be prohibited
5. Once the move is complete the file is unlocked for modifications as it
becomes as any other regular file
6. If the file is being read through `cache` when it's actually
deleted from the temporary path then `cache` will simply swap the source
to the cloud provider without interrupting the reading (small blip can happen though)

Files are uploaded in sequence and only one file is uploaded at a time.
Uploads will be stored in a queue and be processed based on the order they were added.
The queue and the temporary storage is persistent across restarts but
can be cleared on startup with the `--cache-db-purge` flag.

### Write Support

Writes are supported through `cache`.
One caveat is that a mounted cache remote does not add any retry or fallback
mechanism to the upload operation. This will depend on the implementation
of the wrapped remote. Consider using `Offline uploading` for reliable writes.

One special case is covered with `cache-writes` which will cache the file
data at the same time as the upload when it is enabled making it available
from the cache store immediately once the upload is finished.

### Read Features

#### Multiple connections

To counter the high latency between a local PC where rclone is running
and cloud providers, the cache remote can split multiple requests to the
cloud provider for smaller file chunks and combines them together locally
where they can be available almost immediately before the reader usually
needs them.

This is similar to buffering when media files are played online. Rclone
will stay around the current marker but always try its best to stay ahead
and prepare the data before.

#### Plex Integration

There is a direct integration with Plex which allows cache to detect during reading
if the file is in playback or not. This helps cache to adapt how it queries
the cloud provider depending on what is needed for.

Scans will have a minimum amount of workers (1) while in a confirmed playback cache
will deploy the configured number of workers.

This integration opens the doorway to additional performance improvements
which will be explored in the near future.

**Note:** If Plex options are not configured, `cache` will function with its
configured options without adapting any of its settings.

How to enable? Run `rclone config` and add all the Plex options (endpoint, username
and password) in your remote and it will be automatically enabled.

Affected settings:

- `cache-workers`: *Configured value* during confirmed playback or *1* all the
  other times

##### Certificate Validation

When the Plex server is configured to only accept secure connections, it is
possible to use `.plex.direct` URLs to ensure certificate validation succeeds.
These URLs are used by Plex internally to connect to the Plex server securely.

The format for these URLs is the following:

`https://ip-with-dots-replaced.server-hash.plex.direct:32400/`

The `ip-with-dots-replaced` part can be any IPv4 address, where the dots
have been replaced with dashes, e.g. `127.0.0.1` becomes `127-0-0-1`.

To get the `server-hash` part, the easiest way is to visit

<https://plex.tv/api/resources?includeHttps=1&X-Plex-Token=your-plex-token>

This page will list all the available Plex servers for your account
with at least one `.plex.direct` link for each. Copy one URL and replace
the IP address with the desired address. This can be used as the
`plex_url` value.

### Known issues

#### Mount and --dir-cache-time

--dir-cache-time controls the first layer of directory caching which works at
the mount layer. Being an independent caching mechanism from the `cache` backend,
it will manage its own entries based on the configured time.

To avoid getting in a scenario where dir cache has obsolete data and cache would
have the correct one, try to set `--dir-cache-time` to a lower time than
`--cache-info-age`. Default values are already configured in this way.

#### Windows support - Experimental

There are a couple of issues with Windows `mount` functionality that still
require some investigations. It should be considered as experimental thus far
as fixes come in for this OS.

Most of the issues seem to be related to the difference between filesystems
on Linux flavors and Windows as cache is heavily dependent on them.

Any reports or feedback on how cache behaves on this OS is greatly appreciated.

- [Issue #1935](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1935)
- [Issue #1907](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1907)
- [Issue #1834](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1834)

#### Risk of throttling

Future iterations of the cache backend will make use of the pooling functionality
of the cloud provider to synchronize and at the same time make writing through it
more tolerant to failures.

There are a couple of enhancements in track to add these but in the meantime
there is a valid concern that the expiring cache listings can lead to cloud provider
throttles or bans due to repeated queries on it for very large mounts.

Some recommendations:

- don't use a very small interval for entry information (`--cache-info-age`)
- while writes aren't yet optimised, you can still write through `cache` which
  gives you the advantage of adding the file in the cache at the same time if
  configured to do so.

Future enhancements:

- [Issue #1937](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1937)
- [Issue #1936](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1936)

#### cache and crypt

One common scenario is to keep your data encrypted in the cloud provider
using the `crypt` remote. `crypt` uses a similar technique to wrap around
an existing remote and handles this translation in a seamless way.

There is an issue with wrapping the remotes in this order:
**cloud remote** -> **crypt** -> **cache**

During testing, I experienced a lot of bans with the remotes in this order.
I suspect it might be related to how crypt opens files on the cloud provider
which makes it think we're downloading the full file instead of small chunks.
Organizing the remotes in this order yields better results:
**cloud remote** -> **cache** -> **crypt**

#### absolute remote paths

`cache` can not differentiate between relative and absolute paths for the wrapped
remote. Any path given in the `remote` config setting and on the command line will
be passed to the wrapped remote as is, but for storing the chunks on disk the path
will be made relative by removing any leading `/` character.

This behavior is irrelevant for most backend types, but there are backends where
a leading `/` changes the effective directory, e.g. in the `sftp` backend paths
starting with a `/` are relative to the root of the SSH server and paths without
are relative to the user home directory. As a result `sftp:bin` and `sftp:/bin`
will share the same cache folder, even if they represent a different directory
on the SSH server.

### Cache and Remote Control (--rc)

Cache supports the new `--rc` mode in rclone and can be remote controlled
through the following end points: By default, the listener is disabled if
you do not add the flag.

### rc cache/expire

Purge a remote from the cache backend. Supports either a directory or a file.
It supports both encrypted and unencrypted file names if cache is wrapped by crypt.

Params:

- **remote** = path to remote **(required)**
- **withData** = true/false to delete cached data (chunks) as
  well *(optional, false by default)*

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

#### --cache-remote

Remote to cache.

Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --cache-plex-url

The URL of the Plex server.

Properties:

- Config:      plex_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cache-plex-username

The username of the Plex user.

Properties:

- Config:      plex_username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cache-plex-password

The password of the Plex user.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      plex_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cache-chunk-size

The size of a chunk (partial file data).

Use lower numbers for slower connections. If the chunk size is
changed, any downloaded chunks will be invalid and cache-chunk-path
will need to be cleared or unexpected EOF errors will occur.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi
- Examples:
  - "1M"
    - 1 MiB
  - "5M"
    - 5 MiB
  - "10M"
    - 10 MiB

#### --cache-info-age

How long to cache file structure information (directory listings, file size, times, etc.). 
If all write operations are done through the cache then you can safely make
this value very large as the cache store will also be updated in real time.

Properties:

- Config:      info_age
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_INFO_AGE
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     6h0m0s
- Examples:
  - "1h"
    - 1 hour
  - "24h"
    - 24 hours
  - "48h"
    - 48 hours

#### --cache-chunk-total-size

The total size that the chunks can take up on the local disk.

If the cache exceeds this value then it will start to delete the
oldest chunks until it goes under this value.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_total_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_TOTAL_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Gi
- Examples:
  - "500M"
    - 500 MiB
  - "1G"
    - 1 GiB
  - "10G"
    - 10 GiB

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

#### --cache-plex-insecure

Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server.

Properties:

- Config:      plex_insecure
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_INSECURE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cache-db-path

Directory to store file structure metadata DB.

The remote name is used as the DB file name.

Properties:

- Config:      db_path
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_DB_PATH
- Type:        string
- Default:     "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"

#### --cache-chunk-path

Directory to cache chunk files.

Path to where partial file data (chunks) are stored locally. The remote
name is appended to the final path.

This config follows the "--cache-db-path". If you specify a custom
location for "--cache-db-path" and don't specify one for "--cache-chunk-path"
then "--cache-chunk-path" will use the same path as "--cache-db-path".

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_path
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_PATH
- Type:        string
- Default:     "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"

#### --cache-db-purge

Clear all the cached data for this remote on start.

Properties:

- Config:      db_purge
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_DB_PURGE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --cache-chunk-clean-interval

How often should the cache perform cleanups of the chunk storage.

The default value should be ok for most people. If you find that the
cache goes over "cache-chunk-total-size" too often then try to lower
this value to force it to perform cleanups more often.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_clean_interval
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_CLEAN_INTERVAL
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --cache-read-retries

How many times to retry a read from a cache storage.

Since reading from a cache stream is independent from downloading file
data, readers can get to a point where there's no more data in the
cache.  Most of the times this can indicate a connectivity issue if
cache isn't able to provide file data anymore.

For really slow connections, increase this to a point where the stream is
able to provide data but your experience will be very stuttering.

Properties:

- Config:      read_retries
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_READ_RETRIES
- Type:        int
- Default:     10

#### --cache-workers

How many workers should run in parallel to download chunks.

Higher values will mean more parallel processing (better CPU needed)
and more concurrent requests on the cloud provider.  This impacts
several aspects like the cloud provider API limits, more stress on the
hardware that rclone runs on but it also means that streams will be
more fluid and data will be available much more faster to readers.

**Note**: If the optional Plex integration is enabled then this
setting will adapt to the type of reading performed and the value
specified here will be used as a maximum number of workers to use.

Properties:

- Config:      workers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_WORKERS
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --cache-chunk-no-memory

Disable the in-memory cache for storing chunks during streaming.

By default, cache will keep file data during streaming in RAM as well
to provide it to readers as fast as possible.

This transient data is evicted as soon as it is read and the number of
chunks stored doesn't exceed the number of workers. However, depending
on other settings like "cache-chunk-size" and "cache-workers" this footprint
can increase if there are parallel streams too (multiple files being read
at the same time).

If the hardware permits it, use this feature to provide an overall better
performance during streaming but it can also be disabled if RAM is not
available on the local machine.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_no_memory
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_NO_MEMORY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --cache-rps

Limits the number of requests per second to the source FS (-1 to disable).

This setting places a hard limit on the number of requests per second
that cache will be doing to the cloud provider remote and try to
respect that value by setting waits between reads.

If you find that you're getting banned or limited on the cloud
provider through cache and know that a smaller number of requests per
second will allow you to work with it then you can use this setting
for that.

A good balance of all the other settings should make this setting
useless but it is available to set for more special cases.

**NOTE**: This will limit the number of requests during streams but
other API calls to the cloud provider like directory listings will
still pass.

Properties:

- Config:      rps
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_RPS
- Type:        int
- Default:     -1

#### --cache-writes

Cache file data on writes through the FS.

If you need to read files immediately after you upload them through
cache you can enable this flag to have their data stored in the
cache store at the same time during upload.

Properties:

- Config:      writes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_WRITES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --cache-tmp-upload-path

Directory to keep temporary files until they are uploaded.

This is the path where cache will use as a temporary storage for new
files that need to be uploaded to the cloud provider.

Specifying a value will enable this feature. Without it, it is
completely disabled and files will be uploaded directly to the cloud
provider

Properties:

- Config:      tmp_upload_path
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_TMP_UPLOAD_PATH
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cache-tmp-wait-time

How long should files be stored in local cache before being uploaded.

This is the duration that a file must wait in the temporary location
_cache-tmp-upload-path_ before it is selected for upload.

Note that only one file is uploaded at a time and it can take longer
to start the upload if a queue formed for this purpose.

Properties:

- Config:      tmp_wait_time
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_TMP_WAIT_TIME
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     15s

#### --cache-db-wait-time

How long to wait for the DB to be available - 0 is unlimited.

Only one process can have the DB open at any one time, so rclone waits
for this duration for the DB to become available before it gives an
error.

If you set it to 0 then it will wait forever.

Properties:

- Config:      db_wait_time
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_DB_WAIT_TIME
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1s

#### --cache-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the cache backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### stats

Print stats on the cache backend in JSON format.

```console
rclone backend stats remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

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# Chunker

The `chunker` overlay transparently splits large files into smaller chunks
during upload to wrapped remote and transparently assembles them back
when the file is downloaded. This allows to effectively overcome size limits
imposed by storage providers.

## Configuration

To use it, first set up the underlying remote following the configuration
instructions for that remote. You can also use a local pathname instead of
a remote.

First check your chosen remote is working - we'll call it `remote:path` here.
Note that anything inside `remote:path` will be chunked and anything outside
won't. This means that if you are using a bucket-based remote (e.g. S3, B2, swift)
then you should probably put the bucket in the remote `s3:bucket`.

Now configure `chunker` using `rclone config`. We will call this one `overlay`
to separate it from the `remote` itself.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> overlay
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Transparently chunk/split large files
   \ "chunker"
[snip]
Storage> chunker
Remote to chunk/unchunk.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
remote> remote:path
Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.
Enter a size with suffix K,M,G,T. Press Enter for the default ("2G").
chunk_size> 100M
Choose how chunker handles hash sums. All modes but "none" require metadata.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("md5").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Pass any hash supported by wrapped remote for non-chunked files, return nothing otherwise
   \ "none"
 2 / MD5 for composite files
   \ "md5"
 3 / SHA1 for composite files
   \ "sha1"
 4 / MD5 for all files
   \ "md5all"
 5 / SHA1 for all files
   \ "sha1all"
 6 / Copying a file to chunker will request MD5 from the source falling back to SHA1 if unsupported
   \ "md5quick"
 7 / Similar to "md5quick" but prefers SHA1 over MD5
   \ "sha1quick"
hash_type> md5
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
--------------------
[overlay]
type = chunker
remote = remote:bucket
chunk_size = 100M
hash_type = md5
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Specifying the remote

In normal use, make sure the remote has a `:` in. If you specify the remote
without a `:` then rclone will use a local directory of that name.
So if you use a remote of `/path/to/secret/files` then rclone will
chunk stuff in that directory. If you use a remote of `name` then rclone
will put files in a directory called `name` in the current directory.

### Chunking

When rclone starts a file upload, chunker checks the file size. If it
doesn't exceed the configured chunk size, chunker will just pass the file
to the wrapped remote (however, see caveat below). If a file is large, chunker
will transparently cut data in pieces with temporary names and stream them one
by one, on the fly. Each data chunk will contain the specified number of bytes,
except for the last one which may have less data. If file size is unknown in
advance (this is called a streaming upload), chunker will internally create
a temporary copy, record its size and repeat the above process.

When upload completes, temporary chunk files are finally renamed.
This scheme guarantees that operations can be run in parallel and look
from outside as atomic.
A similar method with hidden temporary chunks is used for other operations
(copy/move/rename, etc.). If an operation fails, hidden chunks are normally
destroyed, and the target composite file stays intact.

When a composite file download is requested, chunker transparently
assembles it by concatenating data chunks in order. As the split is trivial
one could even manually concatenate data chunks together to obtain the
original content.

When the `list` rclone command scans a directory on wrapped remote,
the potential chunk files are accounted for, grouped and assembled into
composite directory entries. Any temporary chunks are hidden.

List and other commands can sometimes come across composite files with
missing or invalid chunks, e.g. shadowed by like-named directory or
another file. This usually means that wrapped file system has been directly
tampered with or damaged. If chunker detects a missing chunk it will
by default print warning, skip the whole incomplete group of chunks but
proceed with current command.
You can set the `--chunker-fail-hard` flag to have commands abort with
error message in such cases.

**Caveat**: As it is now, chunker will always create a temporary file in the
backend and then rename it, even if the file is below the chunk threshold.
This will result in unnecessary API calls and can severely restrict throughput
when handling transfers primarily composed of small files on some backends
(e.g. Box). A workaround to this issue is to use chunker only for files above
the chunk threshold via `--min-size` and then perform a separate call without
chunker on the remaining files.

#### Chunk names

The default chunk name format is `*.rclone_chunk.###`, hence by default
chunk names are `BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001`,
`BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.002` etc. You can configure another name format
using the `name_format` configuration file option. The format uses asterisk
`*` as a placeholder for the base file name and one or more consecutive
hash characters `#` as a placeholder for sequential chunk number.
There must be one and only one asterisk. The number of consecutive hash
characters defines the minimum length of a string representing a chunk number.
If decimal chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is
left-padded by zeros. If the decimal string is longer, it is left intact.
By default numbering starts from 1 but there is another option that allows
user to start from 0, e.g. for compatibility with legacy software.

For example, if name format is `big_*-##.part` and original file name is
`data.txt` and numbering starts from 0, then the first chunk will be named
`big_data.txt-00.part`, the 99th chunk will be `big_data.txt-98.part`
and the 302nd chunk will become `big_data.txt-301.part`.

Note that `list` assembles composite directory entries only when chunk names
match the configured format and treats non-conforming file names as normal
non-chunked files.

When using `norename` transactions, chunk names will additionally have a unique
file version suffix. For example, `BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001_bp562k`.

### Metadata

Besides data chunks chunker will by default create metadata object for
a composite file. The object is named after the original file.
Chunker allows user to disable metadata completely (the `none` format).
Note that metadata is normally not created for files smaller than the
configured chunk size. This may change in future rclone releases.

#### Simple JSON metadata format

This is the default format. It supports hash sums and chunk validation
for composite files. Meta objects carry the following fields:

- `ver`     - version of format, currently `1`
- `size`    - total size of composite file
- `nchunks` - number of data chunks in file
- `md5`     - MD5 hashsum of composite file (if present)
- `sha1`    - SHA1 hashsum (if present)
- `txn`     - identifies current version of the file

There is no field for composite file name as it's simply equal to the name
of meta object on the wrapped remote. Please refer to respective sections
for details on hashsums and modified time handling.

#### No metadata

You can disable meta objects by setting the meta format option to `none`.
In this mode chunker will scan directory for all files that follow
configured chunk name format, group them by detecting chunks with the same
base name and show group names as virtual composite files.
This method is more prone to missing chunk errors (especially missing
last chunk) than format with metadata enabled.

### Hashsums

Chunker supports hashsums only when a compatible metadata is present.
Hence, if you choose metadata format of `none`, chunker will report hashsum
as `UNSUPPORTED`.

Please note that by default metadata is stored only for composite files.
If a file is smaller than configured chunk size, chunker will transparently
redirect hash requests to wrapped remote, so support depends on that.
You will see the empty string as a hashsum of requested type for small
files if the wrapped remote doesn't support it.

Many storage backends support MD5 and SHA1 hash types, so does chunker.
With chunker you can choose one or another but not both.
MD5 is set by default as the most supported type.
Since chunker keeps hashes for composite files and falls back to the
wrapped remote hash for non-chunked ones, we advise you to choose the same
hash type as supported by wrapped remote so that your file listings
look coherent.

If your storage backend does not support MD5 or SHA1 but you need consistent
file hashing, configure chunker with `md5all` or `sha1all`. These two modes
guarantee given hash for all files. If wrapped remote doesn't support it,
chunker will then add metadata to all files, even small. However, this can
double the amount of small files in storage and incur additional service charges.
You can even use chunker to force md5/sha1 support in any other remote
at expense of sidecar meta objects by setting e.g. `hash_type=sha1all`
to force hashsums and `chunk_size=1P` to effectively disable chunking.

Normally, when a file is copied to chunker controlled remote, chunker
will ask the file source for compatible file hash and revert to on-the-fly
calculation if none is found. This involves some CPU overhead but provides
a guarantee that given hashsum is available. Also, chunker will reject
a server-side copy or move operation if source and destination hashsum
types are different resulting in the extra network bandwidth, too.
In some rare cases this may be undesired, so chunker provides two optional
choices: `sha1quick` and `md5quick`. If the source does not support primary
hash type and the quick mode is enabled, chunker will try to fall back to
the secondary type. This will save CPU and bandwidth but can result in empty
hashsums at destination. Beware of consequences: the `sync` command will
revert (sometimes silently) to time/size comparison if compatible hashsums
between source and target are not found.

### Modification times

Chunker stores modification times using the wrapped remote so support
depends on that. For a small non-chunked file the chunker overlay simply
manipulates modification time of the wrapped remote file.
For a composite file with metadata chunker will get and set
modification time of the metadata object on the wrapped remote.
If file is chunked but metadata format is `none` then chunker will
use modification time of the first data chunk.

### Migrations

The idiomatic way to migrate to a different chunk size, hash type, transaction
style or chunk naming scheme is to:

- Collect all your chunked files under a directory and have your
  chunker remote point to it.
- Create another directory (most probably on the same cloud storage)
  and configure a new remote with desired metadata format,
  hash type, chunk naming etc.
- Now run `rclone sync --interactive oldchunks: newchunks:` and all your data
  will be transparently converted in transfer.
  This may take some time, yet chunker will try server-side
  copy if possible.
- After checking data integrity you may remove configuration section
  of the old remote.

If rclone gets killed during a long operation on a big composite file,
hidden temporary chunks may stay in the directory. They will not be
shown by the `list` command but will eat up your account quota.
Please note that the `deletefile` command deletes only active
chunks of a file. As a workaround, you can use remote of the wrapped
file system to see them.
An easy way to get rid of hidden garbage is to copy littered directory
somewhere using the chunker remote and purge the original directory.
The `copy` command will copy only active chunks while the `purge` will
remove everything including garbage.

### Caveats and Limitations

Chunker requires wrapped remote to support server-side `move` (or `copy` +
`delete`) operations, otherwise it will explicitly refuse to start.
This is because it internally renames temporary chunk files to their final
names when an operation completes successfully.

Chunker encodes chunk number in file name, so with default `name_format`
setting it adds 17 characters. Also chunker adds 7 characters of temporary
suffix during operations. Many file systems limit base file name without path
by 255 characters. Using rclone's crypt remote as a base file system limits
file name by 143 characters. Thus, maximum name length is 231 for most files
and 119 for chunker-over-crypt. A user in need can change name format to
e.g. `*.rcc##` and save 10 characters (provided at most 99 chunks per file).

Note that a move implemented using the copy-and-delete method may incur
double charging with some cloud storage providers.

Chunker will not automatically rename existing chunks when you run
`rclone config` on a live remote and change the chunk name format.
Beware that in result of this some files which have been treated as chunks
before the change can pop up in directory listings as normal files
and vice versa. The same warning holds for the chunk size.
If you desperately need to change critical chunking settings, you should
run data migration as described above.

If wrapped remote is case insensitive, the chunker overlay will inherit
that property (so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and "hello.doc"
in the same directory).

Chunker included in rclone releases up to `v1.54` can sometimes fail to
detect metadata produced by recent versions of rclone. We recommend users
to keep rclone up-to-date to avoid data corruption.

Changing `transactions` is dangerous and requires explicit migration.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

#### --chunker-remote

Remote to chunk/unchunk.

Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --chunker-chunk-size

Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     2Gi

#### --chunker-hash-type

Choose how chunker handles hash sums.

All modes but "none" require metadata.

Properties:

- Config:      hash_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_HASH_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "md5"
- Examples:
  - "none"
    - Pass any hash supported by wrapped remote for non-chunked files.
    - Return nothing otherwise.
  - "md5"
    - MD5 for composite files.
  - "sha1"
    - SHA1 for composite files.
  - "md5all"
    - MD5 for all files.
  - "sha1all"
    - SHA1 for all files.
  - "md5quick"
    - Copying a file to chunker will request MD5 from the source.
    - Falling back to SHA1 if unsupported.
  - "sha1quick"
    - Similar to "md5quick" but prefers SHA1 over MD5.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

#### --chunker-name-format

String format of chunk file names.

The two placeholders are: base file name (*) and chunk number (#...).
There must be one and only one asterisk and one or more consecutive hash characters.
If chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is left-padded by zeros.
If there are more digits in the number, they are left as is.
Possible chunk files are ignored if their name does not match given format.

Properties:

- Config:      name_format
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_NAME_FORMAT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "*.rclone_chunk.###"

#### --chunker-start-from

Minimum valid chunk number. Usually 0 or 1.

By default chunk numbers start from 1.

Properties:

- Config:      start_from
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_START_FROM
- Type:        int
- Default:     1

#### --chunker-meta-format

Format of the metadata object or "none".

By default "simplejson".
Metadata is a small JSON file named after the composite file.

Properties:

- Config:      meta_format
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_META_FORMAT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "simplejson"
- Examples:
  - "none"
    - Do not use metadata files at all.
    - Requires hash type "none".
  - "simplejson"
    - Simple JSON supports hash sums and chunk validation.
    - 
    - It has the following fields: ver, size, nchunks, md5, sha1.

#### --chunker-fail-hard

Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks.

Properties:

- Config:      fail_hard
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_FAIL_HARD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Report errors and abort current command.
  - "false"
    - Warn user, skip incomplete file and proceed.

#### --chunker-transactions

Choose how chunker should handle temporary files during transactions.

Properties:

- Config:      transactions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_TRANSACTIONS
- Type:        string
- Default:     "rename"
- Examples:
  - "rename"
    - Rename temporary files after a successful transaction.
  - "norename"
    - Leave temporary file names and write transaction ID to metadata file.
    - Metadata is required for no rename transactions (meta format cannot be "none").
    - If you are using norename transactions you should be careful not to downgrade Rclone
    - as older versions of Rclone don't support this transaction style and will misinterpret
    - files manipulated by norename transactions.
    - This method is EXPERIMENTAL, don't use on production systems.
  - "auto"
    - Rename or norename will be used depending on capabilities of the backend.
    - If meta format is set to "none", rename transactions will always be used.
    - This method is EXPERIMENTAL, don't use on production systems.

#### --chunker-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CHUNKER_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# Cloudinary

This is a backend for the [Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com/) platform

## About Cloudinary

[Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com/) is an image and video API platform.
Trusted by 1.5 million developers and 10,000 enterprise and hyper-growth
companies as a critical part of their tech stack to deliver visually engaging
experiences.

## Accounts & Pricing

To use this backend, you need to [create a free account](https://cloudinary.com/users/register_free)
on Cloudinary. Start with a free plan with generous usage limits. Then, as your
requirements grow, upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs.
See [the pricing details](https://cloudinary.com/pricing).

## Securing Your Credentials

Please refer to the [docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#configuration-encryption-cheatsheet)

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a Cloudinary configuration.

First, create a [cloudinary.com](https://cloudinary.com/users/register_free)
account and choose a plan.

You will need to log in and get the `API Key` and `API Secret` for your account
from the developer section.

Now run

```console
rclone config
```

Follow the interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter the name for the new remote.
name> cloudinary-media-library

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / cloudinary.com
\ (cloudinary)
[snip]
Storage> cloudinary

Option cloud_name.
You can find your cloudinary.com cloud_name in your [dashboard](https://console.cloudinary.com/pm/developer-dashboard)
Enter a value.
cloud_name> ****************************

Option api_key.
You can find your cloudinary.com api key in your [dashboard](https://console.cloudinary.com/pm/developer-dashboard)
Enter a value.
api_key> ****************************

Option api_secret.
You can find your cloudinary.com api secret in your [dashboard](https://console.cloudinary.com/pm/developer-dashboard)
This value must be a single character, one of the following: y, g.
y/g> y
Enter a value.
api_secret> ****************************

Option upload_prefix.
[Upload prefix](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_sdks#configuration_parameters) to specify alternative data center
Enter a value.
upload_prefix>

Option upload_preset.
[Upload presets](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_presets) can be defined for different upload profiles
Enter a value.
upload_preset>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: cloudinary
- api_key: ****************************
- api_secret: ****************************
- cloud_name: ****************************
- upload_prefix:
- upload_preset:

Keep this "cloudinary-media-library" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

List directories in the top level of your Media Library

```console
rclone lsd cloudinary-media-library:
```

Make a new directory.

```console
rclone mkdir cloudinary-media-library:directory
```

List the contents of a directory.

```console
rclone ls cloudinary-media-library:directory
```

### Modified time and hashes

Cloudinary stores md5 and timestamps for any successful Put automatically and read-only.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to cloudinary (Cloudinary).

#### --cloudinary-cloud-name

Cloudinary Environment Name

Properties:

- Config:      cloud_name
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --cloudinary-api-key

Cloudinary API Key

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --cloudinary-api-secret

Cloudinary API Secret

Properties:

- Config:      api_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --cloudinary-upload-prefix

Specify the API endpoint for environments out of the US

Properties:

- Config:      upload_prefix
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PREFIX
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --cloudinary-upload-preset

Upload Preset to select asset manipulation on upload

Properties:

- Config:      upload_preset
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PRESET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to cloudinary (Cloudinary).

#### --cloudinary-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --cloudinary-eventually-consistent-delay

Wait N seconds for eventual consistency of the databases that support the backend operation

Properties:

- Config:      eventually_consistent_delay
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_EVENTUALLY_CONSISTENT_DELAY
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     0s

#### --cloudinary-adjust-media-files-extensions

Cloudinary handles media formats as a file attribute and strips it from the name, which is unlike most other file systems

Properties:

- Config:      adjust_media_files_extensions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_ADJUST_MEDIA_FILES_EXTENSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --cloudinary-media-extensions

Cloudinary supported media extensions

Properties:

- Config:      media_extensions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_MEDIA_EXTENSIONS
- Type:        stringArray
- Default:     [3ds 3g2 3gp ai arw avi avif bmp bw cr2 cr3 djvu dng eps3 fbx flif flv gif glb gltf hdp heic heif ico indd jp2 jpe jpeg jpg jxl jxr m2ts mov mp4 mpeg mts mxf obj ogv pdf ply png psd svg tga tif tiff ts u3ma usdz wdp webm webp wmv]

#### --cloudinary-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CLOUDINARY_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# Citrix ShareFile

[Citrix ShareFile](https://sharefile.com) is a secure file sharing and transfer
service aimed as business.

## Configuration

The initial setup for Citrix ShareFile involves getting a token from
Citrix ShareFile which you can in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
XX / Citrix Sharefile
   \ "sharefile"
Storage> sharefile
** See help for sharefile backend at: https://rclone.org/sharefile/ **

ID of the root folder

Leave blank to access "Personal Folders".  You can use one of the
standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Access the Personal Folders. (Default)
   \ ""
 2 / Access the Favorites folder.
   \ "favorites"
 3 / Access all the shared folders.
   \ "allshared"
 4 / Access all the individual connectors.
   \ "connectors"
 5 / Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.
   \ "top"
root_folder_id> 
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=XXX
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: sharefile
- endpoint: https://XXX.sharefile.com
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2019-09-30T19:41:45.878561877+01:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Citrix ShareFile. This only runs from the moment it opens
your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.  This
is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require you to unblock
it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your ShareFile

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your ShareFile

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an ShareFile directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

### Modification times and hashes

ShareFile allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second.  These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.

ShareFile supports MD5 type hashes, so you can use the `--checksum`
flag.

### Transfers

For files above 128 MiB rclone will use a chunked transfer.  Rclone will
upload up to `--transfers` chunks at the same time (shared among all
the multipart uploads).  Chunks are buffered in memory and are
normally 64 MiB so increasing `--transfers` will increase memory use.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \\        | 0x5C  | ＼           |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊           |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜           |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞           |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？           |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：           |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜           |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂           |

File names can also not start or end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the
name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |
| .         | 0x2E  | ．           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/sharefile/sharefile.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

#### --sharefile-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.

Leave blank to access "Personal Folders".  You can use one of the
standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Access the Personal Folders (default).
  - "favorites"
    - Access the Favorites folder.
  - "allshared"
    - Access all the shared folders.
  - "connectors"
    - Access all the individual connectors.
  - "top"
    - Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

#### --sharefile-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sharefile-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart upload.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     128Mi

#### --sharefile-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

Must a power of 2 >= 256k.

Making this larger will improve performance, but note that each chunk
is buffered in memory one per transfer.

Reducing this will reduce memory usage but decrease performance.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     64Mi

#### --sharefile-endpoint

Endpoint for API calls.

This is usually auto discovered as part of the oauth process, but can
be set manually to something like: https://XXX.sharefile.com


Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sharefile-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --sharefile-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHAREFILE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->
## Limitations

Note that ShareFile is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

ShareFile only supports filenames up to 256 characters in length.

`rclone about` is not supported by the Citrix ShareFile backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Crypt

Rclone `crypt` remotes encrypt and decrypt other remotes.

A remote of type `crypt` does not access a [storage system](https://rclone.org/overview/)
directly, but instead wraps another remote, which in turn accesses
the storage system. This is similar to how [alias](https://rclone.org/alias/),
[union](https://rclone.org/union/), [chunker](https://rclone.org/chunker/)
and a few others work. It makes the usage very flexible, as you can
add a layer, in this case an encryption layer, on top of any other
backend, even in multiple layers. Rclone's functionality
can be used as with any other remote, for example you can
[mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/) a crypt remote.

Accessing a storage system through a crypt remote realizes client-side
encryption, which makes it safe to keep your data in a location you do
not trust will not get compromised.
When working against the `crypt` remote, rclone will automatically
encrypt (before uploading) and decrypt (after downloading) on your local
system as needed on the fly, leaving the data encrypted at rest in the
wrapped remote. If you access the storage system using an application
other than rclone, or access the wrapped remote directly using rclone,
there will not be any encryption/decryption: Downloading existing content
will just give you the encrypted (scrambled) format, and anything you
upload will *not* become encrypted.

The encryption is a secret-key encryption (also called symmetric key encryption)
algorithm, where a password (or pass phrase) is used to generate real encryption
key. The password can be supplied by user, or you may chose to let rclone
generate one. It will be stored in the configuration file, in a lightly obscured
form. If you are in an environment where you are not able to keep your
configuration secured, you should add
[configuration encryption](https://rclone.org/docs/#configuration-encryption)
as protection. As long as you have this configuration file, you will be able to
decrypt your data. Without the configuration file, as long as you remember
the password (or keep it in a safe place), you can re-create the configuration
and gain access to the existing data. You may also configure a corresponding
remote in a different installation to access the same data.
See below for guidance to [changing password](#changing-password).

Encryption uses [cryptographic salt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)),
to permute the encryption key so that the same string may be encrypted in
different ways. When configuring the crypt remote it is optional to enter a salt,
or to let rclone generate a unique salt. If omitted, rclone uses a built-in unique
string. Normally in cryptography, the salt is stored together with the encrypted
content, and do not have to be memorized by the user. This is not the case in rclone,
because rclone does not store any additional information on the remotes. Use of
custom salt is effectively a second password that must be memorized.

[File content](#file-encryption) encryption is performed using
[NaCl SecretBox](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox),
based on XSalsa20 cipher and Poly1305 for integrity.
[Names](#name-encryption) (file- and directory names) are also encrypted
by default, but this has some implications and is therefore
possible to be turned off.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `secret`.

To use `crypt`, first set up the underlying remote. Follow the
`rclone config` instructions for the specific backend.

Before configuring the crypt remote, check the underlying remote is
working. In this example the underlying remote is called `remote`.
We will configure a path `path` within this remote to contain the
encrypted content. Anything inside `remote:path` will be encrypted
and anything outside will not.

Configure `crypt` using `rclone config`. In this example the `crypt`
remote is called `secret`, to differentiate it from the underlying
`remote`.

When you are done you can use the crypt remote named `secret` just
as you would with any other remote, e.g. `rclone copy D:\docs secret:\docs`,
and rclone will encrypt and decrypt as needed on the fly.
If you access the wrapped remote `remote:path` directly you will bypass
the encryption, and anything you read will be in encrypted form, and
anything you write will be unencrypted. To avoid issues it is best to
configure a dedicated path for encrypted content, and access it
exclusively through a crypt remote.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> secret
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
[snip]
Storage> crypt
** See help for crypt backend at: https://rclone.org/crypt/ **

Remote to encrypt/decrypt.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
remote> remote:path
How to encrypt the filenames.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("standard").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
   / Encrypt the filenames.
 1 | See the docs for the details.
   \ "standard"
 2 / Very simple filename obfuscation.
   \ "obfuscate"
   / Don't encrypt the file names.
 3 | Adds a ".bin" extension only.
   \ "off"
filename_encryption>
Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.

NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Encrypt directory names.
   \ "true"
 2 / Don't encrypt directory names, leave them intact.
   \ "false"
directory_name_encryption>
Password or pass phrase for encryption.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Password or pass phrase for salt. Optional but recommended.
Should be different to the previous password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> g
Password strength in bits.
64 is just about memorable
128 is secure
1024 is the maximum
Bits> 128
Your password is: JAsJvRcgR-_veXNfy_sGmQ
Use this password? Please note that an obscured version of this
password (and not the password itself) will be stored under your
configuration file, so keep this generated password in a safe place.
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n>
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>
Remote config
--------------------
[secret]
type = crypt
remote = remote:path
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
password2 = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>
```

**Important** The crypt password stored in `rclone.conf` is lightly
obscured. That only protects it from cursory inspection. It is not
secure unless [configuration encryption](https://rclone.org/docs/#configuration-encryption)
of `rclone.conf` is specified.

A long passphrase is recommended, or `rclone config` can generate a
random one.

The obscured password is created using AES-CTR with a static key. The
IV (nonce) is stored verbatim at the beginning of the obscured password. This
static key is shared between all versions of rclone.

If you reconfigure rclone with the same passwords/passphrases
elsewhere it will be compatible, but the obscured version will be different
due to the different salt.

Rclone does not encrypt

- file length - this can be calculated within 16 bytes
- modification time - used for syncing

### Specifying the remote

When configuring the remote to encrypt/decrypt, you may specify any
string that rclone accepts as a source/destination of other commands.

The primary use case is to specify the path into an already configured
remote (e.g. `remote:path/to/dir` or `remote:bucket`), such that
data in a remote untrusted location can be stored encrypted.

You may also specify a local filesystem path, such as
`/path/to/dir` on Linux, `C:\path\to\dir` on Windows. By creating
a crypt remote pointing to such a local filesystem path, you can
use rclone as a utility for pure local file encryption, for example
to keep encrypted files on a removable USB drive.

**Note**: A string which do not contain a `:` will by rclone be treated
as a relative path in the local filesystem. For example, if you enter
the name `remote` without the trailing `:`, it will be treated as
a subdirectory of the current directory with name "remote".

If a path `remote:path/to/dir` is specified, rclone stores encrypted
files in `path/to/dir` on the remote. With file name encryption, files
saved to `secret:subdir/subfile` are stored in the unencrypted path
`path/to/dir` but the `subdir/subpath` element is encrypted.

The path you specify does not have to exist, rclone will create
it when needed.

If you intend to use the wrapped remote both directly for keeping
unencrypted content, as well as through a crypt remote for encrypted
content, it is recommended to point the crypt remote to a separate
directory within the wrapped remote. If you use a bucket-based storage
system (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2) it is generally
advisable to wrap the crypt remote around a specific bucket (`s3:bucket`).
If wrapping around the entire root of the storage (`s3:`), and use the
optional file name encryption, rclone will encrypt the bucket name.

### Changing password

Should the password, or the configuration file containing a lightly obscured
form of the password, be compromised, you need to re-encrypt your data with
a new password. Since rclone uses secret-key encryption, where the encryption
key is generated directly from the password kept on the client, it is not
possible to change the password/key of already encrypted content. Just changing
the password configured for an existing crypt remote means you will no longer
able to decrypt any of the previously encrypted content. The only possibility
is to re-upload everything via a crypt remote configured with your new password.

Depending on the size of your data, your bandwidth, storage quota etc, there are
different approaches you can take:

- If you have everything in a different location, for example on your local system,
you could remove all of the prior encrypted files, change the password for your
configured crypt remote (or delete and re-create the crypt configuration),
and then re-upload everything from the alternative location.
- If you have enough space on the storage system you can create a new crypt
remote pointing to a separate directory on the same backend, and then use
rclone to copy everything from the original crypt remote to the new,
effectively decrypting everything on the fly using the old password and
re-encrypting using the new password. When done, delete the original crypt
remote directory and finally the rclone crypt configuration with the old password.
All data will be streamed from the storage system and back, so you will
get half the bandwidth and be charged twice if you have upload and download quota
on the storage system.

**Note**: A security problem related to the random password generator
was fixed in rclone version 1.53.3 (released 2020-11-19). Passwords generated
by rclone config in version 1.49.0 (released 2019-08-26) to 1.53.2
(released 2020-10-26) are not considered secure and should be changed.
If you made up your own password, or used rclone version older than 1.49.0 or
newer than 1.53.2 to generate it, you are *not* affected by this issue.
See [issue #4783](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4783) for more
details, and a tool you can use to check if you are affected.

### Example

Create the following file structure using "standard" file name
encryption.

```text
plaintext/
├── file0.txt
├── file1.txt
└── subdir
    ├── file2.txt
    ├── file3.txt
    └── subsubdir
        └── file4.txt
```

Copy these to the remote, and list them

```console
$ rclone -q copy plaintext secret:
$ rclone -q ls secret:
        7 file1.txt
        6 file0.txt
        8 subdir/file2.txt
       10 subdir/subsubdir/file4.txt
        9 subdir/file3.txt
```

The crypt remote looks like

```console
$ rclone -q ls remote:path
       55 hagjclgavj2mbiqm6u6cnjjqcg
       54 v05749mltvv1tf4onltun46gls
       57 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/dlj7fkq4kdq72emafg7a7s41uo
       58 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/7uu829995du6o42n32otfhjqp4/b9pausrfansjth5ob3jkdqd4lc
       56 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/8njh1sk437gttmep3p70g81aps
```

The directory structure is preserved

```console
$ rclone -q ls secret:subdir
        8 file2.txt
        9 file3.txt
       10 subsubdir/file4.txt
```

Without file name encryption `.bin` extensions are added to underlying
names. This prevents the cloud provider attempting to interpret file
content.

```console
$ rclone -q ls remote:path
       54 file0.txt.bin
       57 subdir/file3.txt.bin
       56 subdir/file2.txt.bin
       58 subdir/subsubdir/file4.txt.bin
       55 file1.txt.bin
```

### File name encryption modes

Off

- doesn't hide file names or directory structure
- allows for longer file names (~246 characters)
- can use sub paths and copy single files

Standard

- file names encrypted
- file names can't be as long (~143 characters)
- can use sub paths and copy single files
- directory structure visible
- identical files names will have identical uploaded names
- can use shortcuts to shorten the directory recursion

Obfuscation

This is a simple "rotate" of the filename, with each file having a rot
distance based on the filename. Rclone stores the distance at the
beginning of the filename. A file called "hello" may become "53.jgnnq".

Obfuscation is not a strong encryption of filenames, but hinders
automated scanning tools picking up on filename patterns. It is an
intermediate between "off" and "standard" which allows for longer path
segment names.

There is a possibility with some unicode based filenames that the
obfuscation is weak and may map lower case characters to upper case
equivalents.

Obfuscation cannot be relied upon for strong protection.

- file names very lightly obfuscated
- file names can be longer than standard encryption
- can use sub paths and copy single files
- directory structure visible
- identical files names will have identical uploaded names

Cloud storage systems have limits on file name length and
total path length which rclone is more likely to breach using
"Standard" file name encryption.  Where file names are 143 or fewer
characters in length issues should not be encountered, irrespective of
cloud storage provider.

An experimental advanced option `filename_encoding` is now provided to
address this problem to a certain degree.
For cloud storage systems with case sensitive file names (e.g. Google Drive),
`base64` can be used to reduce file name length. 
For cloud storage systems using UTF-16 to store file names internally
(e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox, Box), `base32768` can be used to drastically reduce
file name length.

An alternative, future rclone file name encryption mode may tolerate
backend provider path length limits.

### Directory name encryption

Crypt offers the option of encrypting dir names or leaving them intact.
There are two options:

True

Encrypts the whole file path including directory names
Example:
`1/12/123.txt` is encrypted to
`p0e52nreeaj0a5ea7s64m4j72s/l42g6771hnv3an9cgc8cr2n1ng/qgm4avr35m5loi1th53ato71v0`

False

Only encrypts file names, skips directory names
Example:
`1/12/123.txt` is encrypted to
`1/12/qgm4avr35m5loi1th53ato71v0`

### Modification times and hashes

Crypt stores modification times using the underlying remote so support
depends on that.

Hashes are not stored for crypt. However the data integrity is
protected by an extremely strong crypto authenticator.

Use the `rclone cryptcheck` command to check the
integrity of an encrypted remote instead of `rclone check` which can't
check the checksums properly.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

#### --crypt-remote

Remote to encrypt/decrypt.

Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --crypt-filename-encryption

How to encrypt the filenames.

Properties:

- Config:      filename_encryption
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_FILENAME_ENCRYPTION
- Type:        string
- Default:     "standard"
- Examples:
  - "standard"
    - Encrypt the filenames.
    - See the docs for the details.
  - "obfuscate"
    - Very simple filename obfuscation.
  - "off"
    - Don't encrypt the file names.
    - Adds a ".bin", or "suffix" extension only.

#### --crypt-directory-name-encryption

Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.

NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.

Properties:

- Config:      directory_name_encryption
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_DIRECTORY_NAME_ENCRYPTION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Encrypt directory names.
  - "false"
    - Don't encrypt directory names, leave them intact.

#### --crypt-password

Password or pass phrase for encryption.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --crypt-password2

Password or pass phrase for salt.

Optional but recommended.
Should be different to the previous password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password2
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_PASSWORD2
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

#### --crypt-server-side-across-configs

Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead.

Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different crypt configs.

Normally this option is not what you want, but if you have two crypts
pointing to the same backend you can use it.

This can be used, for example, to change file name encryption type
without re-uploading all the data. Just make two crypt backends
pointing to two different directories with the single changed
parameter and use rclone move to move the files between the crypt
remotes.

Properties:

- Config:      server_side_across_configs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_SERVER_SIDE_ACROSS_CONFIGS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --crypt-show-mapping

For all files listed show how the names encrypt.

If this flag is set then for each file that the remote is asked to
list, it will log (at level INFO) a line stating the decrypted file
name and the encrypted file name.

This is so you can work out which encrypted names are which decrypted
names just in case you need to do something with the encrypted file
names, or for debugging purposes.

Properties:

- Config:      show_mapping
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_SHOW_MAPPING
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --crypt-no-data-encryption

Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted.

Properties:

- Config:      no_data_encryption
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_NO_DATA_ENCRYPTION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Don't encrypt file data, leave it unencrypted.
  - "false"
    - Encrypt file data.

#### --crypt-pass-bad-blocks

If set this will pass bad blocks through as all 0.

This should not be set in normal operation, it should only be set if
trying to recover an encrypted file with errors and it is desired to
recover as much of the file as possible.

Properties:

- Config:      pass_bad_blocks
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_PASS_BAD_BLOCKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --crypt-strict-names

If set, this will raise an error when crypt comes across a filename that can't be decrypted.

(By default, rclone will just log a NOTICE and continue as normal.)
This can happen if encrypted and unencrypted files are stored in the same
directory (which is not recommended.) It may also indicate a more serious
problem that should be investigated.

Properties:

- Config:      strict_names
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_STRICT_NAMES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --crypt-filename-encoding

How to encode the encrypted filename to text string.

This option could help with shortening the encrypted filename. The 
suitable option would depend on the way your remote count the filename
length and if it's case sensitive.

Properties:

- Config:      filename_encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_FILENAME_ENCODING
- Type:        string
- Default:     "base32"
- Examples:
  - "base32"
    - Encode using base32. Suitable for all remote.
  - "base64"
    - Encode using base64. Suitable for case sensitive remote.
  - "base32768"
    - Encode using base32768. Suitable if your remote counts UTF-16 or
    - Unicode codepoint instead of UTF-8 byte length. (Eg. Onedrive, Dropbox)

#### --crypt-suffix

If this is set it will override the default suffix of ".bin".

Setting suffix to "none" will result in an empty suffix. This may be useful 
when the path length is critical.

Properties:

- Config:      suffix
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_SUFFIX
- Type:        string
- Default:     ".bin"

#### --crypt-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_CRYPT_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the crypt backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### encode

Encode the given filename(s).

```console
rclone backend encode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This encodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of
strings of the encoded results.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend encode crypt: file1 [file2...]
rclone rc backend/command command=encode fs=crypt: file1 [file2...]
```

### decode

Decode the given filename(s).

```console
rclone backend decode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This decodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of
strings of the decoded results. It will return an error if any of the
inputs are invalid.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend decode crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
rclone rc backend/command command=decode fs=crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
```

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## Backing up an encrypted remote

If you wish to backup an encrypted remote, it is recommended that you use
`rclone sync` on the encrypted files, and make sure the passwords are
the same in the new encrypted remote.

This will have the following advantages

- `rclone sync` will check the checksums while copying
- you can use `rclone check` between the encrypted remotes
- you don't decrypt and encrypt unnecessarily

For example, let's say you have your original remote at `remote:` with
the encrypted version at `eremote:` with path `remote:crypt`.  You
would then set up the new remote `remote2:` and then the encrypted
version `eremote2:` with path `remote2:crypt` using the same passwords
as `eremote:`.

To sync the two remotes you would do

```console
rclone sync --interactive remote:crypt remote2:crypt
```

And to check the integrity you would do

```console
rclone check remote:crypt remote2:crypt
```

## File formats

### File encryption

Files are encrypted 1:1 source file to destination object.  The file
has a header and is divided into chunks.

#### Header

- 8 bytes magic string `RCLONE\x00\x00`
- 24 bytes Nonce (IV)

The initial nonce is generated from the operating systems crypto
strong random number generator.  The nonce is incremented for each
chunk read making sure each nonce is unique for each block written.
The chance of a nonce being reused is minuscule.  If you wrote an
exabyte of data (10¹⁸ bytes) you would have a probability of
approximately 2×10⁻³² of reusing a nonce.

#### Chunk

Each chunk will contain 64 KiB of data, except for the last one which
may have less data. The data chunk is in standard NaCl SecretBox
format. SecretBox uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and
authenticate messages.

Each chunk contains:

- 16 Bytes of Poly1305 authenticator
- 1 - 65536 bytes XSalsa20 encrypted data

64k chunk size was chosen as the best performing chunk size (the
authenticator takes too much time below this and the performance drops
off due to cache effects above this).  Note that these chunks are
buffered in memory so they can't be too big.

This uses a 32 byte (256 bit key) key derived from the user password.

#### Examples

1 byte file will encrypt to

- 32 bytes header
- 17 bytes data chunk

49 bytes total

1 MiB (1048576 bytes) file will encrypt to

- 32 bytes header
- 16 chunks of 65552 bytes

1048864 bytes total (a 0.03% overhead). This is the overhead for big
files.

### Name encryption

File names are encrypted segment by segment - the path is broken up
into `/` separated strings and these are encrypted individually.

File segments are padded using PKCS#7 to a multiple of 16 bytes
before encryption.

They are then encrypted with EME using AES with 256 bit key. EME
(ECB-Mix-ECB) is a wide-block encryption mode presented in the 2003
paper "A Parallelizable Enciphering Mode" by Halevi and Rogaway.

This makes for deterministic encryption which is what we want - the
same filename must encrypt to the same thing otherwise we can't find
it on the cloud storage system.

This means that

- filenames with the same name will encrypt the same
- filenames which start the same won't have a common prefix

This uses a 32 byte key (256 bits) and a 16 byte (128 bits) IV both of
which are derived from the user password.

After encryption they are written out using a modified version of
standard `base32` encoding as described in RFC4648.  The standard
encoding is modified in two ways:

- it becomes lower case (no-one likes upper case filenames!)
- we strip the padding character `=`

`base32` is used rather than the more efficient `base64` so rclone can be
used on case insensitive remotes (e.g. Windows, Box, Dropbox, Onedrive etc).

### Key derivation

Rclone uses `scrypt` with parameters `N=16384, r=8, p=1` with an
optional user supplied salt (password2) to derive the 32+32+16 = 80
bytes of key material required.  If the user doesn't supply a salt
then rclone uses an internal one.

`scrypt` makes it impractical to mount a dictionary attack on rclone
encrypted data.  For full protection against this you should always use
a salt.

## See Also

- [rclone cryptdecode](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cryptdecode/) - Show forward/reverse
mapping of encrypted filenames.

# Compress

## Warning

This remote is currently **experimental**. Things may break and data may be lost.
Anything you do with this remote is at your own risk. Please understand the risks
associated with using experimental code and don't use this remote in critical
applications.

The `Compress` remote adds compression to another remote. It is best used with
remotes containing many large compressible files.

## Configuration

To use this remote, all you need to do is specify another remote and a
compression mode to use:

```text
$ rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote_to_press      sometype

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> compress

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
...
12 / Compress a remote
   \ (compress)
...
Storage> compress

Option remote.
Remote to compress.
Enter a value.
remote> remote_to_press:subdir 

Option mode.
Compression mode.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value of type string.
Press Enter for the default (gzip).
 1 / Standard gzip compression with fastest parameters.
   \ (gzip)
 2 / Zstandard compression — fast modern algorithm offering adjustable speed-to-compression tradeoffs.
   \ (zstd)
mode> gzip

Option level.
GZIP (levels -2 to 9):
- -2 — Huffman encoding only. Only use if you know what you're doing.
- -1 (default) — recommended; equivalent to level 5.
- 0 — turns off compression.
- 1–9 — increase compression at the cost of speed. Going past 6 generally offers very little return.
 
ZSTD (levels 0 to 4):
- 0 — turns off compression entirely.
- 1 — fastest compression with the lowest ratio.
- 2 (default) — good balance of speed and compression.
- 3 — better compression, but uses about 2–3x more CPU than the default.
- 4 — best possible compression ratio (highest CPU cost).
 
Notes:
- Choose GZIP for wide compatibility; ZSTD for better speed/ratio tradeoffs.
- Negative gzip levels: -2 = Huffman-only, -1 = default (≈ level 5).
Enter a value.
level> -1

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: compress
- remote: remote_to_press:subdir
- mode: gzip
- level: -1
Keep this "compress" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Compression Algorithms

- **GZIP** – a well-established and widely adopted algorithm that strikes a solid balance between compression speed and ratio. It supports compression levels from -2 to 9, with the default -1 (roughly equivalent to level 5) offering an effective middle ground for most scenarios.

- **Zstandard (zstd)** – a modern, high-performance algorithm that offers precise control over the trade-off between speed and compression efficiency. Compression levels range from 0 (no compression) to 4 (maximum compression).

### File types

If you open a remote wrapped by compress, you will see that there are many
files with an extension corresponding to the compression algorithm you chose.
These files are standard files that can be opened by various archive programs,
but they have some hidden metadata that allows them to be used by rclone.
While you may download and decompress these files at will, do **not** manually
delete or rename files. Files without correct metadata files will not be
recognized by rclone.

### File names

The compressed files will be named `*.###########.gz` where `*` is the base
file and the `#` part is base64 encoded size of the uncompressed file. The file
names should not be changed by anything other than the rclone compression backend.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to compress (Compress a remote).

#### --compress-remote

Remote to compress.

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMPRESS_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --compress-mode

Compression mode.

Properties:

- Config:      mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMPRESS_MODE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "gzip"
- Examples:
  - "gzip"
    - Standard gzip compression with fastest parameters.
  - "zstd"
    - Zstandard compression — fast modern algorithm offering adjustable speed-to-compression tradeoffs.

#### --compress-level

GZIP (levels -2 to 9):
- -2 — Huffman encoding only. Only use if you know what you're doing.
- -1 (default) — recommended; equivalent to level 5.
- 0 — turns off compression.
- 1–9 — increase compression at the cost of speed. Going past 6 generally offers very little return.
 
ZSTD (levels 0 to 4):
- 0 — turns off compression entirely.
- 1 — fastest compression with the lowest ratio.
- 2 (default) — good balance of speed and compression.
- 3 — better compression, but uses about 2–3x more CPU than the default.
- 4 — best possible compression ratio (highest CPU cost).
 
Notes:
- Choose GZIP for wide compatibility; ZSTD for better speed/ratio tradeoffs.
- Negative gzip levels: -2 = Huffman-only, -1 = default (≈ level 5).

Properties:

- Config:      level
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMPRESS_LEVEL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to compress (Compress a remote).

#### --compress-ram-cache-limit

Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size.
In this case the compressed file will need to be cached to determine
it's size.

Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, files larger than 
this limit will be cached on disk.

Properties:

- Config:      ram_cache_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMPRESS_RAM_CACHE_LIMIT
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     20Mi

#### --compress-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMPRESS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# Combine

The `combine` backend joins remotes together into a single directory
tree.

For example you might have a remote for images on one provider:

```console
$ rclone tree s3:imagesbucket
/
├── image1.jpg
└── image2.jpg
```

And a remote for files on another:

```console
$ rclone tree drive:important/files
/
├── file1.txt
└── file2.txt
```

The `combine` backend can join these together into a synthetic
directory structure like this:

```console
$ rclone tree combined:
/
├── files
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
└── images
    ├── image1.jpg
    └── image2.jpg
```

You'd do this by specifying an `upstreams` parameter in the config
like this

```text
upstreams = images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
```

During the initial setup with `rclone config` you will specify the
upstreams remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can
either be a local paths or other remotes.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a combine called `remote` for the
example above. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
...
XX / Combine several remotes into one
   \ (combine)
...
Storage> combine
Option upstreams.
Upstreams for combining
These should be in the form
    dir=remote:path dir2=remote2:path
Where before the = is specified the root directory and after is the remote to
put there.
Embedded spaces can be added using quotes
    "dir=remote:path with space" "dir2=remote2:path with space"
Enter a fs.SpaceSepList value.
upstreams> images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: combine
- upstreams: images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Configuring for Google Drive Shared Drives

Rclone has a convenience feature for making a combine backend for all
the shared drives you have access to.

Assuming your main (non shared drive) Google drive remote is called
`drive:` you would run

```console
rclone backend -o config drives drive:
```

This would produce something like this:

```ini
[My Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEF-01234567890,root_folder_id=:

[Test Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl,root_folder_id=:

[AllDrives]
type = combine
upstreams = "My Drive=My Drive:" "Test Drive=Test Drive:"
```

If you then add that config to your config file (find it with `rclone
config file`) then you can access all the shared drives in one place
with the `AllDrives:` remote.

See [the Google Drive docs](https://rclone.org/drive/#drives) for full info.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to combine (Combine several remotes into one).

#### --combine-upstreams

Upstreams for combining

These should be in the form

    dir=remote:path dir2=remote2:path

Where before the = is specified the root directory and after is the remote to
put there.

Embedded spaces can be added using quotes

    "dir=remote:path with space" "dir2=remote2:path with space"



Properties:

- Config:      upstreams
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMBINE_UPSTREAMS
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to combine (Combine several remotes into one).

#### --combine-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_COMBINE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# DOI

The DOI remote is a read only remote for reading files from digital object
identifiers (DOI).

Currently, the DOI backend supports DOIs hosted with:

- [InvenioRDM](https://inveniosoftware.org/products/rdm/)
  - [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org)
  - [CaltechDATA](https://data.caltech.edu)
  - [Other InvenioRDM repositories](https://inveniosoftware.org/showcase/)
- [Dataverse](https://dataverse.org)
  - [Harvard Dataverse](https://dataverse.harvard.edu)
  - [Other Dataverse repositories](https://dataverse.org/installations)

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
Enter name for new remote.
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / DOI datasets
   \ (doi)
[snip]
Storage> doi
Option doi.
The DOI or the doi.org URL.
Enter a value.
doi> 10.5281/zenodo.5876941
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: doi
- doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5876941
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to doi (DOI datasets).

#### --doi-doi

The DOI or the doi.org URL.

Properties:

- Config:      doi
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DOI_DOI
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to doi (DOI datasets).

#### --doi-provider

DOI provider.

The DOI provider can be set when rclone does not automatically recognize a supported DOI provider.

Properties:

- Config:      provider
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DOI_PROVIDER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "auto"
    - Auto-detect provider
  - "zenodo"
    - Zenodo
  - "dataverse"
    - Dataverse
  - "invenio"
    - Invenio

#### --doi-doi-resolver-api-url

The URL of the DOI resolver API to use.

The DOI resolver can be set for testing or for cases when the canonical DOI resolver API cannot be used.

Defaults to "https://doi.org/api".

Properties:

- Config:      doi_resolver_api_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DOI_DOI_RESOLVER_API_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --doi-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DOI_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the doi backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### metadata

Show metadata about the DOI.

```console
rclone backend metadata remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command returns a JSON object with some information about the DOI.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend metadata doi:
```

It returns a JSON object representing metadata about the DOI.

### set

Set command for updating the config parameters.

```console
rclone backend set remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This set command can be used to update the config parameters
for a running doi backend.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend set doi: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=doi: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=doi: -o doi=NEW_DOI
```

The option keys are named as they are in the config file.

This rebuilds the connection to the doi backend when it is called with
the new parameters. Only new parameters need be passed as the values
will default to those currently in use.

It doesn't return anything.

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# Drime

[Drime](https://drime.cloud/) is a cloud storage and transfer service focused
on fast, resilient file delivery. It offers both free and paid tiers with
emphasis on high-speed uploads and link sharing.

To setup Drime you need to log in, navigate to Settings, Developer, and create a
token to use as an API access key. Give it a sensible name and copy the token
for use in the config.

## Configuration

Here is a run through of `rclone config` to make a remote called `remote`.

Firstly run:


```console
rclone config
```

Then follow through the interactive setup:


```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / Drime
   \ (drime)
Storage> drime

Option access_token.
API Access token
You can get this from the web control panel.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_token> YOUR_API_ACCESS_TOKEN

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: drime
- access_token: YOUR_API_ACCESS_TOKEN
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories and files in the top level of your Drime

```console
rclone lsf remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a Drime directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```


### Modification times and hashes

Drime does not support modification times or hashes.

This means that by default syncs will only use the size of the file to determine
if it needs updating.

You can use the `--update` flag which will use the time the object was uploaded.
For many operations this is sufficient to determine if it has changed. However
files created with timestamps in the past will be missed by the sync if using
`--update`.


### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

File names can also not start or end with the following characters. These only
get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory
(identified by its `Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your Drime drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself and fill in the value in the config file.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display.

You can do this with rclone

```console
$ rclone lsf -Fip --dirs-only remote:
d6341f53-ee65-4f29-9f59-d11e8070b2a0;Files/
f4f5c9b8-6ece-478b-b03e-4538edfe5a1c;Photos/
d50e356c-29ca-4b27-a3a7-494d91026e04;Videos/
```

The ID to use is the part before the `;` so you could set

```text
root_folder_id = d6341f53-ee65-4f29-9f59-d11e8070b2a0
```

To restrict rclone to the `Files` directory.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to drime (Drime).

#### --drime-access-token

API Access token

You can get this from the web control panel.

Properties:

- Config:      access_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to drime (Drime).

#### --drime-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder

Leave this blank normally, rclone will fill it in automatically.

If you want rclone to be restricted to a particular folder you can
fill it in - see the docs for more info.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drime-workspace-id

Account ID

Leave this blank normally unless you wish to specify a Workspace ID.


Properties:

- Config:      workspace_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_WORKSPACE_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drime-list-chunk

Number of items to list in each call

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --drime-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drime-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi

#### --drime-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff or files with unknown
size (e.g. from "rclone rcat" or uploaded with "rclone mount" or google
photos or google docs) they will be uploaded as multipart uploads
using this chunk size.

Note that "--drime-upload-concurrency" chunks of this size are buffered
in memory per transfer.

If you are transferring large files over high-speed links and you have
enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of known size to stay below the 10,000 chunks limit.

Files of unknown size are uploaded with the configured
chunk_size. Since the default chunk size is 5 MiB and there can be at
most 10,000 chunks, this means that by default the maximum size of
a file you can stream upload is 48 GiB.  If you wish to stream upload
larger files then you will need to increase chunk_size.


Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi

#### --drime-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently for multipart uploads and copies.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --drime-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --drime-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIME_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

Drime only supports filenames up to 255 bytes in length, where filenames are
encoded in UTF8.

# Dropbox

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Dropbox paths may be as deep as required, e.g.
`remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for dropbox involves getting a token from Dropbox
which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
[snip]
Storage> dropbox
Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally.
app_key>
Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally.
app_secret>
Remote config
Please visit:
https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code
Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: dropbox
- app_key:
- app_secret:
- token: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Dropbox. This only
runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and it
may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your dropbox

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your dropbox

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a dropbox directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Dropbox for business

Rclone supports Dropbox for business and Team Folders.

When using Dropbox for business `remote:` and `remote:path/to/file`
will refer to your personal folder.

If you wish to see Team Folders you must use a leading `/` in the
path, so `rclone lsd remote:/` will refer to the root and show you all
Team Folders and your User Folder.

You can then use team folders like this `remote:/TeamFolder` and
`remote:/TeamFolder/path/to/file`.

A leading `/` for a Dropbox personal account will do nothing, but it
will take an extra HTTP transaction so it should be avoided.

### Modification times and hashes

Dropbox supports modified times, but the only way to set a
modification time is to re-upload the file.

This means that if you uploaded your data with an older version of
rclone which didn't support the v2 API and modified times, rclone will
decide to upload all your old data to fix the modification times.  If
you don't want this to happen use `--size-only` or `--checksum` flag
to stop it.

Dropbox supports [its own hash
type](https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/content-hash) which
is checked for all transfers.

### Restricted filename characters

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |
| DEL       | 0x7F  | ␡           |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

File names can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Batch mode uploads {#batch-mode}

Using batch mode uploads is very important for performance when using
the Dropbox API. See [the dropbox performance guide](https://developers.dropbox.com/dbx-performance-guide)
for more info.

There are 3 modes rclone can use for uploads.

#### --dropbox-batch-mode off

In this mode rclone will not use upload batching. This was the default
before rclone v1.55. It has the disadvantage that it is very likely to
encounter `too_many_requests` errors like this

```text
NOTICE: too_many_requests/.: Too many requests or write operations. Trying again in 15 seconds.
```

When rclone receives these it has to wait for 15s or sometimes 300s
before continuing which really slows down transfers.

This will happen especially if `--transfers` is large, so this mode
isn't recommended except for compatibility or investigating problems.

#### --dropbox-batch-mode sync

In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by
`--dropbox-batch-size` and commit them together.

Using this mode means you can use a much higher `--transfers`
parameter (32 or 64 works fine) without receiving `too_many_requests`
errors.

This mode ensures full data integrity.

Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone
finishes up the last batch using this mode.

#### --dropbox-batch-mode async

In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by
`--dropbox-batch-size` and commit them together.

However it will not wait for the status of the batch to be returned to
the caller. This means rclone can use a much bigger batch size (much
bigger than `--transfers`), at the cost of not being able to check the
status of the upload.

This provides the maximum possible upload speed especially with lots
of small files, however rclone can't check the file got uploaded
properly using this mode.

If you are using this mode then using "rclone check" after the
transfer completes is recommended. Or you could do an initial transfer
with `--dropbox-batch-mode async` then do a final transfer with
`--dropbox-batch-mode sync` (the default).

Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone
finishes up the last batch using this mode.

### Exporting files

Certain files in Dropbox are "exportable", such as Dropbox Paper
documents. These files need to be converted to another format in
order to be downloaded. Often multiple formats are available for
conversion.

When rclone downloads a exportable file, it chooses the format to
download based on the `--dropbox-export-formats` setting. By
default, the export formats are `html,md`, which are sensible
defaults for Dropbox Paper.

Rclone chooses the first format ID in the export formats list that
Dropbox supports for a given file. If no format in the list is
usable, rclone will choose the default format that Dropbox suggests.

Rclone will change the extension to correspond to the export format.
Here are some examples of how extensions are mapped:

| File type      | Filename in Dropbox | Filename in rclone |
|----------------|---------------------|--------------------|
| Paper          | mydoc.paper         | mydoc.html         |
| Paper template | mydoc.papert        | mydoc.papert.html  |
| other          | mydoc               | mydoc.html         |

*Importing* exportable files is not yet supported by rclone.

Here are the supported export extensions known by rclone. Note that
rclone does not currently support other formats not on this list,
even if Dropbox supports them. Also, Dropbox could change the list
of supported formats at any time.

| Format ID | Name     | Description          |
|-----------|----------|----------------------|
| html      | HTML     | HTML document        |
| md        | Markdown | Markdown text format |

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

#### --dropbox-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

#### --dropbox-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-chunk-size

Upload chunk size (< 150Mi).

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

Note that chunks are buffered in memory (one at a time) so rclone can
deal with retries.  Setting this larger will increase the speed
slightly (at most 10% for 128 MiB in tests) at the cost of using more
memory.  It can be set smaller if you are tight on memory.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     48Mi

#### --dropbox-impersonate

Impersonate this user when using a business account.

Note that if you want to use impersonate, you should make sure this
flag is set when running "rclone config" as this will cause rclone to
request the "members.read" scope which it won't normally. This is
needed to lookup a members email address into the internal ID that
dropbox uses in the API.

Using the "members.read" scope will require a Dropbox Team Admin
to approve during the OAuth flow.

You will have to use your own App (setting your own client_id and
client_secret) to use this option as currently rclone's default set of
permissions doesn't include "members.read". This can be added once
v1.55 or later is in use everywhere.


Properties:

- Config:      impersonate
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_IMPERSONATE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-impersonate-admin

Team admin ID to use when performing actions as a team administrator.

This sets the Dropbox-API-Select-Admin header with the given team
member ID (for example "dbmid:...").

This takes a team member ID directly rather than an email address.

Note that if you want to use impersonate_admin, you should make sure this
flag is set when running "rclone config" as this will cause rclone to
request the "team_data.member" scope which it won't normally.

Using the "team_data.member" scope will require a Dropbox Team Admin
to approve during the OAuth flow.

You will have to use your own App (setting your own client_id and
client_secret) to use this option as currently rclone's default set of
permissions doesn't include "team_data.member".


Properties:

- Config:      impersonate_admin
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_IMPERSONATE_ADMIN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-shared-files

Instructs rclone to work on individual shared files.

In this mode rclone's features are extremely limited - only list (ls, lsl, etc.) 
operations and read operations (e.g. downloading) are supported in this mode.
All other operations will be disabled.

Properties:

- Config:      shared_files
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHARED_FILES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-shared-folders

Instructs rclone to work on shared folders.
			
When this flag is used with no path only the List operation is supported and 
all available shared folders will be listed. If you specify a path the first part 
will be interpreted as the name of shared folder. Rclone will then try to mount this 
shared to the root namespace. On success shared folder rclone proceeds normally. 
The shared folder is now pretty much a normal folder and all normal operations 
are supported. 

Note that we don't unmount the shared folder afterwards so the 
--dropbox-shared-folders can be omitted after the first use of a particular 
shared folder.

See also --dropbox-root-namespace for an alternative way to work with shared
folders.

Properties:

- Config:      shared_folders
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHARED_FOLDERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-skip-shared-folders

Instructs rclone to skip all shared folders.

When set, any folder that is a shared folder mount point will be
excluded from directory listings, regardless of ownership.
This is useful if you prefer to back up shared folders separately
using a separate remote configured with the shared folder namespace.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_shared_folders
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SKIP_SHARED_FOLDERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-skip-unowned-folders

Instructs rclone to skip shared folders not owned by the current user.

When set, any folder that is a shared folder mount point and not
owned by the current user will be excluded from directory listings.
This is useful when backing up multiple Dropbox accounts that share
common folders, to avoid duplicating the shared data across accounts.

Note: In Dropbox Business, 'Team Folders' are owned by the Team.
For standard team members, these folders evaluate as 'unowned'
(editor/viewer access) and will be excluded by this flag. To back up
Team Folders, do not use this flag or run the backup using a Team Admin
account.

If --dropbox-skip-shared-folders is also enabled, this flag has no effect.

This makes an extra API call per shared folder mount point.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_unowned_folders
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SKIP_UNOWNED_FOLDERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-pacer-min-sleep

Minimum time to sleep between API calls.

Properties:

- Config:      pacer_min_sleep
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_PACER_MIN_SLEEP
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     10ms

#### --dropbox-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --dropbox-root-namespace

Specify a different Dropbox namespace ID to use as the root for all paths.

Properties:

- Config:      root_namespace
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_ROOT_NAMESPACE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --dropbox-export-formats

Comma separated list of preferred formats for exporting files

Certain Dropbox files can only be accessed by exporting them to another format.
These include Dropbox Paper documents.

For each such file, rclone will choose the first format on this list that Dropbox
considers valid. If none is valid, it will choose Dropbox's default format.

Known formats include: "html", "md" (markdown)

Properties:

- Config:      export_formats
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_EXPORT_FORMATS
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     html,md

#### --dropbox-skip-exports

Skip exportable files in all listings.

If given, exportable files practically become invisible to rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_exports
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SKIP_EXPORTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-show-all-exports

Show all exportable files in listings.

Adding this flag will allow all exportable files to be server side copied.
Note that rclone doesn't add extensions to the exportable file names in this mode.

Do **not** use this flag when trying to download exportable files - rclone
will fail to download them.


Properties:

- Config:      show_all_exports
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHOW_ALL_EXPORTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --dropbox-batch-mode

Upload file batching sync|async|off.

This sets the batch mode used by rclone.

For full info see [the main docs](https://rclone.org/dropbox/#batch-mode)

This has 3 possible values

- off - no batching
- sync - batch uploads and check completion (default)
- async - batch upload and don't check completion

Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make
a delay on quit.


Properties:

- Config:      batch_mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_MODE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "sync"

#### --dropbox-batch-size

Max number of files in upload batch.

This sets the batch size of files to upload. It has to be less than 1000.

By default this is 0 which means rclone will calculate the batch size
depending on the setting of batch_mode.

- batch_mode: async - default batch_size is 100
- batch_mode: sync - default batch_size is the same as --transfers
- batch_mode: off - not in use

Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make
a delay on quit.

Setting this is a great idea if you are uploading lots of small files
as it will make them a lot quicker. You can use --transfers 32 to
maximise throughput.


Properties:

- Config:      batch_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_SIZE
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --dropbox-batch-timeout

Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading.

If an upload batch is idle for more than this long then it will be
uploaded.

The default for this is 0 which means rclone will choose a sensible
default based on the batch_mode in use.

- batch_mode: async - default batch_timeout is 10s
- batch_mode: sync - default batch_timeout is 500ms
- batch_mode: off - not in use


Properties:

- Config:      batch_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     0s

#### --dropbox-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DROPBOX_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Note that Dropbox is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are some file names such as `thumbs.db` which Dropbox can't
store.  There is a full list of them in the ["Ignored Files" section
of this document](https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/145).  Rclone will
issue an error message `File name disallowed - not uploading` if it
attempts to upload one of those file names, but the sync won't fail.

Some errors may occur if you try to sync copyright-protected files
because Dropbox has its own [copyright detector](https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-youre-sharing-copyrighted-stuff-without-actually-looking-at-your-stuff/)
that prevents this sort of file being downloaded. This will return the error
`ERROR : /path/to/your/file: Failed to copy: failed to open source object: path/restricted_content/.`

If you have more than 10,000 files in a directory then `rclone purge
dropbox:dir` will return the error `Failed to purge: There are too
many files involved in this operation`.  As a work-around do an
`rclone delete dropbox:dir` followed by an `rclone rmdir dropbox:dir`.

When using `rclone link` you'll need to set `--expire` if using a
non-personal account otherwise the visibility may not be correct.
(Note that `--expire` isn't supported on personal accounts). See the
[forum discussion](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-link-dropbox-permissions/23211)
and the
[dropbox SDK issue](https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-go-unofficial/issues/75).

Modification times for Dropbox Paper documents are not exact, and
may  not change for some period after the document is edited.
To make sure you get recent changes in a sync, either wait an hour
or so, or use `--ignore-times` to force a full sync.

## Get your own Dropbox App ID

When you use rclone with Dropbox in its default configuration you are using
rclone's App ID. This is shared between all the rclone users.

Here is how to create your own Dropbox App ID for rclone:

1. Log into the [Dropbox App console](https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create)
with your Dropbox Account (It need not to be the same account as the Dropbox you
want to access)

2. Choose an API => Usually this should be `Dropbox API`

3. Choose the type of access you want to use => `Full Dropbox` or `App Folder`.
If you want to use Team Folders, `Full Dropbox` is required
([see here](https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-create-team-folder-inside-my-app-s-folder/m-p/601005/highlight/true#M27911)).

4. Name your App. The app name is global, so you can't use `rclone` for example

5. Click the button `Create App`

6. Switch to the `Permissions` tab. Enable at least the following permissions:
`account_info.read`, `files.metadata.write`, `files.content.write`, `files.content.read`,
`sharing.write`. The `files.metadata.read` and `sharing.read` checkboxes will be
marked too. Click `Submit`

7. Switch to the `Settings` tab. Fill `OAuth2 - Redirect URIs` as `http://localhost:53682/`
and click on `Add`

8. Find the `App key` and `App secret` values on the `Settings` tab. Use these
values in rclone config to add a new remote or edit an existing remote.
The `App key` setting corresponds to `client_id` in rclone config, the
`App secret` corresponds to `client_secret`

# Enterprise File Fabric

This backend supports [Storage Made Easy's Enterprise File
Fabric™](https://storagemadeeasy.com/about/) which provides a software
solution to integrate and unify File and Object Storage accessible
through a global file system.

## Configuration

The initial setup for the Enterprise File Fabric backend involves
getting a token from the Enterprise File Fabric which you need to
do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Enterprise File Fabric
   \ "filefabric"
[snip]
Storage> filefabric
** See help for filefabric backend at: https://rclone.org/filefabric/ **

URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Storage Made Easy US
   \ "https://storagemadeeasy.com"
 2 / Storage Made Easy EU
   \ "https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com"
 3 / Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric
   \ "https://yourfabric.smestorage.com"
url> https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
ID of the root folder
Leave blank normally.

Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.

Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
root_folder_id> 
Permanent Authentication Token

A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File
Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry
you'll see called "My Authentication Tokens". Click the Manage button
to create one.

These tokens are normally valid for several years.

For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens

Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
permanent_token> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: filefabric
- url: https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
- permanent_token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Enterprise File Fabric

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Enterprise File Fabric

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Enterprise File Fabric directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

The Enterprise File Fabric allows modification times to be set on
files accurate to 1 second.  These will be used to detect whether
objects need syncing or not.

The Enterprise File Fabric does not support any data hashes at this time.

### Restricted filename characters

The [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
will be replaced.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Empty files

Empty files aren't supported by the Enterprise File Fabric. Rclone will therefore
upload an empty file as a single space with a mime type of
`application/vnd.rclone.empty.file` and files with that mime type are
treated as empty.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory
(identified by its `Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your Enterprise File Fabric.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display.  These aren't displayed in the
web interface, but you can use `rclone lsf` to find them, for example

```console
$ rclone lsf --dirs-only -Fip --csv filefabric:
120673758,Burnt PDFs/
120673759,My Quick Uploads/
120673755,My Syncs/
120673756,My backups/
120673757,My contacts/
120673761,S3 Storage/
```

The ID for "S3 Storage" would be `120673761`.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

#### --filefabric-url

URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to.

Properties:

- Config:      url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true
- Examples:
  - "https://storagemadeeasy.com"
    - Storage Made Easy US
  - "https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com"
    - Storage Made Easy EU
  - "https://yourfabric.smestorage.com"
    - Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric

#### --filefabric-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.

Leave blank normally.

Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filefabric-permanent-token

Permanent Authentication Token.

A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File
Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry
you'll see called "My Authentication Tokens". Click the Manage button
to create one.

These tokens are normally valid for several years.

For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens


Properties:

- Config:      permanent_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_PERMANENT_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

#### --filefabric-token

Session Token.

This is a session token which rclone caches in the config file. It is
usually valid for 1 hour.

Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.


Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filefabric-token-expiry

Token expiry time.

Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.


Properties:

- Config:      token_expiry
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_TOKEN_EXPIRY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filefabric-version

Version read from the file fabric.

Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.


Properties:

- Config:      version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_VERSION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filefabric-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --filefabric-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# FileLu

[FileLu](https://filelu.com/) is a reliable cloud storage provider
offering features like secure file uploads, downloads, flexible
storage options, and sharing capabilities. With support for high
storage limits and seamless integration with rclone, FileLu makes
managing files in the cloud easy. Its cross-platform file backup
services let you upload and back up files from any internet-connected
device.

**Note** FileLu now has a fully featured S3 backend [FileLu S5](/s3#filelu-s5),
an industry standard S3 compatible object store.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `filelu`. First, run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> filelu
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
xx / FileLu Cloud Storage
   \ "filelu"
[snip]
Storage> filelu
Enter your FileLu Rclone Key:
key> YOUR_FILELU_RCLONE_KEY RC_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Configuration complete.

Keep this "filelu" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Paths

A path without an initial `/` will operate in the `Rclone` directory.

A path with an initial `/` will operate at the root where you can see
the `Rclone` directory.

```console
$ rclone lsf TestFileLu:/
CCTV/
Camera/
Documents/
Music/
Photos/
Rclone/
Vault/
Videos/
```

### Example Commands

Create a new folder named `foldername` in the `Rclone` directory:

```console
rclone mkdir filelu:foldername
```

Delete a folder on FileLu:

```console
rclone rmdir filelu:/folder/path/
```

Delete a file on FileLu:

```console
rclone delete filelu:/hello.txt
```

List files from your FileLu account:

```console
rclone ls filelu:
```

List all folders:

```console
rclone lsd filelu:
```

Copy a specific file to the FileLu root:

```console
rclone copy D:\hello.txt filelu:
```

Copy files from a local directory to a FileLu directory:

```console
rclone copy D:/local-folder filelu:/remote-folder/path/
```

Download a file from FileLu into a local directory:

```console
rclone copy filelu:/file-path/hello.txt D:/local-folder
```

Move files from a local directory to a FileLu directory:

```console
rclone move D:\local-folder filelu:/remote-path/
```

Sync files from a local directory to a FileLu directory:

```console
rclone sync --interactive D:/local-folder filelu:/remote-path/
```

Mount remote to local Linux:

```console
rclone mount filelu: /root/mnt --vfs-cache-mode full
```

Mount remote to local Windows:

```console
rclone mount filelu: D:/local_mnt --vfs-cache-mode full
```

Get storage info about the FileLu account:

```console
rclone about filelu:
```

All the other rclone commands are supported by this backend.

### FolderID instead of folder path

We use the FolderID instead of the folder name to prevent errors when
users have identical folder names or paths. For example, if a user has
two or three folders named "test_folders," the system may become
confused and won't know which folder to move. In large storage
systems, some clients have hundred of thousands of folders and a few
millions of files, duplicate folder names or paths are quite common.

### Modification Times and Hashes

FileLu supports both modification times and MD5 hashes.

FileLu only supports filenames and folder names up to 255 characters in length,
where a character is a Unicode character.

### Duplicated Files

When uploading and syncing via Rclone, FileLu does not allow uploading
duplicate files within the same directory. However, you can upload
duplicate files, provided they are in different directories (folders).

### Failure to Log / Invalid Credentials or KEY

Ensure that you have the correct Rclone key, which can be found in [My
Account](https://filelu.com/account/). Every time you toggle Rclone
OFF and ON in My Account, a new RC_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx key is
generated. Be sure to update your Rclone configuration with the new
key.

If you are connecting to your FileLu remote for the first time and
encounter an error such as:

```text
Failed to create file system for "my-filelu-remote:": couldn't login: Invalid credentials
```

Ensure your Rclone Key is correct.

### Process `killed`

Accounts with large files or extensive metadata may experience
significant memory usage during list/sync operations. Ensure the
system running `rclone` has sufficient memory and CPU to handle these
operations.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to filelu (FileLu Cloud Storage).

#### --filelu-key

Your FileLu Rclone key from My Account

Properties:

- Config:      key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILELU_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to filelu (FileLu Cloud Storage).

#### --filelu-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload. Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILELU_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     500Mi

#### --filelu-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading. Used for multipart uploads.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILELU_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     64Mi

#### --filelu-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILELU_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,CrLf,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,LeftTilde,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightPeriod,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot,SquareBracket,Semicolon,Exclamation

#### --filelu-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILELU_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

This backend uses a custom library implementing the FileLu API. While
it supports file transfers, some advanced features may not yet be
available. Please report any issues to the [rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/)
for troubleshooting and updates.

For further information, visit [FileLu's website](https://filelu.com/).

# Filen
## Configuration
The initial setup for Filen requires that you get an API key for your account,
currently this is only possible using the [Filen CLI](https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli).
This means you must first download the CLI, login, and then run the `export-api-key` command.

**Note:** If you change your Filen account password, you will need to update your rclone configuration with the new password and a re-exported API key (via `export-api-key`).

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `FilenRemote`.  First run:

     rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:
```
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

name> FilenRemote
Option Storage.

Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Filen
   \ "filen"
[snip]
Storage> filen

Option Email.
The email of your Filen account
Enter a value.
Email> youremail@provider.com

Option Password.
The password of your Filen account
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:

Option API Key.
An API Key for your Filen account
Get this using the Filen CLI export-api-key command
You can download the Filen CLI from https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: filen
- Email: youremail@provider.com
- Password: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- API Key: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "FilenRemote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Modification times and hashes
Modification times are fully supported for files, for directories, only the creation time matters.

Filen supports Blake3 hashes.

### Restricted filename characters
Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8)


### API Key

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to filen (Filen).

#### --filen-email

Email of your Filen account

Properties:

- Config:      email
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_EMAIL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --filen-password

Password of your Filen account

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --filen-api-key

API Key for your Filen account

Get this using the Filen CLI export-api-key command
You can download the Filen CLI from https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-cli

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to filen (Filen).

#### --filen-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for chunked uploads.

This is the upper limit for how many transfers for the same file are running concurrently.
Setting this above to a value smaller than 1 will cause uploads to deadlock.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     16

#### --filen-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --filen-master-keys

Master Keys (internal use only)

Properties:

- Config:      master_keys
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_MASTER_KEYS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filen-private-key

Private RSA Key (internal use only)

Properties:

- Config:      private_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_PRIVATE_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filen-public-key

Public RSA Key (internal use only)

Properties:

- Config:      public_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_PUBLIC_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filen-auth-version

Authentication Version (internal use only)

Properties:

- Config:      auth_version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_AUTH_VERSION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filen-base-folder-uuid

UUID of Account Root Directory (internal use only)

Properties:

- Config:      base_folder_uuid
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_BASE_FOLDER_UUID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filen-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILEN_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# Files.com

[Files.com](https://www.files.com/) is a cloud storage service that provides a
secure and easy way to store and share files.

The initial setup for filescom involves authenticating with your Files.com
account. You can do this by providing your site subdomain, username, and
password. Alternatively, you can authenticate using an API Key from
[Files.com](https://www.files.com/docs/sdk-and-apis/api-keys/).
`rclone config` walks you through it.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Files.com
  \ "filescom"
[snip]
Storage> filescom

Option site.
Your site subdomain (e.g. mysite) or custom domain (e.g. myfiles.customdomain.com)
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
site> mysite

Option username.
The username used to authenticate with Files.com.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
username> user

Option password.
The password used to authenticate with Files.com.
Choose an alternative below. Press Enter for the default (n).
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No, leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: filescom
- site: mysite
- username: user
- password: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can use rclone.

See all files in the top level:

```console
rclone lsf remote:
```

Make a new directory in the root:

```console
rclone mkdir remote:dir
```

Recursively List the contents:

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote directory, deleting any
excess files in the directory.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:dir
```

### Hashes

In December 2024 `files.com`  started [supporting more checksums](https://www.files.com/blog/2024/11/01/new-modern-checksum-options-now-available-with-opt).

However if you want hashes you **must** enable them in your site by
visiting the "File Integrity" section in "Data Governance" to
configure your settings and select the checksum algorithms that meet
your requirements.

Rclone currently only support CRC32 and MD5 for use in syncing but
selecting more checksums will not affect rclone's operations.

For use with rclone, selecting at least MD5 is recommended so rclone
can do an end to end integrity check.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to filescom (Files.com).

#### --filescom-site

Your site subdomain (e.g. mysite) or custom domain (e.g. myfiles.customdomain.com).

Properties:

- Config:      site
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_SITE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filescom-username

The username used to authenticate with Files.com.

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filescom-password

The password used to authenticate with Files.com.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to filescom (Files.com).

#### --filescom-api-key

The API key used to authenticate with Files.com.

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --filescom-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --filescom-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FILESCOM_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# FTP

FTP is the File Transfer Protocol. Rclone FTP support is provided using the
[github.com/jlaffaye/ftp](https://godoc.org/github.com/jlaffaye/ftp)
package.

[Limitations of Rclone's FTP backend](#limitations)

Paths are specified as `remote:path`. If the path does not begin with
a `/` it is relative to the home directory of the user.  An empty path
`remote:` refers to the user's home directory.

## Configuration

To create an FTP configuration named `remote`, run

```console
rclone config
```

Rclone config guides you through an interactive setup process. A minimal
rclone FTP remote definition only requires host, username and password.
For an anonymous FTP server, see [below](#anonymous-ftp).

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / FTP
   \ "ftp"
[snip]
Storage> ftp
** See help for ftp backend at: https://rclone.org/ftp/ **

FTP host to connect to
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to ftp.example.com
   \ "ftp.example.com"
host> ftp.example.com
FTP username
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER").
user> 
FTP port number
Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default (21).
port> 
FTP password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Use FTP over TLS (Implicit)
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
tls> 
Use FTP over TLS (Explicit)
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
explicit_tls> 
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: ftp
- host: ftp.example.com
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

To see all directories in the home directory of `remote`

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new directory

```console
rclone mkdir remote:path/to/directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:path/to/directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote directory, deleting any
excess files in the directory.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:directory
```

### Anonymous FTP

When connecting to a FTP server that allows anonymous login, you can use the
special "anonymous" username. Traditionally, this user account accepts any
string as a password, although it is common to use either the password
"anonymous" or "guest". Some servers require the use of a valid e-mail
address as password.

Using [on-the-fly](#backend-path-to-dir) or
[connection string](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings) remotes makes it easy to access
such servers, without requiring any configuration in advance. The following
are examples of that:

```console
rclone lsf :ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=$(rclone obscure dummy)
rclone lsf :ftp,host=speedtest.tele2.net,user=anonymous,pass=$(rclone obscure dummy):
```

The above examples work in Linux shells and in PowerShell, but not Windows
Command Prompt. They execute the [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/)
command to create a password string in the format required by the
[pass](#ftp-pass) option. The following examples are exactly the same, except use
an already obscured string representation of the same password "dummy", and
therefore works even in Windows Command Prompt:

```console
rclone lsf :ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=IXs2wc8OJOz7SYLBk47Ji1rHTmxM
rclone lsf :ftp,host=speedtest.tele2.net,user=anonymous,pass=IXs2wc8OJOz7SYLBk47Ji1rHTmxM:
```

### Implicit TLS

Rlone FTP supports implicit FTP over TLS servers (FTPS). This has to
be enabled in the FTP backend config for the remote, or with
[`--ftp-tls`](#ftp-tls). The default FTPS port is `990`, not `21` and
can be set with [`--ftp-port`](#ftp-port).

## TLS Options

TLS options for Implicit and Explicit TLS can be set using the
following flags which are specific to the FTP backend:

```text
--ftp-no-check-certificate     Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server
--ftp-disable-tls13            Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)
--ftp-tls-cache-size int       Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections (default 32)
```

However any of the global TLS flags can also be used such as:

```text
--ca-cert stringArray          CA certificate used to verify servers
--client-cert string           Client SSL certificate (PEM) for mutual TLS auth
--client-key string            Client SSL private key (PEM) for mutual TLS auth
--no-check-certificate         Do not verify the server SSL certificate (insecure)
```

If these need to be put in the config file so they apply to just the
FTP backend then use the `override` syntax, eg

```text
override.ca_cert = XXX
override.client_cert = XXX
override.client_key = XXX
```

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

File names cannot end with the following characters. Replacement is
limited to the last character in a file name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |

Not all FTP servers can have all characters in file names, for example:

| FTP Server| Forbidden characters |
| --------- |:--------------------:|
| proftpd   | `*`                  |
| pureftpd  | `\ [ ]`              |

This backend's interactive configuration wizard provides a selection of
sensible encoding settings for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd.
Just hit a selection number when prompted.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/ftp/ftp.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to ftp (FTP).

#### --ftp-host

FTP host to connect to.

E.g. "ftp.example.com".

Properties:

- Config:      host
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_HOST
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --ftp-user

FTP username.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_USER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "$USER"

#### --ftp-port

FTP port number.

Properties:

- Config:      port
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_PORT
- Type:        int
- Default:     21

#### --ftp-pass

FTP password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ftp-tls

Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

When using implicit FTP over TLS the client connects using TLS
right from the start which breaks compatibility with
non-TLS-aware servers. This is usually served over port 990 rather
than port 21. Cannot be used in combination with explicit FTPS.

Properties:

- Config:      tls
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_TLS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-explicit-tls

Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

When using explicit FTP over TLS the client explicitly requests
security from the server in order to upgrade a plain text connection
to an encrypted one. Cannot be used in combination with implicit FTPS.

Properties:

- Config:      explicit_tls
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_EXPLICIT_TLS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to ftp (FTP).

#### --ftp-concurrency

Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited.

Note that setting this is very likely to cause deadlocks so it should
be used with care.

If you are doing a sync or copy then make sure concurrency is one more
than the sum of `--transfers` and `--checkers`.

If you use `--check-first` then it just needs to be one more than the
maximum of `--checkers` and `--transfers`.

So for `concurrency 3` you'd use `--checkers 2 --transfers 2
--check-first` or `--checkers 1 --transfers 1`.



Properties:

- Config:      concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --ftp-no-check-certificate

Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server.

Properties:

- Config:      no_check_certificate
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_NO_CHECK_CERTIFICATE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-disable-epsv

Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_epsv
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_DISABLE_EPSV
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-disable-mlsd

Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_mlsd
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_DISABLE_MLSD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-disable-utf8

Disable using UTF-8 even if server advertises support.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_utf8
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_DISABLE_UTF8
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-writing-mdtm

Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)

Properties:

- Config:      writing_mdtm
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_WRITING_MDTM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-force-list-hidden

Use LIST -a to force listing of hidden files and folders. This will disable the use of MLSD.

Properties:

- Config:      force_list_hidden
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_FORCE_LIST_HIDDEN
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-idle-timeout

Max time before closing idle connections.

If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time
given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.


Properties:

- Config:      idle_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_IDLE_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --ftp-close-timeout

Maximum time to wait for a response to close.

Properties:

- Config:      close_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_CLOSE_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --ftp-tls-cache-size

Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections.

TLS cache allows to resume TLS sessions and reuse PSK between connections.
Increase if default size is not enough resulting in TLS resumption errors.
Enabled by default. Use 0 to disable.

Properties:

- Config:      tls_cache_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_TLS_CACHE_SIZE
- Type:        int
- Default:     32

#### --ftp-disable-tls13

Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)

Properties:

- Config:      disable_tls13
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_DISABLE_TLS13
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-allow-insecure-tls-ciphers

Allow insecure TLS ciphers

Setting this flag will allow the usage of the following TLS ciphers in addition to the secure defaults:

- TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256


Properties:

- Config:      allow_insecure_tls_ciphers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS_CIPHERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-shut-timeout

Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status.

Properties:

- Config:      shut_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_SHUT_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --ftp-ask-password

Allow asking for FTP password when needed.

If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will ask for a password


Properties:

- Config:      ask_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_ASK_PASSWORD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-socks-proxy

Socks 5 proxy host.
		
Supports the format user:pass@host:port, user@host:port, host:port.
		
Example:
		
    myUser:myPass@localhost:9005


Properties:

- Config:      socks_proxy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_SOCKS_PROXY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ftp-http-proxy

URL for HTTP CONNECT proxy

Set this to a URL for an HTTP proxy which supports the HTTP CONNECT verb.

Supports the format http://user:pass@host:port, http://host:port, http://host.

Example:

    http://myUser:myPass@proxyhostname.example.com:8000


Properties:

- Config:      http_proxy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_HTTP_PROXY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ftp-no-check-upload

Don't check the upload is OK

Normally rclone will try to check the upload exists after it has
uploaded a file to make sure the size and modification time are as
expected.

This flag stops rclone doing these checks. This enables uploading to
folders which are write only.

You will likely need to use the --inplace flag also if uploading to
a write only folder.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_upload
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_NO_CHECK_UPLOAD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --ftp-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot
- Examples:
  - "Asterisk,Ctl,Dot,Slash"
    - ProFTPd can't handle '*' in file names
  - "BackSlash,Ctl,Del,Dot,RightSpace,Slash,SquareBracket"
    - PureFTPd can't handle '[]' or '*' in file names
  - "Ctl,LeftPeriod,Slash"
    - VsFTPd can't handle file names starting with dot

#### --ftp-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_FTP_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

FTP servers acting as rclone remotes must support `passive` mode.
The mode cannot be configured as `passive` is the only supported one.
Rclone's FTP implementation is not compatible with `active` mode
as [the library it uses doesn't support it](https://github.com/jlaffaye/ftp/issues/29).
This will likely never be supported due to security concerns.

Rclone's FTP backend does not support any checksums but can compare
file sizes.

`rclone about` is not supported by the FTP backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

The implementation of : `--dump headers`,
`--dump bodies`, `--dump auth` for debugging isn't the same as
for rclone HTTP based backends - it has less fine grained control.

`--timeout` isn't supported (but `--contimeout` is).

`--bind` isn't supported.

Rclone's FTP backend could support server-side move but does not
at present.

The `ftp_proxy` environment variable is not currently supported.

### Modification times

File modification time (timestamps) is supported to 1 second resolution
for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd, and FileZilla FTP server.
The `VsFTPd` server has non-standard implementation of time related protocol
commands and needs a special configuration setting: `writing_mdtm = true`.

Support for precise file time with other FTP servers varies depending on what
protocol extensions they advertise. If all the `MLSD`, `MDTM` and `MFTM`
extensions are present, rclone will use them together to provide precise time.
Otherwise the times you see on the FTP server through rclone are those of the
last file upload.

You can use the following command to check whether rclone can use precise time
with your FTP server: `rclone backend features your_ftp_remote:` (the trailing
colon is important). Look for the number in the line tagged by `Precision`
designating the remote time precision expressed as nanoseconds. A value of
`1000000000` means that file time precision of 1 second is available.
A value of `3153600000000000000` (or another large number) means "unsupported".

# Gofile

[Gofile](https://gofile.io) is a content storage and distribution
platform. Its aim is to provide as much service as possible for free
or at a very low price.

The initial setup for Gofile involves logging in to the web interface
and going to the "My Profile" section. Copy the "Account API token"
for use in the config file.

Note that if you wish to connect rclone to Gofile you will need a
premium account.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / Gofile
   \ (gofile)
Storage> gofile

Option access_token.
API Access token
You can get this from the web control panel.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_token> YOURACCESSTOKEN

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: gofile
- access_token: YOURACCESSTOKEN
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories and files in the top level of your Gofile

```console
rclone lsf remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Gofile directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

Gofile supports modification times with a resolution of 1 second.

Gofile supports MD5 hashes, so you can use the `--checksum` flag.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| !         | 0x21  | ！           |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂           |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊           |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：           |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜           |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞           |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？           |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜           |

File names can also not start or end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the
name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| .         | 0x2E  | ．           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Public Links

Gofile supports `rclone link` to make public links to files or
directories. If you specify a directory it will download as a `zip`
file. You can use the `--expire` flag to specify the time the link
should be valid. Note that `rclone link --unlink` removes all the
public links for a file.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory
(identified by its `Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your Gofile drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself and fill in the value in the config file.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display.

You can do this with rclone

```console
$ rclone lsf -Fip --dirs-only remote:
d6341f53-ee65-4f29-9f59-d11e8070b2a0;Files/
f4f5c9b8-6ece-478b-b03e-4538edfe5a1c;Photos/
d50e356c-29ca-4b27-a3a7-494d91026e04;Videos/
```

The ID to use is the part before the `;` so you could set

```text
root_folder_id = d6341f53-ee65-4f29-9f59-d11e8070b2a0
```

To restrict rclone to the `Files` directory.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/gofile/gofile.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to gofile (Gofile).

#### --gofile-access-token

API Access token

You can get this from the web control panel.

Properties:

- Config:      access_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to gofile (Gofile).

#### --gofile-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder

Leave this blank normally, rclone will fill it in automatically.

If you want rclone to be restricted to a particular folder you can
fill it in - see the docs for more info.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gofile-account-id

Account ID

Leave this blank normally, rclone will fill it in automatically.


Properties:

- Config:      account_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_ACCOUNT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gofile-list-chunk

Number of items to list in each call

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --gofile-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftPeriod,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot,Exclamation

#### --gofile-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GOFILE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Gofile only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length, where a
character is a unicode character.

Directories should not be cached for more than 24h otherwise files in
the directory may not be downloadable. In practice this means when
using a VFS based rclone command such as `rclone mount` you should
make sure `--dir-cache-time` is less than `24h`.

Note that Gofile is currently limited to a total of 100,000 items. If
you attempt to upload more than that you will get
`error-limit-100000`. This limit may be lifted in the future.

### Duplicated files

Gofile is capable of having files with duplicated file names. For
instance two files called `hello.txt` in the same directory.

Rclone cannot sync that to a normal file system but it can be fixed
with the `rclone dedupe` command.

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see
messages in the log about duplicates.

Use `rclone dedupe` to fix duplicated files.

# Google Cloud Storage

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for google cloud storage involves getting a token from Google
Cloud Storage which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
[snip]
Storage> google cloud storage
Google Application Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Google Application Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Project number optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.
project_number> 12345678
Service Account Credentials JSON file path - needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.
service_account_file>
Access Control List for new objects.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
   \ "authenticatedRead"
 2 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get OWNER access.
   \ "bucketOwnerFullControl"
 3 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get READER access.
   \ "bucketOwnerRead"
 4 / Object owner gets OWNER access [default if left blank].
   \ "private"
 5 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team members get access according to their roles.
   \ "projectPrivate"
 6 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.
   \ "publicRead"
object_acl> 4
Access Control List for new buckets.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
   \ "authenticatedRead"
 2 / Project team owners get OWNER access [default if left blank].
   \ "private"
 3 / Project team members get access according to their roles.
   \ "projectPrivate"
 4 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.
   \ "publicRead"
 5 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get WRITER access.
   \ "publicReadWrite"
bucket_acl> 2
Location for the newly created buckets.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for default location (US).
   \ ""
 2 / Multi-regional location for Asia.
   \ "asia"
 3 / Multi-regional location for Europe.
   \ "eu"
 4 / Multi-regional location for United States.
   \ "us"
 5 / Taiwan.
   \ "asia-east1"
 6 / Tokyo.
   \ "asia-northeast1"
 7 / Singapore.
   \ "asia-southeast1"
 8 / Sydney.
   \ "australia-southeast1"
 9 / Belgium.
   \ "europe-west1"
10 / London.
   \ "europe-west2"
11 / Iowa.
   \ "us-central1"
12 / South Carolina.
   \ "us-east1"
13 / Northern Virginia.
   \ "us-east4"
14 / Ohio.
   \ "us-east5"
15 / Oregon.
   \ "us-west1"
location> 12
The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Multi-regional storage class
   \ "MULTI_REGIONAL"
 3 / Regional storage class
   \ "REGIONAL"
 4 / Nearline storage class
   \ "NEARLINE"
 5 / Coldline storage class
   \ "COLDLINE"
 6 / Durable reduced availability storage class
   \ "DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY"
storage_class> 5
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: google cloud storage
- client_id:
- client_secret:
- token: {"AccessToken":"xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","RefreshToken":"x/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxx","Expiry":"2014-07-17T20:49:14.929208288+01:00","Extra":null}
- project_number: 12345678
- object_acl: private
- bucket_acl: private
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Google if using web browser to automatically
authenticate. This only
runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this
it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all the buckets in your project

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new bucket

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

List the contents of a bucket

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote bucket, deleting any excess
files in the bucket.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:bucket
```

### Service Account support

You can set up rclone with Google Cloud Storage in an unattended mode,
i.e. not tied to a specific end-user Google account. This is useful
when you want to synchronise files onto machines that don't have
actively logged-in users, for example build machines.

To get credentials for Google Cloud Platform
[IAM Service Accounts](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts),
please head to the
[Service Account](https://console.cloud.google.com/permissions/serviceaccounts)
section of the Google Developer Console. Service Accounts behave just
like normal `User` permissions in
[Google Cloud Storage ACLs](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control),
so you can limit their access (e.g. make them read only). After
creating an account, a JSON file containing the Service Account's
credentials will be downloaded onto your machines. These credentials
are what rclone will use for authentication.

To use a Service Account instead of OAuth2 token flow, enter the path
to your Service Account credentials at the `service_account_file`
prompt and rclone won't use the browser based authentication
flow. If you'd rather stuff the contents of the credentials file into
the rclone config file, you can set `service_account_credentials` with
the actual contents of the file instead, or set the equivalent
environment variable.

### Service Account Authentication with Access Tokens

Another option for service account authentication is to use access tokens via
*gcloud impersonate-service-account*. Access tokens protect security by avoiding
the use of the JSON key file, which can be breached. They also bypass oauth
login flow, which is simpler on remote VMs that lack a web browser.

If you already have a working service account, skip to step 3.

#### 1. Create a service account using

```console
gcloud iam service-accounts create gcs-read-only
```

You can re-use an existing service account as well (like the one created above)

#### 2. Attach a Viewer (read-only) or User (read-write) role to the service account

```console
$ PROJECT_ID=my-project
$ gcloud --verbose iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
   gcs-read-only@${PROJECT_ID}.iam.gserviceaccount.com  \
   --member=serviceAccount:gcs-read-only@${PROJECT_ID}.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
   --role=roles/storage.objectViewer
```

Use the Google Cloud console to identify a limited role. Some relevant
pre-defined roles:

- *roles/storage.objectUser* -- read-write access but no admin privileges
- *roles/storage.objectViewer* -- read-only access to objects
- *roles/storage.admin*  -- create buckets & administrative roles

#### 3. Get a temporary access key for the service account

```console
$ gcloud auth application-default print-access-token  \
   --impersonate-service-account \
      gcs-read-only@${PROJECT_ID}.iam.gserviceaccount.com  

ya29.c.c0ASRK0GbAFEewXD [truncated]
```

#### 4. Update `access_token` setting

hit `CTRL-C` when you see *waiting for code*.  This will save the config without
doing oauth flow

```console
rclone config update ${REMOTE_NAME} access_token ya29.c.c0Axxxx
```

#### 5. Run rclone as usual

```console
rclone ls dev-gcs:${MY_BUCKET}/
```

### More Info on Service Accounts

- [Official GCS Docs](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts)
- [Guide on Service Accounts using Key Files (less secure, but similar concepts)](https://forum.rclone.org/t/access-using-google-service-account/24822/2)

### Anonymous Access

For downloads of objects that permit public access you can configure rclone
to use anonymous access by setting `anonymous` to `true`.
With unauthorized access you can't write or create files but only read or list
those buckets and objects that have public read access.

### Application Default Credentials

If no other source of credentials is provided, rclone will fall back
to
[Application Default Credentials](https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/docs/common/auth#authenticating_with_application_default_credentials)
this is useful both when you already have configured authentication
for your developer account, or in production when running on a google
compute host. Note that if running in docker, you may need to run
additional commands on your google compute machine -
[see this page](https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/advanced-authentication#gcloud_as_a_docker_credential_helper).

Note that in the case application default credentials are used, there
is no need to explicitly configure a project number.

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### Custom upload headers

You can set custom upload headers with the `--header-upload`
flag. Google Cloud Storage supports the headers as described in the
[working with metadata documentation](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/addlhelp/WorkingWithObjectMetadata)

- Cache-Control
- Content-Disposition
- Content-Encoding
- Content-Language
- Content-Type
- X-Goog-Storage-Class
- X-Goog-Meta-

Eg `--header-upload "Content-Type text/potato"`

Note that the last of these is for setting custom metadata in the form
`--header-upload "x-goog-meta-key: value"`

### Modification times

Google Cloud Storage stores md5sum natively.
Google's [gsutil](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil) tool stores
modification time with one-second precision as `goog-reserved-file-mtime` in
file metadata.

To ensure compatibility with gsutil, rclone stores modification time in 2
separate metadata entries. `mtime` uses RFC3339 format with one-nanosecond
precision. `goog-reserved-file-mtime` uses Unix timestamp format with one-second
precision. To get modification time from object metadata, rclone reads the
metadata in the following order: `mtime`, `goog-reserved-file-mtime`, object
updated time.

Note that rclone's default modify window is 1ns.
Files uploaded by gsutil only contain timestamps with one-second precision.
If you use rclone to sync files previously uploaded by gsutil,
rclone will attempt to update modification time for all these files.
To avoid these possibly unnecessary updates, use `--modify-window 1s`.

### Restricted filename characters

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| LF        | 0x0A  | ␊           |
| CR        | 0x0D  | ␍           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/googlecloudstorage/googlecloudstorage.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

#### --gcs-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-project-number

Project number.

Optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.

Properties:

- Config:      project_number
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_PROJECT_NUMBER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-user-project

User project.

Optional - needed only for requester pays.

Properties:

- Config:      user_project
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_USER_PROJECT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-service-account-file

Service Account Credentials JSON file path.

Leave blank normally.
Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      service_account_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-anonymous

Access public buckets and objects without credentials.

Set to 'true' if you just want to download files and don't configure credentials.

Properties:

- Config:      anonymous
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_ANONYMOUS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-object-acl

Access Control List for new objects.

Properties:

- Config:      object_acl
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_OBJECT_ACL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "authenticatedRead"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - All Authenticated Users get READER access.
  - "bucketOwnerFullControl"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - Project team owners get OWNER access.
  - "bucketOwnerRead"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - Project team owners get READER access.
  - "private"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - Default if left blank.
  - "projectPrivate"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - Project team members get access according to their roles.
  - "publicRead"
    - Object owner gets OWNER access.
    - All Users get READER access.

#### --gcs-bucket-acl

Access Control List for new buckets.

Properties:

- Config:      bucket_acl
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_BUCKET_ACL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "authenticatedRead"
    - Project team owners get OWNER access.
    - All Authenticated Users get READER access.
  - "private"
    - Project team owners get OWNER access.
    - Default if left blank.
  - "projectPrivate"
    - Project team members get access according to their roles.
  - "publicRead"
    - Project team owners get OWNER access.
    - All Users get READER access.
  - "publicReadWrite"
    - Project team owners get OWNER access.
    - All Users get WRITER access.

#### --gcs-bucket-policy-only

Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies.

If you want to upload objects to a bucket with Bucket Policy Only set
then you will need to set this.

When it is set, rclone:

- ignores ACLs set on buckets
- ignores ACLs set on objects
- creates buckets with Bucket Policy Only set

Docs: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucket-policy-only


Properties:

- Config:      bucket_policy_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_BUCKET_POLICY_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-location

Location for the newly created buckets.

Properties:

- Config:      location
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_LOCATION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Empty for default location (US)
  - "asia"
    - Multi-regional location for Asia
  - "eu"
    - Multi-regional location for Europe
  - "us"
    - Multi-regional location for United States
  - "asia-east1"
    - Taiwan
  - "asia-east2"
    - Hong Kong
  - "asia-northeast1"
    - Tokyo
  - "asia-northeast2"
    - Osaka
  - "asia-northeast3"
    - Seoul
  - "asia-south1"
    - Mumbai
  - "asia-south2"
    - Delhi
  - "asia-southeast1"
    - Singapore
  - "asia-southeast2"
    - Jakarta
  - "australia-southeast1"
    - Sydney
  - "australia-southeast2"
    - Melbourne
  - "europe-north1"
    - Finland
  - "europe-west1"
    - Belgium
  - "europe-west2"
    - London
  - "europe-west3"
    - Frankfurt
  - "europe-west4"
    - Netherlands
  - "europe-west6"
    - Zürich
  - "europe-central2"
    - Warsaw
  - "us-central1"
    - Iowa
  - "us-east1"
    - South Carolina
  - "us-east4"
    - Northern Virginia
  - "us-east5"
    - Ohio
  - "us-west1"
    - Oregon
  - "us-west2"
    - California
  - "us-west3"
    - Salt Lake City
  - "us-west4"
    - Las Vegas
  - "northamerica-northeast1"
    - Montréal
  - "northamerica-northeast2"
    - Toronto
  - "southamerica-east1"
    - São Paulo
  - "southamerica-west1"
    - Santiago
  - "asia1"
    - Dual region: asia-northeast1 and asia-northeast2.
  - "eur4"
    - Dual region: europe-north1 and europe-west4.
  - "nam4"
    - Dual region: us-central1 and us-east1.

#### --gcs-storage-class

The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.

Properties:

- Config:      storage_class
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_STORAGE_CLASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Default
  - "MULTI_REGIONAL"
    - Multi-regional storage class
  - "REGIONAL"
    - Regional storage class
  - "NEARLINE"
    - Nearline storage class
  - "COLDLINE"
    - Coldline storage class
  - "ARCHIVE"
    - Archive storage class
  - "DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY"
    - Durable reduced availability storage class

#### --gcs-env-auth

Get GCP IAM credentials from runtime (environment variables or instance meta data if no env vars).

Only applies if service_account_file and service_account_credentials is blank.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Enter credentials in the next step.
  - "true"
    - Get GCP IAM credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

#### --gcs-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-access-token

Short-lived access token.

Leave blank normally.
Needed only if you want use short-lived access token instead of interactive login.

Properties:

- Config:      access_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_ACCESS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gcs-directory-markers

Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created

Empty folders are unsupported for bucket based remotes, this option creates an empty
object ending with "/", to persist the folder.


Properties:

- Config:      directory_markers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_DIRECTORY_MARKERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-no-check-bucket

If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.

This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_bucket
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_NO_CHECK_BUCKET
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-decompress

If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects.

It is possible to upload objects to GCS with "Content-Encoding: gzip"
set. Normally rclone will download these files as compressed objects.

If this flag is set then rclone will decompress these files with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" as they are received. This means that rclone
can't check the size and hash but the file contents will be decompressed.


Properties:

- Config:      decompress
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_DECOMPRESS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gcs-endpoint

Custom endpoint for the storage API. Leave blank to use the provider default.

When using a custom endpoint that includes a subpath (e.g. example.org/custom/endpoint),
the subpath will be ignored during upload operations due to a limitation in the
underlying Google API Go client library.
Download and listing operations will work correctly with the full endpoint path.
If you require subpath support for uploads, avoid using subpaths in your custom
endpoint configuration.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "storage.example.org"
    - Specify a custom endpoint
  - "storage.example.org:4443"
    - Specifying a custom endpoint with port
  - "storage.example.org:4443/gcs/api"
    - Specifying a subpath, see the note, uploads won't use the custom path!

#### --gcs-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --gcs-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GCS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the Google Cloud Storage backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Google Drive

Paths are specified as `drive:path`

Drive paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `drive:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for drive involves getting a token from Google drive
which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
[snip]
Storage> drive
Google Application Client Id
Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id, or if you are using a service account.
The shared client_id is being retired and will stop working during 2026, so creating your own is now strongly recommended.
See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.
client_id>
Google Application Client Secret
Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id, or if you are using a service account.
If you created your own client_id then enter its client secret here.
client_secret>
Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
   \ "drive"
 2 / Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
   \ "drive.readonly"
   / Access to files created by rclone only.
 3 | These are visible in the drive website.
   | File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
   \ "drive.file"
   / Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
 4 | This is not visible in the drive website.
   \ "drive.appfolder"
   / Allows read-only access to file metadata but
 5 | does not allow any access to read or download file content.
   \ "drive.metadata.readonly"
scope> 1
Service Account Credentials JSON file path - needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.
service_account_file>
Remote config
rclone's shared Google Drive client_id is being retired and will stop working during 2026.
Create your own to avoid interruption: https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id

Continue using the shared client_id anyway?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Google Application Client Id
client_id> 1234567890-abcdefghijklmnop.apps.googleusercontent.com
Google Application Client Secret
client_secret> GOCSPX-your-client-secret
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Configuration complete.
Options:
type: drive
- client_id: 1234567890-abcdefghijklmnop.apps.googleusercontent.com
- client_secret: GOCSPX-your-client-secret
- scope: drive
- root_folder_id:
- service_account_file:
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2014-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Google if using web browser to automatically
authenticate. This only
runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and it
may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your drive

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your drive

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a drive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Scopes

Rclone allows you to select which scope you would like for rclone to
use.  This changes what type of token is granted to rclone.  [The
scopes are defined
here](https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/about-auth).

A comma-separated list is allowed e.g. `drive.readonly,drive.file`.

The scope are

#### drive

This is the default scope and allows full access to all files, except
for the Application Data Folder (see below).

Choose this one if you aren't sure.

#### drive.readonly

This allows read only access to all files.  Files may be listed and
downloaded but not uploaded, renamed or deleted.

#### drive.file

With this scope rclone can read/view/modify only those files and
folders it creates.

So if you uploaded files to drive via the web interface (or any other
means) they will not be visible to rclone.

This can be useful if you are using rclone to backup data and you want
to be sure confidential data on your drive is not visible to rclone.

Files created with this scope are visible in the web interface.

#### drive.appfolder

This gives rclone its own private area to store files.  Rclone will
not be able to see any other files on your drive and you won't be able
to see rclone's files from the web interface either.

#### drive.metadata.readonly

This allows read only access to file names only.  It does not allow
rclone to download or upload data, or rename or delete files or
directories.

### Root folder ID

This option has been moved to the advanced section. You can set the
`root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory (identified by its
`Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root of your drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy or to access data within the "Computers" tab on the drive
web interface (where files from Google's Backup and Sync desktop
program go). However, this is not the easiest method. 
Instead, you can create a shortcut to a folder in "Computers" and 
place it in "My Drive." To do so, right-click the folder, select 
"Organize", and then choose "Add shortcut" in the Google Drive web interface. 
Once you add the shortcut to "My Drive," rclone will display the folder, allowing you to interact with it.
See also [Shortcuts](#shortcuts). 

If, however, you choose to change your root folder, you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display.  This will be the last segment
of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the drive web
interface.

So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like
`https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XyfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxKHCh`
in the browser, then you use `1XyfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxKHCh` as
the `root_folder_id` in the config.

**NB** folders under the "Computers" tab seem to be read only (drive
gives a 500 error) when using rclone, but they are also read-only in the Google Drive web interface, 
likely because this folder is managed by the Google Drive Desktop tool.
Top-level folders in "Computers" are read-only, but you can interact 
with folders contained within them using rclone.
These are the folders for which you can create a shortcut as well, as described above.

There doesn't appear to be an API to discover the folder IDs of the
"Computers" tab - please contact us if you know otherwise!

Note also that rclone can't access any data under the "Backups" tab on
the google drive web interface yet.

### Service Account support

You can set up rclone with Google Drive in an unattended mode,
i.e. not tied to a specific end-user Google account. This is useful
when you want to synchronise files onto machines that don't have
actively logged-in users, for example build machines.

To use a Service Account instead of OAuth2 token flow, enter the path
to your Service Account credentials at the `service_account_file`
prompt during `rclone config` and rclone won't use the browser based
authentication flow. If you'd rather stuff the contents of the
credentials file into the rclone config file, you can set
`service_account_credentials` with the actual contents of the file
instead, or set the equivalent environment variable.

#### Use case - Google Workspace account and individual Drive

Let's say that you are the administrator of a Google Workspace. The
goal is to read or write data on an individual's Drive account, who IS
a member of the domain. We'll call the domain <example.com>, and the
user <foo@example.com>.

There's a few steps we need to go through to accomplish this:

##### 1. Create a service account for example.com

- To create a service account and obtain its credentials, go to the
  [Google Developer Console](https://console.developers.google.com).
- You must have a project - create one if you don't and make sure you are
  on the selected project.
- Then go to "IAM & admin" -> "Service Accounts".
- Use the "Create Service Account" button. Fill in "Service account name"
  and "Service account ID" with something that identifies your client.
- Select "Create And Continue". Step 2 and 3 are optional.
- Click on the newly created service account
- Click "Keys" and then "Add Key" and then "Create new key"
- Choose type "JSON" and click create
- This will download a small JSON file that rclone will use for authentication.

If you ever need to remove access, press the "Delete service
account key" button.

##### 2. Allowing API access to example.com Google Drive

- Go to example.com's [Workspace Admin Console](https://admin.google.com)
- Go into "Security" (or use the search bar)
- Select "Access and data control" and then "API controls"
- Click "Manage domain-wide delegation"
- Click "Add new"
- In the "Client ID" field enter the service account's
  "Client ID" - this can be found in the Developer Console under
  "IAM & Admin" -> "Service Accounts", then "View Client ID" for
  the newly created service account.
  It is a ~21 character numerical string.
- In the next field, "OAuth Scopes", enter
  `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive`
  to grant read/write access to Google Drive specifically.
  You can also use `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly` for read
  only access with `--drive-scope=drive.readonly`.
- Click "Authorise"

##### 3. Configure rclone, assuming a new install

```text
rclone config

n/s/q> n         # New
name>gdrive      # Gdrive is an example name
Storage>         # Type drive
client_id>       # Can be left blank
client_secret>   # Can be left blank
scope>           # Select the scope use used in step 2
root_folder_id>  # Can be left blank
service_account_file> /home/foo/myJSONfile.json # Path to the JSON file you downloaded in step 1.
y/n>             # Auto config, n

```

##### 4. Verify that it's working

- `rclone -v --drive-impersonate foo@example.com lsf gdrive:backup`
- The arguments do:
  - `-v` - verbose logging
  - `--drive-impersonate foo@example.com` - this is what does
the magic, pretending to be user foo.
  - `lsf` - list files in a parsing friendly way
  - `gdrive:backup` - use the remote called gdrive, work in
the folder named backup.

Note: in case you configured a specific root folder on gdrive and rclone is
unable to access the contents of that folder when using `--drive-impersonate`,
do this instead:

- in the gdrive web interface, share your root folder with the user/email of the
  new Service Account you created/selected at step 1
- use rclone without specifying the `--drive-impersonate` option, like this:
  `rclone -v lsf gdrive:backup`

### Shared drives (team drives)

If you want to configure the remote to point to a Google Shared Drive
(previously known as Team Drives) then answer `y` to the question
`Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?`.

This will fetch the list of Shared Drives from google and allow you to
configure which one you want to use. You can also type in a Shared
Drive ID if you prefer.

For example:

```text
Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Fetching Shared Drive list...
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Rclone Test
   \ "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
 2 / Rclone Test 2
   \ "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
 3 / Rclone Test 3
   \ "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
Enter a Shared Drive ID> 1
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: drive
- client_id:
- client_secret:
- token: {"AccessToken":"xxxx.x.xxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","RefreshToken":"1/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","Expiry":"2014-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z","Extra":null}
- team_drive: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

It does this by combining multiple `list` calls into a single API request.

This works by combining many `'%s' in parents` filters into one expression.
To list the contents of directories a, b and c, the following requests will be
send by the regular `List` function:

```text
trashed=false and 'a' in parents
trashed=false and 'b' in parents
trashed=false and 'c' in parents
```

These can now be combined into a single request:

```text
trashed=false and ('a' in parents or 'b' in parents or 'c' in parents)
```

The implementation of `ListR` will put up to 50 `parents` filters into one request.
It will  use the `--checkers` value to specify the number of requests to run in parallel.

In tests, these batch requests were up to 20x faster than the regular method.
Running the following command against different sized folders gives:

```console
rclone lsjson -vv -R --checkers=6 gdrive:folder
```

small folder (220 directories, 700 files):

- without `--fast-list`: 38s
- with `--fast-list`: 10s

large folder (10600 directories, 39000 files):

- without `--fast-list`: 22:05 min
- with `--fast-list`: 58s

### Modification times and hashes

Google drive stores modification times accurate to 1 ms.

Hash algorithms MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 are supported. Note, however,
that a small fraction of files uploaded may not have SHA1 or SHA256
hashes especially if they were uploaded before 2018.

### Restricted filename characters

Only Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

In contrast to other backends, `/` can also be used in names and `.`
or `..` are valid names.

### Revisions

Google drive stores revisions of files.  When you upload a change to
an existing file to google drive using rclone it will create a new
revision of that file.

Revisions follow the standard google policy which at time of writing
was

- They are deleted after 30 days or 100 revisions (whatever comes first).
- They do not count towards a user storage quota.

### Deleting files

By default rclone will send all files to the trash when deleting
files.  If deleting them permanently is required then use the
`--drive-use-trash=false` flag, or set the equivalent environment
variable.

### Shortcuts

In March 2020 Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive called
[drive shortcuts](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/9700156)
([API](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/shortcuts)). These
will (by September 2020) [replace the ability for files or folders to
be in multiple folders at once](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/simplifying-google-drives-folder-structure-and-sharing-models).

Shortcuts are files that link to other files on Google Drive somewhat
like a symlink in unix, except they point to the underlying file data
(e.g. the inode in unix terms) so they don't break if the source is
renamed or moved about.

By default rclone treats these as follows.

For shortcuts pointing to files:

- When listing a file shortcut appears as the destination file.
- When downloading the contents of the destination file is downloaded.
- When updating shortcut file with a non shortcut file, the shortcut is removed
  then a new file is uploaded in place of the shortcut.
- When server-side moving (renaming) the shortcut is renamed, not the destination
  file.
- When server-side copying the shortcut is copied, not the contents of the shortcut.
  (unless `--drive-copy-shortcut-content` is in use in which case the contents of
  the shortcut gets copied).
- When deleting the shortcut is deleted not the linked file.
- When setting the modification time, the modification time of the linked file
  will be set.

For shortcuts pointing to folders:

- When listing the shortcut appears as a folder and that folder will contain the
  contents of the linked folder appear (including any sub folders)
- When downloading the contents of the linked folder and sub contents are downloaded
- When uploading to a shortcut folder the file will be placed in the linked folder
- When server-side moving (renaming) the shortcut is renamed, not the destination
  folder
- When server-side copying the contents of the linked folder is copied, not the shortcut.
- When deleting with `rclone rmdir` or `rclone purge` the shortcut is deleted not
  the linked folder.
- **NB** When deleting with `rclone remove` or `rclone mount` the contents of the
  linked folder will be deleted.

The [rclone backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command can be
used to create shortcuts.

Shortcuts can be completely ignored with the `--drive-skip-shortcuts` flag
or the corresponding `skip_shortcuts` configuration setting.

When `rclone lsf --format i` lists a file shortcut, the ID field contains the
target file ID followed by the shortcut ID, separated by a tab. This internal
tab is not changed by `--separator`.

If you have a folder shortcut that points at one of its own parent folders it
would lead to an infinite recursion. Rclone detects this, leaves the offending
shortcut out of the listing and logs an ERROR, so the rest of the drive can
still be copied.

### Emptying trash

If you wish to empty your trash you can use the `rclone cleanup remote:`
command which will permanently delete all your trashed files. This command
does not take any path arguments.

Note that Google Drive takes some time (minutes to days) to empty the
trash even though the command returns within a few seconds.  No output
is echoed, so there will be no confirmation even using -v or -vv.

### Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your usage limit (quota), the usage in Google
Drive, the size of all files in the Trash and the space used by other
Google services such as Gmail. This command does not take any path
arguments.

### Import/Export of google documents

Google documents can be exported from and uploaded to Google Drive.

When rclone downloads a Google doc it chooses a format to download
depending upon the `--drive-export-formats` setting.
By default the export formats are `docx,xlsx,pptx,svg` which are a
sensible default for an editable document.

When choosing a format, rclone runs down the list provided in order
and chooses the first file format the doc can be exported as from the
list. If the file can't be exported to a format on the formats list,
then rclone will choose a format from the default list.

If you prefer an archive copy then you might use `--drive-export-formats
pdf`, or if you prefer openoffice/libreoffice formats you might use
`--drive-export-formats ods,odt,odp`.

Note that rclone adds the extension to the google doc, so if it is
called `My Spreadsheet` on google docs, it will be exported as `My
Spreadsheet.xlsx` or `My Spreadsheet.pdf` etc.

When importing files into Google Drive, rclone will convert all
files with an extension in `--drive-import-formats` to their
associated document type.
rclone will not convert any files by default, since the conversion
is lossy process.

The conversion must result in a file with the same extension when
the `--drive-export-formats` rules are applied to the uploaded document.

Here are some examples for allowed and prohibited conversions.

| export-formats | import-formats | Upload Ext | Document Ext | Allowed |
| -------------- | -------------- | ---------- | ------------ | ------- |
| odt | odt | odt | odt | Yes |
| odt | docx,odt | odt | odt | Yes |
|  | docx | docx | docx | Yes |
|  | odt | odt | docx | No |
| odt,docx | docx,odt | docx | odt | No |
| docx,odt | docx,odt | docx | docx | Yes |
| docx,odt | docx,odt | odt | docx | No |

This limitation can be disabled by specifying `--drive-allow-import-name-change`.
When using this flag, rclone can convert multiple files types resulting
in the same document type at once, e.g. with `--drive-import-formats docx,odt,txt`,
all files having these extension would result in a document represented as a
docx file.
This brings the additional risk of overwriting a document, if multiple files
have the same stem. Many rclone operations will not handle this name change
in any way. They assume an equal name when copying files and might copy the
file again or delete them when the name changes.

Here are the possible export extensions with their corresponding mime types.
Most of these can also be used for importing, but there more that are not
listed here. Some of these additional ones might only be available when
the operating system provides the correct MIME type entries.

This list can be changed by Google Drive at any time and might not
represent the currently available conversions.

| Extension | Mime Type | Description |
| --------- |-----------| ------------|
| bmp  | image/bmp | Windows Bitmap format |
| csv  | text/csv | Standard CSV format for Spreadsheets |
| doc  | application/msword | Classic Word file |
| docx | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document | Microsoft Office Document |
| epub | application/epub+zip | E-book format |
| html | text/html | An HTML Document |
| jpg  | image/jpeg | A JPEG Image File |
| json | application/vnd.google-apps.script+json | JSON Text Format for Google Apps scripts |
| md   | text/markdown | Markdown Text Format |
| odp  | application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation | Openoffice Presentation |
| ods  | application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet | Openoffice Spreadsheet |
| ods  | application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet | Openoffice Spreadsheet |
| odt  | application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text | Openoffice Document |
| pdf  | application/pdf | Adobe PDF Format |
| pjpeg | image/pjpeg | Progressive JPEG Image |
| png  | image/png | PNG Image Format|
| pptx | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation | Microsoft Office Powerpoint |
| rtf  | application/rtf | Rich Text Format |
| svg  | image/svg+xml | Scalable Vector Graphics Format |
| tsv  | text/tab-separated-values | Standard TSV format for spreadsheets |
| txt  | text/plain | Plain Text |
| wmf  | application/x-msmetafile | Windows Meta File |
| xls  | application/vnd.ms-excel | Classic Excel file |
| xlsx | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet | Microsoft Office Spreadsheet |
| zip  | application/zip | A ZIP file of HTML, Images CSS |

Google documents can also be exported as link files. These files will
open a browser window for the Google Docs website of that document
when opened. The link file extension has to be specified as a
`--drive-export-formats` parameter. They will match all available
Google Documents.

| Extension | Description | OS Support |
| --------- | ----------- | ---------- |
| desktop | freedesktop.org specified desktop entry | Linux |
| link.html | An HTML Document with a redirect | All |
| url | INI style link file | macOS, Windows |
| webloc | macOS specific XML format | macOS |

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/drive/drive.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to drive (Google Drive).

#### --drive-client-id

Google Application Client Id
Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id, or if you are using a service account.
The shared client_id is being retired and will stop working during 2026, so creating your own is now strongly recommended.
See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-client-secret

Google Application Client Secret
Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id, or if you are using a service account.
If you created your own client_id then enter its client secret here.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-scope

Comma separated list of scopes that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.

Properties:

- Config:      scope
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SCOPE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "drive"
    - Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
  - "drive.readonly"
    - Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
  - "drive.file"
    - Access to files created by rclone only.
    - These are visible in the drive website.
    - File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
  - "drive.appfolder"
    - Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
    - This is not visible in the drive website.
  - "drive.metadata.readonly"
    - Allows read-only access to file metadata but
    - does not allow any access to read or download file content.

#### --drive-service-account-file

Service Account Credentials JSON file path.

Leave blank normally.
Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      service_account_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to drive (Google Drive).

#### --drive-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.
Leave blank normally.

Fill in to access "Computers" folders (see docs), or for rclone to use
a non root folder as its starting point.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-service-account-credentials

Service Account Credentials JSON blob.

Leave blank normally.
Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Properties:

- Config:      service_account_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-team-drive

ID of the Shared Drive (Team Drive).

Properties:

- Config:      team_drive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_TEAM_DRIVE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-auth-owner-only

Only consider files owned by the authenticated user.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_owner_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_AUTH_OWNER_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-use-trash

Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently.

Defaults to true, namely sending files to the trash.
Use `--drive-use-trash=false` to delete files permanently instead.

Properties:

- Config:      use_trash
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_TRASH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --drive-copy-shortcut-content

Server side copy contents of shortcuts instead of the shortcut.

When doing server side copies, normally rclone will copy shortcuts as
shortcuts.

If this flag is used then rclone will copy the contents of shortcuts
rather than shortcuts themselves when doing server side copies.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_shortcut_content
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_COPY_SHORTCUT_CONTENT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-skip-gdocs

Skip google documents in all listings.

If given, gdocs practically become invisible to rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_gdocs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SKIP_GDOCS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-show-all-gdocs

Show all Google Docs including non-exportable ones in listings.

If you try a server side copy on a Google Form without this flag, you
will get this error:

    No export formats found for "application/vnd.google-apps.form"

However adding this flag will allow the form to be server side copied.

Note that rclone doesn't add extensions to the Google Docs file names
in this mode.

Do **not** use this flag when trying to download Google Docs - rclone
will fail to download them.


Properties:

- Config:      show_all_gdocs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SHOW_ALL_GDOCS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-skip-checksum-gphotos

Skip checksums on Google photos and videos only.

Use this if you get checksum errors when transferring Google photos or
videos.

Setting this flag will cause Google photos and videos to return a
blank checksums.

Google photos are identified by being in the "photos" space.

Corrupted checksums are caused by Google modifying the image/video but
not updating the checksum.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_checksum_gphotos
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SKIP_CHECKSUM_GPHOTOS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-shared-with-me

Only show files that are shared with me.

Instructs rclone to operate on your "Shared with me" folder (where
Google Drive lets you access the files and folders others have shared
with you).

This works both with the "list" (lsd, lsl, etc.) and the "copy"
commands (copy, sync, etc.), and with all other commands too.

Properties:

- Config:      shared_with_me
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SHARED_WITH_ME
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-trashed-only

Only show files that are in the trash.

This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

Properties:

- Config:      trashed_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_TRASHED_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-starred-only

Only show files that are starred.

Properties:

- Config:      starred_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_STARRED_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-formats

Deprecated: See export_formats.

Properties:

- Config:      formats
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_FORMATS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-export-formats

Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs.

Properties:

- Config:      export_formats
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_EXPORT_FORMATS
- Type:        string
- Default:     "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg"

#### --drive-import-formats

Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs.

Properties:

- Config:      import_formats
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_IMPORT_FORMATS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-allow-import-name-change

Allow the filetype to change when uploading Google docs.

E.g. file.doc to file.docx. This will confuse sync and reupload every time.

Properties:

- Config:      allow_import_name_change
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_ALLOW_IMPORT_NAME_CHANGE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-use-created-date

Use file created date instead of modified date.

Useful when downloading data and you want the creation date used in
place of the last modified date.

**WARNING**: This flag may have some unexpected consequences.

When uploading to your drive all files will be overwritten unless they
haven't been modified since their creation. And the inverse will occur
while downloading.  This side effect can be avoided by using the
"--checksum" flag.

This feature was implemented to retain photos capture date as recorded
by google photos. You will first need to check the "Create a Google
Photos folder" option in your google drive settings. You can then copy
or move the photos locally and use the date the image was taken
(created) set as the modification date.

Properties:

- Config:      use_created_date
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_CREATED_DATE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-use-shared-date

Use date file was shared instead of modified date.

Note that, as with "--drive-use-created-date", this flag may have
unexpected consequences when uploading/downloading files.

If both this flag and "--drive-use-created-date" are set, the created
date is used.

Properties:

- Config:      use_shared_date
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_SHARED_DATE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk 100-1000, 0 to disable.

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --drive-impersonate

Impersonate this user when using a service account.

Properties:

- Config:      impersonate
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_IMPERSONATE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     8Mi

#### --drive-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

Must a power of 2 >= 256k.

Making this larger will improve performance, but note that each chunk
is buffered in memory one per transfer.

Reducing this will reduce memory usage but decrease performance.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     8Mi

#### --drive-acknowledge-abuse

Set to allow files which return cannotDownloadAbusiveFile to be downloaded.

If downloading a file returns the error "This file has been identified
as malware or spam and cannot be downloaded" with the error code
"cannotDownloadAbusiveFile" then supply this flag to rclone to
indicate you acknowledge the risks of downloading the file and rclone
will download it anyway.

Note that if you are using service account it will need Manager
permission (not Content Manager) to for this flag to work. If the SA
does not have the right permission, Google will just ignore the flag.

Properties:

- Config:      acknowledge_abuse
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_ACKNOWLEDGE_ABUSE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-keep-revision-forever

Keep new head revision of each file forever.

Properties:

- Config:      keep_revision_forever
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_KEEP_REVISION_FOREVER
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-size-as-quota

Show sizes as storage quota usage, not actual size.

Show the size of a file as the storage quota used. This is the
current version plus any older versions that have been set to keep
forever.

**WARNING**: This flag may have some unexpected consequences.

It is not recommended to set this flag in your config - the
recommended usage is using the flag form --drive-size-as-quota when
doing rclone ls/lsl/lsf/lsjson/etc only.

If you do use this flag for syncing (not recommended) then you will
need to use --ignore size also.

Properties:

- Config:      size_as_quota
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SIZE_AS_QUOTA
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-v2-download-min-size

If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download.

Properties:

- Config:      v2_download_min_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_V2_DOWNLOAD_MIN_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     off

#### --drive-pacer-min-sleep

Minimum time to sleep between API calls.

Properties:

- Config:      pacer_min_sleep
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_PACER_MIN_SLEEP
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     100ms

#### --drive-pacer-burst

Number of API calls to allow without sleeping.

Properties:

- Config:      pacer_burst
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_PACER_BURST
- Type:        int
- Default:     100

#### --drive-server-side-across-configs

Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead.

Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different drive configs.

This can be useful if you wish to do a server-side copy between two
different Google drives.  Note that this isn't enabled by default
because it isn't easy to tell if it will work between any two
configurations.

Properties:

- Config:      server_side_across_configs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SERVER_SIDE_ACROSS_CONFIGS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-disable-http2

Disable drive using http2.

There is currently an unsolved issue with the google drive backend and
HTTP/2.  HTTP/2 is therefore disabled by default for the drive backend
but can be re-enabled here.  When the issue is solved this flag will
be removed.

See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3631



Properties:

- Config:      disable_http2
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_DISABLE_HTTP2
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --drive-stop-on-upload-limit

Make upload limit errors be fatal.

At the time of writing it is only possible to upload 750 GiB of data to
Google Drive a day (this is an undocumented limit). When this limit is
reached Google Drive produces a slightly different error message. When
this flag is set it causes these errors to be fatal.  These will stop
the in-progress sync.

Note that this detection is relying on error message strings which
Google don't document so it may break in the future.

See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3857


Properties:

- Config:      stop_on_upload_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_STOP_ON_UPLOAD_LIMIT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-stop-on-download-limit

Make download limit errors be fatal.

At the time of writing it is only possible to download 10 TiB of data from
Google Drive a day (this is an undocumented limit). When this limit is
reached Google Drive produces a slightly different error message. When
this flag is set it causes these errors to be fatal.  These will stop
the in-progress sync.

Note that this detection is relying on error message strings which
Google don't document so it may break in the future.


Properties:

- Config:      stop_on_download_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_STOP_ON_DOWNLOAD_LIMIT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-skip-shortcuts

If set skip shortcut files.

Normally rclone dereferences shortcut files making them appear as if
they are the original file (see [the shortcuts section](#shortcuts)).
If this flag is set then rclone will ignore shortcut files completely.


Properties:

- Config:      skip_shortcuts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SKIP_SHORTCUTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts

If set skip dangling shortcut files.

If this is set then rclone will not show any dangling shortcuts in listings.


Properties:

- Config:      skip_dangling_shortcuts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_SKIP_DANGLING_SHORTCUTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-resource-key

Resource key for accessing a link-shared file.

If you need to access files shared with a link like this

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/XXX?resourcekey=YYY&usp=sharing

Then you will need to use the first part "XXX" as the "root_folder_id"
and the second part "YYY" as the "resource_key" otherwise you will get
404 not found errors when trying to access the directory.

See: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/resource-keys

This resource key requirement only applies to a subset of old files.

Note also that opening the folder once in the web interface (with the
user you've authenticated rclone with) seems to be enough so that the
resource key is not needed.


Properties:

- Config:      resource_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_RESOURCE_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --drive-fast-list-bug-fix

Work around a bug in Google Drive listing.

Normally rclone will work around a bug in Google Drive when using
--fast-list (ListR) where the search "(A in parents) or (B in
parents)" returns nothing sometimes. See #3114, #4289 and
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/149522397

Rclone detects this by finding no items in more than one directory
when listing and retries them as lists of individual directories.

This means that if you have a lot of empty directories rclone will end
up listing them all individually and this can take many more API
calls.

This flag allows the work-around to be disabled. This is **not**
recommended in normal use - only if you have a particular case you are
having trouble with like many empty directories.


Properties:

- Config:      fast_list_bug_fix
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_FAST_LIST_BUG_FIX
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --drive-metadata-owner

Control whether owner should be read or written in metadata.

Owner is a standard part of the file metadata so is easy to read. But it
isn't always desirable to set the owner from the metadata.

Note that you can't set the owner on Shared Drives, and that setting
ownership will generate an email to the new owner (this can't be
disabled), and you can't transfer ownership to someone outside your
organization.


Properties:

- Config:      metadata_owner
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_METADATA_OWNER
- Type:        Bits
- Default:     read
- Examples:
  - "off"
    - Do not read or write the value
  - "read"
    - Read the value only
  - "write"
    - Write the value only
  - "failok"
    - If writing fails log errors only, don't fail the transfer
  - "read,write"
    - Read and Write the value.

#### --drive-metadata-permissions

Control whether permissions should be read or written in metadata.

Reading permissions metadata from files can be done quickly, but it
isn't always desirable to set the permissions from the metadata.

Note that rclone drops any inherited permissions on Shared Drives and
any owner permission on My Drives as these are duplicated in the owner
metadata.


Properties:

- Config:      metadata_permissions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_METADATA_PERMISSIONS
- Type:        Bits
- Default:     off
- Examples:
  - "off"
    - Do not read or write the value
  - "read"
    - Read the value only
  - "write"
    - Write the value only
  - "failok"
    - If writing fails log errors only, don't fail the transfer
  - "read,write"
    - Read and Write the value.

#### --drive-metadata-labels

Control whether labels should be read or written in metadata.

Reading labels metadata from files takes an extra API transaction and
will slow down listings. It isn't always desirable to set the labels
from the metadata.

The format of labels is documented in the drive API documentation at
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/reference/rest/v3/Label -
rclone just provides a JSON dump of this format.

When setting labels, the label and fields must already exist - rclone
will not create them. This means that if you are transferring labels
from two different accounts you will have to create the labels in
advance and use the metadata mapper to translate the IDs between the
two accounts.


Properties:

- Config:      metadata_labels
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_METADATA_LABELS
- Type:        Bits
- Default:     off
- Examples:
  - "off"
    - Do not read or write the value
  - "read"
    - Read the value only
  - "write"
    - Write the value only
  - "failok"
    - If writing fails log errors only, don't fail the transfer
  - "read,write"
    - Read and Write the value.

#### --drive-metadata-enforce-expansive-access

Whether the request should enforce expansive access rules.

From Feb 2026 this flag will be set by default so this flag can be used for
testing before then.

See: https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/limited-expansive-access


Properties:

- Config:      metadata_enforce_expansive_access
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_METADATA_ENFORCE_EXPANSIVE_ACCESS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --drive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     InvalidUtf8

#### --drive-env-auth

Get IAM credentials from runtime (environment variables or instance meta data if no env vars).

Only applies if service_account_file and service_account_credentials is blank.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Enter credentials in the next step.
  - "true"
    - Get GCP IAM credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).

#### --drive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_DRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

User metadata is stored in the properties field of the drive object.

Metadata is supported on files and directories.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the drive backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) with mS accuracy. Note that this is only writable on fresh uploads - it can't be written for updates. | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999Z07:00 | N |
| content-type | The MIME type of the file. | string | text/plain | N |
| copy-requires-writer-permission | Whether the options to copy, print, or download this file, should be disabled for readers and commenters. | boolean | true | N |
| description | A short description of the file. | string | Contract for signing | N |
| folder-color-rgb | The color for a folder or a shortcut to a folder as an RGB hex string. | string | 881133 | N |
| labels | Labels attached to this file in a JSON dump of Googled drive format. Enable with --drive-metadata-labels. | JSON | [] | N |
| mtime | Time of last modification with mS accuracy. | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999Z07:00 | N |
| owner | The owner of the file. Usually an email address. Enable with --drive-metadata-owner. | string | user@example.com | N |
| permissions | Permissions in a JSON dump of Google drive format. On shared drives these will only be present if they aren't inherited. Enable with --drive-metadata-permissions. | JSON | {} | N |
| starred | Whether the user has starred the file. | boolean | false | N |
| viewed-by-me | Whether the file has been viewed by this user. | boolean | true | **Y** |
| writers-can-share | Whether users with only writer permission can modify the file's permissions. Not populated and ignored when setting for items in shared drives. | boolean | false | N |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the drive backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### get

Get command for fetching the drive config parameters.

```console
rclone backend get remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This is a get command which will be used to fetch the various drive config
parameters.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend get drive: [-o service_account_file] [-o chunk_size]
rclone rc backend/command command=get fs=drive: [-o service_account_file] [-o chunk_size]
```

Options:

- "chunk_size": Show the current upload chunk size.
- "service_account_file": Show the current service account file.

### set

Set command for updating the drive config parameters.

```console
rclone backend set remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This is a set command which will be used to update the various drive config
parameters.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend set drive: [-o service_account_file=sa.json] [-o chunk_size=67108864]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=drive: [-o service_account_file=sa.json] [-o chunk_size=67108864]
```

Options:

- "chunk_size": Update the current upload chunk size.
- "service_account_file": Update the current service account file.

### shortcut

Create shortcuts from files or directories.

```console
rclone backend shortcut remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command creates shortcuts from files or directories.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend shortcut drive: source_item destination_shortcut
rclone backend shortcut drive: source_item -o target=drive2: destination_shortcut
```

In the first example this creates a shortcut from the "source_item"
which can be a file or a directory to the "destination_shortcut". The
"source_item" and the "destination_shortcut" should be relative paths
from "drive:"

In the second example this creates a shortcut from the "source_item"
relative to "drive:" to the "destination_shortcut" relative to
"drive2:". This may fail with a permission error if the user
authenticated with "drive2:" can't read files from "drive:".

Options:

- "target": Optional target remote for the shortcut destination.

### drives

List the Shared Drives available to this account.

```console
rclone backend drives remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command lists the Shared Drives (Team Drives) available to this
account.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend [-o config] drives drive:
```

This will return a JSON list of objects like this:

```json
[
    {
        "id": "0ABCDEF-01234567890",
        "kind": "drive#teamDrive",
        "name": "My Drive"
    },
    {
        "id": "0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl",
        "kind": "drive#teamDrive",
        "name": "Test Drive"
    }
]
```

With the -o config parameter it will output the list in a format
suitable for adding to a config file to make aliases for all the
drives found and a combined drive.

```ini
[My Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEF-01234567890,root_folder_id=:

[Test Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl,root_folder_id=:

[AllDrives]
type = combine
upstreams = "My Drive=My Drive:" "Test Drive=Test Drive:"
```

Adding this to the rclone config file will cause those team drives to
be accessible with the aliases shown. Any illegal characters will be
substituted with "_" and duplicate names will have numbers suffixed.
It will also add a remote called AllDrives which shows all the shared
drives combined into one directory tree.

### untrash

Untrash files and directories.

```console
rclone backend untrash remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command untrashes all the files and directories in the directory
passed in recursively.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend untrash drive:directory
rclone backend --interactive untrash drive:directory subdir
```

This takes an optional directory to trash which make this easier to
use via the API.

Use the --interactive/-i or --dry-run flag to see what would be restored before
restoring it.

Result:

```json
{
    "Untrashed": 17,
    "Errors": 0
}
```

### copyid

Copy files by ID.

```console
rclone backend copyid remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command copies files by ID.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend copyid drive: ID path
rclone backend copyid drive: ID1 path1 ID2 path2
```

It copies the drive file with ID given to the path (an rclone path which
will be passed internally to rclone copyto). The ID and path pairs can be
repeated.

The path should end with a / to indicate copy the file as named to
this directory. If it doesn't end with a / then the last path
component will be used as the file name.

If the destination is a drive backend then server-side copying will be
attempted if possible.

Use the --interactive/-i or --dry-run flag to see what would be copied before
copying.

### moveid

Move files by ID.

```console
rclone backend moveid remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command moves files by ID.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend moveid drive: ID path
rclone backend moveid drive: ID1 path1 ID2 path2
```

It moves the drive file with ID given to the path (an rclone path which
will be passed internally to rclone moveto).

The path should end with a / to indicate move the file as named to
this directory. If it doesn't end with a / then the last path
component will be used as the file name.

If the destination is a drive backend then server-side moving will be
attempted if possible.

Use the --interactive/-i or --dry-run flag to see what would be moved beforehand.

### exportformats

Dump the export formats for debug purposes.

```console
rclone backend exportformats remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

### importformats

Dump the import formats for debug purposes.

```console
rclone backend importformats remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

### query

List files using Google Drive query language.

```console
rclone backend query remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command lists files based on a query.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend query drive: query
```

The query syntax is documented at [Google Drive Search query terms and 
operators](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/ref-search-terms).

For example:

```console
rclone backend query drive: "'0ABc9DEFGHIJKLMNop0QRatUVW3X' in parents and name contains 'foo'"
```

If the query contains literal ' or \ characters, these need to be escaped with
\ characters. "'" becomes "\'" and "\" becomes "\\\", for example to match a 
file named "foo ' \.txt":

```console
rclone backend query drive: "name = 'foo \' \\\.txt'"
```

The result is a JSON array of matches, for example:

```json
[
    {
        "createdTime": "2017-06-29T19:58:28.537Z",
        "id": "0AxBe_CDEF4zkGHI4d0FjYko2QkD",
        "md5Checksum": "68518d16be0c6fbfab918be61d658032",
        "mimeType": "text/plain",
        "modifiedTime": "2024-02-02T10:40:02.874Z",
        "name": "foo ' \\.txt",
        "parents": [
            "0BxAe_BCDE4zkFGZpcWJGek0xbzC"
        ],
        "resourceKey": "0-ABCDEFGHIXJQpIGqBJq3MC",
        "sha1Checksum": "8f284fa768bfb4e45d076a579ab3905ab6bfa893",
        "size": "311",
        "webViewLink": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/0AxBe_CDEF4zkGHI4d0FjYko2QkD/view?usp=drivesdk\u0026resourcekey=0-ABCDEFGHIXJQpIGqBJq3MC"
    }
]
```console

### rescue

Rescue or delete any orphaned files.

```console
rclone backend rescue remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command rescues or deletes any orphaned files or directories.

Sometimes files can get orphaned in Google Drive. This means that they
are no longer in any folder in Google Drive.

This command finds those files and either rescues them to a directory
you specify or deletes them.

This can be used in 3 ways.

First, list all orphaned files:

```console
rclone backend rescue drive:
```

Second rescue all orphaned files to the directory indicated:

```console
rclone backend rescue drive: "relative/path/to/rescue/directory"
```

E.g. to rescue all orphans to a directory called "Orphans" in the top level:

```console
rclone backend rescue drive: Orphans
```

Third delete all orphaned files to the trash:

```console
rclone backend rescue drive: -o delete
```

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## Limitations

Drive has quite a lot of rate limiting.  This causes rclone to be
limited to transferring about 2 files per second only.  Individual
files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MiB/s but lots of
small files can take a long time.

Server side copies are also subject to a separate rate limit. If you
see User rate limit exceeded errors, wait at least 24 hours and retry.
You can disable server-side copies with `--disable copy` to download
and upload the files if you prefer.

### Limitations of Google Docs

Google docs will appear as size -1 in `rclone ls`, `rclone ncdu` etc,
and as size 0 in anything which uses the VFS layer, e.g. `rclone mount`
and `rclone serve`. When calculating directory totals, e.g. in
`rclone size` and `rclone ncdu`, they will be counted in as empty
files.

This is because rclone can't find out the size of the Google docs
without downloading them.

Google docs will transfer correctly with `rclone sync`, `rclone copy`
etc as rclone knows to ignore the size when doing the transfer.

However an unfortunate consequence of this is that you may not be able
to download Google docs using `rclone mount`. If it doesn't work you
will get a 0 sized file.  If you try again the doc may gain its
correct size and be downloadable. Whether it will work on not depends
on the application accessing the mount and the OS you are running -
experiment to find out if it does work for you!

### Duplicated files

Sometimes, for no reason I've been able to track down, drive will
duplicate a file that rclone uploads.  Drive unlike all the other
remotes can have duplicated files.

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see
messages in the log about duplicates.

Use `rclone dedupe` to fix duplicated files.

Note that this isn't just a problem with rclone, even Google Photos on
Android duplicates files on drive sometimes.

### Rclone appears to be re-copying files it shouldn't

The most likely cause of this is the duplicated file issue above - run
`rclone dedupe` and check your logs for duplicate object or directory
messages.

This can also be caused by a delay/caching on google drive's end when
comparing directory listings. Specifically with team drives used in
combination with --fast-list. Files that were uploaded recently may
not appear on the directory list sent to rclone when using --fast-list.

Waiting a moderate period of time between attempts (estimated to be
approximately 1 hour) and/or not using --fast-list both seem to be
effective in preventing the problem.

### SHA1 or SHA256 hashes may be missing

All files have MD5 hashes, but a small fraction of files uploaded may
not have SHA1 or SHA256 hashes especially if they were uploaded before 2018.

## Making your own client_id

When you use rclone with Google drive in its default configuration you
are using rclone's client_id.  This is shared between all the rclone
users.

**This shared client_id is being retired and will stop working during
2026.**  To avoid interruption you must create and use your own
client_id, so creating one is now required rather than merely
recommended.  New remotes created with `rclone config` will warn you if
you leave the client_id blank.

Using your own client_id has other benefits too. There is a global
rate limit on the number of queries per second that each client_id can
do set by Google. If you have multiple services running, it is
recommended to use an API key for each service. The default Google
quota is 10 transactions per second so it is recommended to stay under
that number as if you use more than that, it will cause rclone to rate
limit and make things slower.

Here is how to create your own Google Drive client ID for rclone:

1. Log into the [Google API
Console](https://console.developers.google.com/) with your Google
account. It doesn't matter what Google account you use. (It need not
be the same account as the Google Drive you want to access)

2. Select a project or create a new project.

3. Under "ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES" search for "Drive", and enable the
"Google Drive API".

4. Click "Credentials" in the left-side panel (not "Create
credentials", which opens the wizard).

5. If you already configured an "Oauth Consent Screen", then skip
to the next step; if not, click on "CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN" button
(near the top right corner of the right panel), then click "Get started".
On the next screen, enter an "Application name"
("rclone" is OK); enter "User Support Email" (your own email is OK);
Next, under Audience select "External". Next enter your own contact information,
agree to terms and click "Create". You should now see rclone (or your project name)
in a box in the top left of the screen.

    (PS: if you are a GSuite user, you could also select "Internal" instead
of "External" above, but this will restrict API use to Google Workspace
users in your organisation).

    You will also have to add [some scopes](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/api-specific-auth),
including
    - `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/docs`
    - `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive` in order to be able to edit,
        create and delete files with RClone.
    - `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly` which you may
      also want to add.

    To do this, click Data Access on the left side panel, click "add or
    remove scopes" and select the three above and press update or go to the
    "Manually add scopes" text box (scroll down) and enter
    "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/docs,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly", press add to table then update.

    You should now see the three scopes on your Data access page. Now press save
    at the bottom!

6. After adding scopes, click Audience
Scroll down and click "+ Add users". Add yourself as a test user and press save.

7. Go to Overview on the left panel, click "Create OAuth client". Choose
   an application type of "Desktop app" and click "Create". (the default name is fine)

8. It will show you a client ID and client secret. Make a note of these.
   (If you selected "External" at Step 5 continue to Step 9.
   If you chose "Internal" you don't need to publish and can skip straight to
   Step 10 but your destination drive must be part of the same Google Workspace.)

9. Go to "Audience" and then click "PUBLISH APP" button and confirm.
   Add yourself as a test user if you haven't already.

10. Provide the noted client ID and client secret to rclone.

11. Run the web-based authorization flow from within `rclone config`, by answering
    "Y" when it asks "Token already configured - replace it?".

Be aware that, due to the "enhanced security" recently introduced by
Google, you are theoretically expected to "submit your app for verification"
and then wait a few weeks(!) for their response; in practice, you can go right
ahead and use the client ID and client secret with rclone, the only issue will
be a very scary confirmation screen shown when you connect via your browser 
for rclone to be able to get its token-id (but as this only happens during 
the remote configuration, it's not such a big deal). Keeping the application in
"Testing" will work as well, but the limitation is that any grants will expire
after a week, which can be annoying to refresh constantly. If, for whatever
reason, a short grant time is not a problem, then keeping the application in
testing mode would also be sufficient.

In most cases verification is not actually required. Google [exempts a number of
app categories](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13464323) from mandatory
verification, including:

- **Personal Use apps**: if the app is for your personal use (fewer than 100
  users), you and your limited number of users can keep using it without
  verification - you will just need to click through the "unverified app"
  warning screen during sign-in. Verification is only required if you want to
  grow your user base beyond 100 users.
- **Development/Testing/Staging apps**: apps in development, testing or staging
  mode are not subject to verification (but are limited to the 100-user cap and
  the unverified-app warning until verified).

So for typical personal rclone use you can leave the app unverified, accept the
warning screen, and publish it (rather than leaving it in "Testing") to avoid
the weekly grant expiry described above.

(Thanks to @balazer on github for these instructions.)

Sometimes, creation of an OAuth consent in Google API Console fails due to an
error message "The request failed because changes to one of the field of the
resource is not supported". As a convenient workaround, the necessary Google
Drive API key can be created on the
[Python Quickstart](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python)
page. Just push the Enable the Drive API button to receive the Client ID and Secret.
Note that it will automatically create a new project in the API Console.

# Google Photos

The rclone backend for [Google Photos](https://www.google.com/photos/about/) is
a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from
Google Photos.

**NB** The Google Photos API which rclone uses has quite a few
limitations, so please read the [limitations section](#limitations)
carefully to make sure it is suitable for your use.

**NB** From March 31, 2025 rclone can only download photos it
uploaded. This limitation is due to policy changes at Google. You may
need to run `rclone config reconnect remote:` to make rclone work
again after upgrading to rclone v1.70.

## Configuration

The initial setup for google cloud storage involves getting a token from Google Photos
which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Google Photos
   \ "google photos"
[snip]
Storage> google photos
** See help for google photos backend at: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/ **

OAuth Client Id.
Creating your own is now strongly recommended.
If you leave this blank rclone uses a shared client_id which is being retired and will stop working during 2026.
See https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id> 
OAuth Client Secret.
Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id.
If you created your own client_id then enter its client secret here.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret> 
Set to make the Google Photos backend read only.

If you choose read only then rclone will only request read only access
to your photos, otherwise rclone will request full access.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
read_only> 
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
rclone's shared Google Photos client_id is being retired and will stop working during 2026.
Create your own to avoid interruption: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#making-your-own-client-id

Continue using the shared client_id anyway?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
OAuth Client Id.
client_id> 1234567890-abcdefghijklmnop.apps.googleusercontent.com
OAuth Client Secret.
client_secret> GOCSPX-your-client-secret
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code

*** IMPORTANT: All media items uploaded to Google Photos with rclone
*** are stored in full resolution at original quality.  These uploads
*** will count towards storage in your Google Account.

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: google photos
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2019-06-28T17:38:04.644930156+01:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Google if using web browser to automatically
authenticate. This only
runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this
may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all the albums in your photos

```console
rclone lsd remote:album
```

Make a new album

```console
rclone mkdir remote:album/newAlbum
```

List the contents of an album

```console
rclone ls remote:album/newAlbum
```

Sync `/home/local/images` to the Google Photos, removing any excess
files in the album.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/image remote:album/newAlbum
```

### Layout

As Google Photos is not a general purpose cloud storage system, the
backend is laid out to help you navigate it.

The directories under `media` show different ways of categorizing the
media.  Each file will appear multiple times.  So if you want to make
a backup of your google photos you might choose to backup
`remote:media/by-month`.  (**NB** `remote:media/by-day` is rather slow
at the moment so avoid for syncing.)

Note that all your photos and videos will appear somewhere under
`media`, but they may not appear under `album` unless you've put them
into albums.

```text
/
- upload
    - file1.jpg
    - file2.jpg
    - ...
- media
    - all
        - file1.jpg
        - file2.jpg
        - ...
    - by-year
        - 2000
            - file1.jpg
            - ...
        - 2001
            - file2.jpg
            - ...
        - ...
    - by-month
        - 2000
            - 2000-01
                - file1.jpg
                - ...
            - 2000-02
                - file2.jpg
                - ...
        - ...
    - by-day
        - 2000
            - 2000-01-01
                - file1.jpg
                - ...
            - 2000-01-02
                - file2.jpg
                - ...
        - ...
- album
    - album name
    - album name/sub
- shared-album
    - album name
    - album name/sub
- feature
    - favorites
        - file1.jpg
        - file2.jpg
```

There are two writable parts of the tree, the `upload` directory and
sub directories of the `album` directory.

The `upload` directory is for uploading files you don't want to put
into albums. This will be empty to start with and will contain the
files you've uploaded for one rclone session only, becoming empty
again when you restart rclone. The use case for this would be if you
have a load of files you just want to once off dump into Google
Photos. For repeated syncing, uploading to `album` will work better.

Directories within the `album` directory are also writeable and you
may create new directories (albums) under `album`.  If you copy files
with a directory hierarchy in there then rclone will create albums
with the `/` character in them.  For example if you do

```console
rclone copy /path/to/images remote:album/images
```

and the images directory contains

```text
images
    - file1.jpg
    dir
        file2.jpg
    dir2
        dir3
            file3.jpg
```

Then rclone will create the following albums with the following files in

- images
  - file1.jpg
- images/dir
  - file2.jpg
- images/dir2/dir3
  - file3.jpg

This means that you can use the `album` path pretty much like a normal
filesystem and it is a good target for repeated syncing.

The `shared-album` directory shows albums shared with you or by you.
This is similar to the Sharing tab in the Google Photos web interface.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/googlephotos/googlephotos.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to google photos (Google Photos).

#### --gphotos-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Creating your own is now strongly recommended.
If you leave this blank rclone uses a shared client_id which is being retired and will stop working during 2026.
See https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank to use rclone's shared client_id.
If you created your own client_id then enter its client secret here.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-read-only

Set to make the Google Photos backend read only.

If you choose read only then rclone will only request read only access
to your photos, otherwise rclone will request full access.

Properties:

- Config:      read_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_READ_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to google photos (Google Photos).

#### --gphotos-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gphotos-read-size

Set to read the size of media items.

Normally rclone does not read the size of media items since this takes
another transaction.  This isn't necessary for syncing.  However
rclone mount needs to know the size of files in advance of reading
them, so setting this flag when using rclone mount is recommended if
you want to read the media.

Properties:

- Config:      read_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_READ_SIZE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gphotos-start-year

Year limits the photos to be downloaded to those which are uploaded after the given year.

Properties:

- Config:      start_year
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_START_YEAR
- Type:        int
- Default:     2000

#### --gphotos-include-archived

Also view and download archived media.

By default, rclone does not request archived media. Thus, when syncing,
archived media is not visible in directory listings or transferred.

Note that media in albums is always visible and synced, no matter
their archive status.

With this flag, archived media are always visible in directory
listings and transferred.

Without this flag, archived media will not be visible in directory
listings and won't be transferred.

Properties:

- Config:      include_archived
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_INCLUDE_ARCHIVED
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --gphotos-proxy

Use the gphotosdl proxy for downloading the full resolution images

The Google API will deliver images and video which aren't full
resolution, and/or have EXIF data missing.

However if you use the gphotosdl proxy then you can download original,
unchanged images.

This runs a headless browser in the background.

Download the software from [gphotosdl](https://github.com/rclone/gphotosdl)

First run with

    gphotosdl -login

Then once you have logged into google photos close the browser window
and run

    gphotosdl

Then supply the parameter `--gphotos-proxy "http://localhost:8282"` to make
rclone use the proxy.


Properties:

- Config:      proxy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_PROXY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --gphotos-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --gphotos-batch-mode

Upload file batching sync|async|off.

This sets the batch mode used by rclone.

This has 3 possible values

- off - no batching
- sync - batch uploads and check completion (default)
- async - batch upload and don't check completion

Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make
a delay on quit.


Properties:

- Config:      batch_mode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_BATCH_MODE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "sync"

#### --gphotos-batch-size

Max number of files in upload batch.

This sets the batch size of files to upload. It has to be less than 50.

By default this is 0 which means rclone will calculate the batch size
depending on the setting of batch_mode.

- batch_mode: async - default batch_size is 50
- batch_mode: sync - default batch_size is the same as --transfers
- batch_mode: off - not in use

Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make
a delay on quit.

Setting this is a great idea if you are uploading lots of small files
as it will make them a lot quicker. You can use --transfers 32 to
maximise throughput.


Properties:

- Config:      batch_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_BATCH_SIZE
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --gphotos-batch-timeout

Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading.

If an upload batch is idle for more than this long then it will be
uploaded.

The default for this is 0 which means rclone will choose a sensible
default based on the batch_mode in use.

- batch_mode: async - default batch_timeout is 10s
- batch_mode: sync - default batch_timeout is 1s
- batch_mode: off - not in use


Properties:

- Config:      batch_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_BATCH_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     0s

#### --gphotos-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_GPHOTOS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Only images and videos can be uploaded.  If you attempt to upload non
videos or images or formats that Google Photos doesn't understand,
rclone will upload the file, then Google Photos will give an error
when it is put turned into a media item.

**NB** From March 31, 2025 rclone can only download photos it
uploaded. This limitation is due to policy changes at Google. You may
need to run `rclone config reconnect remote:` to make rclone work
again after upgrading to rclone v1.70.

Note that all media items uploaded to Google Photos through the API
are stored in full resolution at "original quality" and **will** count
towards your storage quota in your Google Account.  The API does
**not** offer a way to upload in "high quality" mode..

`rclone about` is not supported by the Google Photos backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
See [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)

### Downloading Images

When Images are downloaded this strips EXIF location (according to the
docs and my tests).  This is a limitation of the Google Photos API and
is covered by [bug #112096115](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112096115).

**The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original
resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on
"Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use
rclone to redownload original images.  You could use 'google takeout'
to recover the original photos as a last resort**

**NB** you **can** use the [--gphotos-proxy](#gphotos-proxy) flag to use a
headless browser to download images in full resolution.

### Downloading Videos

When videos are downloaded they are downloaded in a really compressed
version of the video compared to downloading it via the Google Photos
web interface. This is covered by [bug #113672044](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/113672044).

**NB** you **can** use the [--gphotos-proxy](#gphotos-proxy) flag to use a
headless browser to download images in full resolution.

### Duplicates

If a file name is duplicated in a directory then rclone will add the
file ID into its name.  So two files called `file.jpg` would then
appear as `file {123456}.jpg` and `file {ABCDEF}.jpg` (the actual IDs
are a lot longer alas!).

If you upload the same image (with the same binary data) twice then
Google Photos will deduplicate it.  However it will retain the
filename from the first upload which may confuse rclone.  For example
if you uploaded an image to `upload` then uploaded the same image to
`album/my_album` the filename of the image in `album/my_album` will be
what it was uploaded with initially, not what you uploaded it with to
`album`.  In practise this shouldn't cause too many problems.

### Modification times

The date shown of media in Google Photos is the creation date as
determined by the EXIF information, or the upload date if that is not
known.

This is not changeable by rclone and is not the modification date of
the media on local disk.  This means that rclone cannot use the dates
from Google Photos for syncing purposes.

### Size

The Google Photos API does not return the size of media.  This means
that when syncing to Google Photos, rclone can only do a file
existence check.

It is possible to read the size of the media, but this needs an extra
HTTP HEAD request per media item so is **very slow** and uses up a lot of
transactions.  This can be enabled with the `--gphotos-read-size`
option or the `read_size = true` config parameter.

If you want to use the backend with `rclone mount` you may need to
enable this flag (depending on your OS and application using the
photos) otherwise you may not be able to read media off the mount.
You'll need to experiment to see if it works for you without the flag.

### Albums

Rclone can only upload files to albums it created. This is a
[limitation of the Google Photos API](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/manage-albums).

Rclone can remove files it uploaded from albums it created only.

### Deleting files

Rclone can remove files from albums it created, but note that the
Google Photos API does not allow media to be deleted permanently so
this media will still remain. See [bug #109759781](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109759781).

Rclone cannot delete files anywhere except under `album`.

### Deleting albums

The Google Photos API does not support deleting albums - see [bug #135714733](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/135714733).

## Making your own client_id

When you use rclone with Google photos in its default configuration you
are using rclone's client_id.  This is shared between all the rclone
users.

**This shared client_id is being retired and will stop working during
2026.**  To avoid interruption you must create and use your own
client_id, so creating one is now required rather than optional.  New
remotes created with `rclone config` will warn you if you leave the
client_id blank.

Please follow the steps in [the google drive docs](https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id)
with the following differences:

- At step 3, instead of enabling the "Google Drive API", search for and
  enable the "Photos Library API".

- At step 5, you will need to add different scopes. Use these scopes
  instead of the drive ones:

```text
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.appendonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly.appcreateddata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.edit.appcreateddata
```

# Hasher

Hasher is a special overlay backend to create remotes which handle
checksums for other remotes. It's main functions include:

- Emulate hash types unimplemented by backends
- Cache checksums to help with slow hashing of large local or (S)FTP files
- Warm up checksum cache from external SUM files

## Getting started

To use Hasher, first set up the underlying remote following the configuration
instructions for that remote. You can also use a local pathname instead of
a remote. Check that your base remote is working.

Let's call the base remote `myRemote:path` here. Note that anything inside
`myRemote:path` will be handled by hasher and anything outside won't.
This means that if you are using a bucket based remote (S3, B2, Swift)
then you should put the bucket in the remote `s3:bucket`.

Now proceed to interactive or manual configuration.

### Interactive configuration

Run `rclone config`:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> Hasher1
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Handle checksums for other remotes
   \ "hasher"
[snip]
Storage> hasher
Remote to cache checksums for, like myremote:mypath.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
remote> myRemote:path
Comma separated list of supported checksum types.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("md5,sha1").
hashsums> md5
Maximum time to keep checksums in cache. 0 = no cache, off = cache forever.
max_age> off
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
--------------------
[Hasher1]
type = hasher
remote = myRemote:path
hashsums = md5
max_age = off
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Manual configuration

Run `rclone config path` to see the path of current active config file,
usually `YOURHOME/.config/rclone/rclone.conf`.
Open it in your favorite text editor, find section for the base remote
and create new section for hasher like in the following examples:

```ini
[Hasher1]
type = hasher
remote = myRemote:path
hashes = md5
max_age = off

[Hasher2]
type = hasher
remote = /local/path
hashes = dropbox,sha1
max_age = 24h
```

Hasher takes basically the following parameters:

- `remote` is required
- `hashes` is a comma separated list of supported checksums
   (by default `md5,sha1`)
- `max_age` - maximum time to keep a checksum value in the cache
   `0` will disable caching completely
   `off` will cache "forever" (that is until the files get changed)

Make sure the `remote` has `:` (colon) in. If you specify the remote without
a colon then rclone will use a local directory of that name. So if you use
a remote of `/local/path` then rclone will handle hashes for that directory.
If you use `remote = name` literally then rclone will put files
**in a directory called `name` located under current directory**.

## Usage

### Basic operations

Now you can use it as `Hasher2:subdir/file` instead of base remote.
Hasher will transparently update cache with new checksums when a file
is fully read or overwritten, like:

```console
rclone copy External:path/file Hasher:dest/path
rclone cat Hasher:path/to/file > /dev/null
```

The way to refresh **all** cached checksums (even unsupported by the base backend)
for a subtree is to **re-download** all files in the subtree. For example,
use `hashsum --download` using **any** supported hashsum on the command line
(we just care to re-read):

```console
rclone hashsum MD5 --download Hasher:path/to/subtree > /dev/null
rclone backend dump Hasher:path/to/subtree
```

You can print or drop hashsum cache using custom backend commands:

```console
rclone backend dump Hasher:dir/subdir
rclone backend drop Hasher:
```

### Pre-Seed from a SUM File

Hasher supports two backend commands: generic SUM file `import` and faster
but less consistent `stickyimport`.

```console
rclone backend import Hasher:dir/subdir SHA1 /path/to/SHA1SUM [--checkers 4]
```

Instead of SHA1 it can be any hash supported by the remote. The last argument
can point to either a local or an `other-remote:path` text file in SUM format.
The command will parse the SUM file, then walk down the path given by the
first argument, snapshot current fingerprints and fill in the cache entries
correspondingly.

- Paths in the SUM file are treated as relative to `hasher:dir/subdir`.
- The command will **not** check that supplied values are correct.
  You **must know** what you are doing.
- This is a one-time action. The SUM file will not get "attached" to the
  remote. Cache entries can still be overwritten later, should the object's
  fingerprint change.
- The tree walk can take long depending on the tree size. You can increase
  `--checkers` to make it faster. Or use `stickyimport` if you don't care
  about fingerprints and consistency.

```console
rclone backend stickyimport hasher:path/to/data sha1 remote:/path/to/sum.sha1
```

`stickyimport` is similar to `import` but works much faster because it
does not need to stat existing files and skips initial tree walk.
Instead of binding cache entries to file fingerprints it creates _sticky_
entries bound to the file name alone ignoring size, modification time etc.
Such hash entries can be replaced only by `purge`, `delete`, `backend drop`
or by full re-read/re-write of the files.

## Configuration reference

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/hasher/hasher.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to hasher (Better checksums for other remotes).

#### --hasher-remote

Remote to cache checksums for (e.g. myRemote:path).

Properties:

- Config:      remote
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HASHER_REMOTE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --hasher-hashes

Comma separated list of supported checksum types.

Properties:

- Config:      hashes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HASHER_HASHES
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     md5,sha1

#### --hasher-max-age

Maximum time to keep checksums in cache (0 = no cache, off = cache forever).

Properties:

- Config:      max_age
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HASHER_MAX_AGE
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     off

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to hasher (Better checksums for other remotes).

#### --hasher-auto-size

Auto-update checksum for files smaller than this size (disabled by default).

Properties:

- Config:      auto_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HASHER_AUTO_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     0

#### --hasher-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HASHER_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the hasher backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### drop

Drop cache.

```console
rclone backend drop remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

Completely drop checksum cache.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend drop hasher:
```

### dump

Dump the database.

```console
rclone backend dump remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

Dump cache records covered by the current remote.

### fulldump

Full dump of the database.

```console
rclone backend fulldump remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

Dump all cache records in the database.

### import

Import a SUM file.

```console
rclone backend import remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

Amend hash cache from a SUM file and bind checksums to files by size/time.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend import hasher:subdir md5 /path/to/sum.md5
```

### stickyimport

Perform fast import of a SUM file.

```console
rclone backend stickyimport remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

Fill hash cache from a SUM file without verifying file fingerprints.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend stickyimport hasher:subdir md5 remote:path/to/sum.md5
```

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## Implementation details (advanced)

This section explains how various rclone operations work on a hasher remote.

**Disclaimer. This section describes current implementation which can
change in future rclone versions!.**

### Hashsum command

The `rclone hashsum` (or `md5sum` or `sha1sum`) command will:

1. if requested hash is supported by lower level, just pass it.
2. if object size is below `auto_size` then download object and calculate
   _requested_ hashes on the fly.
3. if unsupported and the size is big enough, build object `fingerprint`
   (including size, modtime if supported, first-found _other_ hash if any).
4. if the strict match is found in cache for the requested remote, return
   the stored hash.
5. if remote found but fingerprint mismatched, then purge the entry and
   proceed to step 6.
6. if remote not found or had no requested hash type or after step 5:
   download object, calculate all _supported_ hashes on the fly and store
   in cache; return requested hash.

### Other operations

- any time a hash is requested, follow the logic from 1-4 from `hashsum` above
- whenever a file is uploaded or downloaded **in full**, capture the stream
  to calculate all supported hashes on the fly and update database
- server-side `move`  will update keys of existing cache entries
- `deletefile` will remove a single cache entry
- `purge` will remove all cache entries under the purged path

Note that setting `max_age = 0` will disable checksum caching completely.

If you set `max_age = off`, checksums in cache will never age, unless you
fully rewrite or delete the file.

### Cache storage

Cached checksums are stored as `bolt` database files under rclone cache
directory, usually `~/.cache/rclone/kv/`. Databases are maintained
one per _base_ backend, named like `BaseRemote~hasher.bolt`.
Checksums for multiple `alias`-es into a single base backend
will be stored in the single database. All local paths are treated as
aliases into the `local` backend (unless encrypted or chunked) and stored
in `~/.cache/rclone/kv/local~hasher.bolt`.
Databases can be shared between multiple rclone processes.

# Huawei Drive

Paths are specified as `huaweidrive:path`

Huawei Drive paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `huaweidrive:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for Huawei Drive involves getting a token from Huawei Drive
which you need to do in your browser. `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`. First run:

```sh
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Huawei Drive
   \ "huaweidrive"
[snip]
Storage> huaweidrive
OAuth Client Id - leave blank to use rclone's default.
client_id> 
OAuth Client Secret - leave blank to use rclone's default.
client_secret>
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: huaweidrive
- client_id: 
- client_secret: 
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2024-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Huawei if using web browser to automatically
authenticate. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code. This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and it
may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your drive

```sh
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your drive

```sh
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a drive directory called backup

```sh
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Getting your own Client ID and Secret

When you use rclone with Huawei Drive in its default configuration you
are using rclone's client_id. This is shared between all the rclone
users. There is a global rate limit on the number of queries per
second that each client_id can do set by Huawei.

It is strongly recommended to use your own client ID as the default rclone ID is heavily used. If you have multiple services running, it is recommended to use a separate client ID for each service to avoid rate limiting issues.

Here is how to create your own Huawei Drive client ID for rclone:

Follow the detailed guides for complete setup instructions:

- [Huawei HMS Core Web App Preparations](https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/HMSCore-Guides/web-preparations-0000001050050891)
- [Huawei HMS Core Server Preparations](https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/HMSCore-Guides/server-preparations-0000001050185577#section194911701377)

Rclone uses the web application access method to connect to Huawei Drive. Before starting, you need to implement quick login authorization through Huawei Account Open Service. With user authorization credentials, rclone can call Huawei Cloud Drive Service APIs.

#### Create Server Application

Before accessing Drive service, developers need to create a server application first. For details, please refer to the WEB Application Access Development Preparation section in the "Huawei Account Service Development Guide".

#### Enable Drive Application Switch

1. Log in to the AppGallery Connect website and click "My Projects".
2. Find your project in the project list, select the application that needs to access Drive in the project, and click "API Management".
3. In the "API Management" area of the "Project Settings" page, click the switch on the right side of Drive Kit to ensure the switch is in the open state.

#### Sign Huawei Cloud Drive Privacy Notice and User Agreement

Guide users to visit <https://cloud.huawei.com/>. First-time users need to sign the agreement before they can use Huawei Cloud Drive Service.

#### Application Access to Obtain Authentication Credential Access Token

Applications accessing Drive should use authentication credential Access Token. For specific acquisition methods, please refer to the WEB Application Access Development Guide section in the "Huawei Account Service Development Guide".

Key steps summary:

1. Log into the [Huawei Developer Console](https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/console) with your Huawei account.

2. Create a new project or select an existing project.

3. Go to "Manage APIs" and enable the "Drive Kit" API.

4. Click on "Credentials" in the left side panel.

5. Click "Create Credentials" and choose "OAuth client ID".

6. Choose "Web application" as the application type.

7. Add `http://localhost:53682/` to the "Authorized redirect URIs".

8. Click "Create" and note down the Client ID and Client Secret.

9. Provide the noted client ID and client secret to rclone during configuration.

### Scopes

Rclone uses the following OAuth2 scopes when accessing Huawei Drive:

- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive` - Full access to Huawei Drive files (excluding application data folder)
- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive.file` - Access to files created by the application
- `openid` - OpenID Connect authentication
- `profile` - Access to basic profile information

The `drive.file` scope is included in the default set used by rclone.

Alternative scopes available (not used by rclone by default):

- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive.appdata` - Access to application data folder
- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive.readonly` - Read-only access to file metadata and content
- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive.metadata` - Read/write access to file metadata only
- `https://www.huawei.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly` - Read-only access to file metadata only

The default scopes provide read/write access to all files in your Huawei Drive.

### Modification times and hashes

Huawei Drive does not support setting modification times. The API
always uses server-side timestamps, so file modification times from
the source are not preserved during upload. Modification times are
available as read-only metadata (`mtime`, `btime`).

Hash algorithm SHA256 is supported for file integrity verification.

### Restricted filename characters

Huawei Drive has strict restrictions on file and directory names:

- Cannot contain: `< > | : " * ? / \` or emoji characters
- Cannot be exactly `. ..`
- Maximum length: 250 bytes
- Single quotes must be escaped with `\'` in API calls

These restrictions are handled by rclone's encoding:

- Backslashes `\` are encoded
- Invalid UTF-8 sequences are encoded  
- Right-side spaces are encoded

Invalid characters will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8) according to the encoding settings.

### Resumable uploads

Huawei Drive supports resumable uploads for files larger than the upload cutoff (default 20MB).
Files are uploaded in chunks which allows for recovery from network interruptions.

### File size limits

The maximum file size for Huawei Drive is 50 GiB.

### Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your usage and quota information.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to huaweidrive (Huawei Drive).

#### --huaweidrive-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --huaweidrive-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to huaweidrive (Huawei Drive).

#### --huaweidrive-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --huaweidrive-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --huaweidrive-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --huaweidrive-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --huaweidrive-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.

Normally this is auto-detected, but if it fails or you want to speed up startup,
you can set it manually.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --huaweidrive-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

Must be a power of 2 >= 256k and <= 64MB.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     8Mi

#### --huaweidrive-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk 1-1000.

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --huaweidrive-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to resumable upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded using resumable upload.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 20 MiB (Huawei Drive API limit for single request uploads).

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     20Mi

#### --huaweidrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --huaweidrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HUAWEIDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Huawei Drive supports reading and writing custom metadata.

User metadata can be set using the "properties" field in the API.
System metadata includes standard file information such as:
- content-type: MIME type of the object
- description: User-provided description
- favorite: Whether file is marked as favorite
- btime/mtime/utime: Various timestamps
- sha256: File hash
- recycled/has-thumbnail: File status flags

Custom metadata keys can be any string and will be stored in the file's properties.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the huaweidrive backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time when the file was created (RFC 3339) | RFC 3339 |  | **Y** |
| content-type | MIME type of the object | string |  | **Y** |
| description | Description of the file | string |  | N |
| favorite | Whether the file is marked as favorite (true/false) | string |  | N |
| has-thumbnail | Whether the file has a thumbnail (true/false) | string |  | **Y** |
| mtime | Time when the file content was last modified (RFC 3339) | RFC 3339 |  | **Y** |
| recycled | Whether the file is in recycle bin (true/false) | string |  | **Y** |
| sha256 | SHA256 hash of the file | string |  | **Y** |
| utime | Time when the file was last edited by the current user (RFC 3339) | RFC 3339 |  | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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## Limitations

Huawei Drive has some rate limiting which may cause rclone to slow down transfers to avoid hitting the limits.

### File name restrictions

- File names cannot contain: `< > | : " * ? / \`
- File names cannot be exactly `. ..`
- Maximum file name length is 250 bytes
- Some unicode characters including emojis are not supported

### API rate limits  

Huawei Drive imposes API rate limits. Rclone automatically handles these by backing off when limits are hit.

### OAuth2 token expiry

- Access tokens expire after 1 hour
- Refresh tokens expire after 180 days  
- Rclone will automatically refresh tokens as needed

### File size limits

- Maximum file size is 50 GiB
- Files larger than this cannot be uploaded

### Upload behavior

- Files smaller than `upload_cutoff` (default 20MB) are uploaded in a single request using content or multipart method
- Larger files are uploaded using resumable uploads with configurable chunk size
- Maximum single chunk size for resumable uploads is 64MB
- Resumable uploads support automatic retry on network errors
- SHA256 hash verification is supported for uploaded files

### Server-side operations

- Server-side copy: Files can be copied within Huawei Drive without downloading and re-uploading
- Server-side move: Files and directories can be moved/renamed on the server side
- Directory move: Entire directories can be moved with a single API call

### Directory operations

- Huawei Drive supports creating empty directories
- Recursive listing is supported via `--fast-list` for efficient directory traversal
- Huawei Drive has a special "applicationData" folder for app-specific data (not accessible via rclone's default configuration)

## Error handling

Common errors and their meanings:

- `401 Unauthorized`: Invalid credentials or expired token
- `403 Forbidden`: Usually indicates insufficient permissions or API quota exceeded
- `404 Not Found`: File or directory does not exist
- `409 Conflict`: Directory already exists
- `429 Too Many Requests`: API rate limit exceeded, rclone will automatically retry

## Performance tuning

For better performance:

- Increase `--transfers` for concurrent operations (default is 4)
- Adjust `chunk_size` based on your network speed and file sizes
- Use `--fast-list` for operations on directories with many files to reduce API calls

## Making backups

Huawei Drive is suitable for backups with some considerations:

- Use `rclone sync` rather than `rclone copy` to maintain exact directory structure
- Consider using `--backup-dir` to preserve deleted files
- Verify transfers with `--checksum` flag for critical data
- Be aware of the 50 GiB file size limit for individual files

## Supported features

Huawei Drive supports the following rclone features:

- `Copy` - Server-side copy of files
- `Move` - Server-side move/rename of files
- `DirMove` - Server-side move of directories
- `ListR` - Recursive listing for `--fast-list`
- `About` - Storage quota information
- `Purge` - Delete directory and all contents
- `CleanUp` - Empty the trash
- `UserInfo` - Get user account information
- `Metadata` - Read and write file metadata/properties
- `ChangeNotify` - Poll for remote changes (used by `rclone mount` and `rclone rc vfs/poll-interval`)

## Integration with other services

Huawei Drive can be used as a backend for various rclone operations:

- Mount as a local filesystem using `rclone mount`
- Serve over HTTP using `rclone serve http`
- Serve over FTP using `rclone serve ftp`
- Serve over WebDAV using `rclone serve webdav`

Note that some operations may be slower than local storage due to API limitations and network latency.

# HDFS

[HDFS](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html)
is a distributed file-system, part of the [Apache Hadoop](https://hadoop.apache.org/)
framework.

Paths are specified as `remote:` or `remote:path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[skip]
XX / Hadoop distributed file system
   \ "hdfs"
[skip]
Storage> hdfs
** See help for hdfs backend at: https://rclone.org/hdfs/ **

hadoop name node and port
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to host namenode at port 8020
   \ "namenode:8020"
namenode> namenode.hadoop:8020
hadoop user name
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to hdfs as root
   \ "root"
username> root
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: hdfs
- namenode: namenode.hadoop:8020
- username: root
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
hadoop               hdfs

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all the top level directories

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:directory
```

Sync the remote `directory` to `/home/local/directory`, deleting any excess files.

```console
rclone sync --interactive remote:directory /home/local/directory
```

### Setting up your own HDFS instance for testing

You may start with a [manual setup](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html)
or use the docker image from the tests:

If you want to build the docker image

```console
git clone https://github.com/rclone/rclone.git
cd rclone/fstest/testserver/images/test-hdfs
docker build --rm -t rclone/test-hdfs .
```

Or you can just use the latest one pushed

```console
docker run --rm --name "rclone-hdfs" -p 127.0.0.1:9866:9866 -p 127.0.0.1:8020:8020 --hostname "rclone-hdfs" rclone/test-hdfs
```

**NB** it need few seconds to startup.

For this docker image the remote needs to be configured like this:

```ini
[remote]
type = hdfs
namenode = 127.0.0.1:8020
username = root
```

You can stop this image with `docker kill rclone-hdfs` (**NB** it does not use
volumes, so all data uploaded will be lost.)

### Modification times

Time accurate to 1 second is stored.

### Checksum

No checksums are implemented.

### Usage information

You can use the `rclone about remote:` command which will display filesystem
size and current usage.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| :         | 0x3A  | ：           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8).

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to hdfs (Hadoop distributed file system).

#### --hdfs-namenode

Hadoop name nodes and ports.

E.g. "namenode-1:8020,namenode-2:8020,..." to connect to host namenodes at port 8020.

Properties:

- Config:      namenode
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_NAMENODE
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --hdfs-username

Hadoop user name.

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "root"
    - Connect to hdfs as root.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to hdfs (Hadoop distributed file system).

#### --hdfs-service-principal-name

Kerberos service principal name for the namenode.

Enables KERBEROS authentication. Specifies the Service Principal Name
(SERVICE/FQDN) for the namenode. E.g. \"hdfs/namenode.hadoop.docker\"
for namenode running as service 'hdfs' with FQDN 'namenode.hadoop.docker'.

Properties:

- Config:      service_principal_name
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_NAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hdfs-data-transfer-protection

Kerberos data transfer protection: authentication|integrity|privacy.

Specifies whether or not authentication, data signature integrity
checks, and wire encryption are required when communicating with
the datanodes. Possible values are 'authentication', 'integrity'
and 'privacy'. Used only with KERBEROS enabled.

Properties:

- Config:      data_transfer_protection
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_DATA_TRANSFER_PROTECTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "privacy"
    - Ensure authentication, integrity and encryption enabled.

#### --hdfs-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Colon,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --hdfs-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HDFS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

- Erasure coding not supported, see [issue #8808](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8808)
- No server-side `Move` or `DirMove`.
- Checksums not implemented.

# HiDrive

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

The initial setup for hidrive involves getting a token from HiDrive
which you need to do in your browser.
`rclone config` walks you through it.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / HiDrive
   \ "hidrive"
[snip]
Storage> hidrive
OAuth Client Id - Leave blank normally.
client_id>
OAuth Client Secret - Leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.
Leave blank normally.
scope_access>
Edit advanced config?
y/n> n
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: hidrive
- token: {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

**You should be aware that OAuth-tokens can be used to access your account
and hence should not be shared with other persons.**
See the [below section](#keeping-your-tokens-safe) for more information.

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from HiDrive. This only runs from the moment it opens
your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.
The webserver runs on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/`.
If local port `53682` is protected by a firewall you may need to temporarily
unblock the firewall to complete authorization.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your HiDrive root folder

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your HiDrive filesystem

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a HiDrive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Keeping your tokens safe

Any OAuth-tokens will be stored by rclone in the remote's configuration file as
unencrypted text. Anyone can use a valid refresh-token to access your HiDrive
filesystem without knowing your password. Therefore you should make sure no one
else can access your configuration.

It is possible to encrypt rclone's configuration file.
You can find information on securing your configuration file by viewing the
[configuration encryption docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#configuration-encryption).

### Invalid refresh token

As can be verified on [HiDrive's OAuth guide](https://developer.hidrive.com/basics-flows/),
each `refresh_token` (for Native Applications) is valid for 60 days.
If used to access HiDrivei, its validity will be automatically extended.

This means that if you

- Don't use the HiDrive remote for 60 days

then rclone will return an error which includes a text
that implies the refresh token is *invalid* or *expired*.

To fix this you will need to authorize rclone to access your HiDrive account again.

Using

```console
rclone config reconnect remote:
```

the process is very similar to the process of initial setup exemplified before.

### Modification times and hashes

HiDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second.

HiDrive supports [its own hash type](https://static.hidrive.com/dev/0001)
which is used to verify the integrity of file contents after successful transfers.

### Restricted filename characters

HiDrive cannot store files or folders that include
`/` (0x2F) or null-bytes (0x00) in their name.
Any other characters can be used in the names of files or folders.
Additionally, files or folders cannot be named either of the following: `.` or `..`

Therefore rclone will automatically replace these characters,
if files or folders are stored or accessed with such names.

You can read about how this filename encoding works in general
in the [main docs](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-filenames).

Keep in mind that HiDrive only supports file or folder names
with a length of 255 characters or less.

### Transfers

HiDrive limits file sizes per single request to a maximum of 2 GiB.
To allow storage of larger files and allow for better upload performance,
the hidrive backend will use a chunked transfer for files larger than 96 MiB.
Rclone will upload multiple parts/chunks of the file at the same time.
Chunks in the process of being uploaded are buffered in memory,
so you may want to restrict this behaviour on systems with limited resources.

You can customize this behaviour using the following options:

- `chunk_size`: size of file parts
- `upload_cutoff`: files larger or equal to this in size will use a chunked transfer
- `upload_concurrency`: number of file-parts to upload at the same time

See the below section about configuration options for more details.

### Root folder

You can set the root folder for rclone.
This is the directory that rclone considers to be the root of your HiDrive.

Usually, you will leave this blank, and rclone will use the root of the account.

However, you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder hierarchy.

This works by prepending the contents of the `root_prefix` option
to any paths accessed by rclone.
For example, the following two ways to access the home directory are equivalent:

```console
rclone lsd --hidrive-root-prefix="/users/test/" remote:path
rclone lsd remote:/users/test/path
```

See the below section about configuration options for more details.

### Directory member count

By default, rclone will know the number of directory members contained in a directory.
For example, `rclone lsd` uses this information.

The acquisition of this information will result in additional time costs for
HiDrive's API. When dealing with large directory structures, it may be
desirable to circumvent this time cost, especially when this information is not
explicitly needed. For this, the `disable_fetching_member_count` option can be used.

See the below section about configuration options for more details.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to hidrive (HiDrive).

#### --hidrive-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hidrive-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hidrive-scope-access

Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.

Properties:

- Config:      scope_access
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_SCOPE_ACCESS
- Type:        string
- Default:     "rw"
- Examples:
  - "rw"
    - Read and write access to resources.
  - "ro"
    - Read-only access to resources.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to hidrive (HiDrive).

#### --hidrive-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hidrive-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hidrive-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --hidrive-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --hidrive-scope-role

User-level that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.

Properties:

- Config:      scope_role
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_SCOPE_ROLE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "user"
- Examples:
  - "user"
    - User-level access to management permissions.
    - This will be sufficient in most cases.
  - "admin"
    - Extensive access to management permissions.
  - "owner"
    - Full access to management permissions.

#### --hidrive-root-prefix

The root/parent folder for all paths.

Fill in to use the specified folder as the parent for all paths given to the remote.
This way rclone can use any folder as its starting point.

Properties:

- Config:      root_prefix
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_ROOT_PREFIX
- Type:        string
- Default:     "/"
- Examples:
  - "/"
    - The topmost directory accessible by rclone.
    - This will be equivalent with "root" if rclone uses a regular HiDrive user account.
  - "root"
    - The topmost directory of the HiDrive user account
  - ""
    - This specifies that there is no root-prefix for your paths.
    - When using this you will always need to specify paths to this remote with a valid parent e.g. "remote:/path/to/dir" or "remote:root/path/to/dir".

#### --hidrive-endpoint

Endpoint for the service.

This is the URL that API-calls will be made to.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "https://api.hidrive.strato.com/2.1"

#### --hidrive-disable-fetching-member-count

Do not fetch number of objects in directories unless it is absolutely necessary.

Requests may be faster if the number of objects in subdirectories is not fetched.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_fetching_member_count
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_DISABLE_FETCHING_MEMBER_COUNT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --hidrive-chunk-size

Chunksize for chunked uploads.

Any files larger than the configured cutoff (or files of unknown size) will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

The upper limit for this is 2147483647 bytes (about 2.000Gi).
That is the maximum amount of bytes a single upload-operation will support.
Setting this above the upper limit or to a negative value will cause uploads to fail.

Setting this to larger values may increase the upload speed at the cost of using more memory.
It can be set to smaller values smaller to save on memory.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     48Mi

#### --hidrive-upload-cutoff

Cutoff/Threshold for chunked uploads.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of the configured chunksize.

The upper limit for this is 2147483647 bytes (about 2.000Gi).
That is the maximum amount of bytes a single upload-operation will support.
Setting this above the upper limit will cause uploads to fail.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     96Mi

#### --hidrive-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for chunked uploads.

This is the upper limit for how many transfers for the same file are running concurrently.
Setting this above to a value smaller than 1 will cause uploads to deadlock.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --hidrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Dot

#### --hidrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HIDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

### Symbolic links

HiDrive is able to store symbolic links (*symlinks*) by design,
for example, when unpacked from a zip archive.

There exists no direct mechanism to manage native symlinks in remotes.
As such this implementation has chosen to ignore any native symlinks present in
the remote. rclone will not be able to access or show any symlinks stored in
the hidrive-remote. This means symlinks cannot be individually removed, copied,
or moved, except when removing, copying, or moving the parent folder.

*This does not affect the `.rclonelink`-files
that rclone uses to encode and store symbolic links.*

### Sparse files

It is possible to store sparse files in HiDrive.

Note that copying a sparse file will expand the holes
into null-byte (0x00) regions that will then consume disk space.
Likewise, when downloading a sparse file,
the resulting file will have null-byte regions in the place of file holes.

# HTTP

The HTTP remote is a read only remote for reading files of a
webserver.  The webserver should provide file listings which rclone
will read and turn into a remote.  This has been tested with common
webservers such as Apache/Nginx/Caddy and will likely work with file
listings from most web servers.  (If it doesn't then please file an
issue, or send a pull request!)

Paths are specified as `remote:` or `remote:path`.

The `remote:` represents the configured [url](#http-url), and any path following
it will be resolved relative to this url, according to the URL standard. This
means with remote url `https://beta.rclone.org/branch` and path `fix`, the
resolved URL will be `https://beta.rclone.org/branch/fix`, while with path
`/fix` the resolved URL will be `https://beta.rclone.org/fix` as the absolute
path is resolved from the root of the domain.

If the path following the `remote:` ends with `/` it will be assumed to point
to a directory. If the path does not end with `/`, then a HEAD request is sent
and the response used to decide if it it is treated as a file or a directory
(run with `-vv` to see details). When [--http-no-head](#http-no-head) is
specified, a path without ending `/` is always assumed to be a file. If rclone
incorrectly assumes the path is a file, the solution is to specify the path with
ending `/`. When you know the path is a directory, ending it with `/` is always
better as it avoids the initial HEAD request.

To just download a single file it is easier to use
[copyurl](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyurl/).

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First
run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / HTTP
   \ "http"
[snip]
Storage> http
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "https://example.com"
url> https://beta.rclone.org
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: http
- url: https://beta.rclone.org
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               http

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all the top level directories

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:directory
```

Sync the remote `directory` to `/home/local/directory`, deleting any excess files.

```console
rclone sync --interactive remote:directory /home/local/directory
```

### Read only

This remote is read only - you can't upload files to an HTTP server.

### Servers without directory listings

Rclone normally needs the HTTP server to return a parseable directory
listing in order to discover files. However if the path points
directly at a single file (i.e. it does not end with `/` and the
initial HEAD request reports it as a file), rclone will skip the
parent directory listing entirely and access the file directly.

This means rclone can be used to download individual files on HTTP
servers that have directory listings disabled, as long as you know the
exact URL of each file. For example, given a server that serves
`https://example.com/path/file.txt` but returns an error or an
unparseable response for `https://example.com/path/`:

```console
rclone copy --http-url https://example.com :http:path/file.txt /tmp/
```

You can use this as a remote in other rclone commands too:

```console
rclone hashsum crc32 --http-url "https://getsamplefiles.com" :archive::http:download/zip/sample-1.zip
```

If you just want to download a file or multiple files by URL then
using [copyurl](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copyurl/) is more efficient.

### Modification times

Most HTTP servers store time accurate to 1 second.

### Checksum

No checksums are stored.

### Usage without a config file

Since the http remote only has one config parameter it is easy to use
without a config file:

```console
rclone lsd --http-url https://beta.rclone.org :http:
```

or:

```console
rclone lsd :http,url='https://beta.rclone.org':
```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to http (HTTP).

#### --http-url

URL of HTTP host to connect to.

E.g. "https://example.com", or "https://user:pass@example.com" to use a username and password.

Properties:

- Config:      url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --http-no-escape

Do not escape URL metacharacters in path names.

Properties:

- Config:      no_escape
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_NO_ESCAPE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to http (HTTP).

#### --http-headers

Set HTTP headers for all transactions.

Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions.

The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs.  Standard
[CSV encoding](https://godoc.org/encoding/csv) may be used.

For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.

Properties:

- Config:      headers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_HEADERS
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --http-no-slash

Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /.

Use this if your target website does not use / on the end of
directories.

A / on the end of a path is how rclone normally tells the difference
between files and directories.  If this flag is set, then rclone will
treat all files with Content-Type: text/html as directories and read
URLs from them rather than downloading them.

Note that this may cause rclone to confuse genuine HTML files with
directories.

Properties:

- Config:      no_slash
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_NO_SLASH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --http-no-head

Don't use HEAD requests.

HEAD requests are mainly used to find file sizes in dir listing.
If your site is being very slow to load then you can try this option.
Normally rclone does a HEAD request for each potential file in a
directory listing to:

- find its size
- check it really exists
- check to see if it is a directory

If you set this option, rclone will not do the HEAD request. This will mean
that directory listings are much quicker, but rclone won't have the times or
sizes of any files, and some files that don't exist may be in the listing.

Properties:

- Config:      no_head
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_NO_HEAD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --http-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_HTTP_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

HTTP metadata keys are case insensitive and are always returned in lower case.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the http backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| cache-control | Cache-Control header | string | no-cache | N |
| content-disposition | Content-Disposition header | string | inline | N |
| content-disposition-filename | Filename retrieved from Content-Disposition header | string | file.txt | N |
| content-encoding | Content-Encoding header | string | gzip | N |
| content-language | Content-Language header | string | en-US | N |
| content-type | Content-Type header | string | text/plain | N |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the http backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### set

Set command for updating the config parameters.

```console
rclone backend set remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This set command can be used to update the config parameters
for a running http backend.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend set remote: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=remote: [-o opt_name=opt_value] [-o opt_name2=opt_value2]
rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=remote: -o url=https://example.com
```

The option keys are named as they are in the config file.

This rebuilds the connection to the http backend when it is called with
the new parameters. Only new parameters need be passed as the values
will default to those currently in use.

It doesn't return anything.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the HTTP backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# ImageKit

This is a backend for the [ImageKit.io](https://imagekit.io/) storage service.

[ImageKit.io](https://imagekit.io/) provides real-time image and video
optimizations, transformations, and CDN delivery. Over 1,000 businesses
and 70,000 developers trust ImageKit with their images and videos on the web.

To use this backend, you need to [create an account](https://imagekit.io/registration/)
on ImageKit. Start with a free plan with generous usage limits. Then, as your requirements
grow, upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs. See [the pricing details](https://imagekit.io/plans).

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an imagekit configuration.

Firstly create a [ImageKit.io](https://imagekit.io/) account and choose a plan.

You will need to log in and get the `publicKey` and `privateKey` for your account
from the developer section.

Now run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter the name for the new remote.
name> imagekit-media-library

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / ImageKit.io
\ (imagekit)
[snip]
Storage> imagekit
  
Option endpoint.
You can find your ImageKit.io URL endpoint in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
Enter a value.
endpoint> https://ik.imagekit.io/imagekit_id  

Option public_key.
You can find your ImageKit.io public key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
Enter a value.
public_key> public_****************************

Option private_key.
You can find your ImageKit.io private key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)
Enter a value.
private_key> private_****************************

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: imagekit
- endpoint: https://ik.imagekit.io/imagekit_id
- public_key: public_****************************
- private_key: private_****************************

Keep this "imagekit-media-library" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

List directories in the top level of your Media Library

```console
rclone lsd imagekit-media-library:
```

Make a new directory.

```console
rclone mkdir imagekit-media-library:directory
```

List the contents of a directory.

```console
rclone ls imagekit-media-library:directory
```

### Modified time and hashes

ImageKit does not support modification times or hashes yet.

### Checksums

No checksums are supported.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/imagekit/imagekit.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to imagekit (ImageKit.io).

#### --imagekit-endpoint

You can find your ImageKit.io URL endpoint in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --imagekit-public-key

You can find your ImageKit.io public key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)

Properties:

- Config:      public_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_PUBLIC_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --imagekit-private-key

You can find your ImageKit.io private key in your [dashboard](https://imagekit.io/dashboard/developer/api-keys)

Properties:

- Config:      private_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_PRIVATE_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to imagekit (ImageKit.io).

#### --imagekit-only-signed

If you have configured `Restrict unsigned image URLs` in your dashboard settings, set this to true.

Properties:

- Config:      only_signed
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_ONLY_SIGNED
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --imagekit-versions

Include old versions in directory listings.

Properties:

- Config:      versions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_VERSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --imagekit-upload-tags

Tags to add to the uploaded files, e.g. "tag1,tag2".

Properties:

- Config:      upload_tags
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_UPLOAD_TAGS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --imagekit-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Dollar,Question,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot,SquareBracket

#### --imagekit-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_IMAGEKIT_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the imagekit backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| aws-tags | AI generated tags by AWS Rekognition associated with the image | string | tag1,tag2 | **Y** |
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) read from Last-Modified header | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | **Y** |
| custom-coordinates | Custom coordinates of the file | string | 0,0,100,100 | **Y** |
| file-type | Type of the file | string | image | **Y** |
| google-tags | AI generated tags by Google Cloud Vision associated with the image | string | tag1,tag2 | **Y** |
| has-alpha | Whether the image has alpha channel or not | bool |  | **Y** |
| height | Height of the image or video in pixels | int |  | **Y** |
| is-private-file | Whether the file is private or not | bool |  | **Y** |
| mtime | Time of last modification, read from the file's updatedAt field | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | **Y** |
| size | Size of the object in bytes | int64 |  | **Y** |
| tags | Tags associated with the file | string | tag1,tag2 | **Y** |
| width | Width of the image or video in pixels | int |  | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# iCloud Drive and Photos

## Configuration

The initial setup for an iCloud backend involves getting a trust token/session.
This uses your regular Apple ID password plus 2FA, either from a trusted
device prompt or an SMS code sent to a trusted phone number.

**IMPORTANT**: App-specific passwords are not accepted. Only use your
regular Apple ID password and 2FA.

This backend serves two Apple services:

- `drive` - iCloud Drive (default)
- `photos` - iCloud Photos

`rclone config` walks you through the token creation. The trust token is valid
for 30 days. After which you will have to reauthenticate with `rclone reconnect`
or `rclone config`.

## Authentication

rclone authenticates with Apple using [SRP (Secure Remote Password)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol),
the same protocol used by the iCloud web interface. Your password is never
sent to Apple's servers -- instead, a cryptographic proof is exchanged that
verifies you know the password without revealing it.

The authentication flow is:

1. rclone initiates a session with Apple's identity service
2. An SRP key exchange takes place (your password is used locally to derive a key)
3. Apple sends a 2FA prompt to your trusted devices, or lets you request an
   SMS code
4. After you enter the 2FA code, rclone receives a trust token for future sessions

Here is an example of how to make a Photos remote called `icloudphotos`.
For iCloud Drive, leave `service` at its default `drive` value. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> icloudphotos
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / iCloud Drive
   \ (iclouddrive)
[snip]
Storage> iclouddrive
Option service.
iCloud service to use.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value of type string.
Press Enter for the default (drive).
 1 / iCloud Drive
   \ (drive)
 2 / iCloud Photos
   \ (photos)
service> 2
Option apple_id.
Apple ID.
Enter a value.
apple_id> APPLEID  
Option password.
Password.
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Option config_2fa.
Two-factor authentication: enter your 2FA code or type 'sms' for a text message
Enter a value.
config_2fa> 2FACODE
Remote config
--------------------
[icloudphotos]
- type: iclouddrive
- service: photos
- apple_id: APPLEID
- password: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- cookies: ****************************
- trust_token: ****************************
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

## iCloud Photos

The iCloud Drive backend also supports accessing iCloud Photos by setting the
`service` option to `photos`:

```console
rclone lsd iclouddrive: --iclouddrive-service photos
```

This presents a read-only hierarchy rooted at photo libraries:

- **Level 1**: Photo libraries — your personal library (`PrimarySync`) and
  any Shared Photo Library (`SharedSync-XXXX`)
- **Level 2+**: Albums and folders within a library, nested recursively as in
  Apple Photos
- **Leaf level**: Photos/videos within an album, including Live Photo `.MOV`
  companions

Examples:

```console
# List libraries
rclone lsd iclouddrive: --iclouddrive-service photos

# List albums in your primary library
rclone lsd iclouddrive:PrimarySync/ --iclouddrive-service photos

# List photos in an album
rclone ls iclouddrive:PrimarySync/All\ Photos/ --iclouddrive-service photos

# Download a photo
rclone copy iclouddrive:PrimarySync/Favorites/IMG_0001.HEIC /tmp/ --iclouddrive-service photos
```

You can either:

- set `service = photos` in `rclone config` for a dedicated Photos remote
- keep `service = drive` and pass `--iclouddrive-service photos` when needed

### Metadata

With `--metadata`, Photos entries expose these read-only metadata keys:

- `width`
- `height`
- `added-time`
- `favorite`
- `hidden`

These metadata keys are only available when `service = photos`.

### Caching

iCloud Photos caches album listings to disk for fast subsequent access.
On the first run, listing a large album uses parallel `startRank`
partitions to fetch pages concurrently. After that, a lightweight change
check (~200ms) determines whether the cache is still valid.

Cache location: `~/.cache/rclone/iclouddrive-photos/<remote>/<zone>/`

To clear the cache: delete that directory or run `rclone config reconnect`.

### FUSE mounts

For mounting iCloud Photos via `rclone mount`, the following flags
are recommended:

    rclone mount remote: /mnt/photos \
        --iclouddrive-service photos \
        --vfs-refresh \
        --dir-cache-time 1h \
        --vfs-cache-mode full \
        --attr-timeout 1m \
        --read-only

- `--vfs-refresh` pre-warms directory caches in the background on mount
  start so that albums are ready when you browse them
- `--dir-cache-time 1h` extends the in-memory cache lifetime beyond the
  default 5 minutes (change detection is fast, so this is safe)
- `--vfs-cache-mode full` caches downloaded photos and videos to local
  disk for fast repeated access
- `--attr-timeout 1m` reduces kernel attribute lookups (safe because
  the backend is read-only)
- `--read-only` prevents confusing write errors

The first listing of a very large album (e.g. 75,000 items in "All
Photos") can take several minutes due to API pagination limits. This
happens once — subsequent listings use the disk cache.

### Limitations

iCloud Photos is read-only. Upload, delete, rename, and move operations
are not supported.

## Advanced Data Protection

Advanced Data Protection is supported.

On iPhone, Settings `>` Apple Account `>` iCloud `>` 'Access iCloud Data on the Web'
must be ON.

If ADP is enabled on your account, rclone requests PCS cookies after 2FA.
Apple may require approval on a trusted device before those cookies are issued.

## Troubleshooting

### PCS cookie errors with ADP

If you see `Missing PCS cookies from the request` or a `requestPCS:` error,
the ADP approval flow did not complete successfully.

Check that 'Access iCloud Data on the Web' is enabled and approve any prompt
on your trusted device.

Then run `rclone reconnect remote:`.

If the remote still has stale auth state, clear the `cookies` and
`trust_token` fields in the config, or delete and recreate the remote.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to iclouddrive (iCloud Drive and Photos).

#### --iclouddrive-service

iCloud service to use.

Properties:

- Config:      service
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_SERVICE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "drive"
- Examples:
  - "drive"
    - iCloud Drive
  - "photos"
    - iCloud Photos

#### --iclouddrive-apple-id

Apple ID.

Properties:

- Config:      apple_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_APPLE_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --iclouddrive-password

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to iclouddrive (iCloud Drive and Photos).

#### --iclouddrive-client-id

Client ID for iCloud API access.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Default:     "d39ba9916b7251055b22c7f910e2ea796ee65e98b2ddecea8f5dde8d9d1a815d"

#### --iclouddrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --iclouddrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ICLOUDDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Metadata is read-only and available for the Photos service only.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the iclouddrive backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| added-time | Time the item was added to the iCloud library | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z | **Y** |
| favorite | Whether the item is marked as favorite | bool |  | **Y** |
| height | Image height in pixels | int |  | **Y** |
| hidden | Whether the item is hidden | bool |  | **Y** |
| width | Image width in pixels | int |  | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# Internet Archive

The Internet Archive backend utilizes Items on [archive.org](https://archive.org/)

Refer to [IAS3 API documentation](https://archive.org/services/docs/api/ias3.html)
for the API this backend uses.

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:item/path/to/dir`.

Unlike S3, listing up all items uploaded by you isn't supported.

Once you have made a remote, you can use it like this:

Make a new item

```console
rclone mkdir remote:item
```

List the contents of a item

```console
rclone ls remote:item
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote item, deleting any excess
files in the item.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:item
```

## Notes

Because of Internet Archive's architecture, it enqueues write operations (and
extra post-processings) in a per-item queue. You can check item's queue at
<https://catalogd.archive.org/history/item-name-here>. Because of that, all
uploads/deletes will not show up immediately and takes some time to be available.
The per-item queue is enqueued to an another queue, Item Deriver Queue.
[You can check the status of Item Deriver Queue here.](https://catalogd.archive.org/catalog.php?whereami=1)
This queue has a limit, and it may block you from uploading, or even deleting.
You should avoid uploading a lot of small files for better behavior.

You can optionally wait for the server's processing to finish, by setting
non-zero value to `wait_archive` key. By making it wait, rclone can do normal
file comparison. Make sure to set a large enough value (e.g. `30m0s` for smaller
files) as it can take a long time depending on server's queue.

## About metadata

This backend supports setting, updating and reading metadata of each file.
The metadata will appear as file metadata on Internet Archive.
However, some fields are reserved by both Internet Archive and rclone.

The following are reserved by Internet Archive:

- `name`
- `source`
- `size`
- `md5`
- `crc32`
- `sha1`
- `format`
- `old_version`
- `viruscheck`
- `summation`

Trying to set values to these keys is ignored with a warning.
Only setting `mtime` is an exception. Doing so make it the identical
behavior as setting ModTime.

rclone reserves all the keys starting with `rclone-`. Setting value for
these keys will give you warnings, but values are set according to request.

If there are multiple values for a key, only the first one is returned.
This is a limitation of rclone, that supports one value per one key.
It can be triggered when you did a server-side copy.

Reading metadata will also provide custom (non-standard nor reserved) ones.

## Filtering auto generated files

The Internet Archive automatically creates metadata files after
upload. These can cause problems when doing an `rclone sync` as rclone
will try, and fail, to delete them. These metadata files are not
changeable, as they are created by the Internet Archive automatically.

These auto-created files can be excluded from the sync using [metadata
filtering](https://rclone.org/filtering/#metadata).

```console
rclone sync ... --metadata-exclude "source=metadata" --metadata-exclude "format=Metadata"
```

Which excludes from the sync any files which have the
`source=metadata` or `format=Metadata` flags which are added to
Internet Archive auto-created files.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an internetarchive configuration.
Most applies to the other providers as well, any differences are described [below](#providers).

First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / InternetArchive Items
   \ (internetarchive)
Storage> internetarchive
Option access_key_id.
IAS3 Access Key.
Leave blank for anonymous access.
You can find one here: https://archive.org/account/s3.php
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
access_key_id> XXXX
Option secret_access_key.
IAS3 Secret Key (password).
Leave blank for anonymous access.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
secret_access_key> XXXX
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> y
Option endpoint.
IAS3 Endpoint.
Leave blank for default value.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (https://s3.us.archive.org).
endpoint> 
Option front_endpoint.
Host of InternetArchive Frontend.
Leave blank for default value.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (https://archive.org).
front_endpoint> 
Option disable_checksum.
Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.
Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can ask the server to check the object against checksum.
This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for
large files to start uploading.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default (true).
disable_checksum> true
Option encoding.
The encoding for the backend.
See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.
Enter a encoder.MultiEncoder value. Press Enter for the default (Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot).
encoding> 
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: internetarchive
- access_key_id: XXXX
- secret_access_key: XXXX
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to internetarchive (Internet Archive).

#### --internetarchive-access-key-id

IAS3 Access Key.

Leave blank for anonymous access.
You can find one here: https://archive.org/account/s3.php

Properties:

- Config:      access_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --internetarchive-secret-access-key

IAS3 Secret Key (password).

Leave blank for anonymous access.

Properties:

- Config:      secret_access_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --internetarchive-item-derive

Whether to trigger derive on the IA item or not. If set to false, the item will not be derived by IA upon upload.
The derive process produces a number of secondary files from an upload to make an upload more usable on the web.
Setting this to false is useful for uploading files that are already in a format that IA can display or reduce burden on IA's infrastructure.

Properties:

- Config:      item_derive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ITEM_DERIVE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to internetarchive (Internet Archive).

#### --internetarchive-endpoint

IAS3 Endpoint.

Leave blank for default value.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "https://s3.us.archive.org"

#### --internetarchive-front-endpoint

Host of InternetArchive Frontend.

Leave blank for default value.

Properties:

- Config:      front_endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_FRONT_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "https://archive.org"

#### --internetarchive-item-metadata

Metadata to be set on the IA item, this is different from file-level metadata that can be set using --metadata-set.
Format is key=value and the 'x-archive-meta-' prefix is automatically added.

Properties:

- Config:      item_metadata
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ITEM_METADATA
- Type:        stringArray
- Default:     []

#### --internetarchive-disable-checksum

Don't ask the server to test against MD5 checksum calculated by rclone.
Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can ask the server to check the object against checksum.
This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for
large files to start uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_checksum
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --internetarchive-wait-archive

Timeout for waiting the server's processing tasks (specifically archive and book_op) to finish.
Only enable if you need to be guaranteed to be reflected after write operations.
0 to disable waiting. No errors to be thrown in case of timeout.

Properties:

- Config:      wait_archive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_WAIT_ARCHIVE
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     0s

#### --internetarchive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,CrLf,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --internetarchive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Metadata fields provided by Internet Archive.
If there are multiple values for a key, only the first one is returned.
This is a limitation of Rclone, that supports one value per one key.

Owner is able to add custom keys. Metadata feature grabs all the keys including them.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the internetarchive backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| crc32 | CRC32 calculated by Internet Archive | string | 01234567 | **Y** |
| format | Name of format identified by Internet Archive | string | Comma-Separated Values | **Y** |
| md5 | MD5 hash calculated by Internet Archive | string | 01234567012345670123456701234567 | **Y** |
| mtime | Time of last modification, managed by Rclone | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z | **Y** |
| name | Full file path, without the bucket part | filename | backend/internetarchive/internetarchive.go | **Y** |
| old_version | Whether the file was replaced and moved by keep-old-version flag | boolean | true | **Y** |
| rclone-ia-mtime | Time of last modification, managed by Internet Archive | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z | N |
| rclone-mtime | Time of last modification, managed by Rclone | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z | N |
| rclone-update-track | Random value used by Rclone for tracking changes inside Internet Archive | string | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa | N |
| sha1 | SHA1 hash calculated by Internet Archive | string | 0123456701234567012345670123456701234567 | **Y** |
| size | File size in bytes | decimal number | 123456 | **Y** |
| source | The source of the file | string | original | **Y** |
| summation | Check https://forum.rclone.org/t/31922 for how it is used | string | md5 | **Y** |
| viruscheck | The last time viruscheck process was run for the file (?) | unixtime | 1654191352 | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# Internxt Drive

[Internxt Drive](https://internxt.com) is a zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage service.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Limitations

**Note:** The Internxt backend may not work with all account types. Please refer to [Internxt plan details](https://internxt.com/pricing) or contact [Internxt support](https://help.internxt.com) to verify rclone compatibility with your subscription.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `internxt`. Run `rclone config` and follow the prompts:

```
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> internxt
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Internxt Drive
   \ "internxt"
[snip]
Storage> internxt

Option email.
Email of your Internxt account.
Enter a value.
email> user@example.com

Option pass.
Password.
Enter a value.
password>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: internxt
- email: user@example.com
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "internxt" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

If you have two-factor authentication enabled on your Internxt account, you will be prompted to enter the code during login.

### Security Considerations

The authentication process stores your password and mnemonic in the rclone configuration file. It is **strongly recommended** to encrypt your rclone config to protect these sensitive credentials:

```
rclone config password
```

This will prompt you to set a password that encrypts your entire configuration file.

### Usage Examples

```
# List files
rclone ls internxt:

# Copy files to Internxt
rclone copy /local/path internxt:remote/path

# Sync local directory to Internxt
rclone sync /local/path internxt:remote/path

# Mount Internxt Drive as a local filesystem
rclone mount internxt: /path/to/mountpoint

# Check storage usage
rclone about internxt:
```

### Modification times and hashes

The Internxt backend does not support hashes.

Modification times are read from the server but cannot be set. The backend reports `ModTimeNotSupported` precision, so modification times will not be used for sync comparisons.

### Restricted filename characters

The Internxt backend replaces the [default restricted characters
set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters).

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to internxt (Internxt Drive).

#### --internxt-email

Email of your Internxt account.

Properties:

- Config:      email
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_EMAIL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --internxt-pass

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to internxt (Internxt Drive).

#### --internxt-skip-hash-validation

Skip hash validation when downloading files.

By default, hash validation is disabled. Set this to false to enable validation.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_hash_validation
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_SKIP_HASH_VALIDATION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --internxt-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently.

Note that each chunk is buffered in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --internxt-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 100 MiB and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     100Mi

#### --internxt-chunk-size

Chunk size for multipart uploads.

Files larger than upload_cutoff will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

Memory usage is approximately chunk_size * upload_concurrency.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     30Mi

#### --internxt-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,CrLf,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --internxt-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_INTERNXT_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# Jottacloud

Jottacloud is a cloud storage service provider from a Norwegian company, using
its own datacenters in Norway.

In addition to the official service at [jottacloud.com](https://www.jottacloud.com/),
it also provides white-label solutions to different companies. The following
are currently supported by this backend, using a different authentication setup
as described [below](#traditional):

- Elkjøp (with subsidiaries):
  - Elkjøp Cloud (cloud.elkjop.no)
  - Elgiganten Cloud (cloud.elgiganten.dk)
  - Elgiganten Cloud (cloud.elgiganten.se)
  - ELKO Cloud (cloud.elko.is)
  - Gigantti Cloud (cloud.gigantti.fi)
- Telia
  - Telia Cloud (cloud.telia.se)
  - Telia Sky (sky.telia.no)
- Tele2
  - Tele2 Cloud (mittcloud.tele2.se)
- Onlime
  - Onlime (onlime.dk)
- MediaMarkt
  - MediaMarkt Cloud (mediamarkt.jottacloud.com)
  - Let's Go Cloud (letsgo.jotta.cloud)
- Phonero
  - Phonero Sky (sky.phonero.no)

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Authentication

Authentication in Jottacloud is in general based on OAuth and OpenID Connect
(OIDC). There are different variants to choose from, depending on which service
you are using, e.g. a white-label service may only support one of them. Note
that there is no documentation to rely on, so the descriptions provided here
are based on observations and may not be accurate.

Jottacloud uses two optional OAuth security mechanisms, referred to as "Refresh
Token Rotation" and "Automatic Reuse Detection", which has some implications.
Access tokens normally have one hour expiry, after which they need to be
refreshed (rotated), an operation that requires the refresh token to be
supplied. Rclone does this automatically. This is standard OAuth. But in
Jottacloud, such a refresh operation not only creates a new access token, but
also refresh token, and invalidates the existing refresh token, the one that
was supplied. It keeps track of the history of refresh tokens, sometimes
referred to as a token family, descending from the original refresh token that
was issued after the initial authentication. This is used to detect any
attempts at reusing old refresh tokens, and trigger an immedate invalidation of
the current refresh token, and effectively the entire refresh token family.

When the current refresh token has been invalidated, next time rclone tries to
perform a token refresh, it will fail with an error message something along the
lines of:

```text
CRITICAL: Failed to create file system for "remote:": (...): couldn't fetch token: invalid_grant: maybe token expired? - try refreshing with "rclone config reconnect remote:"
```

If you run rclone with verbosity level 2 (`-vv`), you will see a debug message
with an additional error description from the OAuth response:

```text
DEBUG : remote: got fatal oauth error: oauth2: "invalid_grant" "Session doesn't have required client"
```

(The error description used to be "Stale token" instead of "Session doesn't
have required client", so you may see references to that in older descriptions
of this situation.)

When this happens, you need to re-authenticate to be able to use your remote
again, e.g. using the [config reconnect](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_reconnect/)
command as suggested in the error message. This will create an entirely new
refresh token (family).

A typical example of how you may end up in this situation, is if you create
a Jottacloud remote with rclone in one location, and then copy the
configuration file to a second location where you start using rclone to access
the same remote. Eventually there will now be a token refresh attempt with an
invalidated token, i.e. refresh token reuse, resulting in both instances
starting to fail with the "invalid_grant" error. It is possible to copy remote
configurations, but you must then replace the token for one of them using the
[config reconnect](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_reconnect/)
command.

You can get some overview of your active tokens in your service's web user
interface, if you navigate to "Settings" and then "Security" (in which case
you end up at <https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure> or similar). Down on
that page you have a section "My logged in devices". This contains a list
of entries which seemingly represents currently valid refresh tokens, or
refresh token families. From the right side of that list you can click a
button ("X") to revoke (invalidate) it, which means you will still have access
using an existing access token until that expires, but you will not be able to
perform a token refresh. Note that this entire "My logged in devices" feature
seem to behave a bit differently with different authentication variants and
with use of the different (white-label) services.

### Standard

This is an OAuth variant designed for command-line applications. It is
primarily supported by the official service (jottacloud.com), but may also be
supported by some of the white-label services. The information necessary to be
able to perform authentication, like domain name and endpoint to connect to,
are found automatically (it is encoded into the supplied login token, described
next), so you do not need to specify which service to configure.

When configuring a remote, you are asked to enter a single-use personal login
token, which you must manually generate from the account security settings in
the service's web interface. You do not need a web browser on the same machine
like with traditional OAuth, but need to use a web browser somewhere, and be
able to be copy the generated string into your rclone configuration session.
Log in to your service's web user interface, navigate to "Settings" and then
"Security", or, for the official service, use the direct link presented to you
by rclone when configuring the remote: <https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure>.
Scroll down to the section "Personal login token", and click the "Generate"
button. Copy the presented string and paste it where rclone asks for it. Rclone
will then use this to perform an initial token request, and receive a regular
OAuth token which it stores in your remote configuration. There will then also
be a new entry in the "My logged in devices" list in the web interface, with
device name and application name "Jottacloud CLI".

Each time a new token is created this way, i.e. a new personal login token is
generated and traded in for an OAuth token, you get an entirely new refresh
token family, with a new entry in the "My logged in devices". You can create as
many remotes as you want, and use multiple instances of rclone on same or
different machine, as long as you configure them separately like this, and not
get your self into the refresh token reuse issue described above.

### Traditional

Jottacloud also supports a more traditional OAuth variant. Most of the
white-label services support this, and for many of them this is the only
alternative because they do not support personal login tokens. This method
relies on pre-defined service-specific domain names and endpoints, and rclone
need you to specify which service to configure. This also means that any
changes to existing or additions of new white-label services needs an update
in the rclone backend implementation.

When configuring a remote, you must interactively login to an OAuth
authorization web site, and a one-time authorization code is sent back to
rclone behind the scene, which it uses to request an OAuth token. This means
that you need to be on a machine with an internet-connected web browser. If you
need it on a machine where this is not the case, then you will have to create
the configuration on a different machine and copy it from there. The Jottacloud
backend does not support the `rclone authorize` command. See the
[remote setup docs](/remote_setup) for details.

Jottacloud exerts some form of strict session management when authenticating
using this method. This leads to some unexpected cases of the "invalid_grant"
error described above, and effectively limits you to only use of a single
active authentication on the same machine. I.e. you can only create a single
rclone remote, and you can't even log in with the service's official desktop
client while having a rclone remote configured, or else you will eventually get
all sessions invalidated and are forced to re-authenticate.

When you have successfully authenticated, there will be an entry in the
"My logged in devices" list in the web interface representing your session. It
will typically be listed with application name "Jottacloud for Desktop" or
similar (it depends on the white-label service configuration).

### Legacy

Originally Jottacloud used an OAuth variant which required your account's
username and password to be specified. When Jottacloud migrated to the newer
methods, some white-label versions (those from Elkjøp) still used this legacy
method for a long time. Currently there are no known uses of this, it is still
supported by rclone, but the support will be removed in a future version.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote` with the default setup.
First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Jottacloud
   \ (jottacloud)
[snip]
Storage> jottacloud

Option client_id.
OAuth Client Id.
Leave blank normally.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
client_id>

Option client_secret.
OAuth Client Secret.
Leave blank normally.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
client_secret>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Option config_type.
Type of authentication.
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value of type string.
Press Enter for the default (standard).
   / Standard authentication.
   | This is primarily supported by the official service, but may also be
   | supported by some white-label services. It is designed for command-line
 1 | applications, and you will be asked to enter a single-use personal login
   | token which you must manually generate from the account security settings
   | in the web interface of your service.
   \ (standard)
   / Traditional authentication.
   | This is supported by the official service and all white-label services
   | that rclone knows about. You will be asked which service to connect to.
 2 | It has a limitation of only a single active authentication at a time. You
   | need to be on, or have access to, a machine with an internet-connected
   | web browser.
   \ (traditional)
   / Legacy authentication.
 3 | This is no longer supported by any known services and not recommended
   | used. You will be asked for your account's username and password.
   \ (legacy)
config_type> 1

Option config_login_token.
Personal login token.
Generate it from the account security settings in the web interface of your
service, for the official service on https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure.
Enter a value.
config_login_token> <your token here>

Use a non-standard device/mountpoint?
Choosing no, the default, will let you access the storage used for the archive
section of the official Jottacloud client. If you instead want to access the
sync or the backup section, for example, you must choose yes.
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: jottacloud
- configVersion: 1
- client_id: jottacli
- client_secret:
- tokenURL: https://id.jottacloud.com/auth/realms/jottacloud/protocol/openid-connect/token
- token: {........}
- username: 2940e57271a93d987d6f8a21
- device: Jotta
- mountpoint: Archive
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Jottacloud

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Jottacloud

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Jottacloud directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Devices and Mountpoints

The official Jottacloud client registers a device for each computer you install
it on, and shows them in the backup section of the user interface. For each
folder you select for backup it will create a mountpoint within this device.
A built-in device called Jotta is special, and contains mountpoints Archive,
Sync and some others, used for corresponding features in official clients.

With rclone you'll want to use the standard Jotta/Archive device/mountpoint in
most cases. However, you may for example want to access files from the sync or
backup functionality provided by the official clients, and rclone therefore
provides the option to select other devices and mountpoints during config.

You are allowed to create new devices and mountpoints. All devices except the
built-in Jotta device are treated as backup devices by official Jottacloud
clients, and the mountpoints on them are individual backup sets.

With the built-in Jotta device, only existing, built-in, mountpoints can be
selected. In addition to the mentioned Archive and Sync, it may contain
several other mountpoints such as: Latest, Links, Shared and Trash. All of
these are special mountpoints with a different internal representation than
the "regular" mountpoints. Rclone will only to a very limited degree support
them. Generally you should avoid these, unless you know what you are doing.

### --fast-list

This backend supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

Note that the implementation in Jottacloud always uses only a single
API request to get the entire list, so for large folders this could
lead to long wait time before the first results are shown.

Note also that with rclone version 1.58 and newer, information about
[MIME types](https://rclone.org/overview/#mime-type) and metadata item [utime](#metadata)
are not available when using `--fast-list`.

### Modification times and hashes

Jottacloud allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.

Jottacloud supports MD5 type hashes, so you can use the `--checksum`
flag.

Note that Jottacloud requires the MD5 hash before upload so if the
source does not have an MD5 checksum then the file will be cached
temporarily on disk (in location given by
[--temp-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#temp-dir-string)) before it is uploaded.
Small files will be cached in memory - see the
[--jottacloud-md5-memory-limit](#jottacloud-md5-memory-limit) flag.
When uploading from local disk the source checksum is always available,
so this does not apply. Starting with rclone version 1.52 the same is
true for encrypted remotes (in older versions the crypt backend would not
calculate hashes for uploads from local disk, so the Jottacloud
backend had to do it as described above).

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊          |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：          |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜          |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞          |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？          |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜          |
| %         | 0x25  | ％          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in XML strings.

### Deleting files

By default, rclone will send all files to the trash when deleting files. They
will be permanently deleted automatically after 30 days. You may bypass the
trash and permanently delete files immediately by using the [--jottacloud-hard-delete](#jottacloud-hard-delete)
flag, or set the equivalent environment variable. Emptying the trash is
supported by the [cleanup](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_cleanup/) command.

### Versions

Jottacloud supports file versioning. When rclone uploads a new version of a
file it creates a new version of it. Currently rclone only supports retrieving
the current version but older versions can be accessed via the Jottacloud Website.

Versioning can be disabled by `--jottacloud-no-versions` option. This is
achieved by deleting the remote file prior to uploading a new version. If the
upload the fails no version of the file will be available in the remote.

### Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your usage limit (unless it is unlimited)
and the current usage.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/jottacloud/jottacloud.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to jottacloud (Jottacloud).

#### --jottacloud-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --jottacloud-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to jottacloud (Jottacloud).

#### --jottacloud-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --jottacloud-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --jottacloud-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --jottacloud-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit

Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate the MD5 if required.

Properties:

- Config:      md5_memory_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_MD5_MEMORY_LIMIT
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --jottacloud-trashed-only

Only show files that are in the trash.

This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

Properties:

- Config:      trashed_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_TRASHED_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --jottacloud-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --jottacloud-upload-resume-limit

Files bigger than this can be resumed if the upload fail's.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_resume_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_UPLOAD_RESUME_LIMIT
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --jottacloud-no-versions

Avoid server side versioning by deleting files and recreating files instead of overwriting them.

Properties:

- Config:      no_versions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_NO_VERSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --jottacloud-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --jottacloud-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Jottacloud has limited support for metadata, currently an extended set of timestamps.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the jottacloud backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time of file birth (creation), read from rclone metadata | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| content-type | MIME type, also known as media type | string | text/plain | **Y** |
| mtime | Time of last modification, read from rclone metadata | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| utime | Time of last upload, when current revision was created, generated by backend | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Note that Jottacloud is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in Jottacloud file names.
Rclone will map these names to and from an identical looking unicode
equivalent. For example if a file has a ? in it will be mapped to ？ instead.

Jottacloud only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

## Troubleshooting

Jottacloud exhibits some inconsistent behaviours regarding deleted files and
folders which may cause Copy, Move and DirMove operations to previously
deleted paths to fail. Emptying the trash should help in such cases.

# Koofr

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for Koofr involves creating an application password for
rclone. You can do that by opening the Koofr
[web application](https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password),
giving the password a nice name like `rclone` and clicking on generate.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `koofr`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> koofr
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
   \ (koofr)
[snip]
Storage> koofr
Option provider.
Choose your storage provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
   \ (koofr)
 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
   \ (digistorage)
 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
   \ (other)
provider> 1    
Option user.
Your user name.
Enter a value.
user> USERNAME
Option password.
Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password).
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
--------------------
[koofr]
type = koofr
provider = koofr
user = USERNAME
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

You can choose to edit advanced config in order to enter your own service URL
if you use an on-premise or white label Koofr instance, or choose an alternative
mount instead of your primary storage.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this:

List directories in top level of your Koofr

```console
rclone lsd koofr:
```

List all the files in your Koofr

```console
rclone ls koofr:
```

To copy a local directory to an Koofr directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source koofr:backup
```

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in XML strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/koofr/koofr.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to koofr (Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers).

#### --koofr-provider

Choose your storage provider.

Properties:

- Config:      provider
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_PROVIDER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "koofr"
    - Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
  - "digistorage"
    - Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
  - "other"
    - Any other Koofr API compatible storage service

#### --koofr-endpoint

The Koofr API endpoint to use.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_ENDPOINT
- Provider:    other
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --koofr-user

Your user name.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --koofr-password

Your password for rclone generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_PASSWORD
- Provider:    koofr
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to koofr (Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers).

#### --koofr-mountid

Mount ID of the mount to use.

If omitted, the primary mount is used.

Properties:

- Config:      mountid
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_MOUNTID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --koofr-setmtime

Does the backend support setting modification time.

Set this to false if you use a mount ID that points to a Dropbox or Amazon Drive backend.

Properties:

- Config:      setmtime
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_SETMTIME
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --koofr-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --koofr-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_KOOFR_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Note that Koofr is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

## Providers

### Koofr

This is the original [Koofr](https://koofr.eu) storage provider used as main
example and described in the [configuration](#configuration) section above.

### Digi Storage 

[Digi Storage](https://www.digi.ro/servicii/online/digi-storage) is a cloud
storage service run by [Digi.ro](https://www.digi.ro/) that provides a Koofr API.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `ds`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> ds
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
   \ (koofr)
[snip]
Storage> koofr
Option provider.
Choose your storage provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
   \ (koofr)
 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
   \ (digistorage)
 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
   \ (other)
provider> 2
Option user.
Your user name.
Enter a value.
user> USERNAME
Option password.
Your password for rclone (generate one at https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/app/admin/preferences/password).
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
--------------------
[ds]
type = koofr
provider = digistorage
user = USERNAME
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Other

You may also want to use another, public or private storage provider that
runs a Koofr API compatible service, by simply providing the base URL to
connect to.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `other`. First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> other
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
   \ (koofr)
[snip]
Storage> koofr
Option provider.
Choose your storage provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
Press Enter to leave empty.
 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
   \ (koofr)
 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
   \ (digistorage)
 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
   \ (other)
provider> 3
Option endpoint.
The Koofr API endpoint to use.
Enter a value.
endpoint> https://koofr.other.org
Option user.
Your user name.
Enter a value.
user> USERNAME
Option password.
Your password for rclone (generate one at your service's settings page).
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
--------------------
[other]
type = koofr
provider = other
endpoint = https://koofr.other.org
user = USERNAME
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

# Linkbox

Linkbox is [a private cloud drive](https://linkbox.to/).

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a remote for Linkbox.

You will need:
- An API token from https://www.linkbox.to/admin/account
- The email and password for your Linkbox account

**Note:** As of v1.74, email and password are required in addition to
the API token. The API token is used for uploads and modifications,
while email/password authentication is used for listing and
downloading files. If you have an existing Linkbox remote, you will
need to reconfigure it with `rclone config` to edit the remote and add
the email and password.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / Linkbox
   \ (linkbox)
Storage> XX

Option token.
Token from https://www.linkbox.to/admin/account
Enter a value.
token> YOUR_API_TOKEN

Option email.
Email for login
Enter a value.
email> your@email.com

Option password.
Password for login
Enter a value.
password> YOUR_PASSWORD

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: linkbox
- token: XXXXXXXXXXX
- email: your@email.com
- password: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "linkbox" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

```

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/linkbox/linkbox.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to linkbox (Linkbox).

#### --linkbox-token

Token from https://www.linkbox.to/admin/account

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LINKBOX_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --linkbox-email

Email for login

Properties:

- Config:      email
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LINKBOX_EMAIL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --linkbox-password

Password for login

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LINKBOX_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to linkbox (Linkbox).

#### --linkbox-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LINKBOX_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

# Mail.ru Cloud

[Mail.ru Cloud](https://cloud.mail.ru/) is a cloud storage provided by a
Russian internet company [Mail.Ru Group](https://mail.ru). The official
desktop client is [Disk-O:](https://disk-o.cloud/en), available on Windows
and Mac OS.

## Features highlights

- Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`
- Files have a `last modified time` property, directories don't
- Deleted files are by default moved to the trash
- Files and directories can be shared via public links
- Partial uploads or streaming are not supported, file size must be known before
  upload
- Maximum file size is limited to 2G for a free account, unlimited for paid accounts
- Storage keeps hash for all files and performs transparent deduplication,
  the hash algorithm is a modified SHA1
- If a particular file is already present in storage, one can quickly submit file
  hash instead of long file upload (this optimization is supported by rclone)

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a mailru configuration.

First create a Mail.ru Cloud account and choose a tariff.

You will need to log in and create an app password for rclone. Rclone
**will not work** with your normal username and password - it will
give an error like `oauth2: server response missing access_token`.

- Click on your user icon in the top right
- Go to Security / "Пароль и безопасность"
- Click password for apps / "Пароли для внешних приложений"
- Add the password - give it a name - eg "rclone"
- Select the permissions level. For some reason just "Full access to Cloud"
  (WebDav) doesn't work for Rclone currently. You have to select "Full access
  to Mail, Cloud and Calendar" (all protocols).
  ([thread on forum.rclone.org](https://forum.rclone.org/t/failed-to-create-file-system-for-mailru-failed-to-authorize-oauth2-invalid-username-or-password-username-or-password-is-incorrect/49298))
- Copy the password and use this password below - your normal login password
  won't work.

Now run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Mail.ru Cloud
   \ "mailru"
[snip]
Storage> mailru
User name (usually email)
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
user> username@mail.ru
Password

This must be an app password - rclone will not work with your normal
password. See the Configuration section in the docs for how to make an
app password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash.
This feature is called "speedup" or "put by hash". It is especially efficient
in case of generally available files like popular books, video or audio clips
[snip]
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enable
   \ "true"
 2 / Disable
   \ "false"
speedup_enable> 1
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: mailru
- user: username@mail.ru
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- speedup_enable: true
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Configuration of this backend does not require a local web browser.
You can use the configured backend as shown below:

See top level directories

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new directory

```console
rclone mkdir remote:directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote path, deleting any
excess files in the path.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:directory
```

### Modification times and hashes

Files support a modification time attribute with up to 1 second precision.
Directories do not have a modification time, which is shown as "Jan 1 1970".

File hashes are supported, with a custom Mail.ru algorithm based on SHA1.
If file size is less than or equal to the SHA1 block size (20 bytes),
its hash is simply its data right-padded with zero bytes.
Hashes of a larger file is computed as a SHA1 of the file data
bytes concatenated with a decimal representation of the data length.

### Emptying Trash

Removing a file or directory actually moves it to the trash, which is not
visible to rclone but can be seen in a web browser. The trashed file
still occupies part of total quota. If you wish to empty your trash
and free some quota, you can use the `rclone cleanup remote:` command,
which will permanently delete all your trashed files.
This command does not take any path arguments.

### Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your usage limit (quota) and the current usage.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊          |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：          |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜          |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞          |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？          |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼          |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/mailru/mailru.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to mailru (Mail.ru Cloud).

#### --mailru-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --mailru-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --mailru-user

User name (usually email).

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --mailru-pass

Password.

This must be an app password - rclone will not work with your normal
password. See the Configuration section in the docs for how to make an
app password.


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --mailru-speedup-enable

Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash.

This feature is called "speedup" or "put by hash". It is especially efficient
in case of generally available files like popular books, video or audio clips,
because files are searched by hash in all accounts of all mailru users.
It is meaningless and ineffective if source file is unique or encrypted.
Please note that rclone may need local memory and disk space to calculate
content hash in advance and decide whether full upload is required.
Also, if rclone does not know file size in advance (e.g. in case of
streaming or partial uploads), it will not even try this optimization.

Properties:

- Config:      speedup_enable
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_SPEEDUP_ENABLE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Enable
  - "false"
    - Disable

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to mailru (Mail.ru Cloud).

#### --mailru-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --mailru-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --mailru-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --mailru-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --mailru-speedup-file-patterns

Comma separated list of file name patterns eligible for speedup (put by hash).

Patterns are case insensitive and can contain '*' or '?' meta characters.

Properties:

- Config:      speedup_file_patterns
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_SPEEDUP_FILE_PATTERNS
- Type:        string
- Default:     "*.mkv,*.avi,*.mp4,*.mp3,*.zip,*.gz,*.rar,*.pdf"
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Empty list completely disables speedup (put by hash).
  - "*"
    - All files will be attempted for speedup.
  - "*.mkv,*.avi,*.mp4,*.mp3"
    - Only common audio/video files will be tried for put by hash.
  - "*.zip,*.gz,*.rar,*.pdf"
    - Only common archives or PDF books will be tried for speedup.

#### --mailru-speedup-max-disk

This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files.

Reason is that preliminary hashing can exhaust your RAM or disk space.

Properties:

- Config:      speedup_max_disk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_SPEEDUP_MAX_DISK
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     3Gi
- Examples:
  - "0"
    - Completely disable speedup (put by hash).
  - "1G"
    - Files larger than 1Gb will be uploaded directly.
  - "3G"
    - Choose this option if you have less than 3Gb free on local disk.

#### --mailru-speedup-max-memory

Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk.

Properties:

- Config:      speedup_max_memory
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_SPEEDUP_MAX_MEMORY
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     32Mi
- Examples:
  - "0"
    - Preliminary hashing will always be done in a temporary disk location.
  - "32M"
    - Do not dedicate more than 32Mb RAM for preliminary hashing.
  - "256M"
    - You have at most 256Mb RAM free for hash calculations.

#### --mailru-check-hash

What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid.

Properties:

- Config:      check_hash
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_CHECK_HASH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Fail with error.
  - "false"
    - Ignore and continue.

#### --mailru-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --mailru-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MAILRU_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

File size limits depend on your account. A single file size is limited by 2G
for a free account and unlimited for paid tariffs. Please refer to the Mail.ru
site for the total uploaded size limits.

Note that Mailru is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

# Mega

[Mega](https://mega.nz/) is a cloud storage and file hosting service
known for its security feature where all files are encrypted locally
before they are uploaded. This prevents anyone (including employees of
Mega) from accessing the files without knowledge of the key used for
encryption.

This is an rclone backend for Mega which supports the file transfer
features of Mega using the same client side encryption.

**Note** [MEGA S4 Object Storage](/s3#mega), an S3 compatible object
store, also works with rclone and this is recommended for new projects.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.


## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Mega
   \ "mega"
[snip]
Storage> mega
User name
user> you@example.com
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: mega
- user: you@example.com
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

**NOTE:** The encryption keys need to have been already generated after a regular
login via the browser, otherwise attempting to use the credentials in `rclone`
will fail.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Mega

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Mega

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Mega directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

Mega does not support modification times or hashes yet.

### Restricted filename characters

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Duplicated files

Mega can have two files with exactly the same name and path (unlike a
normal file system).

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see
messages in the log about duplicates.

Use `rclone dedupe` to fix duplicated files.

### Failure to log-in

#### Object not found

If you are connecting to your Mega remote for the first time,
to test access and synchronization, you may receive an error such as

```text
Failed to create file system for "my-mega-remote:":
couldn't login: Object (typically, node or user) not found
```

The diagnostic steps often recommended in the [rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/search?q=mega)
start with the **MEGAcmd** utility. Note that this refers to
the official C++ command from <https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd>
and not the go language built command from t3rm1n4l/megacmd
that is no longer maintained.

Follow the instructions for installing MEGAcmd and try accessing
your remote as they recommend. You can establish whether or not
you can log in using MEGAcmd, and obtain diagnostic information
to help you, and search or work with others in the forum.

```text
MEGA CMD> login me@example.com
Password:
Fetching nodes ...
Loading transfers from local cache
Login complete as me@example.com
me@example.com:/$ 
```

Note that some have found issues with passwords containing special
characters. If you can not log on with rclone, but MEGAcmd logs on
just fine, then consider changing your password temporarily to
pure alphanumeric characters, in case that helps.

#### Repeated commands blocks access

Mega remotes seem to get blocked (reject logins) under "heavy use".
We haven't worked out the exact blocking rules but it seems to be
related to fast paced, successive rclone commands.

For example, executing this command 90 times in a row `rclone link
remote:file` will cause the remote to become "blocked". This is not an
abnormal situation, for example if you wish to get the public links of
a directory with hundred of files...  After more or less a week, the
remote will remote accept rclone logins normally again.

You can mitigate this issue by mounting the remote it with `rclone
mount`. This will log-in when mounting and a log-out when unmounting
only. You can also run `rclone rcd` and then use `rclone rc` to run
the commands over the API to avoid logging in each time.

Rclone does not currently close mega sessions (you can see them in the
web interface), however closing the sessions does not solve the issue.

If you space rclone commands by 3 seconds it will avoid blocking the
remote. We haven't identified the exact blocking rules, so perhaps one
could execute the command 80 times without waiting and avoid blocking
by waiting 3 seconds, then continuing...

Note that this has been observed by trial and error and might not be
set in stone.

Other tools seem not to produce this blocking effect, as they use a
different working approach (state-based, using sessionIDs instead of
log-in) which isn't compatible with the current stateless rclone
approach.

Note that once blocked, the use of other tools (such as megacmd) is
not a sure workaround: following megacmd login times have been
observed in succession for blocked remote: 7 minutes, 20 min, 30min, 30
min, 30min. Web access looks unaffected though.

Investigation is continuing in relation to workarounds based on
timeouts, pacers, retrials and tpslimits - if you discover something
relevant, please post on the forum.

So, if rclone was working nicely and suddenly you are unable to log-in
and you are sure the user and the password are correct, likely you
have got the remote blocked for a while.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/mega/mega.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to mega (Mega).

#### --mega-user

User name.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --mega-pass

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --mega-2fa

The 2FA code of your MEGA account if the account is set up with one

Properties:

- Config:      2fa
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_2FA
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to mega (Mega).

#### --mega-debug

Output more debug from Mega.

If this flag is set (along with -vv) it will print further debugging
information from the mega backend.

Properties:

- Config:      debug
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_DEBUG
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --mega-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Normally the mega backend will put all deletions into the trash rather
than permanently deleting them.  If you specify this then rclone will
permanently delete objects instead.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --mega-use-https

Use HTTPS for transfers.

MEGA uses plain text HTTP connections by default.
Some ISPs throttle HTTP connections, this causes transfers to become very slow.
Enabling this will force MEGA to use HTTPS for all transfers.
HTTPS is normally not necessary since all data is already encrypted anyway.
Enabling it will increase CPU usage and add network overhead.

Properties:

- Config:      use_https
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_USE_HTTPS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --mega-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --mega-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEGA_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

### Process `killed`

On accounts with large files or something else, memory usage can significantly
increase when executing list/sync instructions. When running on cloud providers
(like AWS with EC2), check if the instance type has sufficient memory/CPU to
execute the commands. Use the resource monitoring tools to inspect after sending
the commands. Look [at this issue](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-with-mega-appears-to-work-only-in-some-accounts/40233/4).

## Limitations

This backend uses the [go-mega go library](https://github.com/t3rm1n4l/go-mega)
which is an opensource
go library implementing the Mega API. There doesn't appear to be any
documentation for the mega protocol beyond the [mega C++ SDK](https://github.com/meganz/sdk)
source code so there are likely quite a few errors still remaining in this library.

Mega allows duplicate files which may confuse rclone.

# Memory

The memory backend is an in RAM backend. It does not persist its
data - use the local backend for that.

The memory backend behaves like a bucket-based remote (e.g. like
s3). Because it has no parameters you can just use it with the
`:memory:` remote name.

## Configuration

You can configure it as a remote like this with `rclone config` too if
you want to:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Memory
   \ "memory"
[snip]
Storage> memory
** See help for memory backend at: https://rclone.org/memory/ **

Remote config

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: memory
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Because the memory backend isn't persistent it is most useful for
testing or with an rclone server or rclone mount, e.g.

```console
rclone mount :memory: /mnt/tmp
rclone serve webdav :memory:
rclone serve sftp :memory:
```

### Modification times and hashes

The memory backend supports MD5 hashes and modification times accurate to 1 nS.

### Restricted filename characters

The memory backend replaces the [default restricted characters
set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters).

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### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to memory (In memory object storage system.).

#### --memory-discard

If set all writes will be discarded and reads will return an error

If set then when files are uploaded the contents not be saved. The
files will appear to have been uploaded but will give an error on
read. Files will have their MD5 sum calculated on upload which takes
very little CPU time and allows the transfers to be checked.

This can be useful for testing performance.

Probably most easily used by using the connection string syntax:

    :memory,discard:bucket



Properties:

- Config:      discard
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEMORY_DISCARD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --memory-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_MEMORY_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# Akamai NetStorage

Paths are specified as `remote:`
You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:/path/to/dir`.
If you have a CP code you can use that as the folder after the domain such
as \<domain>\/\<cpcode>\/\<internal directories within cpcode>.

For example, this is commonly configured with or without a CP code:

- **With a CP code**. `[your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/subdirectory/`
- **Without a CP code**. `[your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net`

See all buckets

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

The initial setup for Netstorage involves getting an account and secret.
Use `rclone config` to walk you through the setup process.

## Configuration

Here's an example of how to make a remote called `ns1`.

1. To begin the interactive configuration process, enter this command:

    ```console
    rclone config
    ```

2. Type `n` to create a new remote.

    ```text
    n) New remote
    d) Delete remote
    q) Quit config
    e/n/d/q> n
    ```

3. For this example, enter `ns1` when you reach the name> prompt.

    ```text
    name> ns1
    ```

4. Enter `netstorage` as the type of storage to configure.

    ```text
    Type of storage to configure.
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    XX / NetStorage
       \ "netstorage"
    Storage> netstorage
    ```

5. Select between the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Most users should choose HTTPS,
which is the default. HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.

    ```text
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
     1 / HTTP protocol
       \ "http"
     2 / HTTPS protocol
       \ "https"
    protocol> 1
    ```

6. Specify your NetStorage host, CP code, and any necessary content paths using
this format: `<domain>/<cpcode>/<content>/`

    ```text
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    host> baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    ```

7. Set the netstorage account name

    ```text
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    account> username
    ```

8. Set the Netstorage account secret/G2O key which will be used for authentication
purposes. Select the `y` option to set your own password then enter your secret.
Note: The secret is stored in the `rclone.conf` file with hex-encoded encryption.

    ```text
    y) Yes type in my own password
    g) Generate random password
    y/g> y
    Enter the password:
    password:
    Confirm the password:
    password:
    ```

9. View the summary and confirm your remote configuration.

    ```text
    [ns1]
    type = netstorage
    protocol = http
    host = baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    account = username
    secret = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    --------------------
    y) Yes this is OK (default)
    e) Edit this remote
    d) Delete this remote
    y/e/d> y
    ```

This remote is called `ns1` and can now be used.

## Example operations

Get started with rclone and NetStorage with these examples. For additional rclone
commands, visit <https://rclone.org/commands/>.

### See contents of a directory in your project

```console
rclone lsd ns1:/974012/testing/
```

### Sync the contents local with remote

```console
rclone sync . ns1:/974012/testing/
```

### Upload local content to remote

```console
rclone copy notes.txt ns1:/974012/testing/
```

### Delete content on remote

```console
rclone delete ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt
```

### Move or copy content between CP codes

Your credentials must have access to two CP codes on the same remote.
You can't perform operations between different remotes.

```console
rclone move ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt ns1:/974450/testing2/
```

## Features

### Symlink Support

The Netstorage backend changes the rclone `--links, -l` behavior. When uploading,
instead of creating the .rclonelink file, use the "symlink" API in order to create
the corresponding symlink on the remote. The .rclonelink file will not be created,
the upload will be intercepted and only the symlink file that matches the source
file name with no suffix will be created on the remote.

This will effectively allow commands like copy/copyto, move/moveto and sync to
upload from local to remote and download from remote to local directories with
symlinks. Due to internal rclone limitations, it is not possible to upload an
individual symlink file to any remote backend. You can always use the "backend
symlink" command to create a symlink on the NetStorage server, refer to "symlink"
section below.

Individual symlink files on the remote can be used with the commands like "cat"
to print the destination name, or "delete" to delete symlink, or copy, copy/to
and move/moveto to download from the remote to local. Note: individual symlink
files on the remote should be specified including the suffix .rclonelink.

**Note**: No file with the suffix .rclonelink should ever exist on the server
since it is not possible to actually upload/create a file with .rclonelink suffix
with rclone, it can only exist if it is manually created through a non-rclone
method on the remote.

### Implicit vs. Explicit Directories

With NetStorage, directories can exist in one of two forms:

1. **Explicit Directory**. This is an actual, physical directory that you have
  created in a storage group.
2. **Implicit Directory**. This refers to a directory within a path that has
  not been physically created. For example, during upload of a file, nonexistent
  subdirectories can be specified in the target path. NetStorage creates these
  as "implicit." While the directories aren't physically created, they exist
  implicitly and the noted path is connected with the uploaded file.

Rclone will intercept all file uploads and mkdir commands for the NetStorage
remote and will explicitly issue the mkdir command for each directory in the
uploading path. This will help with the interoperability with the other Akamai
services such as SFTP and the Content Management Shell (CMShell). Rclone will
not guarantee correctness of operations with implicit directories which might
have been created as a result of using an upload API directly.

### `--fast-list` / ListR support

NetStorage remote supports the ListR feature by using the "list" NetStorage API
action to return a lexicographical list of all objects within the specified CP
code, recursing into subdirectories as they're encountered.

- **Rclone will use the ListR method for some commands by default**. Commands
such as `lsf -R` will use ListR by default. To disable this, include the
`--disable listR` option to use the non-recursive method of listing objects.

- **Rclone will not use the ListR method for some commands**. Commands such as
`sync` don't use ListR by default. To force using the ListR method, include the
`--fast-list` option.

There are pros and cons of using the ListR method, refer to [rclone documentation](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list).
In general, the sync command over an existing deep tree on the remote will
run faster with the "--fast-list" flag but with extra memory usage as a side effect.
It might also result in higher CPU utilization but the whole task can be completed
faster.

**Note**: There is a known limitation that "lsf -R" will display number of files
in the directory and directory size as -1 when ListR method is used. The workaround
is to pass "--disable listR" flag if these numbers are important in the output.

### Purge

NetStorage remote supports the purge feature by using the "quick-delete"
NetStorage API action. The quick-delete action is disabled by default for security
reasons and can be enabled for the account through the Akamai portal. Rclone
will first try to use quick-delete action for the purge command and if this
functionality is disabled then will fall back to a standard delete method.

**Note**: Read the [NetStorage Usage API](https://learn.akamai.com/en-us/webhelp/netstorage/netstorage-http-api-developer-guide/GUID-15836617-9F50-405A-833C-EA2556756A30.html)
for considerations when using "quick-delete". In general, using quick-delete
method will not delete the tree immediately and objects targeted for
quick-delete may still be accessible.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

#### --netstorage-host

Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to.

Format should be `<domain>/<internal folders>`

Properties:

- Config:      host
- Env Var:     RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_HOST
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --netstorage-account

Set the NetStorage account name

Properties:

- Config:      account
- Env Var:     RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_ACCOUNT
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --netstorage-secret

Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication.

Please choose the 'y' option to set your own password then enter your secret.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

#### --netstorage-protocol

Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

Most users should choose HTTPS, which is the default.
HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.

Properties:

- Config:      protocol
- Env Var:     RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_PROTOCOL
- Type:        string
- Default:     "https"
- Examples:
  - "http"
    - HTTP protocol
  - "https"
    - HTTPS protocol

#### --netstorage-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the netstorage backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### du

Return disk usage information for a specified directory.

```console
rclone backend du remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

The usage information returned, includes the targeted directory as well as all
files stored in any sub-directories that may exist.

### symlink

You can create a symbolic link in ObjectStore with the symlink action.

```console
rclone backend symlink remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

The desired path location (including applicable sub-directories) ending in
the object that will be the target of the symlink (for example, /links/mylink).
Include the file extension for the object, if applicable.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend symlink <src> <path>
```

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# Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Paths are specified as `remote:container` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g.
`remote:container/path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
configuration.  For a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
[snip]
Storage> azureblob
Storage Account Name
account> account_name
Storage Account Key
key> base64encodedkey==
Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally.
endpoint> 
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: azureblob
- account: account_name
- key: base64encodedkey==
- endpoint:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See all containers

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new container

```console
rclone mkdir remote:container
```

List the contents of a container

```console
rclone ls remote:container
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote container, deleting any excess
files in the container.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:container
```

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### Modification times and hashes

The modification time is stored as metadata on the object with the
`mtime` key.  It is stored using RFC3339 Format time with nanosecond
precision.  The metadata is supplied during directory listings so
there is no performance overhead to using it.

If you wish to use the Azure standard `LastModified` time stored on
the object as the modified time, then use the `--use-server-modtime`
flag. Note that rclone can't set `LastModified`, so using the
`--update` flag when syncing is recommended if using
`--use-server-modtime`.

MD5 hashes are stored with blobs. However blobs that were uploaded in
chunks only have an MD5 if the source remote was capable of MD5
hashes, e.g. the local disk.

### Metadata and tags

Rclone can map arbitrary metadata to Azure Blob headers, user metadata, and tags
when `--metadata` is enabled (or when using `--metadata-set` / `--metadata-mapper`).

- Headers: Set these keys in metadata to map to the corresponding blob headers:
  - `cache-control`, `content-disposition`, `content-encoding`, `content-language`, `content-type`.
- User metadata: Any other non-reserved keys are written as user metadata
  (keys are normalized to lowercase). Keys starting with `x-ms-` are reserved and
  are not stored as user metadata.
- Tags: Provide `x-ms-tags` as a comma-separated list of `key=value` pairs, e.g.
  `x-ms-tags=env=dev,team=sync`. These are applied as blob tags on upload and on
  server-side copies. Whitespace around keys/values is ignored.
- Modtime override: Provide `mtime` in RFC3339/RFC3339Nano format to override the
  stored modtime persisted in user metadata. If `mtime` cannot be parsed, rclone
  logs a debug message and ignores the override.

Notes:
- Rclone ignores reserved `x-ms-*` keys (except `x-ms-tags`) for user metadata.

### Performance

When uploading large files, increasing the value of
`--azureblob-upload-concurrency` will increase performance at the cost
of using more memory. The default of 16 is set quite conservatively to
use less memory. It maybe be necessary raise it to 64 or higher to
fully utilize a 1 GBit/s link with a single file transfer.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

File names can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| .         | 0x2E  | ．          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Authentication {#authentication}

There are a number of ways of supplying credentials for Azure Blob
Storage. Rclone tries them in the order of the sections below.

#### Env Auth

If the `env_auth` config parameter is `true` then rclone will pull
credentials from the environment or runtime.

It tries these authentication methods in this order:

1. Environment Variables
2. Managed Service Identity Credentials
3. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)

These are described in the following sections

##### Env Auth: 1. Environment Variables

If `env_auth` is set and environment variables are present rclone
authenticates a service principal with a secret or certificate, or a
user with a password, depending on which environment variable are set.
It reads configuration from these variables, in the following order:

1. Service principal with client secret
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its
      "directory" ID.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: the service principal's client ID
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET`: one of the service principal's client secrets
2. Service principal with certificate
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its
      "directory" ID.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: the service principal's client ID
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH`: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file
      including the private key.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD`: (optional) password for the
      certificate file.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN`: (optional) Specifies whether an
      authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject
      name / issuer based authentication. When set to "true" or "1",
      authentication requests include the x5c header.
3. User with username and password
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate
      to
    - `AZURE_USERNAME`: a username (usually an email address)
    - `AZURE_PASSWORD`: the user's password
4. Workload Identity
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: Tenant to authenticate in
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: Client ID of the application the user will authenticate
      to
    - `AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN_FILE`: Path to projected service account token file
    - `AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST`: Authority of an Azure Active Directory endpoint
      (default: login.microsoftonline.com).

##### Env Auth: 2. Managed Service Identity Credentials

When using Managed Service Identity if the VM(SS) on which this
program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will be used by
default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one
user-assigned identity, the user-assigned identity will be used by
default.

If the resource has multiple user-assigned identities you will need to
unset `env_auth` and set `use_msi` instead. See the [`use_msi`
section](#use_msi).

If you are operating in disconnected clouds, or private clouds such as
Azure Stack you may want to set `disable_instance_discovery = true`.
This determines whether rclone requests Microsoft Entra instance
metadata from `https://login.microsoft.com/` before authenticating.
Setting this to `true` will skip this request, making you responsible
for ensuring the configured authority is valid and trustworthy.

##### Env Auth: 3. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)

Credentials created with the `az` tool can be picked up using `env_auth`.

For example if you were to login with a service principal like this:

```console
az login --service-principal -u XXX -p XXX --tenant XXX
```

Then you could access rclone resources like this:

```console
rclone lsf :azureblob,env_auth,account=ACCOUNT:CONTAINER
```

Or

```console
rclone lsf --azureblob-env-auth --azureblob-account=ACCOUNT :azureblob:CONTAINER
```

Which is analogous to using the `az` tool:

```console
az storage blob list --container-name CONTAINER --account-name ACCOUNT --auth-mode login
```

#### Account and Shared Key

This is the most straight forward and least flexible way.  Just fill
in the `account` and `key` lines and leave the rest blank.

#### SAS URL

This can be an account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL.

To use it leave `account` and `key` blank and fill in `sas_url`.

An account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL can be obtained
from the Azure portal or the Azure Storage Explorer.  To get a
container level SAS URL right click on a container in the Azure Blob
explorer in the Azure portal.

If you use a container level SAS URL, rclone operations are permitted
only on a particular container, e.g.

```console
rclone ls azureblob:container
```

You can also list the single container from the root. This will only
show the container specified by the SAS URL.

```console
$ rclone lsd azureblob:
container/
```

Note that you can't see or access any other containers - this will
fail

```console
rclone ls azureblob:othercontainer
```

Container level SAS URLs are useful for temporarily allowing third
parties access to a single container or putting credentials into an
untrusted environment such as a CI build server.

#### Service principal with client secret

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal
with a client secret.

- `tenant`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
- `client_id`: the service principal's client ID
- `client_secret`: one of the service principal's client secrets

The credentials can also be placed in a file using the
`service_principal_file` configuration option.

#### Service principal with certificate

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal
with certificate.

- `tenant`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
- `client_id`: the service principal's client ID
- `client_certificate_path`: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including
  the private key.
- `client_certificate_password`: (optional) password for the certificate file.
- `client_send_certificate_chain`: (optional) Specifies whether an
  authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject name /
  issuer based authentication. When set to "true" or "1", authentication
  requests include the x5c header.

**NB** `client_certificate_password` must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

#### User with username and password

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with username and password.

- `tenant`: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
- `client_id`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to
- `username`: a username (usually an email address)
- `password`: the user's password

Microsoft doesn't recommend this kind of authentication, because it's
less secure than other authentication flows. This method is not
interactive, so it isn't compatible with any form of multi-factor
authentication, and the application must already have user or admin
consent. This credential can only authenticate work and school
accounts; it can't authenticate Microsoft accounts.

**NB** `password` must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

#### Managed Service Identity Credentials {#use_msi}

If `use_msi` is set then managed service identity credentials are
used. This authentication only works when running in an Azure service.
`env_auth` needs to be unset to use this.

However if you have multiple user identities to choose from these must
be explicitly specified using exactly one of the `msi_object_id`,
`msi_client_id`, or `msi_mi_res_id` parameters.

If none of `msi_object_id`, `msi_client_id`, or `msi_mi_res_id` is
set, this is is equivalent to using `env_auth`.

#### Federated Identity Credentials

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with federated identity.

- `tenant`: tenant ID of of the storage
- `client_id`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to storage
- `msi_client_id`: managed identity client ID of the application the user will
  authenticate to

By default "api://AzureADTokenExchange" is used as scope for token retrieval
over MSI. This token is then exchanged for actual storage token using
'tenant' and 'client_id'.

#### Azure CLI tool `az` {#use_az}

If `use_az` is set, use [Azure CLI tool `az`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/)
as the sole means of authentication.

Setting this can be useful if you wish to use the `az` CLI on a host with
a System Managed Identity that you do not want to use.

Don't set `env_auth` at the same time.

#### Anonymous {#anonymous}

If you want to access resources with public anonymous access then set
`account` only. You can do this without making an rclone config:

```console
rclone lsf :azureblob,account=ACCOUNT:CONTAINER
```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

#### --azureblob-account

Azure Storage Account Name.

Set this to the Azure Storage Account Name in use.

Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator, otherwise it needs to be set.

If this is blank and if env_auth is set it will be read from the
environment variable `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME` if possible.


Properties:

- Config:      account
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCOUNT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-env-auth

Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI).

See the [authentication docs](/azureblob#authentication) for full info.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-key

Storage Account Shared Key.

Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator.

Properties:

- Config:      key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-sas-url

SAS URL for container level access only.

Leave blank if using account/key or Emulator.

Properties:

- Config:      sas_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_SAS_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-connection-string

Storage Connection String.

Connection string for the storage. Leave blank if using other auth methods.


Properties:

- Config:      connection_string
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CONNECTION_STRING
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-tenant

ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID.

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret
- Service principal with certificate
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      tenant
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_TENANT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-client-id

The ID of the client in use.

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret
- Service principal with certificate
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-client-secret

One of the service principal's client secrets

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret


Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-client-certificate-path

Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key.

Set this if using
- Service principal with certificate


Properties:

- Config:      client_certificate_path
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-client-certificate-password

Password for the certificate file (optional).

Optionally set this if using
- Service principal with certificate

And the certificate has a password.


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      client_certificate_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

#### --azureblob-client-send-certificate-chain

Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth.

Specifies whether an authentication request will include an x5c header
to support subject name / issuer based authentication. When set to
true, authentication requests include the x5c header.

Optionally set this if using
- Service principal with certificate


Properties:

- Config:      client_send_certificate_chain
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-username

User name (usually an email address)

Set this if using
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-password

The user's password

Set this if using
- User with username and password


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-service-principal-file

Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal.

Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want to use a service principal instead of interactive login.

    $ az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "<name>" \
      --role "Storage Blob Data Owner" \
      --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<storage-account>/blobServices/default/containers/<container>" \
      > azure-principal.json

See ["Create an Azure service principal"](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/create-an-azure-service-principal-azure-cli) and ["Assign an Azure role for access to blob data"](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-auth-aad-rbac-cli) pages for more details.

It may be more convenient to put the credentials directly into the
rclone config file under the `client_id`, `tenant` and `client_secret`
keys instead of setting `service_principal_file`.


Properties:

- Config:      service_principal_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-disable-instance-discovery

Skip requesting Microsoft Entra instance metadata

This should be set true only by applications authenticating in
disconnected clouds, or private clouds such as Azure Stack.

It determines whether rclone requests Microsoft Entra instance
metadata from `https://login.microsoft.com/` before
authenticating.

Setting this to true will skip this request, making you responsible
for ensuring the configured authority is valid and trustworthy.


Properties:

- Config:      disable_instance_discovery
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DISABLE_INSTANCE_DISCOVERY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-use-msi

Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure).

When true, use a [managed service identity](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/)
to authenticate to Azure Storage instead of a SAS token or account key.

If the VM(SS) on which this program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will
be used by default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one user-assigned identity,
the user-assigned identity will be used by default. If the resource has multiple user-assigned
identities, the identity to use must be explicitly specified using exactly one of the msi_object_id,
msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id parameters.

Properties:

- Config:      use_msi
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_MSI
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-msi-object-id

Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_object_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_OBJECT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-msi-client-id

Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_object_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id

Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_object_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_mi_res_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_MI_RES_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-use-emulator

Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'.

Leave blank if using real azure storage endpoint.

Properties:

- Config:      use_emulator
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_EMULATOR
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-use-az

Use Azure CLI tool az for authentication

Set to use the [Azure CLI tool az](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/)
as the sole means of authentication.

Setting this can be useful if you wish to use the az CLI on a host with
a System Managed Identity that you do not want to use.

Don't set env_auth at the same time.


Properties:

- Config:      use_az
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_AZ
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-endpoint

Endpoint for the service.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated).

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4Mi

#### --azureblob-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed
links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then
increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

In tests, upload speed increases almost linearly with upload
concurrency. For example to fill a gigabit pipe it may be necessary to
raise this to 64. Note that this will use more memory.

Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     16

#### --azureblob-copy-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be
copied in chunks of chunk_size using the put block list API.

Files smaller than this limit will be copied with the Copy Blob API.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_COPY_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     8Mi

#### --azureblob-copy-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart copy.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are copied
concurrently.

These chunks are not buffered in memory and Microsoft recommends
setting this value to greater than 1000 in the azcopy documentation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-optimize#increase-concurrency

In tests, copy speed increases almost linearly with copy
concurrency.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_COPY_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     512

#### --azureblob-copy-total-concurrency

Global concurrency limit for multipart copy chunks.

This limits the total number of multipart copy chunks running at once
across all files.

Set to 0 to disable this limiter.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_total_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_COPY_TOTAL_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --azureblob-use-copy-blob

Whether to use the Copy Blob API when copying to the same storage account.

If true (the default) then rclone will use the Copy Blob API for
copies to the same storage account even when the size is above the
copy_cutoff.

Rclone assumes that the same storage account means the same config
and does not check for the same storage account in different configs.

There should be no need to change this value.


Properties:

- Config:      use_copy_blob
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_COPY_BLOB
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --azureblob-list-chunk

Size of blob list.

This sets the number of blobs requested in each listing chunk. Default
is the maximum, 5000. "List blobs" requests are permitted 2 minutes
per megabyte to complete. If an operation is taking longer than 2
minutes per megabyte on average, it will time out (
[source](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/setting-timeouts-for-blob-service-operations#exceptions-to-default-timeout-interval)
). This can be used to limit the number of blobs items to return, to
avoid the time out.

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     5000

#### --azureblob-access-tier

Access tier of blob: hot, cool, cold or archive.

Archived blobs can be restored by setting access tier to hot, cool or
cold. Leave blank if you intend to use default access tier, which is
set at account level

If there is no "access tier" specified, rclone doesn't apply any tier.
rclone performs "Set Tier" operation on blobs while uploading, if objects
are not modified, specifying "access tier" to new one will have no effect.
If blobs are in "archive tier" at remote, trying to perform data transfer
operations from remote will not be allowed. User should first restore by
tiering blob to "Hot", "Cool" or "Cold".

Properties:

- Config:      access_tier
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCESS_TIER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azureblob-archive-tier-delete

Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting.

Archive tier blobs cannot be updated. So without this flag, if you
attempt to update an archive tier blob, then rclone will produce the
error:

    can't update archive tier blob without --azureblob-archive-tier-delete

With this flag set then before rclone attempts to overwrite an archive
tier blob, it will delete the existing blob before uploading its
replacement.  This has the potential for data loss if the upload fails
(unlike updating a normal blob) and also may cost more since deleting
archive tier blobs early may be chargable.


Properties:

- Config:      archive_tier_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ARCHIVE_TIER_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-disable-checksum

Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great
for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files
to start uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_checksum
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8

#### --azureblob-public-access

Public access level of a container: blob or container.

Properties:

- Config:      public_access
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_PUBLIC_ACCESS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - The container and its blobs can be accessed only with an authorized request.
    - It's a default value.
  - "blob"
    - Blob data within this container can be read via anonymous request.
  - "container"
    - Allow full public read access for container and blob data.

#### --azureblob-directory-markers

Upload an empty object with a trailing slash when a new directory is created

Empty folders are unsupported for bucket based remotes, this option
creates an empty object ending with "/", to persist the folder.

This object also has the metadata "hdi_isfolder = true" to conform to
the Microsoft standard.
 

Properties:

- Config:      directory_markers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DIRECTORY_MARKERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-no-check-container

If set, don't attempt to check the container exists or create it.

This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does if you know the container exists already.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_container
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_NO_CHECK_CONTAINER
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-no-head-object

If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects.

Properties:

- Config:      no_head_object
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_NO_HEAD_OBJECT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-delete-snapshots

Set to specify how to deal with snapshots on blob deletion.

Properties:

- Config:      delete_snapshots
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DELETE_SNAPSHOTS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Choices:
  - ""
    - By default, the delete operation fails if a blob has snapshots
  - "include"
    - Specify 'include' to remove the root blob and all its snapshots
  - "only"
    - Specify 'only' to remove only the snapshots but keep the root blob.

#### --azureblob-decompress

If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects.

It is possible to upload objects to Azure Blob Storage with "Content-Encoding: gzip"
set. Normally rclone will download these files as compressed objects.

If this flag is set then rclone will decompress these files with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" as they are received. This means that rclone
can't check the size and hash but the file contents will be decompressed.


Properties:

- Config:      decompress
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DECOMPRESS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azureblob-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

User metadata is stored as x-ms-meta- keys. Azure metadata keys are case insensitive and are always returned in lower case.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the azureblob backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| cache-control | Cache-Control header | string | no-cache | N |
| content-disposition | Content-Disposition header | string | inline | N |
| content-encoding | Content-Encoding header | string | gzip | N |
| content-language | Content-Language header | string | en-US | N |
| content-type | Content-Type header | string | text/plain | N |
| mtime | Time of last modification, read from rclone metadata | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| tier | Tier of the object | string | Hot | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

### Custom upload headers

You can set custom upload headers with the `--header-upload` flag.

- Cache-Control
- Content-Disposition
- Content-Encoding
- Content-Language
- Content-Type
- X-MS-Tags

Eg `--header-upload "Content-Type: text/potato"` or
`--header-upload "X-MS-Tags: foo=bar"`.

## Limitations

MD5 sums are only uploaded with chunked files if the source has an MD5
sum.  This will always be the case for a local to azure copy.

`rclone about` is not supported by the Microsoft Azure Blob storage backend.
Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone
mount or use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

## Azure Storage Emulator Support

You can run rclone with the storage emulator (usually _azurite_).

To do this, just set up a new remote with `rclone config` following
the instructions in the introduction and set `use_emulator` in the
advanced settings as `true`. You do not need to provide a default
account name nor an account key. But you can override them in the
`account` and `key` options. (Prior to v1.61 they were hard coded to
_azurite_'s `devstoreaccount1`.)

Also, if you want to access a storage emulator instance running on a
different machine, you can override the `endpoint` parameter in the
advanced settings, setting it to
`http(s)://<host>:<port>/devstoreaccount1`
(e.g. `http://10.254.2.5:10000/devstoreaccount1`).

# Microsoft Azure Files Storage

Paths are specified as `remote:` You may put subdirectories in too,
e.g. `remote:path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a Microsoft Azure Files Storage
configuration.  For a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Microsoft Azure Files Storage
   \ "azurefiles"
[snip]

Option account.
Azure Storage Account Name.
Set this to the Azure Storage Account Name in use.
Leave blank to use SAS URL or connection string, otherwise it needs to be set.
If this is blank and if env_auth is set it will be read from the
environment variable `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME` if possible.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
account> account_name

Option share_name.
Azure Files Share Name.
This is required and is the name of the share to access.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
share_name> share_name

Option env_auth.
Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI).
See the [authentication docs](/azurefiles#authentication) for full info.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default (false).
env_auth> 

Option key.
Storage Account Shared Key.
Leave blank to use SAS URL or connection string.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
key> base64encodedkey==

Option sas_url.
SAS URL.
Leave blank if using account/key or connection string.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
sas_url> 

Option connection_string.
Azure Files Connection String.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
connection_string> 
[snip]

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: azurefiles
- account: account_name
- share_name: share_name
- key: base64encodedkey==
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
```

Once configured you can use rclone.

See all files in the top level:

```console
rclone lsf remote:
```

Make a new directory in the root:

```console
rclone mkdir remote:dir
```

Recursively List the contents:

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote directory, deleting any
excess files in the directory.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:dir
```

### Modified time

The modified time is stored as the SMB `LastWriteTime` property on
files. It has a precision of 100 ns.

### Performance

When uploading large files, increasing the value of
`--azurefiles-upload-concurrency` will increase performance at the cost
of using more memory. The default of 16 is set quite conservatively to
use less memory. It maybe be necessary raise it to 64 or higher to
fully utilize a 1 GBit/s link with a single file transfer.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊          |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：          |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜          |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞          |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？          |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼          |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜          |

File names can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| .         | 0x2E  | ．          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Hashes

MD5 hashes are stored with files. Not all files will have MD5 hashes
as these have to be uploaded with the file.

### Authentication {#authentication}

There are a number of ways of supplying credentials for Azure Files
Storage. Rclone tries them in the order of the sections below.

#### Env Auth

If the `env_auth` config parameter is `true` then rclone will pull
credentials from the environment or runtime.

It tries these authentication methods in this order:

1. Environment Variables
2. Managed Service Identity Credentials
3. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)

These are described in the following sections

##### Env Auth: 1. Environment Variables

If `env_auth` is set and environment variables are present rclone
authenticates a service principal with a secret or certificate, or a
user with a password, depending on which environment variable are set.
It reads configuration from these variables, in the following order:

1. Service principal with client secret
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its
      "directory" ID.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: the service principal's client ID
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET`: one of the service principal's client secrets
2. Service principal with certificate
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its
      "directory" ID.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: the service principal's client ID
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH`: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file
      including the private key.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD`: (optional) password for the
      certificate file.
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN`: (optional) Specifies whether an
      authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject
      name / issuer based authentication. When set to "true" or "1",
      authentication requests include the x5c header.
3. User with username and password
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate
      to
    - `AZURE_USERNAME`: a username (usually an email address)
    - `AZURE_PASSWORD`: the user's password
4. Workload Identity
    - `AZURE_TENANT_ID`: Tenant to authenticate in
    - `AZURE_CLIENT_ID`: Client ID of the application the user will authenticate
      to
    - `AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN_FILE`: Path to projected service account token file
    - `AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST`: Authority of an Azure Active Directory endpoint
      (default: login.microsoftonline.com).

##### Env Auth: 2. Managed Service Identity Credentials

When using Managed Service Identity if the VM(SS) on which this
program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will be used by
default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one
user-assigned identity, the user-assigned identity will be used by
default.

If the resource has multiple user-assigned identities you will need to
unset `env_auth` and set `use_msi` instead. See the [`use_msi`
section](#use_msi).

If you are operating in disconnected clouds, or private clouds such as
Azure Stack you may want to set `disable_instance_discovery = true`.
This determines whether rclone requests Microsoft Entra instance
metadata from `https://login.microsoft.com/` before authenticating.
Setting this to `true` will skip this request, making you responsible
for ensuring the configured authority is valid and trustworthy.

##### Env Auth: 3. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)

Credentials created with the `az` tool can be picked up using `env_auth`.

For example if you were to login with a service principal like this:

```console
az login --service-principal -u XXX -p XXX --tenant XXX
```

Then you could access rclone resources like this:

```console
rclone lsf :azurefiles,env_auth,account=ACCOUNT:
```

Or

```console
rclone lsf --azurefiles-env-auth --azurefiles-account=ACCOUNT :azurefiles:
```

#### Account and Shared Key

This is the most straight forward and least flexible way.  Just fill
in the `account` and `key` lines and leave the rest blank.

#### SAS URL

To use it leave `account`, `key` and `connection_string` blank and fill in `sas_url`.

#### Connection String

To use it leave `account`, `key` and "sas_url" blank and fill in `connection_string`.

#### Service principal with client secret

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal
with a client secret.

- `tenant`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
- `client_id`: the service principal's client ID
- `client_secret`: one of the service principal's client secrets

The credentials can also be placed in a file using the
`service_principal_file` configuration option.

#### Service principal with certificate

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal
with certificate.

- `tenant`: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
- `client_id`: the service principal's client ID
- `client_certificate_path`: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including
  the private key.
- `client_certificate_password`: (optional) password for the certificate file.
- `client_send_certificate_chain`: (optional) Specifies whether an authentication
  request will include an x5c header to support subject name / issuer based
  authentication. When set to "true" or "1", authentication requests include
  the x5c header.

**NB** `client_certificate_password` must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

#### User with username and password

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with username and password.

- `tenant`: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
- `client_id`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to
- `username`: a username (usually an email address)
- `password`: the user's password

Microsoft doesn't recommend this kind of authentication, because it's
less secure than other authentication flows. This method is not
interactive, so it isn't compatible with any form of multi-factor
authentication, and the application must already have user or admin
consent. This credential can only authenticate work and school
accounts; it can't authenticate Microsoft accounts.

**NB** `password` must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

#### Managed Service Identity Credentials {#use_msi}

If `use_msi` is set then managed service identity credentials are
used. This authentication only works when running in an Azure service.
`env_auth` needs to be unset to use this.

However if you have multiple user identities to choose from these must
be explicitly specified using exactly one of the `msi_object_id`,
`msi_client_id`, or `msi_mi_res_id` parameters.

If none of `msi_object_id`, `msi_client_id`, or `msi_mi_res_id` is
set, this is is equivalent to using `env_auth`.

#### Federated Identity Credentials

If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with federated identity.

- `tenant`: tenant ID of of the storage
- `client_id`: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to storage
- `msi_client_id`: managed identity client ID of the application the user will
  authenticate to

By default "api://AzureADTokenExchange" is used as scope for token retrieval
over MSI. This token is then exchanged for actual storage token using
'tenant' and 'client_id'.

#### Azure CLI tool `az` {#use_az}

If `use_az` is set, use [Azure CLI tool `az`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/)
as the sole means of authentication.

Setting this can be useful if you wish to use the `az` CLI on a host with
a System Managed Identity that you do not want to use.

Don't set `env_auth` at the same time.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/azurefiles/azurefiles.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to azurefiles (Microsoft Azure Files).

#### --azurefiles-account

Azure Storage Account Name.

Set this to the Azure Storage Account Name in use.

Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator, otherwise it needs to be set.

If this is blank and if env_auth is set it will be read from the
environment variable `AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME` if possible.


Properties:

- Config:      account
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_ACCOUNT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-env-auth

Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI).

See the [authentication docs](/azureblob#authentication) for full info.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-key

Storage Account Shared Key.

Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator.

Properties:

- Config:      key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-sas-url

SAS URL for container level access only.

Leave blank if using account/key or Emulator.

Properties:

- Config:      sas_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_SAS_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-connection-string

Storage Connection String.

Connection string for the storage. Leave blank if using other auth methods.


Properties:

- Config:      connection_string
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CONNECTION_STRING
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-tenant

ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID.

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret
- Service principal with certificate
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      tenant
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_TENANT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-client-id

The ID of the client in use.

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret
- Service principal with certificate
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-client-secret

One of the service principal's client secrets

Set this if using
- Service principal with client secret


Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-client-certificate-path

Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key.

Set this if using
- Service principal with certificate


Properties:

- Config:      client_certificate_path
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-client-certificate-password

Password for the certificate file (optional).

Optionally set this if using
- Service principal with certificate

And the certificate has a password.


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      client_certificate_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-share-name

Azure Files Share Name.

This is required and is the name of the share to access.


Properties:

- Config:      share_name
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_SHARE_NAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to azurefiles (Microsoft Azure Files).

#### --azurefiles-client-send-certificate-chain

Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth.

Specifies whether an authentication request will include an x5c header
to support subject name / issuer based authentication. When set to
true, authentication requests include the x5c header.

Optionally set this if using
- Service principal with certificate


Properties:

- Config:      client_send_certificate_chain
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-username

User name (usually an email address)

Set this if using
- User with username and password


Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-password

The user's password

Set this if using
- User with username and password


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-service-principal-file

Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal.

Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want to use a service principal instead of interactive login.

    $ az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "<name>" \
      --role "Storage Blob Data Owner" \
      --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<storage-account>/blobServices/default/containers/<container>" \
      > azure-principal.json

See ["Create an Azure service principal"](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/create-an-azure-service-principal-azure-cli) and ["Assign an Azure role for access to blob data"](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-auth-aad-rbac-cli) pages for more details.

It may be more convenient to put the credentials directly into the
rclone config file under the `client_id`, `tenant` and `client_secret`
keys instead of setting `service_principal_file`.


Properties:

- Config:      service_principal_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-disable-instance-discovery

Skip requesting Microsoft Entra instance metadata

This should be set true only by applications authenticating in
disconnected clouds, or private clouds such as Azure Stack.

It determines whether rclone requests Microsoft Entra instance
metadata from `https://login.microsoft.com/` before
authenticating.

Setting this to true will skip this request, making you responsible
for ensuring the configured authority is valid and trustworthy.


Properties:

- Config:      disable_instance_discovery
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_DISABLE_INSTANCE_DISCOVERY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-use-msi

Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure).

When true, use a [managed service identity](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/)
to authenticate to Azure Storage instead of a SAS token or account key.

If the VM(SS) on which this program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will
be used by default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one user-assigned identity,
the user-assigned identity will be used by default. If the resource has multiple user-assigned
identities, the identity to use must be explicitly specified using exactly one of the msi_object_id,
msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id parameters.

Properties:

- Config:      use_msi
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_USE_MSI
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-msi-object-id

Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_object_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_MSI_OBJECT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-msi-client-id

Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_object_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_MSI_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-msi-mi-res-id

Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_object_id specified.

Properties:

- Config:      msi_mi_res_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_MSI_MI_RES_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-use-emulator

Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'.

Leave blank if using real azure storage endpoint.

Properties:

- Config:      use_emulator
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_USE_EMULATOR
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-use-az

Use Azure CLI tool az for authentication

Set to use the [Azure CLI tool az](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/)
as the sole means of authentication.

Setting this can be useful if you wish to use the az CLI on a host with
a System Managed Identity that you do not want to use.

Don't set env_auth at the same time.


Properties:

- Config:      use_az
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_USE_AZ
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --azurefiles-endpoint

Endpoint for the service.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --azurefiles-chunk-size

Upload chunk size.

Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--azurefile-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4Mi

#### --azurefiles-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed
links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then
increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--azurefile-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     16

#### --azurefiles-max-stream-size

Max size for streamed files.

Azure files needs to know in advance how big the file will be. When
rclone doesn't know it uses this value instead.

This will be used when rclone is streaming data, the most common uses are:

- Uploading files with `--vfs-cache-mode off` with `rclone mount`
- Using `rclone rcat`
- Copying files with unknown length

You will need this much free space in the share as the file will be this size temporarily.


Properties:

- Config:      max_stream_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_MAX_STREAM_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Gi

#### --azurefiles-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --azurefiles-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_AZUREFILES_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

### Custom upload headers

You can set custom upload headers with the `--header-upload` flag. 

- Cache-Control
- Content-Disposition
- Content-Encoding
- Content-Language
- Content-Type

Eg `--header-upload "Content-Type: text/potato"`

## Limitations

MD5 sums are only uploaded with chunked files if the source has an MD5
sum.  This will always be the case for a local to azure copy.

# Microsoft OneDrive

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for OneDrive involves getting a token from
Microsoft which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks
you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
[snip]
Storage> onedrive
Microsoft App Client Id
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id>
Microsoft App Client Secret
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret>
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 / OneDrive Personal or Business
   \ "onedrive"
 2 / Sharepoint site
   \ "sharepoint"
 3 / Type in driveID
   \ "driveid"
 4 / Type in SiteID
   \ "siteid"
 5 / Search a Sharepoint site
   \ "search"
Your choice> 1
Found 1 drives, please select the one you want to use:
0: OneDrive (business) id=b!Eqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm-7mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewqk
Chose drive to use:> 0
Found drive 'root' of type 'business', URL: https://org-my.sharepoint.com/personal/you/Documents
Is that okay?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: onedrive
- token: {"access_token":"youraccesstoken","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"yourrefreshtoken","expiry":"2018-08-26T22:39:52.486512262+08:00"}
- drive_id: b!Eqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm-7mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewqk
- drive_type: business
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Microsoft. This only runs from the moment it
opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification
code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require
you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your OneDrive

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your OneDrive

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an OneDrive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Getting your own Client ID and Key

rclone uses a default Client ID when talking to OneDrive, unless a custom
`client_id` is specified in the config. The default Client ID and Key are
shared by all rclone users when performing requests.

You may choose to create and use your own Client ID, in case the default one
does not work well for you. For example, you might see throttling.

#### Creating Client ID for OneDrive Personal

To create your own Client ID, please follow these steps:

1. Open <https://portal.azure.com/?quickstart=true#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/ActiveDirectoryMenuBlade/~/Overview>
  and then under the `Add` menu click `App registration`.
   - If you have not created an Azure account, you will be prompted to. This is free,
   but you need to provide a phone number, address, and credit card for identity
   verification.
2. Enter a name for your app, choose account type `Accounts in any organizational
   directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts
   (e.g. Skype, Xbox)`,
  select `Web` in `Redirect URI`, then type (do not copy and paste)
  `http://localhost:53682/` and click Register. Copy and keep the
  `Application (client) ID` under the app name for later use.
3. Under `manage` select `Certificates & secrets`, click `New client secret`.
  Enter a description (can be anything) and set `Expires` to 24 months.
  Copy and keep that secret *Value* for later use (you *won't* be able to see
  this value afterwards).
4. Under `manage` select `API permissions`, click `Add a permission` and select
  `Microsoft Graph` then select `delegated permissions`.
5. Search and select the following permissions: `Files.Read`, `Files.ReadWrite`,
  `Files.Read.All`, `Files.ReadWrite.All`, `offline_access`, `User.Read` and
  `Sites.Read.All` (if custom access scopes are configured, select the
  permissions accordingly). Once selected click `Add permissions` at the bottom.

Now the application is complete. Run `rclone config` to create or edit a OneDrive
remote. Supply the app ID and password as Client ID and Secret, respectively.
rclone will walk you through the remaining steps.

The access_scopes option allows you to configure the permissions requested by rclone.
See [Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/permissions-reference#files-permissions)
for more information about the different scopes.

The `Sites.Read.All` permission is required if you need to
[search SharePoint sites when configuring the remote](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/5883).
However, if that permission is not assigned, you need to exclude `Sites.Read.All`
from your access scopes or set `disable_site_permission` option to true in the
advanced options.

#### Creating Client ID for OneDrive Business

The steps for OneDrive Personal may or may not work for OneDrive Business,
depending on the security settings of the organization.
A common error is that the publisher of the App is not verified.

You may try to [verify you account](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/publisher-verification-overview),
or try to limit the App to your organization only, as shown below.

1. Make sure to create the App with your business account.
2. Follow the steps above to create an App. However, we need a different account
   type here: `Accounts in this organizational directory only (*** - Single tenant)`.
   Note that you can also change the account type after creating the App.
3. Find the [tenant ID](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-how-to-find-tenant)
   of your organization.
4. In the rclone config, set `auth_url` to `https://login.microsoftonline.com/YOUR_TENANT_ID/oauth2/v2.0/authorize`.
5. In the rclone config, set `token_url` to `https://login.microsoftonline.com/YOUR_TENANT_ID/oauth2/v2.0/token`.

Note: If you have a special region, you may need a different host in step 4 and 5.
Here are [some hints](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/bc23bf11db1c78c6ebbf8ea538fbebf7058b4176/backend/onedrive/onedrive.go#L86).

### Using OAuth Client Credential flow

OAuth Client Credential flow will allow rclone to use permissions
directly associated with the Azure AD Enterprise application, rather
that adopting the context of an Azure AD user account.

This flow can be enabled by following the steps below:

1. Create the Enterprise App registration in the Azure AD portal and obtain a
   Client ID and Client Secret as described above.
2. Ensure that the application has the appropriate permissions and they are
   assigned as *Application Permissions*
3. Configure the remote, ensuring that *Client ID* and *Client Secret* are
   entered correctly.
4. In the *Advanced Config* section, enter `true` for `client_credentials` and
   in the `tenant` section enter the tenant ID.

When it comes to choosing the type of the connection work with the
client credentials flow. In particular the "onedrive" option does not
work. You can use the "sharepoint" option or if that does not find the
correct drive ID type it in manually with the "driveid" option.

To back up any user's data using this flow, grant your Azure AD
application the necessary Microsoft Graph *Application permissions*
(such as `Files.Read.All`, `Sites.Read.All` and/or `Sites.Selected`).
With these permissions, rclone can access drives across the tenant,
but it needs to know *which user or drive* you want. Supply a specific
`drive_id` corresponding to that user's OneDrive, or a SharePoint site
ID for SharePoint libraries. You can obtain a user's drive ID using
Microsoft Graph (e.g. `/users/{userUPN}/drive`) and then configure it
in rclone. Once the correct drive ID is provided, rclone will back up
that user's data using the app-only token without requiring their
credentials.

**NOTE** Assigning permissions directly to the application means that
anyone with the *Client ID* and *Client Secret* can access your
OneDrive files. Take care to safeguard these credentials.

### Non-admin access to Business OneDrive

If you do not have admin access to your organization's OneDrive for
Business, you can still connect by manually providing the SharePoint
tenant URL and drive ID. This works by overriding the base API URL
from the standard Microsoft Graph endpoint to the SharePoint v2.0
endpoint.

#### Steps to manually obtain credentials

1. Open your browser and navigate to `https://[your-tenant].sharepoint.com/`
2. Open Developer Tools (press F12) and go to the **Network** tab.
3. Search for `driveAccessToken` in the network requests.
4. Extract the following information from the response:
   ```json
   ".driveUrl": "{tenant_url}/v2.0/drives/{drive_id}",
   ".driveAccessToken": "access_token={access_token}"
   ```

#### Rclone configuration

Use the extracted values to configure your remote:

```ini
type = onedrive
token = {"access_token":"{access_token}","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"","expiry":"2045-12-31T23:59:59Z"}
drive_id = {drive_id}
tenant_url = {tenant_url}
drive_type = business
```

Since the exact expiry time cannot be determined from web traffic,
set the expiry to a future date. Note that the token will eventually
expire and you will need to repeat the process to obtain a new one.

### Modification times and hashes

OneDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second.  These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.

OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business and Sharepoint Server support
[QuickXorHash](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/code-snippets/quickxorhash).

Before rclone 1.62 the default hash for Onedrive Personal was `SHA1`.
For rclone 1.62 and above the default for all Onedrive backends is
`QuickXorHash`.

Starting from July 2023 `SHA1` support is being phased out in Onedrive
Personal in favour of `QuickXorHash`. If necessary the
`--onedrive-hash-type` flag (or `hash_type` config option) can be used
to select `SHA1` during the transition period if this is important
your workflow.

For all types of OneDrive you can use the `--checksum` flag.

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

This must be enabled with the `--onedrive-delta` flag (or `delta =
true` in the config file) as it can cause performance degradation.

It does this by using the delta listing facilities of OneDrive which
returns all the files in the remote very efficiently. This is much
more efficient than listing directories recursively and is Microsoft's
recommended way of reading all the file information from a drive.

This can be useful with `rclone mount` and [rclone rc vfs/refresh
recursive=true](https://rclone.org/rc/#vfs-refresh)) to very quickly fill the mount with
information about all the files.

The API used for the recursive listing (`ListR`) only supports listing
from the root of the drive. This will become increasingly inefficient
the further away you get from the root as rclone will have to discard
files outside of the directory you are using.

Some commands (like `rclone lsf -R`) will use `ListR` by default - you
can turn this off with `--disable ListR` if you need to.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊          |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：          |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜          |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞          |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？          |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼          |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜          |

File names can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |
| .         | 0x2E  | ．          |

File names can also not begin with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the first character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |
| ~         | 0x7E  | ～          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Deleting files

Any files you delete with rclone will end up in the trash.  Microsoft
doesn't provide an API to permanently delete files, nor to empty the
trash, so you will have to do that with one of Microsoft's apps or via
the OneDrive website.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/onedrive/onedrive.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

#### --onedrive-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-region

Choose national cloud region for OneDrive.

Properties:

- Config:      region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_REGION
- Type:        string
- Default:     "global"
- Examples:
  - "global"
    - Microsoft Cloud Global
  - "us"
    - Microsoft Cloud for US Government
  - "de"
    - Microsoft Cloud Germany (deprecated - try global region first).
  - "cn"
    - Azure and Office 365 operated by Vnet Group in China

#### --onedrive-tenant

ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID.

Set this if using
- Client Credential flow


Properties:

- Config:      tenant
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TENANT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

#### --onedrive-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.

This is disabled by default as uploading using single part uploads
causes rclone to use twice the storage on Onedrive business as when
rclone sets the modification time after the upload Onedrive creates a
new version.

See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1716


Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     off

#### --onedrive-tenant-url

The tenant URL for non-admin OneDrive access.

Set this to your SharePoint tenant URL to use the SharePoint v2.0 API
endpoint instead of the standard Microsoft Graph API. This allows
accessing business OneDrive without admin consent.

The URL can be found in your browser's developer tools by searching
for "driveAccessToken" in the network requests. Look for the
".driveUrl" field which contains the tenant URL and drive ID.

Example: https://your-tenant.sharepoint.com/_api

Properties:

- Config:      tenant_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TENANT_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-chunk-size

Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes).

Above this size files will be chunked - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) and
should not exceed 250M (262,144,000 bytes) else you may encounter \"Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.InvalidClientQueryException: The request message is too big.\"
Note that the chunks will be buffered into memory.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --onedrive-drive-id

The ID of the drive to use.

Properties:

- Config:      drive_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-drive-type

The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary).

Properties:

- Config:      drive_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.

This isn't normally needed, but in special circumstances you might
know the folder ID that you wish to access but not be able to get
there through a path traversal.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-access-scopes

Set scopes to be requested by rclone.

Choose or manually enter a custom space separated list with all scopes, that rclone should request.


Properties:

- Config:      access_scopes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ACCESS_SCOPES
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access
- Examples:
  - "Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access"
    - Read and write access to all resources
  - "Files.Read Files.Read.All Sites.Read.All offline_access"
    - Read only access to all resources
  - "Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All offline_access"
    - Read and write access to all resources, without the ability to browse SharePoint sites. 
    - Same as if disable_site_permission was set to true

#### --onedrive-expose-onenote-files

Set to make OneNote files show up in directory listings.

By default, rclone will hide OneNote files in directory listings because
operations like "Open" and "Update" won't work on them.  But this
behaviour may also prevent you from deleting them.  If you want to
delete OneNote files or otherwise want them to show up in directory
listing, set this option.

Properties:

- Config:      expose_onenote_files
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_EXPOSE_ONENOTE_FILES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-server-side-across-configs

Deprecated: use --server-side-across-configs instead.

Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different onedrive configs.

This will work if you are copying between two OneDrive *Personal* drives AND the files to
copy are already shared between them. Additionally, it should also function for a user who
has access permissions both between Onedrive for *business* and *SharePoint* under the *same
tenant*, and between *SharePoint* and another *SharePoint* under the *same tenant*. In other
cases, rclone will fall back to normal copy (which will be slightly slower).

Properties:

- Config:      server_side_across_configs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_SERVER_SIDE_ACROSS_CONFIGS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk.

Properties:

- Config:      list_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
- Type:        int
- Default:     1000

#### --onedrive-no-versions

Remove all versions on modifying operations.

Onedrive for business creates versions when rclone uploads new files
overwriting an existing one and when it sets the modification time.

These versions take up space out of the quota.

This flag checks for versions after file upload and setting
modification time and removes all but the last version.

**NB** Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions so don't use
this flag there.


Properties:

- Config:      no_versions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_NO_VERSIONS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-hard-delete

Permanently delete files on removal.

Normally files will get sent to the recycle bin on deletion. Setting
this flag causes them to be permanently deleted. Use with care.

OneDrive personal accounts do not support the permanentDelete API,
it only applies to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries.


Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-link-scope

Set the scope of the links created by the link command.

Properties:

- Config:      link_scope
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_SCOPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "anonymous"
- Examples:
  - "anonymous"
    - Anyone with the link has access, without needing to sign in.
    - This may include people outside of your organization.
    - Anonymous link support may be disabled by an administrator.
  - "organization"
    - Anyone signed into your organization (tenant) can use the link to get access.
    - Only available in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.

#### --onedrive-link-type

Set the type of the links created by the link command.

Properties:

- Config:      link_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "view"
- Examples:
  - "view"
    - Creates a read-only link to the item.
  - "edit"
    - Creates a read-write link to the item.
  - "embed"
    - Creates an embeddable link to the item.

#### --onedrive-link-password

Set the password for links created by the link command.

At the time of writing this only works with OneDrive personal paid accounts.


Properties:

- Config:      link_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --onedrive-hash-type

Specify the hash in use for the backend.

This specifies the hash type in use. If set to "auto" it will use the
default hash which is QuickXorHash.

Before rclone 1.62 an SHA1 hash was used by default for Onedrive
Personal. For 1.62 and later the default is to use a QuickXorHash for
all onedrive types. If an SHA1 hash is desired then set this option
accordingly.

From July 2023 QuickXorHash will be the only available hash for
both OneDrive for Business and OneDrive Personal.

This can be set to "none" to not use any hashes.

If the hash requested does not exist on the object, it will be
returned as an empty string which is treated as a missing hash by
rclone.


Properties:

- Config:      hash_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_HASH_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "auto"
- Examples:
  - "auto"
    - Rclone chooses the best hash
  - "quickxor"
    - QuickXor
  - "sha1"
    - SHA1
  - "sha256"
    - SHA256
  - "crc32"
    - CRC32
  - "none"
    - None - don't use any hashes

#### --onedrive-av-override

Allows download of files the server thinks has a virus.

The onedrive/sharepoint server may check files uploaded with an Anti
Virus checker. If it detects any potential viruses or malware it will
block download of the file.

In this case you will see a message like this

    server reports this file is infected with a virus - use --onedrive-av-override to download anyway: Infected (name of virus): 403 Forbidden: 

If you are 100% sure you want to download this file anyway then use
the --onedrive-av-override flag, or av_override = true in the config
file.

When set, malware-flagged files are downloaded via Microsoft Graph
beta APIs with Prefer: forceInfectedDownload (contentStream, then
/content). Clean files continue to use the stable v1.0 endpoint.

This is a beta API and may change. It works reliably with application
permissions (client_credentials). With delegated (user) login on
OneDrive for Business, Microsoft often still blocks the download.
tenant_url configurations fall back to the legacy AVOverride query
parameter.


Properties:

- Config:      av_override
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_AV_OVERRIDE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-delta

If set rclone will use delta listing to implement recursive listings.

If this flag is set the onedrive backend will advertise `ListR`
support for recursive listings.

Setting this flag speeds up these things greatly:

    rclone lsf -R onedrive:
    rclone size onedrive:
    rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true

**However** the delta listing API **only** works at the root of the
drive. If you use it not at the root then it recurses from the root
and discards all the data that is not under the directory you asked
for. So it will be correct but may not be very efficient.

This is why this flag is not set as the default.

As a rule of thumb if nearly all of your data is under rclone's root
directory (the `root/directory` in `onedrive:root/directory`) then
using this flag will be a big performance win. If your data is
mostly not under the root then using this flag will be a big
performance loss.

It is recommended if you are mounting your onedrive at the root
(or near the root when using crypt) and using rclone `rc vfs/refresh`.


Properties:

- Config:      delta
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DELTA
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --onedrive-metadata-permissions

Control whether permissions should be read or written in metadata.

Reading permissions metadata from files can be done quickly, but it
isn't always desirable to set the permissions from the metadata.


Properties:

- Config:      metadata_permissions
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_METADATA_PERMISSIONS
- Type:        Bits
- Default:     off
- Examples:
  - "off"
    - Do not read or write the value
  - "read"
    - Read the value only
  - "write"
    - Write the value only
  - "read,write"
    - Read and Write the value.
  - "failok"
    - If writing fails log errors only, don't fail the transfer

#### --onedrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --onedrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

OneDrive supports System Metadata (not User Metadata, as of this writing) for
both files and directories. Much of the metadata is read-only, and there are some
differences between OneDrive Personal and Business (see table below for
details).

Permissions are also supported, if `--onedrive-metadata-permissions` is set. The
accepted values for `--onedrive-metadata-permissions` are "`read`", "`write`",
"`read,write`", and "`off`" (the default). "`write`" supports adding new permissions,
updating the "role" of existing permissions, and removing permissions. Updating
and removing require the Permission ID to be known, so it is recommended to use
"`read,write`" instead of "`write`" if you wish to update/remove permissions.

Permissions are read/written in JSON format using the same schema as the
[OneDrive API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/resources/permission?view=odsp-graph-online),
which differs slightly between OneDrive Personal and Business.

Example for OneDrive Personal:
```json
[
	{
		"id": "1234567890ABC!123",
		"grantedTo": {
			"user": {
				"id": "ryan@contoso.com"
			},
			"application": {},
			"device": {}
		},
		"invitation": {
			"email": "ryan@contoso.com"
		},
		"link": {
			"webUrl": "https://1drv.ms/t/s!1234567890ABC"
		},
		"roles": [
			"read"
		],
		"shareId": "s!1234567890ABC"
	}
]
```

Example for OneDrive Business:
```json
[
	{
		"id": "48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038",
		"grantedToIdentities": [
			{
				"user": {
					"displayName": "ryan@contoso.com"
				},
				"application": {},
				"device": {}
			}
		],
		"link": {
			"type": "view",
			"scope": "users",
			"webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/design/a577ghg9hgh737613bmbjf839026561fmzhsr85ng9f3hjck2t5s"
		},
		"roles": [
			"read"
		],
		"shareId": "u!LKj1lkdlals90j1nlkascl"
	},
	{
		"id": "5D33DD65C6932946",
		"grantedTo": {
			"user": {
				"displayName": "John Doe",
				"id": "efee1b77-fb3b-4f65-99d6-274c11914d12"
			},
			"application": {},
			"device": {}
		},
		"roles": [
			"owner"
		],
		"shareId": "FWxc1lasfdbEAGM5fI7B67aB5ZMPDMmQ11U"
	}
]
```

To write permissions, pass in a "permissions" metadata key using this same
format. The [`--metadata-mapper`](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata-mapper) tool can
be very helpful for this.

When adding permissions, an email address can be provided in the `User.ID` or
`DisplayName` properties of `grantedTo` or `grantedToIdentities`. Alternatively,
an ObjectID can be provided in `User.ID`. At least one valid recipient must be
provided in order to add a permission for a user. Creating a Public Link is also
supported, if `Link.Scope` is set to `"anonymous"`.

Example request to add a "read" permission with `--metadata-mapper`:

```json
{
    "Metadata": {
        "permissions": "[{\"grantedToIdentities\":[{\"user\":{\"id\":\"ryan@contoso.com\"}}],\"roles\":[\"read\"]}]"
    }
}
```

Note that adding a permission can fail if a conflicting permission already
exists for the file/folder.

To update an existing permission, include both the Permission ID and the new
`roles` to be assigned. `roles` is the only property that can be changed.

To remove permissions, pass in a blob containing only the permissions you wish
to keep (which can be empty, to remove all.) Note that the `owner` role will be
ignored, as it cannot be removed.

Note that both reading and writing permissions requires extra API calls, so if
you don't need to read or write permissions it is recommended to omit
`--onedrive-metadata-permissions`.

Metadata and permissions are supported for Folders (directories) as well as
Files. Note that setting the `mtime` or `btime` on a Folder requires one extra
API call on OneDrive Business only.

OneDrive does not currently support User Metadata. When writing metadata, only
writeable system properties will be written -- any read-only or unrecognized keys
passed in will be ignored.

TIP: to see the metadata and permissions for any file or folder, run:

```
rclone lsjson remote:path --stat -M --onedrive-metadata-permissions read
```

Here are the possible system metadata items for the onedrive backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) with S accuracy (mS for OneDrive Personal). | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z | N |
| content-type | The MIME type of the file. | string | text/plain | **Y** |
| created-by-display-name | Display name of the user that created the item. | string | John Doe | **Y** |
| created-by-id | ID of the user that created the item. | string | 48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038 | **Y** |
| description | A short description of the file. Max 1024 characters. No longer supported by Microsoft. | string | Contract for signing | N |
| id | The unique identifier of the item within OneDrive. | string | 01BYE5RZ6QN3ZWBTUFOFD3GSPGOHDJD36K | **Y** |
| last-modified-by-display-name | Display name of the user that last modified the item. | string | John Doe | **Y** |
| last-modified-by-id | ID of the user that last modified the item. | string | 48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038 | **Y** |
| malware-detected | Whether OneDrive has detected that the item contains malware. | boolean | true | **Y** |
| mtime | Time of last modification with S accuracy (mS for OneDrive Personal). | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z | N |
| package-type | If present, indicates that this item is a package instead of a folder or file. Packages are treated like files in some contexts and folders in others. | string | oneNote | **Y** |
| permissions | Permissions in a JSON dump of OneDrive format. Enable with --onedrive-metadata-permissions. Properties: id, grantedTo, grantedToIdentities, invitation, inheritedFrom, link, roles, shareId | JSON | {} | N |
| shared-by-id | ID of the user that shared the item (if shared). | string | 48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038 | **Y** |
| shared-owner-id | ID of the owner of the shared item (if shared). | string | 48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038 | **Y** |
| shared-scope | If shared, indicates the scope of how the item is shared: anonymous, organization, or users. | string | users | **Y** |
| shared-time | Time when the item was shared, with S accuracy (mS for OneDrive Personal). | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z | **Y** |
| utime | Time of upload with S accuracy (mS for OneDrive Personal). | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z | **Y** |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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### Impersonate other users as Admin

Unlike Google Drive and impersonating any domain user via service accounts,
OneDrive requires you to authenticate as an admin account, and manually setup
a remote per user you wish to impersonate.

1. In [Microsoft 365 Admin Center](https://admin.microsoft.com), open each user
   you need to "impersonate" and go to the OneDrive section. There is a heading
   called "Get access to files", you need to click to create the link, this
   creates the link of the format
   `https://{tenant}-my.sharepoint.com/personal/{user_name_domain_tld}/` but also
   changes the permissions so you your admin user has access.
2. Then in powershell run the following commands:

   ```console
   Install-Module Microsoft.Graph -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force
   Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Files
   Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "Files.ReadWrite.All"
   # Follow the steps to allow access to your admin user
   # Then run this for each user you want to impersonate to get the Drive ID
   Get-MgUserDefaultDrive -UserId '{emailaddress}'
   # This will give you output of the format:
   # Name     Id                                                                 DriveType CreatedDateTime
   # ----     --                                                                 --------- ---------------
   # OneDrive b!XYZ123                                                           business  14/10/2023    1:00:58 pm
   ```

3. Then in rclone add a onedrive remote type, and use the `Type in driveID`
   with the DriveID you got in the previous step. One remote per user. It will
   then confirm the drive ID, and hopefully give you a message of
   `Found drive "root" of type "business"` and then include the URL of the format
   `https://{tenant}-my.sharepoint.com/personal/{user_name_domain_tld}/Documents`

## Limitations

If you don't use rclone for 90 days the refresh token will
expire. This will result in authorization problems. This is easy to
fix by running the `rclone config reconnect remote:` command to get a
new token and refresh token.

### Naming

Note that OneDrive is case insensitive so you can't have a
file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in OneDrive file
names.  These can't occur on Windows platforms, but on non-Windows
platforms they are common.  Rclone will map these names to and from an
identical looking unicode equivalent.  For example if a file has a `?`
in it will be mapped to `？` instead.

### File sizes

The largest allowed file size is 250 GiB for both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive
for Business [(Updated 13 Jan 2021)](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us#individualfilesize).

### Path length

The entire path, including the file name, must contain fewer than 400
characters for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. If you
are encrypting file and folder names with rclone, you may want to pay attention
to this limitation because the encrypted names are typically longer than the
original ones.

### Number of files

OneDrive seems to be OK with at least 50,000 files in a folder, but at
100,000 rclone will get errors listing the directory like `couldn’t
list files: UnknownError:`.  See
[#2707](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2707) for more info.

An official document about the limitations for different types of OneDrive can
be found [here](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa).

## Versions

Every change in a file OneDrive causes the service to create a new
version of the file.  This counts against a users quota.  For
example changing the modification time of a file creates a second
version, so the file apparently uses twice the space.

For example the `copy` command is affected by this as rclone copies
the file and then afterwards sets the modification time to match the
source file which uses another version.

You can use the `rclone cleanup` command (see below) to remove all old
versions.

Or you can set the `no_versions` parameter to `true` and rclone will
remove versions after operations which create new versions. This takes
extra transactions so only enable it if you need it.

**Note** At the time of writing Onedrive Personal creates versions
(but not for setting the modification time) but the API for removing
them returns "API not found" so cleanup and `no_versions` should not
be used on Onedrive Personal.

### Disabling versioning

Starting October 2018, users will no longer be able to
disable versioning by default. This is because Microsoft has brought
an
[update](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/New-Updates-to-OneDrive-and-SharePoint-Team-Site-Versioning/ba-p/204390)
to the mechanism. To change this new default setting, a PowerShell
command is required to be run by a SharePoint admin. If you are an
admin, you can run these commands in PowerShell to change that
setting:

1. `Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell` (in case you
   haven't installed this already)
2. `Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking`
3. `Connect-SPOService -Url https://YOURSITE-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential YOU@YOURSITE.COM`
   (replacing `YOURSITE`, `YOU`, `YOURSITE.COM` with the actual values; this will
   prompt for your credentials)
4. `Set-SPOTenant -EnableMinimumVersionRequirement $False`
5. `Disconnect-SPOService` (to disconnect from the server)

*Below are the steps for normal users to disable versioning. If you don't see
the "No Versioning" option, make sure the above requirements are met.*

User [Weropol](https://github.com/Weropol) has found a method to disable
versioning on OneDrive

1. Open the settings menu by clicking on the gear symbol at the top of the
   OneDrive Business page.
2. Click Site settings.
3. Once on the Site settings page, navigate to Site Administration > Site libraries
   and lists.
4. Click Customize "Documents".
5. Click General Settings > Versioning Settings.
6. Under Document Version History select the option No versioning.
   Note: This will disable the creation of new file versions, but will not remove
   any previous versions. Your documents are safe.
7. Apply the changes by clicking OK.
8. Use rclone to upload or modify files. (I also use the --no-update-modtime flag)
9. Restore the versioning settings after using rclone. (Optional)

## Cleanup

OneDrive supports `rclone cleanup` which causes rclone to look through
every file under the path supplied and delete all version but the
current version. Because this involves traversing all the files, then
querying each file for versions it can be quite slow. Rclone does
`--checkers` tests in parallel. The command also supports `--interactive`/`i`
or `--dry-run` which is a great way to see what it would do.

```text
rclone cleanup --interactive remote:path/subdir # interactively remove all old version for path/subdir
rclone cleanup remote:path/subdir               # unconditionally remove all old version for path/subdir
```

**NB** Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions

## Troubleshooting

### Excessive throttling or blocked on SharePoint

If you experience excessive throttling or is being blocked on SharePoint then
it may help to set the user agent explicitly with a flag like this:
`--user-agent "ISV|rclone.org|rclone/v1.55.1"`

The specific details can be found in the Microsoft document:
[Avoid getting throttled or blocked in SharePoint Online](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/how-to-avoid-getting-throttled-or-blocked-in-sharepoint-online#how-to-decorate-your-http-traffic-to-avoid-throttling)

### Unexpected file size/hash differences on Sharepoint

It is a
[known](https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-api-docs/issues/935#issuecomment-441741631)
issue that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) silently modifies
uploaded files, mainly Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.), causing file size and
hash checks to fail. There are also other situations that will cause OneDrive to
report inconsistent file sizes. To use rclone with such
affected files on Sharepoint, you
may disable these checks with the following command line arguments:

```text
--ignore-checksum --ignore-size
```

Alternatively, if you have write access to the OneDrive files, it may be possible
to fix this problem for certain files, by attempting the steps below.
Open the web interface for [OneDrive](https://onedrive.live.com) and find the
affected files (which will be in the error messages/log for rclone). Simply click
on each of these files, causing OneDrive to open them on the web. This will cause
each file to be converted in place to a format that is functionally equivalent
but which will no longer trigger the size discrepancy. Once all problematic files
are converted you will no longer need the ignore options above.

### Replacing/deleting existing files on Sharepoint gets "item not found"

It is a [known](https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-api-docs/issues/1068) issue
that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) may return "item not
found" errors when users try to replace or delete uploaded files; this seems to
mainly affect Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.) and web files (.html, .aspx, etc.).
As a workaround, you may use
the `--backup-dir <BACKUP_DIR>` command line argument so rclone moves the
files to be replaced/deleted into a given backup directory (instead of directly
replacing/deleting them). For example, to instruct rclone to move the files into
the directory `rclone-backup-dir` on backend `mysharepoint`, you may use:

```text
--backup-dir mysharepoint:rclone-backup-dir
```

### access\_denied (AADSTS65005)

```text
Error: access_denied
Code: AADSTS65005
Description: Using application 'rclone' is currently not supported for your organization [YOUR_ORGANIZATION] because it is in an unmanaged state. An administrator needs to claim ownership of the company by DNS validation of [YOUR_ORGANIZATION] before the application rclone can be provisioned.
```

This means that rclone can't use the OneDrive for Business API with your account.
You can't do much about it, maybe write an email to your admins.

However, there are other ways to interact with your OneDrive account. Have a look
at the WebDAV backend: <https://rclone.org/webdav/#sharepoint>

### invalid\_grant (AADSTS50076)

```text
Error: invalid_grant
Code: AADSTS50076
Description: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '...'.
```

If you see the error above after enabling multi-factor authentication for your
account, you can fix it by refreshing your OAuth refresh token. To do that, run
`rclone config`, and choose to edit your OneDrive backend. Then, you don't need
to actually make any changes until you reach this question:
`Token already configured - replace it?`. For this question, answer `y` and go through
the process to refresh your token, just like the first time the backend is
configured. After this, rclone should work again for this backend.

### Invalid request when making public links

On Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business, `rclone link` may return an "Invalid
request" error. A possible cause is that the organisation admin didn't allow
public links to be made for the organisation/sharepoint library. To fix the
permissions as an admin, take a look at the docs:
[1](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-sharing-on-or-off),
[2](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-up-and-manage-access-requests-94b26e0b-2822-49d4-929a-8455698654b3).

### Can not access `Shared` with me files

Shared with me files is not supported by rclone
[currently](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4062), but there is a workaround:

1. Visit [https://onedrive.live.com](https://onedrive.live.com/)
2. Right click a item in `Shared`, then click `Add shortcut to My files` in the context
    ![make_shortcut](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/60313789/206118040-7e762b3b-aa61-41a1-8649-cc18889f3572.png "Screenshot (Shared with me)")
3. The shortcut will appear in `My files`, you can access it with rclone, it
   behaves like a normal folder/file.
    ![in_my_files](https://i.imgur.com/0S8H3li.png "Screenshot (My Files)")
    ![rclone_mount](https://i.imgur.com/2Iq66sW.png "Screenshot (rclone mount)")

### Live Photos uploaded from iOS (small video clips in .heic files)

The iOS OneDrive app introduced [upload and storage](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/live-photos-come-to-onedrive/ba-p/1953452)
of [Live Photos](https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207310) in 2020.
The usage and download of these uploaded Live Photos is unfortunately still
work-in-progress and this introduces several issues when copying, synchronising
and mounting – both in rclone and in the native OneDrive client on Windows.

The root cause can easily be seen if you locate one of your Live Photos in the
OneDrive web interface. Then download the photo from the web interface. You
will then see that the size of downloaded .heic file is smaller than the size
displayed in the web interface. The downloaded file is smaller because it only
contains a single frame (still photo) extracted from the Live Photo (movie)
stored in OneDrive.

The different sizes will cause `rclone copy/sync` to repeatedly recopy
unmodified photos something like this:

```text
DEBUG : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: Sizes differ (src 4470314 vs dst 1298667)
DEBUG : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: sha1 = fc2edde7863b7a7c93ca6771498ac797f8460750 OK
INFO  : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: Copied (replaced existing)
```

These recopies can be worked around by adding `--ignore-size`. Please note that
this workaround only syncs the still-picture not the movie clip,
and relies on modification dates being correctly updated on all files in all situations.

The different sizes will also cause `rclone check` to report size errors something
like this:

```text
ERROR : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: sizes differ
```

These check errors can be suppressed by adding `--ignore-size`.

The different sizes will also cause `rclone mount` to fail downloading with an
error something like this:

```text
ERROR : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: ReadFileHandle.Read error: low level retry 1/10: unexpected EOF
```

or like this when using `--cache-mode=full`:

```text
INFO  : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: vfs cache: downloader: error count now 1: vfs reader: failed to write to cache file: 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable:
ERROR : 20230203_123826234_iOS.heic: vfs cache: failed to download: vfs reader: failed to write to cache file: 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable:
```

# OpenDrive

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / OpenDrive
   \ "opendrive"
[snip]
Storage> opendrive
Username
username>
Password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: opendrive
- username:
- password: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

List directories in top level of your OpenDrive

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your OpenDrive

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an OpenDrive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

OpenDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.

The MD5 hash algorithm is supported.

### Restricted filename characters

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／          |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊          |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：          |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜          |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞          |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？          |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼          |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜          |

File names can also not begin or end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |
| HT        | 0x09  | ␉           |
| LF        | 0x0A  | ␊           |
| VT        | 0x0B  | ␋           |
| CR        | 0x0D  | ␍           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/opendrive/opendrive.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

#### --opendrive-username

Username.

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --opendrive-password

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

#### --opendrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --opendrive-chunk-size

Files will be uploaded in chunks this size.

Note that these chunks are buffered in memory so increasing them will
increase memory use.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --opendrive-access

Files and folders will be uploaded with this access permission (default private)

Properties:

- Config:      access
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_ACCESS
- Type:        string
- Default:     "private"
- Examples:
  - "private"
    - The file or folder access can be granted in a way that will allow select users to view, read or write what is absolutely essential for them.
  - "public"
    - The file or folder can be downloaded by anyone from a web browser. The link can be shared in any way,
  - "hidden"
    - The file or folder can be accessed has the same restrictions as  Public if the user knows the URL of the file or folder link in order to access the contents

#### --opendrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Note that OpenDrive is case insensitive so you can't have a
file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in OpenDrive file
names.  These can't occur on Windows platforms, but on non-Windows
platforms they are common.  Rclone will map these names to and from an
identical looking unicode equivalent.  For example if a file has a `?`
in it will be mapped to `？` instead.

`rclone about` is not supported by the OpenDrive backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Oracle Object Storage

Object Storage provided by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Read more at <oracle.com>:

- [Oracle Object Storage Overview](https://docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Object/Concepts/objectstorageoverview.htm)
- [Oracle Object Storage FAQ](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/storage/object-storage/faq/)

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd` command).
You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

Sample command to transfer local artifacts to remote:bucket in oracle object storage:

```console
rclone -vvv  --progress --stats-one-line --max-stats-groups 10 --log-format date,time,UTC,longfile --fast-list --buffer-size 256Mi --oos-no-check-bucket --oos-upload-cutoff 10Mi --multi-thread-cutoff 16Mi --multi-thread-streams 3000 --transfers 3000 --checkers 64  --retries 2  --oos-chunk-size 10Mi --oos-upload-concurrency 10000  --oos-attempt-resume-upload --oos-leave-parts-on-error sync ./artifacts  remote:bucket -vv
```

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an oracle object storage configuration. `rclone config`
walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[snip]
XX / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
   \ (oracleobjectstorage)
Storage> oracleobjectstorage

Option provider.
Choose your Auth Provider
Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
Press Enter for the default (env_auth).
 1 / automatically pickup the credentials from runtime(env), first one to provide auth wins
   \ (env_auth)
   / use an OCI user and an API key for authentication.
 2 | you’ll need to put in a config file your tenancy OCID, user OCID, region, the path, fingerprint to an API key.
   | https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdkconfig.htm
   \ (user_principal_auth)
   / use instance principals to authorize an instance to make API calls.
 3 | each instance has its own identity, and authenticates using the certificates that are read from instance metadata.
   | https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/callingservicesfrominstances.htm
   \ (instance_principal_auth)
   / use workload identity to grant Kubernetes pods policy-driven access to Oracle Cloud
 4 | Infrastructure (OCI) resources using OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM).
   | https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ContEng/Tasks/contenggrantingworkloadaccesstoresources.htm
   \ (workload_identity_auth)
 5 / use resource principals to make API calls
   \ (resource_principal_auth)
 6 / no credentials needed, this is typically for reading public buckets
   \ (no_auth)
provider> 2

Option namespace.
Object storage namespace
Enter a value.
namespace> idbamagbg734

Option compartment.
Object storage compartment OCID
Enter a value.
compartment> ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaapufkxc7ame3sthry5i7ujrwfc7ejnthhu6bhanm5oqfjpyasjkba

Option region.
Object storage Region
Enter a value.
region> us-ashburn-1

Option endpoint.
Endpoint for Object storage API.
Leave blank to use the default endpoint for the region.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
endpoint> 

Option config_file.
Full Path to OCI config file
Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
Press Enter for the default (~/.oci/config).
 1 / oci configuration file location
   \ (~/.oci/config)
config_file> /etc/oci/dev.conf

Option config_profile.
Profile name inside OCI config file
Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
Press Enter for the default (Default).
 1 / Use the default profile
   \ (Default)
config_profile> Test

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: oracleobjectstorage
- namespace: idbamagbg734
- compartment: ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaapufkxc7ame3sthry5i7ujrwfc7ejnthhu6bhanm5oqfjpyasjkba
- region: us-ashburn-1
- provider: user_principal_auth
- config_file: /etc/oci/dev.conf
- config_profile: Test
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See all buckets

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Create a new bucket

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

List the contents of a bucket

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
rclone ls remote:bucket --max-depth 1
```

## Authentication Providers

OCI has various authentication methods. To learn more about authentication methods
please refer [oci authentication methods](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdk_authentication_methods.htm)
These choices can be specified in the rclone config file.

Rclone supports the following OCI authentication provider.

```text
User Principal
Instance Principal
Resource Principal
Workload Identity
No authentication
```

### User Principal

Sample rclone config file for Authentication Provider User Principal:

```ini
[oos]
type = oracleobjectstorage
namespace = id<redacted>34
compartment = ocid1.compartment.oc1..aa<redacted>ba
region = us-ashburn-1
provider = user_principal_auth
config_file = /home/opc/.oci/config
config_profile = Default
```

Advantages:

- One can use this method from any server within OCI or on-premises or from
  other cloud provider.

Considerations:

- you need to configure user’s privileges / policy to allow access to object
  storage
- Overhead of managing users and keys.
- If the user is deleted, the config file will no longer work and may cause
  automation regressions that use the user's credentials.

### Instance Principal

An OCI compute instance can be authorized to use rclone by using it's identity
and certificates as an instance principal. With this approach no credentials
have to be stored and managed.

Sample rclone configuration file for Authentication Provider Instance Principal:

```console
[opc@rclone ~]$ cat ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[oos]
type = oracleobjectstorage
namespace = id<redacted>fn
compartment = ocid1.compartment.oc1..aa<redacted>k7a
region = us-ashburn-1
provider = instance_principal_auth
```

Advantages:

- With instance principals, you don't need to configure user credentials and
  transfer/ save it to disk in your compute instances or rotate the credentials.
- You don’t need to deal with users and keys.
- Greatly helps in automation as you don't have to manage access keys, user
  private keys, storing them in vault, using kms etc.

Considerations:

- You need to configure a dynamic group having this instance as member and add
  policy to read object storage to that dynamic group.
- Everyone who has access to this machine can execute the CLI commands.
- It is applicable for oci compute instances only. It cannot be used on external
  instance or resources.

### Resource Principal

Resource principal auth is very similar to instance principal auth but used for
resources that are not  compute instances such as
[serverless functions](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Functions/Concepts/functionsoverview.htm).
To use resource principal ensure Rclone process is started with these environment
variables set in its process.

```console
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_VERSION=2.2
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_REGION=us-ashburn-1
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_PRIVATE_PEM=/usr/share/model-server/key.pem
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_RPST=/usr/share/model-server/security_token
```

Sample rclone configuration file for Authentication Provider Resource Principal:

```ini
[oos]
type = oracleobjectstorage
namespace = id<redacted>34
compartment = ocid1.compartment.oc1..aa<redacted>ba
region = us-ashburn-1
provider = resource_principal_auth
```

### Workload Identity

Workload Identity auth may be used when running Rclone from Kubernetes pod on
a Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) cluster. For more details on configuring
Workload Identity, see [Granting Workloads Access to OCI Resources](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ContEng/Tasks/contenggrantingworkloadaccesstoresources.htm).
To use workload identity, ensure Rclone is started with these environment
variables set in its process.

```console
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_VERSION=2.2
export OCI_RESOURCE_PRINCIPAL_REGION=us-ashburn-1
```

### No authentication

Public buckets do not require any authentication mechanism to read objects.
Sample rclone configuration file for No authentication:

```ini
[oos]
type = oracleobjectstorage
namespace = id<redacted>34
compartment = ocid1.compartment.oc1..aa<redacted>ba
region = us-ashburn-1
provider = no_auth
```

### Modification times and hashes

The modification time is stored as metadata on the object as
`opc-meta-mtime` as floating point since the epoch, accurate to 1 ns.

If the modification time needs to be updated rclone will attempt to perform a server
side copy to update the modification if the object can be copied in a single part.
In the case the object is larger than 5Gb, the object will be uploaded rather than
copied.

Note that reading this from the object takes an additional `HEAD` request as the
metadata isn't returned in object listings.

The MD5 hash algorithm is supported.

### Multipart uploads

rclone supports multipart uploads with OOS which means that it can
upload files bigger than 5 GiB.

Note that files uploaded *both* with multipart upload *and* through
crypt remotes do not have MD5 sums.

rclone switches from single part uploads to multipart uploads at the
point specified by `--oos-upload-cutoff`.  This can be a maximum of 5 GiB
and a minimum of 0 (ie always upload multipart files).

The chunk sizes used in the multipart upload are specified by
`--oos-chunk-size` and the number of chunks uploaded concurrently is
specified by `--oos-upload-concurrency`.

Multipart uploads will use `--transfers` * `--oos-upload-concurrency` *
`--oos-chunk-size` extra memory.  Single part uploads to not use extra
memory.

Single part transfers can be faster than multipart transfers or slower
depending on your latency from oos - the more latency, the more likely
single part transfers will be faster.

Increasing `--oos-upload-concurrency` will increase throughput (8 would
be a sensible value) and increasing `--oos-chunk-size` also increases
throughput (16M would be sensible).  Increasing either of these will
use more memory.  The default values are high enough to gain most of
the possible performance without using too much memory.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to oracleobjectstorage (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage).

#### --oos-provider

Choose your Auth Provider

Properties:

- Config:      provider
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_PROVIDER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "env_auth"
- Examples:
  - "env_auth"
    - automatically pickup the credentials from runtime(env), first one to provide auth wins
  - "user_principal_auth"
    - use an OCI user and an API key for authentication.
    - you’ll need to put in a config file your tenancy OCID, user OCID, region, the path, fingerprint to an API key.
    - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdkconfig.htm
  - "instance_principal_auth"
    - use instance principals to authorize an instance to make API calls. 
    - each instance has its own identity, and authenticates using the certificates that are read from instance metadata. 
    - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/callingservicesfrominstances.htm
  - "workload_identity_auth"
    - use workload identity to grant OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes workloads policy-driven access to OCI resources using OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM).
    - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ContEng/Tasks/contenggrantingworkloadaccesstoresources.htm
  - "resource_principal_auth"
    - use resource principals to make API calls
  - "no_auth"
    - no credentials needed, this is typically for reading public buckets

#### --oos-namespace

Object storage namespace

Properties:

- Config:      namespace
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_NAMESPACE
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --oos-compartment

Specify compartment OCID, if you need to list buckets.

List objects works without compartment OCID.

Properties:

- Config:      compartment
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_COMPARTMENT
- Provider:    !no_auth
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --oos-region

Object storage Region

Properties:

- Config:      region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_REGION
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --oos-endpoint

Endpoint for Object storage API.

Leave blank to use the default endpoint for the region.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --oos-config-file

Path to OCI config file

Properties:

- Config:      config_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_CONFIG_FILE
- Provider:    user_principal_auth
- Type:        string
- Default:     "~/.oci/config"
- Examples:
  - "~/.oci/config"
    - oci configuration file location

#### --oos-config-profile

Profile name inside the oci config file

Properties:

- Config:      config_profile
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_CONFIG_PROFILE
- Provider:    user_principal_auth
- Type:        string
- Default:     "Default"
- Examples:
  - "Default"
    - Use the default profile

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to oracleobjectstorage (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage).

#### --oos-storage-tier

The storage class to use when storing new objects in storage. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Concepts/understandingstoragetiers.htm

Properties:

- Config:      storage_tier
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_STORAGE_TIER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "Standard"
- Examples:
  - "Standard"
    - Standard storage tier, this is the default tier
  - "InfrequentAccess"
    - InfrequentAccess storage tier
  - "Archive"
    - Archive storage tier

#### --oos-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     200Mi

#### --oos-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff or files with unknown
size (e.g. from "rclone rcat" or uploaded with "rclone mount" they will be uploaded 
as multipart uploads using this chunk size.

Note that "upload_concurrency" chunks of this size are buffered
in memory per transfer.

If you are transferring large files over high-speed links and you have
enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of known size to stay below the 10,000 chunks limit.

Files of unknown size are uploaded with the configured
chunk_size. Since the default chunk size is 5 MiB and there can be at
most 10,000 chunks, this means that by default the maximum size of
a file you can stream upload is 48 GiB.  If you wish to stream upload
larger files then you will need to increase chunk_size.

Increasing the chunk size decreases the accuracy of the progress
statistics displayed with "-P" flag.


Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi

#### --oos-max-upload-parts

Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload.

This option defines the maximum number of multipart chunks to use
when doing a multipart upload.

OCI has max parts limit of 10,000 chunks.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of a known size to stay below this number of chunks limit.


Properties:

- Config:      max_upload_parts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_MAX_UPLOAD_PARTS
- Type:        int
- Default:     10000

#### --oos-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     10

#### --oos-copy-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be
copied in chunks of this size.

The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_COPY_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4.656Gi

#### --oos-copy-timeout

Timeout for copy.

Copy is an asynchronous operation, specify timeout to wait for copy to succeed


Properties:

- Config:      copy_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_COPY_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --oos-disable-checksum

Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great
for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files
to start uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_checksum
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --oos-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --oos-leave-parts-on-error

If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts for manual recovery.

It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

WARNING: Storing parts of an incomplete multipart upload counts towards space usage on object storage and will add
additional costs if not cleaned up.


Properties:

- Config:      leave_parts_on_error
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_LEAVE_PARTS_ON_ERROR
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --oos-attempt-resume-upload

If true attempt to resume previously started multipart upload for the object.
This will be helpful to speed up multipart transfers by resuming uploads from past session.

WARNING: If chunk size differs in resumed session from past incomplete session, then the resumed multipart upload is 
aborted and a new multipart upload is started with the new chunk size.

The flag leave_parts_on_error must be true to resume and optimize to skip parts that were already uploaded successfully.


Properties:

- Config:      attempt_resume_upload
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_ATTEMPT_RESUME_UPLOAD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --oos-no-check-bucket

If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.

This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions
rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.

It can also be needed if the user you are using does not have bucket
creation permissions.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_bucket
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_NO_CHECK_BUCKET
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --oos-sse-customer-key-file

To use SSE-C, a file containing the base64-encoded string of the AES-256 encryption key associated
with the object. Please note only one of sse_customer_key_file|sse_customer_key|sse_kms_key_id is needed.'

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --oos-sse-customer-key

To use SSE-C, the optional header that specifies the base64-encoded 256-bit encryption key to use to
encrypt or  decrypt the data. Please note only one of sse_customer_key_file|sse_customer_key|sse_kms_key_id is
needed. For more information, see Using Your Own Keys for Server-Side Encryption 
(https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/Content/Object/Tasks/usingyourencryptionkeys.htm)

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --oos-sse-customer-key-sha256

If using SSE-C, The optional header that specifies the base64-encoded SHA256 hash of the encryption
key. This value is used to check the integrity of the encryption key. see Using Your Own Keys for 
Server-Side Encryption (https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/Content/Object/Tasks/usingyourencryptionkeys.htm).

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_key_sha256
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_SSE_CUSTOMER_KEY_SHA256
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --oos-sse-kms-key-id

if using your own master key in vault, this header specifies the
OCID (https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/Content/General/Concepts/identifiers.htm) of a master encryption key used to call
the Key Management service to generate a data encryption key or to encrypt or decrypt a data encryption key.
Please note only one of sse_customer_key_file|sse_customer_key|sse_kms_key_id is needed.

Properties:

- Config:      sse_kms_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_SSE_KMS_KEY_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None

#### --oos-sse-customer-algorithm

If using SSE-C, the optional header that specifies "AES256" as the encryption algorithm.
Object Storage supports "AES256" as the encryption algorithm. For more information, see
Using Your Own Keys for Server-Side Encryption (https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/Content/Object/Tasks/usingyourencryptionkeys.htm).

Properties:

- Config:      sse_customer_algorithm
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_SSE_CUSTOMER_ALGORITHM
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - None
  - "AES256"
    - AES256

#### --oos-decompress

If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects.

It is possible to upload objects to object storage with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" set. Normally rclone will download these
files as compressed objects.

If this flag is set then rclone will decompress these files with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" as they are received. This means that rclone
can't check the size and hash but the file contents will be
decompressed.


Properties:

- Config:      decompress
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_DECOMPRESS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --oos-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_OOS_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

User metadata is stored as opc-meta- keys.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the oracleobjectstorage backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| opc-meta-atime | Time of last access | ISO 8601 | 2025-06-30T22:27:43-04:00 | N |
| opc-meta-btime | Time of file birth (creation) | ISO 8601 | 2025-06-30T22:27:43-04:00 | N |
| opc-meta-gid | Group ID of owner | decimal number | 500 | N |
| opc-meta-mode | File type and mode | octal, unix style | 0100664 | N |
| opc-meta-mtime | Time of last modification | ISO 8601 | 2025-06-30T22:27:43-04:00 | N |
| opc-meta-uid | User ID of owner | decimal number | 500 | N |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the oracleobjectstorage backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### rename

change the name of an object.

```console
rclone backend rename remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command can be used to rename a object.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend rename oos:bucket relative-object-path-under-bucket object-new-name
```

### list-multipart-uploads

List the unfinished multipart uploads.

```console
rclone backend list-multipart-uploads remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command lists the unfinished multipart uploads in JSON format.

Usage example:

```console
rclone backend list-multipart-uploads oos:bucket/path/to/object
```

It returns a dictionary of buckets with values as lists of unfinished
multipart uploads.

You can call it with no bucket in which case it lists all bucket, with
a bucket or with a bucket and path.

```json
{
    "test-bucket": [
        {
            "namespace": "test-namespace",
            "bucket": "test-bucket",
            "object": "600m.bin",
            "uploadId": "51dd8114-52a4-b2f2-c42f-5291f05eb3c8",
            "timeCreated": "2022-07-29T06:21:16.595Z",
            "storageTier": "Standard"
        }
    ]
}

### cleanup

Remove unfinished multipart uploads.

```console
rclone backend cleanup remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command removes unfinished multipart uploads of age greater than
max-age which defaults to 24 hours.

Note that you can use --interactive/-i or --dry-run with this command to see
what it would do.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend cleanup oos:bucket/path/to/object
rclone backend cleanup -o max-age=7w oos:bucket/path/to/object
```

Durations are parsed as per the rest of rclone, 2h, 7d, 7w etc.

Options:

- "max-age": Max age of upload to delete.

### restore

Restore objects from Archive to Standard storage.

```console
rclone backend restore remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command can be used to restore one or more objects from Archive to
Standard storage.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend restore oos:bucket/path/to/directory -o hours=HOURS
rclone backend restore oos:bucket -o hours=HOURS
```

This flag also obeys the filters. Test first with --interactive/-i or --dry-run flags

```console
rclone --interactive backend restore --include "*.txt" oos:bucket/path -o hours=72
```

All the objects shown will be marked for restore, then:

```console
rclone backend restore --include "*.txt" oos:bucket/path -o hours=72
```

It returns a list of status dictionaries with Object Name and Status keys.
The Status will be "RESTORED"" if it was successful or an error message if not.

```json
[
    {
        "Object": "test.txt"
        "Status": "RESTORED",
    },
    {
        "Object": "test/file4.txt"
        "Status": "RESTORED",
    }
]
```

Options:

- "hours": The number of hours for which this object will be restored.
Default is 24 hrs.

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## Tutorials

### [Mounting Buckets](https://rclone.org/oracleobjectstorage/tutorial_mount/)

# QingStor

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an QingStor configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / QingStor Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
[snip]
Storage> qingstor
Get QingStor credentials from runtime. Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter QingStor credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get QingStor credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
QingStor Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> access_key
QingStor Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> secret_key
Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API.
Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443"
endpoint>
Zone connect to. Default is "pek3a".
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The Beijing (China) Three Zone
 1 | Needs location constraint pek3a.
   \ "pek3a"
   / The Shanghai (China) First Zone
 2 | Needs location constraint sh1a.
   \ "sh1a"
zone> 1
Number of connection retry.
Leave blank will use the default value "3".
connection_retries>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: qingstor
- env_auth: false
- access_key_id: access_key
- secret_access_key: secret_key
- endpoint:
- zone: pek3a
- connection_retries:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all buckets

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new bucket

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

List the contents of a bucket

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote bucket, deleting any excess
files in the bucket.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:bucket
```

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### Multipart uploads

rclone supports multipart uploads with QingStor which means that it can
upload files bigger than 5 GiB. Note that files uploaded with multipart
upload don't have an MD5SUM.

Note that incomplete multipart uploads older than 24 hours can be
removed with `rclone cleanup remote:bucket` just for one bucket
`rclone cleanup remote:` for all buckets. QingStor does not ever
remove incomplete multipart uploads so it may be necessary to run this
from time to time.

### Buckets and Zone

With QingStor you can list buckets (`rclone lsd`) using any zone,
but you can only access the content of a bucket from the zone it was
created in.  If you attempt to access a bucket from the wrong zone,
you will get an error, `incorrect zone, the bucket is not in 'XXX'
zone`.

### Authentication

There are two ways to supply `rclone` with a set of QingStor
credentials. In order of precedence:

- Directly in the rclone configuration file (as configured by `rclone config`)
  - set `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key`
- Runtime configuration:
  - set `env_auth` to `true` in the config file
  - Exporting the following environment variables before running `rclone`
    - Access Key ID: `QS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` or `QS_ACCESS_KEY`
    - Secret Access Key: `QS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `QS_SECRET_KEY`

### Restricted filename characters

The control characters 0x00-0x1F and / are replaced as in the [default
restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters).  Note
that 0x7F is not replaced.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to qingstor (QingCloud Object Storage).

#### --qingstor-env-auth

Get QingStor credentials from runtime.

Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Enter QingStor credentials in the next step.
  - "true"
    - Get QingStor credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).

#### --qingstor-access-key-id

QingStor Access Key ID.

Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Properties:

- Config:      access_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --qingstor-secret-access-key

QingStor Secret Access Key (password).

Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Properties:

- Config:      secret_access_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --qingstor-endpoint

Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API.

Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443".

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --qingstor-zone

Zone to connect to.

Default is "pek3a".

Properties:

- Config:      zone
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ZONE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "pek3a"
    - The Beijing (China) Three Zone.
    - Needs location constraint pek3a.
  - "sh1a"
    - The Shanghai (China) First Zone.
    - Needs location constraint sh1a.
  - "gd2a"
    - The Guangdong (China) Second Zone.
    - Needs location constraint gd2a.

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to qingstor (QingCloud Object Storage).

#### --qingstor-connection-retries

Number of connection retries.

Properties:

- Config:      connection_retries
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CONNECTION_RETRIES
- Type:        int
- Default:     3

#### --qingstor-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     200Mi

#### --qingstor-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff they will be uploaded
as multipart uploads using this chunk size.

Note that "--qingstor-upload-concurrency" chunks of this size are buffered
in memory per transfer.

If you are transferring large files over high-speed links and you have
enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     4Mi

#### --qingstor-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently.

NB if you set this to > 1 then the checksums of multipart uploads
become corrupted (the uploads themselves are not corrupted though).

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     1

#### --qingstor-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8

#### --qingstor-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QINGSTOR_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the qingstor backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Quatrix

Quatrix by Maytech is [Quatrix Secure Compliant File Sharing | Maytech](https://www.maytech.net/products/quatrix-business).

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g., `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

The initial setup for Quatrix involves getting an API Key from Quatrix. You can
get the API key in the user's profile at `https://<account>/profile/api-keys`
or with the help of the API - <https://docs.maytech.net/quatrix/quatrix-api/api-explorer#/API-Key/post_api_key_create>.

See complete [Swagger documentation for Quatrix](https://docs.maytech.net/quatrix/quatrix-api/api-explorer).

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Quatrix by Maytech
   \ "quatrix"
[snip]
Storage> quatrix
API key for accessing Quatrix account.
api_key> your_api_key
Host name of Quatrix account.
host> example.quatrix.it

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: quatrix
- api_key: your_api_key
- host: example.quatrix.it
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Quatrix

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Quatrix

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Quatrix directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### API key validity

API Key is created with no expiration date. It will be valid until you delete or
deactivate it in your account. After disabling, the API Key can be enabled back.
If the API Key was deleted and a new key was created, you can update it in rclone
config. The same happens if the hostname was changed.

```console
$ rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               quatrix

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> e
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 > remote
remote> remote
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: quatrix
- host: some_host.quatrix.it
- api_key: your_api_key
Keep this "remote" remote?
Edit remote
Option api_key.
API key for accessing Quatrix account
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (your_api_key)
api_key>
Option host.
Host name of Quatrix account
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (some_host.quatrix.it).

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: quatrix
- host: some_host.quatrix.it
- api_key: your_api_key
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Modification times and hashes

Quatrix allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 microsecond.
These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

Quatrix does not support hashes, so you cannot use the `--checksum` flag.

### Restricted filename characters

File names in Quatrix are case sensitive and have limitations like the maximum
length of a filename is 255, and the minimum length is 1. A file name cannot be
equal to `.` or `..` nor contain `/` , `\` or non-printable ascii.

### Transfers

For files above 50 MiB rclone will use a chunked transfer. Rclone will upload
up to `--transfers` chunks at the same time (shared among all multipart uploads).
Chunks are buffered in memory, and the minimal chunk size is 10_000_000 bytes by
default, and it can be changed in the advanced configuration, so increasing `--transfers`
will increase the memory use. The chunk size has a maximum size limit, which is
set to 100_000_000 bytes by default and can be changed in the advanced configuration.
The size of the uploaded chunk will dynamically change depending on the upload speed.
The total memory use equals the number of transfers multiplied by the minimal
chunk size. In case there's free memory allocated for the upload (which equals
the difference of `maximal_summary_chunk_size` and `minimal_chunk_size` * `transfers`),
the chunk size may increase in case of high upload speed. As well as it can decrease
in case of upload speed problems. If no free memory is available, all chunks will
equal `minimal_chunk_size`.

### Deleting files

Files you delete with rclone will end up in Trash and be stored there for 30 days.
Quatrix also provides an API to permanently delete files and an API to empty the
Trash so that you can remove files permanently from your account.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to quatrix (Quatrix by Maytech).

#### --quatrix-api-key

API key for accessing Quatrix account

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --quatrix-host

Host name of Quatrix account

Properties:

- Config:      host
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_HOST
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to quatrix (Quatrix by Maytech).

#### --quatrix-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --quatrix-effective-upload-time

Wanted upload time for one chunk

Properties:

- Config:      effective_upload_time
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_EFFECTIVE_UPLOAD_TIME
- Type:        string
- Default:     "4s"

#### --quatrix-minimal-chunk-size

The minimal size for one chunk

Properties:

- Config:      minimal_chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_MINIMAL_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     9.537Mi

#### --quatrix-maximal-summary-chunk-size

The maximal summary for all chunks. It should not be less than 'transfers'*'minimal_chunk_size'

Properties:

- Config:      maximal_summary_chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_MAXIMAL_SUMMARY_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     95.367Mi

#### --quatrix-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --quatrix-skip-project-folders

Skip project folders in operations

Properties:

- Config:      skip_project_folders
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_SKIP_PROJECT_FOLDERS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --quatrix-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_QUATRIX_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Storage usage

The storage usage in Quatrix is restricted to the account during the purchase.
You can restrict any user with a smaller storage limit. The account limit is
applied if the user has no custom storage limit. Once you've reached the limit,
the upload of files will fail. This can be fixed by freeing up the space or
increasing the quota.

## Server-side operations

Quatrix supports server-side operations (copy and move). In case of conflict,
files are overwritten during server-side operation.

# Sia

Sia ([sia.tech](https://sia.tech/)) is a decentralized cloud storage platform
based on the [blockchain](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain) technology.
With rclone you can use it like any other remote filesystem or mount Sia folders
locally. The technology behind it involves a number of new concepts such as
Siacoins and Wallet, Blockchain and Consensus, Renting and Hosting, and so on.
If you are new to it, you'd better first familiarize yourself using their
excellent [support documentation](https://support.sia.tech/).

## Introduction

Before you can use rclone with Sia, you will need to have a running copy of
`Sia-UI` or `siad` (the Sia daemon) locally on your computer or on local
network (e.g. a NAS). Please follow the [Get started](https://sia.tech/get-started)
guide and install one.

rclone interacts with Sia network by talking to the Sia daemon via [HTTP API](https://sia.tech/docs/)
which is usually available on port *9980*. By default you will run the daemon
locally on the same computer so it's safe to leave the API password blank
(the API URL will be `http://127.0.0.1:9980` making external access impossible).

However, if you want to access Sia daemon running on another node, for example
due to memory constraints or because you want to share single daemon between
several rclone and Sia-UI instances, you'll need to make a few more provisions:

- Ensure you have *Sia daemon* installed directly or in
  a [docker container](https://github.com/SiaFoundation/siad/pkgs/container/siad)
  because Sia-UI does not support this mode natively.
- Run it on externally accessible port, for example provide `--api-addr :9980`
  and `--disable-api-security` arguments on the daemon command line.
- Enforce API password for the `siad` daemon via environment variable
  `SIA_API_PASSWORD` or text file named `apipassword` in the daemon directory.
- Set rclone backend option `api_password` taking it from above locations.

Notes:

1. If your wallet is locked, rclone cannot unlock it automatically.
   You should either unlock it in advance by using Sia-UI or via command line
   `siac wallet unlock`.
   Alternatively you can make `siad` unlock your wallet automatically upon
   startup by running it with environment variable `SIA_WALLET_PASSWORD`.
2. If `siad` cannot find the `SIA_API_PASSWORD` variable or the `apipassword` file
   in the `SIA_DIR` directory, it will generate a random password and store in the
   text file named `apipassword` under `YOUR_HOME/.sia/` directory on Unix
   or `C:\Users\YOUR_HOME\AppData\Local\Sia\apipassword` on Windows.
   Remember this when you configure password in rclone.
3. The only way to use `siad` without API password is to run it **on localhost**
   with command line argument `--authorize-api=false`, but this is insecure and
   **strongly discouraged**.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a `sia` remote called `mySia`.
First, run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> mySia
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
...
29 / Sia Decentralized Cloud
   \ "sia"
...
Storage> sia
Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.
Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended).
Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("http://127.0.0.1:9980").
api_url> http://127.0.0.1:9980
Sia Daemon API Password.
Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
--------------------
[mySia]
type = sia
api_url = http://127.0.0.1:9980
api_password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured, you can then use `rclone` like this:

- List directories in top level of your Sia storage

  ```console
  rclone lsd mySia:
  ```

- List all the files in your Sia storage

  ```console
  rclone ls mySia:
  ```

- Upload a local directory to the Sia directory called *backup*

  ```console
  rclone copy /home/source mySia:backup
  ```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

#### --sia-api-url

Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.

Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended).
Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.

Properties:

- Config:      api_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SIA_API_URL
- Type:        string
- Default:     "http://127.0.0.1:9980"

#### --sia-api-password

Sia Daemon API Password.

Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      api_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SIA_API_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

#### --sia-user-agent

Siad User Agent

Sia daemon requires the 'Sia-Agent' user agent by default for security

Properties:

- Config:      user_agent
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SIA_USER_AGENT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "Sia-Agent"

#### --sia-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SIA_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --sia-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SIA_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

- Modification times not supported
- Checksums not supported
- `rclone about` not supported
- rclone can work only with *Siad* or *Sia-UI* at the moment,
  the **SkyNet daemon is not supported yet.**
- Sia does not allow control characters or symbols like question and pound
  signs in file names. rclone will transparently [encode](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding)
  them for you, but you'd better be aware

# Swift

Swift refers to [OpenStack Object Storage](https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/).
Commercial implementations of that being:

- [Rackspace Cloud Files](https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files/)
- [Memset Memstore](https://www.memset.com/cloud/storage/)
- [OVH Object Storage](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/)
- [Oracle Cloud Storage](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/integration/doc/configure-object-storage.html)
- [Blomp Cloud Storage](https://www.blomp.com/cloud-storage/)
- [IBM Bluemix Cloud ObjectStorage Swift](https://console.bluemix.net/docs/infrastructure/objectstorage-swift/index.html)

Paths are specified as `remote:container` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:container/path/to/dir`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a swift configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Blomp Cloud Storage, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
[snip]
Storage> swift
Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter swift credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get swift credentials from environment vars. Leave other fields blank if using this.
   \ "true"
env_auth> true
User name to log in (OS_USERNAME).
user> 
API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).
key> 
Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Rackspace US
   \ "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
 2 / Rackspace UK
   \ "https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
 3 / Rackspace v2
   \ "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0"
 4 / Memset Memstore UK
   \ "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0"
 5 / Memset Memstore UK v2
   \ "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0"
 6 / OVH
   \ "https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v3"
 7  / Blomp Cloud Storage
   \ "https://authenticate.ain.net"
auth> 
User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).
user_id> 
User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)
domain> 
Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)
tenant> 
Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)
tenant_id> 
Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)
tenant_domain> 
Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)
region> 
Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)
storage_url> 
Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
auth_token> 
AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)
auth_version> 
Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE)
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Public (default, choose this if not sure)
   \ "public"
 2 / Internal (use internal service net)
   \ "internal"
 3 / Admin
   \ "admin"
endpoint_type> 
Remote config
--------------------
[test]
env_auth = true
user = 
key = 
auth = 
user_id = 
domain = 
tenant = 
tenant_id = 
tenant_domain = 
region = 
storage_url = 
auth_token = 
auth_version = 
endpoint_type = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this

See all containers

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new container

```console
rclone mkdir remote:container
```

List the contents of a container

```console
rclone ls remote:container
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote container, deleting any
excess files in the container.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:container
```

### Configuration from an OpenStack credentials file

An OpenStack credentials file typically looks something something
like this (without the comments)

```sh
export OS_AUTH_URL=https://a.provider.net/v2.0
export OS_TENANT_ID=ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
export OS_TENANT_NAME="1234567890123456"
export OS_USERNAME="123abc567xy"
echo "Please enter your OpenStack Password: "
read -sr OS_PASSWORD_INPUT
export OS_PASSWORD=$OS_PASSWORD_INPUT
export OS_REGION_NAME="SBG1"
if [ -z "$OS_REGION_NAME" ]; then unset OS_REGION_NAME; fi
```

The config file needs to look something like this where `$OS_USERNAME`
represents the value of the `OS_USERNAME` variable - `123abc567xy` in
the example above.

```ini
[remote]
type = swift
user = $OS_USERNAME
key = $OS_PASSWORD
auth = $OS_AUTH_URL
tenant = $OS_TENANT_NAME
```

Note that you may (or may not) need to set `region` too - try without first.

### Configuration from the environment

If you prefer you can configure rclone to use swift using a standard
set of OpenStack environment variables.

When you run through the config, make sure you choose `true` for
`env_auth` and leave everything else blank.

rclone will then set any empty config parameters from the environment
using standard OpenStack environment variables.  There is [a list of
the
variables](https://godoc.org/github.com/ncw/swift#Connection.ApplyEnvironment)
in the docs for the swift library.

### Using an alternate authentication method

If your OpenStack installation uses a non-standard authentication method
that might not be yet supported by rclone or the underlying swift library,
you can authenticate externally (e.g. calling manually the `openstack`
commands to get a token). Then, you just need to pass the two
configuration variables ``auth_token`` and ``storage_url``.
If they are both provided, the other variables are ignored. rclone will
not try to authenticate but instead assume it is already authenticated
and use these two variables to access the OpenStack installation.

#### Using rclone without a config file

You can use rclone with swift without a config file, if desired, like
this:

```sh
source openstack-credentials-file
export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYREMOTE_TYPE=swift
export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYREMOTE_ENV_AUTH=true
rclone lsd myremote:
```

### --fast-list

This remote supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.

### --update and --use-server-modtime

As noted below, the modified time is stored on metadata on the object. It is
used by default for all operations that require checking the time a file was
last updated. It allows rclone to treat the remote more like a true filesystem,
but it is inefficient because it requires an extra API call to retrieve the
metadata.

For many operations, the time the object was last uploaded to the remote is
sufficient to determine if it is "dirty". By using `--update` along with
`--use-server-modtime`, you can avoid the extra API call and simply upload
files whose local modtime is newer than the time it was last uploaded.

### Modification times and hashes

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as
`X-Object-Meta-Mtime` as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1
ns.

This is a de facto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient
amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.

The MD5 hash algorithm is supported.

### Restricted filename characters

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/swift/swift.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to swift (OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Blomp Cloud Storage, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

#### --swift-env-auth

Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form.

Properties:

- Config:      env_auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_ENV_AUTH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Enter swift credentials in the next step.
  - "true"
    - Get swift credentials from environment vars.
    - Leave other fields blank if using this.

#### --swift-user

User name to log in (OS_USERNAME).

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-key

API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).

Properties:

- Config:      key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-auth

Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).

Properties:

- Config:      auth
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
    - Rackspace US
  - "https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
    - Rackspace UK
  - "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0"
    - Rackspace v2
  - "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0"
    - Memset Memstore UK
  - "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0"
    - Memset Memstore UK v2
  - "https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v3"
    - OVH
  - "https://authenticate.ain.net"
    - Blomp Cloud Storage

#### --swift-user-id

User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).

Properties:

- Config:      user_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_USER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-domain

User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)

Properties:

- Config:      domain
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_DOMAIN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-tenant

Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME).

Properties:

- Config:      tenant
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-tenant-id

Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID).

Properties:

- Config:      tenant_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-tenant-domain

Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME).

Properties:

- Config:      tenant_domain
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_DOMAIN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-region

Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME).

Properties:

- Config:      region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_REGION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-storage-url

Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL).

Properties:

- Config:      storage_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-auth-token

Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN).

Properties:

- Config:      auth_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-application-credential-id

Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID).

Properties:

- Config:      application_credential_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-application-credential-name

Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME).

Properties:

- Config:      application_credential_name
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-application-credential-secret

Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET).

Properties:

- Config:      application_credential_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --swift-auth-version

AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION).

Properties:

- Config:      auth_version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_VERSION
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --swift-endpoint-type

Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE).

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_ENDPOINT_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Default:     "public"
- Examples:
  - "public"
    - Public (default, choose this if not sure)
  - "internal"
    - Internal (use internal service net)
  - "admin"
    - Admin

#### --swift-storage-policy

The storage policy to use when creating a new container.

This applies the specified storage policy when creating a new
container. The policy cannot be changed afterwards. The allowed
configuration values and their meaning depend on your Swift storage
provider.

Properties:

- Config:      storage_policy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_POLICY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - ""
    - Default
  - "pcs"
    - OVH Public Cloud Storage
  - "pca"
    - OVH Public Cloud Archive

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to swift (OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Blomp Cloud Storage, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

#### --swift-leave-parts-on-error

If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure.

It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

Properties:

- Config:      leave_parts_on_error
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_LEAVE_PARTS_ON_ERROR
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --swift-fetch-until-empty-page

When paginating, always fetch unless we received an empty page.

Consider using this option if rclone listings show fewer objects
than expected, or if repeated syncs copy unchanged objects.

It is safe to enable this, but rclone may make more API calls than
necessary.

This is one of a pair of workarounds to handle implementations
of the Swift API that do not implement pagination as expected.  See
also "partial_page_fetch_threshold".

Properties:

- Config:      fetch_until_empty_page
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_FETCH_UNTIL_EMPTY_PAGE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --swift-partial-page-fetch-threshold

When paginating, fetch if the current page is within this percentage of the limit.

Consider using this option if rclone listings show fewer objects
than expected, or if repeated syncs copy unchanged objects.

It is safe to enable this, but rclone may make more API calls than
necessary.

This is one of a pair of workarounds to handle implementations
of the Swift API that do not implement pagination as expected.  See
also "fetch_until_empty_page".

Properties:

- Config:      partial_page_fetch_threshold
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_PARTIAL_PAGE_FETCH_THRESHOLD
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --swift-chunk-size

Above this size files will be chunked.

Above this size files will be chunked into a `_segments` container
or a `.file-segments` directory. (See the `use_segments_container` option
for more info). Default for this is 5 GiB which is its maximum value, which
means only files above this size will be chunked.

Rclone uploads chunked files as dynamic large objects (DLO).


Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Gi

#### --swift-no-chunk

Don't chunk files during streaming upload.

When doing streaming uploads (e.g. using `rcat` or `mount` with
`--vfs-cache-mode off`) setting this flag will cause the swift backend
to not upload chunked files.

This will limit the maximum streamed upload size to 5 GiB. This is
useful because non chunked files are easier to deal with and have an
MD5SUM.

Rclone will still chunk files bigger than `chunk_size` when doing
normal copy operations.

Properties:

- Config:      no_chunk
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_NO_CHUNK
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --swift-no-large-objects

Disable support for static and dynamic large objects

Swift cannot transparently store files bigger than 5 GiB. There are
two schemes for chunking large files, static large objects (SLO) or
dynamic large objects (DLO), and the API does not allow rclone to
determine whether a file is a static or dynamic large object without
doing a HEAD on the object. Since these need to be treated
differently, this means rclone has to issue HEAD requests for objects
for example when reading checksums.

When `no_large_objects` is set, rclone will assume that there are no
static or dynamic large objects stored. This means it can stop doing
the extra HEAD calls which in turn increases performance greatly
especially when doing a swift to swift transfer with `--checksum` set.

Setting this option implies `no_chunk` and also that no files will be
uploaded in chunks, so files bigger than 5 GiB will just fail on
upload.

If you set this option and there **are** static or dynamic large objects,
then this will give incorrect hashes for them. Downloads will succeed,
but other operations such as Remove and Copy will fail.


Properties:

- Config:      no_large_objects
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_NO_LARGE_OBJECTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --swift-use-segments-container

Choose destination for large object segments

Swift cannot transparently store files bigger than 5 GiB and rclone
will chunk files larger than `chunk_size` (default 5 GiB) in order to
upload them.

If this value is `true` the chunks will be stored in an additional
container named the same as the destination container but with
`_segments` appended. This means that there won't be any duplicated
data in the original container but having another container may not be
acceptable.

If this value is `false` the chunks will be stored in a
`.file-segments` directory in the root of the container. This
directory will be omitted when listing the container. Some
providers (eg Blomp) require this mode as creating additional
containers isn't allowed. If it is desired to see the `.file-segments`
directory in the root then this flag must be set to `true`.

If this value is `unset` (the default), then rclone will choose the value
to use. It will be `false` unless rclone detects any `auth_url`s that
it knows need it to be `true`. In this case you'll see a message in
the DEBUG log.


Properties:

- Config:      use_segments_container
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_USE_SEGMENTS_CONTAINER
- Type:        Tristate
- Default:     unset

#### --swift-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,InvalidUtf8

#### --swift-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SWIFT_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

The Swift API doesn't return a correct MD5SUM for segmented files
(Dynamic or Static Large Objects) so rclone won't check or use the
MD5SUM for these.

## Troubleshooting

### Rclone gives Failed to create file system for "remote:": Bad Request

Due to an oddity of the underlying swift library, it gives a "Bad
Request" error rather than a more sensible error when the
authentication fails for Swift.

So this most likely means your username / password is wrong.  You can
investigate further with the `--dump-bodies` flag.

This may also be caused by specifying the region when you shouldn't
have (e.g. OVH).

### Rclone gives Failed to create file system: Response didn't have storage url and auth token

This is most likely caused by forgetting to specify your tenant when
setting up a swift remote.

## OVH Cloud Archive

To use rclone with OVH cloud archive, first use `rclone config` to set up a
`swift` backend with OVH, choosing `pca` as the `storage_policy`.

### Uploading Objects

Uploading objects to OVH cloud archive is no different to object storage, you
just simply run the command you like (move, copy or sync) to upload the objects.
Once uploaded the objects will show in a "Frozen" state within the OVH control panel.

### Retrieving Objects

To retrieve objects use `rclone copy` as normal. If the objects are in a frozen
state then rclone will ask for them all to be unfrozen and it will wait at the
end of the output with a message like the following:

```text
2019/03/23 13:06:33 NOTICE: Received retry after error - sleeping until 2019-03-23T13:16:33.481657164+01:00 (9m59.99985121s)
```

Rclone will wait for the time specified then retry the copy.

# pCloud

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for pCloud involves getting a token from pCloud which you
need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
[snip]
Storage> pcloud
Pcloud App Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id> 
Pcloud App Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret> 
Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: pcloud
- client_id:
- client_secret:
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note if you are using remote config with rclone authorize while your pcloud
server is the EU region, you will need to set the hostname in 'Edit advanced
config', otherwise you might get a token error.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from pCloud. This only runs from the moment it opens
your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.  This
is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require you to unblock
it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your pCloud

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your pCloud

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a pCloud directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

pCloud allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1
second.  These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or
not.  In order to set a Modification time pCloud requires the object
be re-uploaded.

pCloud supports MD5 and SHA1 hashes in the US region, and SHA1 and SHA256
hashes in the EU region, so you can use the `--checksum` flag.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼          |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Deleting files

Deleted files will be moved to the trash.  Your subscription level
will determine how long items stay in the trash.  `rclone cleanup` can
be used to empty the trash.

### Emptying the trash

Due to an API limitation, the `rclone cleanup` command will only work if you
set your username and password in the advanced options for this backend.
Since we generally want to avoid storing user passwords in the rclone config
file, we advise you to only set this up if you need the `rclone cleanup` command
to work.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_id` for rclone.  This is the directory
(identified by its `Folder ID`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your pCloud drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder
hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder ID` of the
directory you wish rclone to display. This can be accomplished by executing
the ```rclone lsf``` command using a basic configuration setup that does not
include the ```root_folder_id``` parameter.

The command will enumerate available directories, allowing you to locate the
appropriate Folder ID for subsequent use.

Example:

```console
$ rclone lsf --dirs-only -Fip --csv TestPcloud:
dxxxxxxxx2,My Music/
dxxxxxxxx3,My Pictures/
dxxxxxxxx4,My Videos/
```

So if the folder you want rclone to use your is "My Music/", then use the returned
id from ```rclone lsf``` command (ex. `dxxxxxxxx2`) as the `root_folder_id` variable
value in the config file.

### Change notifications and mounts

The pCloud backend supports real‑time updates for rclone mounts via change
notifications. rclone uses pCloud’s diff long‑polling API to detect changes and
will automatically refresh directory listings in the mounted filesystem when
changes occur.

Notes and behavior:

- Works automatically when using `rclone mount` and requires no additional
  configuration.
- Notifications are directory‑scoped: when rclone detects a change, it refreshes
  the affected directory so new/removed/renamed files become visible promptly.
- Updates are near real‑time. The backend uses a long‑poll with short fallback
  polling intervals, so you should see changes appear quickly without manual
  refreshes.

If you want to debug or verify notifications, you can use the helper command:

```bash
rclone test changenotify remote:
```

This will log incoming change notifications for the given remote.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

#### --pcloud-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

#### --pcloud-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --pcloud-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --pcloud-root-folder-id

Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Default:     "d0"

#### --pcloud-hostname

Hostname to connect to.

This is normally set when rclone initially does the oauth connection,
however you will need to set it by hand if you are using remote config
with rclone authorize.


Properties:

- Config:      hostname
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_HOSTNAME
- Type:        string
- Default:     "api.pcloud.com"
- Examples:
  - "api.pcloud.com"
    - Original/US region
  - "eapi.pcloud.com"
    - EU region

#### --pcloud-username

Your pcloud username.
			
This is only required when you want to use the cleanup command. Due to a bug
in the pcloud API the required API does not support OAuth authentication so
we have to rely on user password authentication for it.

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-password

Your pcloud password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pcloud-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PCLOUD_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# PikPak

PikPak is [a private cloud drive](https://mypikpak.com/).

Paths are specified as `remote:path`, and may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a remote for PikPak.

First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / PikPak
   \ (pikpak)
Storage> XX

Option user.
Pikpak username.
Enter a value.
user> USERNAME

Option pass.
Pikpak password.
Choose an alternative below.
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> 

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: pikpak
- user: USERNAME
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- token: {"access_token":"eyJ...","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"os...","expiry":"2023-01-26T18:54:32.170582647+09:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Modification times and hashes

PikPak keeps modification times on objects, and updates them when uploading objects,
but it does not support changing only the modification time

The MD5 hash algorithm is supported.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to pikpak (PikPak).

#### --pikpak-user

Pikpak username.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --pikpak-pass

Pikpak password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to pikpak (PikPak).

#### --pikpak-device-id

Device ID used for authorization.

Properties:

- Config:      device_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_DEVICE_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pikpak-user-agent

HTTP user agent for pikpak.

Defaults to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0" or "--pikpak-user-agent" provided on command line.

Properties:

- Config:      user_agent
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_USER_AGENT
- Type:        string
- Default:     "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0"

#### --pikpak-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.
Leave blank normally.

Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.


Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pikpak-use-trash

Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently.

Defaults to true, namely sending files to the trash.
Use `--pikpak-use-trash=false` to delete files permanently instead.

Properties:

- Config:      use_trash
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_USE_TRASH
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --pikpak-trashed-only

Only show files that are in the trash.

This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

Properties:

- Config:      trashed_only
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_TRASHED_ONLY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --pikpak-no-media-link

Use original file links instead of media links.

This avoids issues caused by invalid media links, but may reduce download speeds.

Properties:

- Config:      no_media_link
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_NO_MEDIA_LINK
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --pikpak-hash-memory-limit

Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate hash if required.

Properties:

- Config:      hash_memory_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_HASH_MEMORY_LIMIT
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --pikpak-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     200Mi

#### --pikpak-chunk-size

Chunk size for multipart uploads.
	
Large files will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--pikpak-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

If you are transferring large files over high-speed links and you have
enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a
large file of known size to stay below the 10,000 chunks limit.

Increasing the chunk size decreases the accuracy of the progress
statistics displayed with "-P" flag.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     5Mi

#### --pikpak-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded
concurrently for multipart uploads.

Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to
"--transfers" * "--pikpak-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once
in memory.

If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links
and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing
this may help to speed up the transfers.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --pikpak-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --pikpak-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIKPAK_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the pikpak backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### addurl

Add offline download task for url.

```console
rclone backend addurl remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command adds offline download task for url.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend addurl pikpak:dirpath url
rclone backend addurl pikpak:dirpath url -o name=custom_filename.zip
```

Downloads will be stored in 'dirpath'. If 'dirpath' is invalid,
download will fallback to default 'My Pack' folder.

Options:

- "name": Custom filename for the downloaded file.

### decompress

Request decompress of a file/files in a folder.

```console
rclone backend decompress remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This command requests decompress of file/files in a folder.

Usage examples:

```console
rclone backend decompress pikpak:dirpath {filename} -o password=password
rclone backend decompress pikpak:dirpath {filename} -o delete-src-file
```

An optional argument 'filename' can be specified for a file located in
'pikpak:dirpath'. You may want to pass '-o password=password' for a
password-protected files. Also, pass '-o delete-src-file' to delete
source files after decompression finished.

Result:

```json
{
    "Decompressed": 17,
    "SourceDeleted": 0,
    "Errors": 0
}
```

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

### Hashes may be empty

PikPak supports MD5 hash, but sometimes given empty especially for user-uploaded files.

### Deleted files still visible with trashed-only

Deleted files will still be visible with `--pikpak-trashed-only` even after the
trash emptied. This goes away after few days.

# Pixeldrain

This is the backend for Pixeldrain's premium filesystem feature. This is not the
same as pixeldrain's free file sharing product. The filesystem requires either a
Pro subscription or the Prepaid plan. [More information on
subscriptions](https://pixeldrain.com/#pro).

An overview of the filesystem's features and limitations is available in the
[filesystem guide](https://pixeldrain.com/filesystem) on pixeldrain.

## Usage with account

To use the personal filesystem you will need a [pixeldrain
account](https://pixeldrain.com/register) and either the Prepaid plan or one of
the Patreon-based subscriptions. After registering and subscribing, your
personal filesystem will be available at this link: <https://pixeldrain.com/d/me>.

Go to the [API keys page](https://pixeldrain.com/user/api_keys) on your account
and generate a new API key for rclone. Then run `rclone config` and use the API
key to create a new backend.

Example:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/d/c/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> pixeldrainfs

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
...
XX / Pixeldrain Filesystem
   \ (pixeldrain)
...
Storage> pixeldrain

Option api_key.
API key for your pixeldrain account.
Found on https://pixeldrain.com/user/api_keys.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
api_key> b1bb1e81-9b7b-406b-986a-c9b20be76e15

Option directory_id.
Root of the filesystem to use. Set to 'me' to use your personal filesystem.
Set to a shared directory ID to use a shared directory.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (me).
directory_id>

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n>

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: pixeldrain
- api_key: b1bb1e81-9b7b-406b-986a-c9b20be76e15
Keep this "pixeldrainfs" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>

Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
pixeldrainfs         pixeldrain

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

## Usage without account

It is possible to gain read-only access to publicly shared directories through
rclone. For this you only need a directory ID. The directory ID can be found in
the URL of a shared directory, the URL will look like this
`https://pixeldrain.com/d/abcd1234` where `abcd1234` is the directory ID.
Directory IDs in your own filesystem can also be listed with the `lsf` command:

`rclone lsf Pixeldrain: --dirs-only -Fpi`

This will print directories in your `Pixeldrain` home directory and their public
IDs.

Enter this directory ID in the rclone config and you will be able to access the
directory.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to pixeldrain (Pixeldrain Filesystem).

#### --pixeldrain-api-key

API key for your pixeldrain account.
Found on https://pixeldrain.com/user/api_keys.

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIXELDRAIN_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --pixeldrain-root-folder-id

Root of the filesystem to use.

Set to 'me' to use your personal filesystem. Set to a shared directory ID to use a shared directory.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIXELDRAIN_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Default:     "me"

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to pixeldrain (Pixeldrain Filesystem).

#### --pixeldrain-api-url

The API endpoint to connect to. In the vast majority of cases it's fine to leave
this at default. It is only intended to be changed for testing purposes.

Properties:

- Config:      api_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIXELDRAIN_API_URL
- Type:        string
- Default:     "https://pixeldrain.com/api"

#### --pixeldrain-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PIXELDRAIN_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Pixeldrain supports file modes and creation times.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the pixeldrain backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| mode | File mode | octal, unix style | 755 | N |
| mtime | Time of last modification | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# premiumize.me

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for [premiumize.me](https://premiumize.me/) involves getting a
token from premiumize.me which you need to do in your browser. `rclone config`
walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / premiumize.me
   \ "premiumizeme"
[snip]
Storage> premiumizeme
** See help for premiumizeme backend at: https://rclone.org/premiumizeme/ **

Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: premiumizeme
- token: {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2029-08-07T18:44:15.548915378+01:00"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from premiumize.me. This only runs from the moment it opens
your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.  This
is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require you to unblock
it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your premiumize.me

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your premiumize.me

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an premiumize.me directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

premiumize.me does not support modification times or hashes, therefore
syncing will default to `--size-only` checking.  Note that using
`--update` will work.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/premiumizeme/premiumizeme.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

#### --premiumizeme-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --premiumizeme-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

#### --premiumizeme-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --premiumizeme-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --premiumizeme-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --premiumizeme-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --premiumizeme-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --premiumizeme-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

Note that premiumize.me is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

premiumize.me file names can't have the `\` or `"` characters in.
rclone maps these to and from an identical looking unicode equivalents
`＼` and `＂`

premiumize.me only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

# Proton Drive

[Proton Drive](https://proton.me/drive) is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault
 for your files that protects your data.

This is an rclone backend for Proton Drive which supports the file transfer
features of Proton Drive using the same client-side encryption.

Due to the fact that Proton Drive doesn't publish its API documentation, this
backend is implemented with best efforts by reading the open-sourced client
source code and observing the Proton Drive traffic in the browser.

**NB** This backend is currently in Beta. It is believed to be correct
and all the integration tests pass. However the Proton Drive protocol
has evolved over time there may be accounts it is not compatible
with. Please [post on the rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/) if
you find an incompatibility.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configurations

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Proton Drive
   \ "protondrive"
[snip]
Storage> protondrive
User name
user> you@protonmail.com
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Option 2fa.
2FA code (if the account requires one)
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
2fa> 123456
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: protondrive
- user: you@protonmail.com
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

**NOTE:** The Proton Drive encryption keys need to have been already generated
after a regular login via the browser, otherwise attempting to use the
credentials in `rclone` will fail.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Proton Drive

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Proton Drive

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Proton Drive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

Proton Drive Bridge does not support updating modification times yet.

The SHA1 hash algorithm is supported.

### Restricted filename characters

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8), also left and
right spaces will be removed ([code reference](https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/blob/b4eba99d241af4fdae06ff7138bd651a40ef5d3c/applications/drive/src/app/store/_links/validation.ts#L51))

### Duplicated files

Proton Drive can not have two files with exactly the same name and path. If the
conflict occurs, depending on the advanced config, the file might or might not
be overwritten.

### [Mailbox password](https://proton.me/support/the-difference-between-the-mailbox-password-and-login-password)

Please set your mailbox password in the advanced config section.

### Caching

The cache is currently built for the case when the rclone is the only instance
performing operations to the mount point. The event system, which is the proton
API system that provides visibility of what has changed on the drive, is yet
to be implemented, so updates from other clients won’t be reflected in the
cache. Thus, if there are concurrent clients accessing the same mount point,
then we might have a problem with caching the stale data.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to protondrive (Proton Drive).

#### --protondrive-username

The username of your proton account

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --protondrive-password

The password of your proton account.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --protondrive-2fa

The 2FA code

The value can also be provided with --protondrive-2fa=000000

The 2FA code of your proton drive account if the account is set up with 
two-factor authentication

Properties:

- Config:      2fa
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_2FA
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-otp-secret-key

The OTP secret key

The value can also be provided with --protondrive-otp-secret-key=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567

The OTP secret key of your proton drive account if the account is set up with 
two-factor authentication

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      otp_secret_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_OTP_SECRET_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to protondrive (Proton Drive).

#### --protondrive-mailbox-password

The mailbox password of your two-password proton account.

For more information regarding the mailbox password, please check the 
following official knowledge base article: 
https://proton.me/support/the-difference-between-the-mailbox-password-and-login-password


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      mailbox_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_MAILBOX_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --protondrive-original-file-size

Return the file size before encryption
			
The size of the encrypted file will be different from (bigger than) the 
original file size. Unless there is a reason to return the file size 
after encryption is performed, otherwise, set this option to true, as 
features like Open() which will need to be supplied with original content 
size, will fail to operate properly

Properties:

- Config:      original_file_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ORIGINAL_FILE_SIZE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --protondrive-app-version

The app version string 

			The app version string identifies the client that is currently performing
			the API request. Third-party Proton Drive integrations should use the form
			external-drive-<project>@<version>. If this option is left empty, rclone
			derives a compliant value from its own version. This value is sent with
			every API request; the option itself is optional.

Properties:

- Config:      app_version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_APP_VERSION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-replace-existing-draft

Create a new revision when filename conflict is detected

When a file upload is cancelled or failed before completion, a draft will be 
created and the subsequent upload of the same file to the same location will be 
reported as a conflict.

The value can also be set by --protondrive-replace-existing-draft=true

If the option is set to true, the draft will be replaced and then the upload 
operation will restart. If there are other clients also uploading at the same 
file location at the same time, the behavior is currently unknown. Need to set 
to true for integration tests.
If the option is set to false, an error "a draft exist - usually this means a 
file is being uploaded at another client, or, there was a failed upload attempt" 
will be returned, and no upload will happen.

Properties:

- Config:      replace_existing_draft
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_REPLACE_EXISTING_DRAFT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --protondrive-enable-caching

Caches the files and folders metadata to reduce API calls

Notice: If you are mounting ProtonDrive as a VFS, please disable this feature, 
as the current implementation doesn't update or clear the cache when there are 
external changes. 

The files and folders on ProtonDrive are represented as links with keyrings, 
which can be cached to improve performance and be friendly to the API server.

The cache is currently built for the case when the rclone is the only instance 
performing operations to the mount point. The event system, which is the proton
API system that provides visibility of what has changed on the drive, is yet 
to be implemented, so updates from other clients won’t be reflected in the 
cache. Thus, if there are concurrent clients accessing the same mount point, 
then we might have a problem with caching the stale data.

Properties:

- Config:      enable_caching
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ENABLE_CACHING
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --protondrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

This backend uses the
[Proton-API-Bridge](https://github.com/henrybear327/Proton-API-Bridge), which
is based on [go-proton-api](https://github.com/henrybear327/go-proton-api), a
fork of the [official repo](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api).

There is no official API documentation available from Proton Drive. But, thanks
to Proton open sourcing [proton-go-api](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api)
and the web, iOS, and Android client codebases, we don't need to completely
reverse engineer the APIs by observing the web client traffic!

[proton-go-api](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api) provides the basic
building blocks of API calls and error handling, such as 429 exponential
back-off, but it is pretty much just a barebone interface to the Proton API.
For example, the encryption and decryption of the Proton Drive file are not
provided in this library.

The Proton-API-Bridge, attempts to bridge the gap, so rclone can be built on
top of this quickly. This codebase handles the intricate tasks before and after
calling Proton APIs, particularly the complex encryption scheme, allowing
developers to implement features for other software on top of this codebase.
There are likely quite a few errors in this library, as there isn't official
documentation available.

# put.io

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

put.io paths may be as deep as required, e.g.
`remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

The initial setup for put.io involves getting a token from put.io
which you need to do in your browser.  `rclone config` walks you
through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> putio
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Put.io
   \ "putio"
[snip]
Storage> putio
** See help for putio backend at: https://rclone.org/putio/ **

Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[putio]
type = putio
token = {"access_token":"XXXXXXXX","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
putio                putio

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from put.io  if using web browser to automatically
authenticate. This only
runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back
the verification code.  This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this
it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host
firewall, or use manual mode.

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your put.io

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your put.io

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to a put.io directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/putio/putio.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to putio (Put.io).

#### --putio-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --putio-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to putio (Put.io).

#### --putio-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --putio-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --putio-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --putio-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --putio-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --putio-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PUTIO_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

put.io has rate limiting. When you hit a limit, rclone automatically
retries after waiting the amount of time requested by the server.

If you want to avoid ever hitting these limits, you may use the
`--tpslimit` flag with a low number. Note that the imposed limits
may be different for different operations, and may change over time.

# Proton Drive

[Proton Drive](https://proton.me/drive) is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault
 for your files that protects your data.

This is an rclone backend for Proton Drive which supports the file transfer
features of Proton Drive using the same client-side encryption.

Due to the fact that Proton Drive doesn't publish its API documentation, this
backend is implemented with best efforts by reading the open-sourced client
source code and observing the Proton Drive traffic in the browser.

**NB** This backend is currently in Beta. It is believed to be correct
and all the integration tests pass. However the Proton Drive protocol
has evolved over time there may be accounts it is not compatible
with. Please [post on the rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/) if
you find an incompatibility.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configurations

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Proton Drive
   \ "protondrive"
[snip]
Storage> protondrive
User name
user> you@protonmail.com
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Option 2fa.
2FA code (if the account requires one)
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
2fa> 123456
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: protondrive
- user: you@protonmail.com
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

**NOTE:** The Proton Drive encryption keys need to have been already generated
after a regular login via the browser, otherwise attempting to use the
credentials in `rclone` will fail.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your Proton Drive

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your Proton Drive

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an Proton Drive directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

Proton Drive Bridge does not support updating modification times yet.

The SHA1 hash algorithm is supported.

### Restricted filename characters

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8), also left and
right spaces will be removed ([code reference](https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/blob/b4eba99d241af4fdae06ff7138bd651a40ef5d3c/applications/drive/src/app/store/_links/validation.ts#L51))

### Duplicated files

Proton Drive can not have two files with exactly the same name and path. If the
conflict occurs, depending on the advanced config, the file might or might not
be overwritten.

### [Mailbox password](https://proton.me/support/the-difference-between-the-mailbox-password-and-login-password)

Please set your mailbox password in the advanced config section.

### Caching

The cache is currently built for the case when the rclone is the only instance
performing operations to the mount point. The event system, which is the proton
API system that provides visibility of what has changed on the drive, is yet
to be implemented, so updates from other clients won’t be reflected in the
cache. Thus, if there are concurrent clients accessing the same mount point,
then we might have a problem with caching the stale data.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to protondrive (Proton Drive).

#### --protondrive-username

The username of your proton account

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --protondrive-password

The password of your proton account.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --protondrive-2fa

The 2FA code

The value can also be provided with --protondrive-2fa=000000

The 2FA code of your proton drive account if the account is set up with 
two-factor authentication

Properties:

- Config:      2fa
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_2FA
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-otp-secret-key

The OTP secret key

The value can also be provided with --protondrive-otp-secret-key=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567

The OTP secret key of your proton drive account if the account is set up with 
two-factor authentication

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      otp_secret_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_OTP_SECRET_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to protondrive (Proton Drive).

#### --protondrive-mailbox-password

The mailbox password of your two-password proton account.

For more information regarding the mailbox password, please check the 
following official knowledge base article: 
https://proton.me/support/the-difference-between-the-mailbox-password-and-login-password


**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      mailbox_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_MAILBOX_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --protondrive-original-file-size

Return the file size before encryption
			
The size of the encrypted file will be different from (bigger than) the 
original file size. Unless there is a reason to return the file size 
after encryption is performed, otherwise, set this option to true, as 
features like Open() which will need to be supplied with original content 
size, will fail to operate properly

Properties:

- Config:      original_file_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ORIGINAL_FILE_SIZE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --protondrive-app-version

The app version string 

			The app version string identifies the client that is currently performing
			the API request. Third-party Proton Drive integrations should use the form
			external-drive-<project>@<version>. If this option is left empty, rclone
			derives a compliant value from its own version. This value is sent with
			every API request; the option itself is optional.

Properties:

- Config:      app_version
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_APP_VERSION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --protondrive-replace-existing-draft

Create a new revision when filename conflict is detected

When a file upload is cancelled or failed before completion, a draft will be 
created and the subsequent upload of the same file to the same location will be 
reported as a conflict.

The value can also be set by --protondrive-replace-existing-draft=true

If the option is set to true, the draft will be replaced and then the upload 
operation will restart. If there are other clients also uploading at the same 
file location at the same time, the behavior is currently unknown. Need to set 
to true for integration tests.
If the option is set to false, an error "a draft exist - usually this means a 
file is being uploaded at another client, or, there was a failed upload attempt" 
will be returned, and no upload will happen.

Properties:

- Config:      replace_existing_draft
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_REPLACE_EXISTING_DRAFT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --protondrive-enable-caching

Caches the files and folders metadata to reduce API calls

Notice: If you are mounting ProtonDrive as a VFS, please disable this feature, 
as the current implementation doesn't update or clear the cache when there are 
external changes. 

The files and folders on ProtonDrive are represented as links with keyrings, 
which can be cached to improve performance and be friendly to the API server.

The cache is currently built for the case when the rclone is the only instance 
performing operations to the mount point. The event system, which is the proton
API system that provides visibility of what has changed on the drive, is yet 
to be implemented, so updates from other clients won’t be reflected in the 
cache. Thus, if there are concurrent clients accessing the same mount point, 
then we might have a problem with caching the stale data.

Properties:

- Config:      enable_caching
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_ENABLE_CACHING
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --protondrive-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_PROTONDRIVE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

This backend uses the
[Proton-API-Bridge](https://github.com/henrybear327/Proton-API-Bridge), which
is based on [go-proton-api](https://github.com/henrybear327/go-proton-api), a
fork of the [official repo](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api).

There is no official API documentation available from Proton Drive. But, thanks
to Proton open sourcing [proton-go-api](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api)
and the web, iOS, and Android client codebases, we don't need to completely
reverse engineer the APIs by observing the web client traffic!

[proton-go-api](https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api) provides the basic
building blocks of API calls and error handling, such as 429 exponential
back-off, but it is pretty much just a barebone interface to the Proton API.
For example, the encryption and decryption of the Proton Drive file are not
provided in this library.

The Proton-API-Bridge, attempts to bridge the gap, so rclone can be built on
top of this quickly. This codebase handles the intricate tasks before and after
calling Proton APIs, particularly the complex encryption scheme, allowing
developers to implement features for other software on top of this codebase.
There are likely quite a few errors in this library, as there isn't official
documentation available.

# Seafile

This is a backend for the [Seafile](https://www.seafile.com/) storage service:

- It works with both the free community edition or the professional edition.
- Seafile versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x and 9.x are all supported.
- Encrypted libraries are also supported.
- It supports 2FA enabled users
- Using a Library API Token is **not** supported

## Configuration

There are two distinct modes you can setup your remote:

- you point your remote to the **root of the server**, meaning you don't
  specify a library during the configuration: Paths are specified as
  `remote:library`. You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:library/path/to/dir`.
- you point your remote to a specific library during the configuration:
  Paths are specified as `remote:path/to/dir`. **This is the recommended mode when using encrypted libraries**.
  (*This mode is possibly slightly faster than the root mode*)

### Configuration in root mode

Here is an example of making a seafile configuration for a user with **no**
two-factor authentication.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process. To authenticate
you will need the URL of your server, your email (or username) and your password.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> seafile
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Seafile
   \ "seafile"
[snip]
Storage> seafile
** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ **

URL of seafile host to connect to
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com
   \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
url> http://my.seafile.server/
User name (usually email address)
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
user> me@example.com
Password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
2fa> false
Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
library>
Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> n
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Two-factor authentication is not enabled on this account.
--------------------
[seafile]
type = seafile
url = http://my.seafile.server/
user = me@example.com
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
2fa = false
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This remote is called `seafile`. It's pointing to the root of your seafile
server and can now be used like this:

See all libraries

```console
rclone lsd seafile:
```

Create a new library

```console
rclone mkdir seafile:library
```

List the contents of a library

```console
rclone ls seafile:library
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote library, deleting any
excess files in the library.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory seafile:library
```

### Configuration in library mode

Here's an example of a configuration in library mode with a user that has the
two-factor authentication enabled. Your 2FA code will be asked at the end of
the configuration, and will attempt to authenticate you:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> seafile
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Seafile
   \ "seafile"
[snip]
Storage> seafile
** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ **

URL of seafile host to connect to
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com
   \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
url> http://my.seafile.server/
User name (usually email address)
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
user> me@example.com
Password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
2fa> true
Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
library> My Library
Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> n
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Two-factor authentication: please enter your 2FA code
2fa code> 123456
Authenticating...
Success!
--------------------
[seafile]
type = seafile
url = http://my.seafile.server/
user = me@example.com
pass = 
2fa = true
library = My Library
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

You'll notice your password is blank in the configuration. It's because we only
need the password to authenticate you once.

You specified `My Library` during the configuration. The root of the remote is
pointing at the root of the library `My Library`:

See all files in the library:

```console
rclone lsd seafile:
```

Create a new directory inside the library

```console
rclone mkdir seafile:directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls seafile:directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote library, deleting any
excess files in the library.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory seafile:
```

### --fast-list

Seafile version 7+ supports `--fast-list` which allows you to use fewer
transactions in exchange for more memory. See the [rclone
docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#fast-list) for more details.
Please note this is not supported on seafile server version 6.x

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| /         | 0x2F  | ／          |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂          |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Seafile and rclone link

Rclone supports generating share links for non-encrypted libraries only.
They can either be for a file or a directory:

```console
$ rclone link seafile:seafile-tutorial.doc
http://my.seafile.server/f/fdcd8a2f93f84b8b90f4/

```

or if run on a directory you will get:

```console
$ rclone link seafile:dir
http://my.seafile.server/d/9ea2455f6f55478bbb0d/
```

Please note a share link is unique for each file or directory. If you run a link
command on a file/dir that has already been shared, you will get the exact same link.

### Compatibility

It has been actively developed using the [seafile docker image](https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docker)
of these versions:

- 6.3.4 community edition
- 7.0.5 community edition
- 7.1.3 community edition
- 9.0.10 community edition

Versions below 6.0 are not supported.
Versions between 6.0 and 6.3 haven't been tested and might not work properly.

Each new version of `rclone` is automatically tested against the [latest docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/seafileltd/seafile-mc/)
of the seafile community server.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to seafile (seafile).

#### --seafile-url

URL of seafile host to connect to.

Properties:

- Config:      url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true
- Examples:
  - "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
    - Connect to cloud.seafile.com.

#### --seafile-user

User name (usually email address).

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --seafile-pass

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --seafile-2fa

Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled).

Properties:

- Config:      2fa
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_2FA
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --seafile-library

Name of the library.

Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.

Properties:

- Config:      library
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_LIBRARY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --seafile-library-key

Library password (for encrypted libraries only).

Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      library_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_LIBRARY_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to seafile (seafile).

#### --seafile-create-library

Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist.

Properties:

- Config:      create_library
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_CREATE_LIBRARY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --seafile-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --seafile-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SEAFILE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

# SFTP

SFTP is the [Secure (or SSH) File Transfer
Protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol).

The SFTP backend can be used with a number of different providers:

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- Hetzner Storage Box
- rsync.net


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SFTP runs over SSH v2 and is installed as standard with most modern
SSH installations.

Paths are specified as `remote:path`. If the path does not begin with
a `/` it is relative to the home directory of the user.  An empty path
`remote:` refers to the user's home directory. For example, `rclone lsd remote:`
would list the home directory of the user configured in the rclone remote config
(`i.e /home/sftpuser`). However, `rclone lsd remote:/` would list the root
directory for remote machine (i.e. `/`)

Note that some SFTP servers will need the leading / - Synology is a
good example of this. rsync.net and Hetzner, on the other hand, requires users to
OMIT the leading /.

Note that by default rclone will try to execute shell commands on
the server, see [shell access considerations](#shell-access-considerations).

## Configuration

Here is an example of making an SFTP configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / SSH/SFTP
   \ "sftp"
[snip]
Storage> sftp
SSH host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "example.com"
host> example.com
SSH username
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER").
user> sftpuser
SSH port number
Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default (22).
port>
SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> n
Path to unencrypted PEM-encoded private key file, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
key_file>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: sftp
- host: example.com
- user: sftpuser
- port:
- pass:
- key_file:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this:

See all directories in the home directory

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

See all directories in the root directory

```console
rclone lsd remote:/
```

Make a new directory

```console
rclone mkdir remote:path/to/directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:path/to/directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote directory, deleting any
excess files in the directory.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:directory
```

Mount the remote path `/srv/www-data/` to the local path
`/mnt/www-data`

```console
rclone mount remote:/srv/www-data/ /mnt/www-data
```

### SSH Authentication

The SFTP remote supports three authentication methods:

- Password
- Key file, including certificate signed keys
- ssh-agent

Key files should be PEM-encoded private key files. For instance `/home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa`.
Only unencrypted OpenSSH or PEM encrypted files are supported.

The key file can be specified in either an external file (key_file) or contained
within the  rclone config file (key_pem).  If using key_pem in the config file,
the entry should be on a single line with new line ('\n' or '\r\n') separating lines.
I.e.

```text
key_pem = -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMaMbaIXtE\n0gAMbMbaSsd\nMbaass\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
```

This will generate it correctly for key_pem for use in the config:

```console
awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa
```

If you don't specify `pass`, `key_file`, or `key_pem` or `ask_password` then
rclone will attempt to contact an ssh-agent. You can also specify `key_use_agent`
to force the usage of an ssh-agent. In this case `key_file` or `key_pem` can
also be specified to force the usage of a specific key in the ssh-agent.

Using an ssh-agent is the only way to load encrypted OpenSSH keys at the moment.

If you set the `ask_password` option, rclone will prompt for a password when
needed and no password has been configured.

#### Certificate-signed keys

With traditional key-based authentication, you configure your private key only,
and the public key built into it will be used during the authentication process.

If you have a certificate you may use it to sign your public key, creating a
separate SSH user certificate that should be used instead of the plain public key
extracted from the private key. Then you must provide the path to the
user certificate public key file in `pubkey_file` or the content of the file in `pubkey`.

Note: This is not the traditional public key paired with your private key,
typically saved as `/home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`. Setting this path in
`pubkey_file` will not work.

Example:

```ini
[remote]
type = sftp
host = example.com
user = sftpuser
key_file = ~/id_rsa
pubkey_file = ~/id_rsa-cert.pub
````

If you concatenate a cert with a private key then you can specify the
merged file in both places.

Note: the cert must come first in the file.  e.g.

```console
cat id_rsa-cert.pub id_rsa > merged_key
```

### Host key validation

By default rclone will not check the server's host key for validation.
This can allow an attacker to replace a server with their own and if
you use password authentication then this can lead to that password
being exposed. Rclone will produce a warning `No host key validation
is being performed` each time the backend is started in this mode.

Host key matching, using standard ssh `known_hosts` files can be
turned on by enabling the `known_hosts_file` option. This can point to
the file maintained by `OpenSSH` or can point to a unique file. To
explicitly disable host key checking and silence the warning, the
`known_hosts_file` option can be set to `none`.

Alternatively rclone can maintain server host keys in a `host_keys`
setting in the config file. This can be updated automatically with
`--sftp-pin-host-key`.

These options are described below

### Using the OpenSSH known_hosts file

Using the OpenSSH `known_hosts` file looks like this:

```ini
[remote]
type = sftp
host = example.com
user = sftpuser
pass = 
known_hosts_file = ~/.ssh/known_hosts
````

Alternatively you can create your own known hosts file like this:

```console
ssh-keyscan -t dsa,rsa,ecdsa,ed25519 example.com >> known_hosts
```

There are some limitations:

- `rclone` will not *manage* this file for you.  If the key is missing or
  wrong then the connection will be refused.
- If the server is set up for a certificate host key then the entry in
  the `known_hosts` file *must* be the `@cert-authority` entry for the CA

If the host key provided by the server does not match the one in the
file (or is missing) then the connection will be aborted and an error
returned such as

```text
NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key mismatch
```

or

```text
NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key is unknown
```

If you see an error such as

```text
NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: no authorities for hostname: example.com:22
```

then it is likely the server has presented a CA signed host certificate
and you will need to add the appropriate `@cert-authority` entry.

The `known_hosts_file` setting can be set during `rclone config` as an
advanced option.

### Host key pinning

As an alternative to maintaining a `known_hosts` file, rclone supports
Trust On First Use (TOFU) host key pinning via the `--sftp-pin-host-key`
command-line flag.

The recommended workflow is:

1. For the very first connection to a new remote, run rclone once with
   `--sftp-pin-host-key`. Rclone records the server's host key into the
   remote's `host_keys` config option and logs the SHA256 fingerprint:

   ```console
   $ rclone --sftp-pin-host-key lsd remote:
   2026/01/01 12:00:00 NOTICE: sftp://sftpuser@example.com:22/: Accepted ssh-ed25519 host key SHA256:abc... for example.com:22 on first use
   2026/01/01 12:00:00 NOTICE: sftp://sftpuser@example.com:22/: Pinned ssh-ed25519 host key SHA256:abc... for example.com:22 in config
   ```

2. For every subsequent run, omit the flag. Rclone consults the pinned
   `host_keys` and refuses the connection on any mismatch.

This is a strict improvement over the default of no host key validation,
but note that the first connection itself is unauthenticated. Rclone
detects later key changes, not a man-in-the-middle who is already on-path
the first time you connect. Ideally do the first connection over a trusted
network or cross-check the fingerprint rclone logs against one provided out
of band by the server operator.

If `known_hosts_file` is also set it takes precedence and
`--sftp-pin-host-key` is ignored.

After the first successful connection the config will contain a new line:

```ini
[remote]
type = sftp
host = example.com
user = sftpuser
pass = 
host_keys = ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAA...
```

The `host_keys` field is always validated against the offered host key
when non-empty, so you can also pin a known key by hand without ever
running with the flag. Each entry is the complete public key - the
algorithm and base64 fields of a known_hosts line - not its SHA256
fingerprint:

```console
rclone config update remote host_keys "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3..."
```

Setting `pin_host_key = true` persistently in the config file is not
recommended: while it is set, rclone will accept any new host key algorithm
the server later presents, widening the trust surface beyond the initial
pin. Using `--sftp-pin-host-key` as a one-shot flag keeps each
unauthenticated trust event a deliberate decision.

#### Re-pinning after a legitimate key change

If the server's host key is legitimately rotated, rclone will refuse the
connection with an error containing both the stored and offered SHA256
fingerprints. To accept the new key, clear the stored value and re-run once
with the flag:

```console
rclone config update remote host_keys ""
rclone --sftp-pin-host-key lsd remote:
```

Alternatively edit `host_keys` directly to replace or add the new entry.
Multiple entries (separated by commas) are supported.

#### Limitations

- If the server uses an `@cert-authority`-signed host certificate,
  host key pinning cannot validate it (the certificate is re-issued
  periodically even though the underlying CA is unchanged). Use
  `known_hosts_file` with an `@cert-authority` entry instead.
- On-the-fly remotes (`:sftp,host=...:`) cannot persist the pinned key -
  rclone will log a warning and re-accept the server key on every run,
  so the flag only provides first-connect fingerprint logging. Named
  remotes used with connection string overrides (`remote,port=2022:`)
  are fine: the pinned key is saved to the remote's config section.
- If the `ssh` option is set, the configured ssh program makes the
  connection and does its own host key validation, so `host_keys` is
  not consulted and `--sftp-pin-host-key` pins nothing.
- Load-balanced SFTP endpoints that present a different host key per
  backend node will produce a mismatch when a later connection lands on
  a different node. Re-run with `--sftp-pin-host-key` after clearing
  `host_keys`, or repeat the first-connect step until each node's key
  has been observed, appending the additional entries to `host_keys` by
  hand (comma-separated).
- rclone does not yet support OpenSSH's `hostkeys@openssh.com` extension,
  the non-RFC mechanism that helps clients learn additional host keys
  during rotation. This is being tracked upstream at
  https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37245

### ssh-agent on macOS

Note that there seem to be various problems with using an ssh-agent on
macOS due to recent changes in the OS.  The most effective work-around
seems to be to start an ssh-agent in each session, e.g.

```console
eval `ssh-agent -s` && ssh-add -A
```

And then at the end of the session

```console
eval `ssh-agent -k`
```

These commands can be used in scripts of course.

### Shell access

Some functionality of the SFTP backend relies on remote shell access,
and the possibility to execute commands. This includes [checksum](#checksum),
and in some cases also [about](#about-command). The shell commands that
must be executed may be different on different type of shells, and also
quoting/escaping of file path arguments containing special characters may
be different. Rclone therefore needs to know what type of shell it is,
and if shell access is available at all.

Most servers run on some version of Unix, and then a basic Unix shell can
be assumed, without further distinction. Windows 10, Server 2019, and later
can also run a SSH server, which is a port of OpenSSH (see official
[installation guide](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse)).
On a Windows server the shell handling is different: Although it can also
be set up to use a Unix type shell, e.g. Cygwin bash, the default is to
use Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe), and PowerShell is a recommended
alternative. All of these have behave differently, which rclone must handle.

Rclone tries to auto-detect what type of shell is used on the server,
first time you access the SFTP remote. If a remote shell session is
successfully created, it will look for indications that it is CMD or
PowerShell, with fall-back to Unix if not something else is detected.
If unable to even create a remote shell session, then shell command
execution will be disabled entirely. The result is stored in the SFTP
remote configuration, in option `shell_type`, so that the auto-detection
only have to be performed once. If you manually set a value for this
option before first run, the auto-detection will be skipped, and if
you set a different value later this will override any existing.
Value `none` can be set to avoid any attempts at executing shell
commands, e.g. if this is not allowed on the server.
If you have `shell_type = none` in the configuration then
the [ssh](#sftp-ssh) must not be set.

When the server is [rclone serve sftp](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/),
the rclone SFTP remote will detect this as a Unix type shell - even
if it is running on Windows. This server does not actually have a shell,
but it accepts input commands matching the specific ones that the
SFTP backend relies on for Unix shells, e.g. `md5sum` and `df`. Also
it handles the string escape rules used for Unix shell. Treating it
as a Unix type shell from a SFTP remote will therefore always be
correct, and support all features.

#### Shell access considerations

The shell type auto-detection logic, described above, means that
by default rclone will try to run a shell command the first time
a new sftp remote is accessed. If you configure a sftp remote
without a config file, e.g. an [on the fly](https://rclone.org/docs/#backend-path-to-dir])
remote, rclone will have nowhere to store the result, and it
will re-run the command on every access. To avoid this you should
explicitly set the `shell_type` option to the correct value,
or to `none` if you want to prevent rclone from executing any
remote shell commands.

It is also important to note that, since the shell type decides
how quoting and escaping of file paths used as command-line arguments
are performed, configuring the wrong shell type may leave you exposed
to command injection exploits. Make sure to confirm the auto-detected
shell type, or explicitly set the shell type you know is correct,
or disable shell access until you know.

### Checksum

SFTP does not natively support checksums (file hash), but rclone
is able to use checksumming if the same login has shell access,
and can execute remote commands. If there is a command that can
calculate compatible checksums on the remote system, Rclone can
then be configured to execute this whenever a checksum is needed,
and read back the results. By default MD5 and SHA-1 are considered,
but also CRC32, SHA-256, BLAKE3, XXH3 and XXH128 are supported,
option `hashes` can be set to specify which to consider.

Normally this requires an external utility being available on
the server. E.g. for MD5 checksums, by default rclone will try commands
`md5sum`, `md5` and `rclone md5sum`, and the first one found
usable will be picked. These utilities normally need to be in the
remote's PATH to be found.

In some cases the shell itself is capable of calculating checksums.
PowerShell is an example of such a shell. If rclone detects that the
remote shell is PowerShell, which means it most probably is a
Windows OpenSSH server, rclone will use a predefined script block
to produce the checksums for MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 when no external
checksum commands are found (see [shell access](#shell-access)). This
assumes PowerShell version 4.0 or newer.

The options `md5sum_command`, `sha1_command`, etc. can be used to customize
the commands to be executed for calculation of checksums. You can for
example set a specific path to where the md5sum executable are located,
or specify some other tool that print checksums in compatible format.
The value can include command-line arguments, or even shell script blocks
as with PowerShell. Rclone has subcommands [hashsum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_hashsum/),
[md5sum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_md5sum/) and [sha1sum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sha1sum/)
that use compatible format, which means if you have an rclone executable
on the server it can be used. As mentioned above, they will be automatically
picked up if found in PATH, but if not you can set something like
`/path/to/rclone md5sum` as the value of option `md5sum_command` to
make sure a specific executable is used.

Remote checksumming is recommended and enabled by default. First time
rclone is using a SFTP remote, if options `md5sum_command` or `sha1_command`
are not set, it will check if any of the default commands for each of them,
as described above, can be used. The result will be saved in the remote
configuration, so next time it will use the same. Value `none`
will be set if none of the default commands could be used for a specific
algorithm, and this algorithm will not be supported by the remote.

Disabling the checksumming completely may be required if you are connecting to
SFTP servers which are not under your control, and to which the execution of
remote shell commands is prohibited. Set the configuration option `disable_hashcheck`
to `true` to disable checksumming entirely (you get the same effect by setting
option `hashes` to `none` or options `md5sum_command`, `sha1_command` etc.
to `none`). Set option `shell_type` to `none` to not only disable checksumming,
but also disable all other functionality that are based on remote shell command
execution.

### Modification times and hashes

Modified times are stored on the server to 1 second precision.

Modified times are used in syncing and are fully supported.

Some SFTP servers disable setting/modifying the file modification time after
upload (for example, certain configurations of ProFTPd with mod_sftp). If you
are using one of these servers, you can set the option `set_modtime = false` in
your RClone backend configuration to disable this behaviour.

### About command

The `about` command returns the total space, free space, and used
space on the remote for the disk of the specified path on the remote or,
if not set, the disk of the root on the remote.

SFTP usually supports the [about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/) command, but
it depends on the server. If the server implements the vendor-specific
VFS statistics extension, which is normally the case with OpenSSH instances,
it will be used. If not, but the same login has access to a Unix shell,
where the `df` command is available (e.g. in the remote's PATH), then
this will be used instead. If the server shell is PowerShell, probably
with a Windows OpenSSH server, rclone will use a built-in shell command
(see [shell access](#shell-access)). If none of the above is applicable,
`about` will fail.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP).

#### --sftp-host

SSH host to connect to.

E.g. "example.com".

Properties:

- Config:      host
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_HOST
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --sftp-user

SSH username.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_USER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "$USER"

#### --sftp-port

SSH port number.

Properties:

- Config:      port
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PORT
- Type:        int
- Default:     22

#### --sftp-pass

SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-key-pem

Raw PEM-encoded private key.

Note that this should be on a single line with line endings replaced with '\n', eg

    key_pem = -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMaMbaIXtE\n0gAMbMbaSsd\nMbaass\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

This will generate the single line correctly:

    awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa

If specified, it will override the key_file parameter.

Properties:

- Config:      key_pem
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_PEM
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-key-file

Path to PEM-encoded private key file.

Leave blank or set key-use-agent to use ssh-agent.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      key_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-key-file-pass

The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file.

Only PEM encrypted key files (old OpenSSH format) are supported. Encrypted keys
in the new OpenSSH format can't be used.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      key_file_pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_FILE_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-pubkey

SSH public certificate for public certificate based authentication.
Set this if you have a signed certificate you want to use for authentication.
If specified will override pubkey_file.

Properties:

- Config:      pubkey
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PUBKEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-pubkey-file

Optional path to public key file.

Set this if you have a signed certificate you want to use for authentication.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      pubkey_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PUBKEY_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-key-use-agent

When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent.

When key-file is also set, the ".pub" file of the specified key-file is read and only the associated key is
requested from the ssh-agent. This allows to avoid `Too many authentication failures for *username*` errors
when the ssh-agent contains many keys.

Properties:

- Config:      key_use_agent
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_USE_AGENT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-use-insecure-cipher

Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods.

This enables the use of the following insecure ciphers and key exchange methods:

- aes128-cbc
- aes192-cbc
- aes256-cbc
- 3des-cbc
- diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
- diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1

Those algorithms are insecure and may allow plaintext data to be recovered by an attacker.

This must be false if you use either ciphers or key_exchange advanced options.


Properties:

- Config:      use_insecure_cipher
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_USE_INSECURE_CIPHER
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "false"
    - Use default Cipher list.
  - "true"
    - Enables the use of the aes128-cbc cipher and diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 key exchange.

#### --sftp-disable-hashcheck

Disable the execution of SSH commands to determine if remote file hashing is available.

Leave blank or set to false to enable hashing (recommended), set to true to disable hashing.

Properties:

- Config:      disable_hashcheck
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_DISABLE_HASHCHECK
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-ssh

Path and arguments to external ssh binary.

Normally rclone will use its internal ssh library to connect to the
SFTP server. However it does not implement all possible ssh options so
it may be desirable to use an external ssh binary.

Rclone ignores all the internal config if you use this option and
expects you to configure the ssh binary with the user/host/port and
any other options you need.

**Important** The ssh command must log in without asking for a
password so needs to be configured with keys or certificates.

Rclone will run the command supplied either with the additional
arguments "-s sftp" to access the SFTP subsystem or with commands such
as "md5sum /path/to/file" appended to read checksums.

Any arguments with spaces in should be surrounded by "double quotes".

An example setting might be:

    ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=20 user@example.com

Note that when using an external ssh binary rclone makes a new ssh
connection for every hash it calculates.


Properties:

- Config:      ssh
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SSH
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP).

#### --sftp-known-hosts-file

Optional path to known_hosts file.

Set this value to enable server host key validation. Set to `none` to silence the "No host key validation" notice.

Leading `~` will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as `${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}`.

Properties:

- Config:      known_hosts_file
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KNOWN_HOSTS_FILE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "~/.ssh/known_hosts"
    - Use OpenSSH's known_hosts file.

#### --sftp-pin-host-key

Pin the server host key on first connection (Trust On First Use).

Intended for one-time use as the `--sftp-pin-host-key` command-line
flag. Run rclone once with the flag and the server's host key will be
recorded into the host_keys config option. On subsequent runs (without
the flag) host_keys is consulted and any mismatch is refused.

Setting this option persistently in the config file is not
recommended. While it is set, rclone will also accept any new
host key algorithm the server later presents, which widens the trust
surface beyond the initial pin. To pin a new key after a legitimate
key change, re-run with the flag.

The first connection is unauthenticated, so ideally do it over a
trusted network or cross-check the fingerprint rclone logs against
one provided out of band.

If known_hosts_file is also set, that takes precedence and this option
is ignored.

Properties:

- Config:      pin_host_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PIN_HOST_KEY
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-host-keys

Pinned host keys for this remote, used to verify the server.

Comma-separated list of "algo base64-key" entries (the same format as
the second and third fields of an OpenSSH known_hosts line). Usually
populated automatically by running once with --sftp-pin-host-key, but
can be set by hand to pin a server's public key obtained out of band.
Note that each entry is the complete public key, not its SHA256
fingerprint.

When non-empty, the offered host key must match one of the entries or
the connection is refused. To re-pin after a legitimate key change,
clear this option and reconnect with --sftp-pin-host-key, or edit the
value directly.

At most 16 entries may be pinned.

Properties:

- Config:      host_keys
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_HOST_KEYS
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-ask-password

Allow asking for SFTP password when needed.

If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will:
- ask for a password
- not contact the ssh agent


Properties:

- Config:      ask_password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_ASK_PASSWORD
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-path-override

Override path used by SSH shell commands.

This allows checksum calculation when SFTP and SSH paths are
different. This issue affects among others Synology NAS boxes.

E.g. if shared folders can be found in directories representing volumes:

    rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/directory --sftp-path-override /volume2/directory

E.g. if home directory can be found in a shared folder called "home":

    rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/home/directory --sftp-path-override /volume1/homes/USER/directory
	
To specify only the path to the SFTP remote's root, and allow rclone to add any relative subpaths automatically (including unwrapping/decrypting remotes as necessary), add the '@' character to the beginning of the path.

E.g. the first example above could be rewritten as:

	rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/directory --sftp-path-override @/volume2
	
Note that when using this method with Synology "home" folders, the full "/homes/USER" path should be specified instead of "/home".

E.g. the second example above should be rewritten as:

	rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/homes/USER/directory --sftp-path-override @/volume1

Properties:

- Config:      path_override
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_PATH_OVERRIDE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Del,Ctl,Dot

#### --sftp-set-modtime

Set the modified time on the remote if set.

Properties:

- Config:      set_modtime
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SET_MODTIME
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --sftp-shell-type

The type of SSH shell on remote server, if any.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      shell_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SHELL_TYPE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "none"
    - No shell access
  - "unix"
    - Unix shell
  - "powershell"
    - PowerShell
  - "cmd"
    - Windows Command Prompt

#### --sftp-hashes

Comma separated list of supported checksum types.

Properties:

- Config:      hashes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_HASHES
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-md5sum-command

The command used to read MD5 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      md5sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_MD5SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-sha1sum-command

The command used to read SHA-1 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      sha1sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SHA1SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-crc32sum-command

The command used to read CRC-32 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      crc32sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_CRC32SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-sha256sum-command

The command used to read SHA-256 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      sha256sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SHA256SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-blake3sum-command

The command used to read BLAKE3 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      blake3sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_BLAKE3SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-xxh3sum-command

The command used to read XXH3 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      xxh3sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_XXH3SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-xxh128sum-command

The command used to read XXH128 hashes.

Leave blank for autodetect.

Properties:

- Config:      xxh128sum_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_XXH128SUM_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-skip-links

Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files.

This only affects listing: symlinks and other non regular files are
omitted from directory listings. It is not a security control and does
not prevent writes from following symlinks on the server - confining an
SFTP account to a directory must be enforced server side (for example
with a chroot jail or restricted permissions).

Properties:

- Config:      skip_links
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SKIP_LINKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-subsystem

Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host.

Properties:

- Config:      subsystem
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SUBSYSTEM
- Type:        string
- Default:     "sftp"

#### --sftp-server-command

Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host.

The subsystem option is ignored when server_command is defined.

If adding server_command to the configuration file please note that 
it should not be enclosed in quotes, since that will make rclone fail.

A working example is:

    [remote_name]
    type = sftp
    server_command = sudo /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

Properties:

- Config:      server_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SERVER_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-use-fstat

If set use fstat instead of stat.

Some servers limit the amount of open files and calling Stat after opening
the file will throw an error from the server. Setting this flag will call
Fstat instead of Stat which is called on an already open file handle.

It has been found that this helps with IBM Sterling SFTP servers which have
"extractability" level set to 1 which means only 1 file can be opened at
any given time.


Properties:

- Config:      use_fstat
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_USE_FSTAT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads

If set don't use concurrent reads.

Normally concurrent reads are safe to use and not using them will
degrade performance, so this option is disabled by default.

Some servers limit the amount number of times a file can be
downloaded. Using concurrent reads can trigger this limit, so if you
have a server which returns

    Failed to copy: file does not exist

Then you may need to enable this flag.

If concurrent reads are disabled, the use_fstat option is ignored.


Properties:

- Config:      disable_concurrent_reads
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_DISABLE_CONCURRENT_READS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes

If set don't use concurrent writes.

Normally rclone uses concurrent writes to upload files. This improves
the performance greatly, especially for distant servers.

This option disables concurrent writes should that be necessary.


Properties:

- Config:      disable_concurrent_writes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_DISABLE_CONCURRENT_WRITES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-idle-timeout

Max time before closing idle connections.

If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time
given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.


Properties:

- Config:      idle_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_IDLE_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --sftp-chunk-size

Upload and download chunk size.

This controls the maximum size of payload in SFTP protocol packets.
The RFC limits this to 32768 bytes (32k), which is the default. However,
a lot of servers support larger sizes, typically limited to a maximum
total package size of 256k, and setting it larger will increase transfer
speed dramatically on high latency links. This includes OpenSSH, and,
for example, using the value of 255k works well, leaving plenty of room
for overhead while still being within a total packet size of 256k.

Make sure to test thoroughly before using a value higher than 32k,
and only use it if you always connect to the same server or after
sufficiently broad testing. If you get errors such as
"failed to send packet payload: EOF", lots of "connection lost",
or "corrupted on transfer", when copying a larger file, try lowering
the value. The server run by [rclone serve sftp](/commands/rclone_serve_sftp)
sends packets with standard 32k maximum payload so you must not
set a different chunk_size when downloading files, but it accepts
packets up to the 256k total size, so for uploads the chunk_size
can be set as for the OpenSSH example above.


Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     32Ki

#### --sftp-concurrency

The maximum number of outstanding requests for one file

This controls the maximum number of outstanding requests for one file.
Increasing it will increase throughput on high latency links at the
cost of using more memory.


Properties:

- Config:      concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     64

#### --sftp-connections

Maximum number of SFTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited.

Note that setting this is very likely to cause deadlocks so it should
be used with care.

If you are doing a sync or copy then make sure connections is one more
than the sum of `--transfers` and `--checkers`.

If you use `--check-first` then it just needs to be one more than the
maximum of `--checkers` and `--transfers`.

So for `connections 3` you'd use `--checkers 2 --transfers 2
--check-first` or `--checkers 1 --transfers 1`.



Properties:

- Config:      connections
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_CONNECTIONS
- Type:        int
- Default:     0

#### --sftp-set-env

Environment variables to pass to sftp and commands

Set environment variables in the form:

    VAR=value

to be passed to the sftp client and to any commands run (eg md5sum).

Pass multiple variables space separated, eg

    VAR1=value VAR2=value

and pass variables with spaces in quotes, eg

    "VAR3=value with space" "VAR4=value with space" VAR5=nospacehere



Properties:

- Config:      set_env
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SET_ENV
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-ciphers

Space separated list of ciphers to be used for session encryption, ordered by preference.

At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q cipher.

This must not be set if use_insecure_cipher is true.

Example:

    aes128-ctr aes192-ctr aes256-ctr aes128-gcm@openssh.com aes256-gcm@openssh.com


Properties:

- Config:      ciphers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_CIPHERS
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-key-exchange

Space separated list of key exchange algorithms, ordered by preference.

At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q kex.

This must not be set if use_insecure_cipher is true.

Example:

    sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com curve25519-sha256 curve25519-sha256@libssh.org ecdh-sha2-nistp256


Properties:

- Config:      key_exchange
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_EXCHANGE
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-macs

Space separated list of MACs (message authentication code) algorithms, ordered by preference.

At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q mac.

Example:

    umac-64-etm@openssh.com umac-128-etm@openssh.com hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com


Properties:

- Config:      macs
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_MACS
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-host-key-algorithms

Space separated list of host key algorithms, ordered by preference.

At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q HostKeyAlgorithms.

Note: This can affect the outcome of key negotiation with the server even if server host key validation is not enabled.

Example:

    ssh-ed25519 ssh-rsa ssh-dss


Properties:

- Config:      host_key_algorithms
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_HOST_KEY_ALGORITHMS
- Type:        SpaceSepList
- Default:     

#### --sftp-socks-proxy

Socks 5 proxy host.
	
Supports the format user:pass@host:port, user@host:port, host:port.

Example:

	myUser:myPass@localhost:9005
	

Properties:

- Config:      socks_proxy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_SOCKS_PROXY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-http-proxy

URL for HTTP CONNECT proxy

Set this to a URL for an HTTP proxy which supports the HTTP CONNECT verb.

Supports the format http://user:pass@host:port, http://host:port, http://host.

Example:

    http://myUser:myPass@proxyhostname.example.com:8000


Properties:

- Config:      http_proxy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_HTTP_PROXY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sftp-copy-is-hardlink

Set to enable server side copies using hardlinks.

The SFTP protocol does not define a copy command so normally server
side copies are not allowed with the sftp backend.

However the SFTP protocol does support hardlinking, and if you enable
this flag then the sftp backend will support server side copies. These
will be implemented by doing a hardlink from the source to the
destination.

Not all sftp servers support this.

Note that hardlinking two files together will use no additional space
as the source and the destination will be the same file.

This feature may be useful backups made with --copy-dest.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_is_hardlink
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_COPY_IS_HARDLINK
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --sftp-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SFTP_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

On some SFTP servers (e.g. Synology) the paths are different
for SSH and SFTP so the hashes can't be calculated properly.
You can either use [`--sftp-path-override`](#--sftp-path-override)
or [`disable_hashcheck`](#--sftp-disable-hashcheck).

The only ssh agent supported under Windows is Putty's pageant.

The Go SSH library disables the use of the aes128-cbc cipher by
default, due to security concerns. This can be re-enabled on a
per-connection basis by setting the `use_insecure_cipher` setting in
the configuration file to `true`. Further details on the insecurity of
this cipher can be found
[in this paper](http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/SandPfinal.pdf).

SFTP isn't supported under plan9 until [this
issue](https://github.com/pkg/sftp/issues/156) is fixed.

Note that since SFTP isn't HTTP based the following flags don't work
with it: `--dump-headers`, `--dump-bodies`, `--dump-auth`.

Note that `--timeout` and `--contimeout` are both supported.

## rsync.net {#rsync-net}

rsync.net is supported through the SFTP backend.

See [rsync.net's documentation of rclone examples](https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html).

## Hetzner Storage Box {#hetzner-storage-box}

Hetzner Storage Boxes are supported through the SFTP backend on port 23.

See [Hetzner's documentation for details](https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/access/access-ssh-rsync-borg#rclone)

# Shade

This is a backend for the [Shade](https://shade.inc/) platform

## About Shade

[Shade](https://shade.inc/) is an AI-powered cloud NAS that makes your cloud files behave like a local drive, optimized for media and creative workflows. It provides fast, secure access with natural-language search, easy sharing, and scalable cloud storage.


## Accounts & Pricing

To use this backend, you need to [create a free account](https://app.shade.inc/) on Shade. You can start with a free account and get 20GB of storage for free.


## Usage

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.


## Configuration

Here is an example of making a Shade configuration.

First, create a [create a free account](https://app.shade.inc/) account and choose a plan.

You will need to log in and get the `API Key` and `Drive ID` for your account from the settings section of your account and created drive respectively.

Now run

`rclone config`

Follow this interactive process:

```sh
$ rclone config
e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> Shade

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
[OTHER OPTIONS]
xx / Shade FS
   \ (shade)
[OTHER OPTIONS]
Storage> xx

Option drive_id.
The ID of your drive, see this in the drive settings. Individual rclone configs must be made per drive.
Enter a value.
drive_id> [YOUR_ID]

Option api_key.
An API key for your account.
Enter a value.
api_key> [YOUR_API_KEY]

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: shade
- drive_id: [YOUR_ID]
- api_key: [YOUR_API_KEY]
Keep this "Shade" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Modification times and hashes

Shade does not support hashes and writing mod times.


### Transfers

Shade uses multipart uploads by default. This means that files will be chunked and sent up to Shade concurrently. In order to configure how many simultaneous uploads you want to use, upload the 'concurrency' option in the advanced config section. Note that this uses more memory and initiates more http requests.

### Deleting files

Please note that when deleting files in Shade via rclone it will delete the file instantly, instead of sending it to the trash. This means that it will not be recoverable.


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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to shade (Shade FS).

#### --shade-drive-id

The ID of your drive, see this in the drive settings. Individual rclone configs must be made per drive.

Properties:

- Config:      drive_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_DRIVE_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --shade-api-key

An API key for your account.

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_API_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to shade (Shade FS).

#### --shade-endpoint

Endpoint for the service.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      endpoint
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_ENDPOINT
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --shade-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

Note that this is stored in memory per transfer, so increasing it will
increase memory usage.

Minimum is 5MB, maximum is 5GB.

Properties:

- Config:      chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     64Mi

#### --shade-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads and copies. This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently for multipart uploads and copies.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_concurrency
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
- Type:        int
- Default:     4

#### --shade-max-upload-parts

Maximum amount of parts in a multipart upload.

Properties:

- Config:      max_upload_parts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_MAX_UPLOAD_PARTS
- Type:        int
- Default:     10000

#### --shade-token

JWT Token for performing Shade FS operations. Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --shade-token-expiry

JWT Token Expiration time. Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically

Properties:

- Config:      token_expiry
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_TOKEN_EXPIRY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --shade-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --shade-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SHADE_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

Note that Shade is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

Shade only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

`rclone about` is not supported by the Shade backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features) and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the shade backend.

Run them with

    rclone backend COMMAND remote:

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

# SMB

SMB is [a communication protocol to share files over network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block).

This relies on [go-smb2 library](https://github.com/CloudSoda/go-smb2/) for
communication with SMB protocol.

Paths are specified as `remote:sharename` (or `remote:` for the `lsd`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:item/path/to/dir`.

## Notes

The first path segment must be the name of the share, which you entered when
you started to share on Windows. On smbd, it's the section title in `smb.conf`
(usually in `/etc/samba/`) file.
You can find shares by querying the root if you're unsure (e.g. `rclone lsd remote:`).

You can't access the shared printers from rclone, obviously.

You can't use Anonymous access for logging in. You have to use the `guest` user
with an empty password instead. The rclone client tries to avoid 8.3 names when
uploading files by encoding trailing spaces and periods. Alternatively,
[the local backend](https://rclone.org/local/#paths-on-windows) on Windows can access SMB servers
using UNC paths, by `\\server\share`. This doesn't apply to non-Windows OSes,
such as Linux and macOS.

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a SMB configuration.

First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
XX / SMB / CIFS
   \ (smb)
Storage> smb

Option host.
Samba hostname to connect to.
E.g. "example.com".
Enter a value.
host> localhost

Option user.
Samba username.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (lesmi).
user> guest

Option port.
Samba port number.
Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default (445).
port> 

Option pass.
Samba password.
Choose an alternative below. Press Enter for the default (n).
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No, leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> g
Password strength in bits.
64 is just about memorable
128 is secure
1024 is the maximum
Bits> 64
Your password is: XXXX
Use this password? Please note that an obscured version of this 
password (and not the password itself) will be stored under your 
configuration file, so keep this generated password in a safe place.
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> y

Option domain.
Domain name for NTLM authentication.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (WORKGROUP).
domain> 

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: samba
- host: localhost
- user: guest
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> d
```

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to smb (SMB / CIFS).

#### --smb-host

SMB server hostname to connect to.

E.g. "example.com".

Properties:

- Config:      host
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_HOST
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --smb-user

SMB username.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_USER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "$USER"

#### --smb-port

SMB port number.

Properties:

- Config:      port
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_PORT
- Type:        int
- Default:     445

#### --smb-pass

SMB password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --smb-domain

Domain name for NTLM authentication.

Properties:

- Config:      domain
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_DOMAIN
- Type:        string
- Default:     "WORKGROUP"

#### --smb-spn

Service principal name.

Rclone presents this name to the server. Some servers use this as further
authentication, and it often needs to be set for clusters. For example:

    cifs/remotehost:1020

Leave blank if not sure.


Properties:

- Config:      spn
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_SPN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --smb-use-kerberos

Use Kerberos authentication.

If set, rclone will use Kerberos authentication instead of NTLM. This
requires a valid Kerberos configuration and credentials cache to be
available, either in the default locations or as specified by the
KRB5_CONFIG and KRB5CCNAME environment variables.


Properties:

- Config:      use_kerberos
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_USE_KERBEROS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to smb (SMB / CIFS).

#### --smb-idle-timeout

Max time before closing idle connections.

If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time
given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.


Properties:

- Config:      idle_timeout
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_IDLE_TIMEOUT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --smb-hide-special-share

Hide special shares (e.g. print$) which users aren't supposed to access.

Properties:

- Config:      hide_special_share
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_HIDE_SPECIAL_SHARE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --smb-case-insensitive

Whether the server is configured to be case-insensitive.

Always true on Windows shares.

Properties:

- Config:      case_insensitive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_CASE_INSENSITIVE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --smb-kerberos-ccache

Path to the Kerberos credential cache (krb5cc).

Overrides the default KRB5CCNAME environment variable and allows this
instance of the SMB backend to use a different Kerberos cache file.
This is useful when mounting multiple SMB with different credentials
or running in multi-user environments.

Supported formats:
  - FILE:/path/to/ccache   – Use the specified file.
  - DIR:/path/to/ccachedir – Use the primary file inside the specified directory.
  - /path/to/ccache        – Interpreted as a file path.

Properties:

- Config:      kerberos_ccache
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_KERBEROS_CCACHE
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --smb-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --smb-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SMB_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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# Storj

[Storj](https://storj.io) is redefining the cloud to support the
future of data—sustainably and economically. Storj leverages the vast
global supply of underutilized resources to deliver better security,
durability, and performance services. Experience up to 90% lower costs
and carbon reduction with Storj.

Storj is an encrypted, secure, and cost-effective object storage service
that enables you to store, back up, and archive large amounts of data
in a decentralized manner.

## Backend options

Storj can be used both with this native backend and with the [s3
backend using the Storj S3 compatible gateway](https://rclone.org/s3/#storj) (shared or private).

Use this backend to take advantage of client-side encryption as well
as to achieve the best possible download performance. Uploads will be
erasure-coded locally, thus a 1gb upload will result in 2.68gb of data
being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

Use the s3 backend and one of the S3 compatible Hosted Gateways to
increase upload performance and reduce the load on your systems and
network. Uploads will be encrypted and erasure-coded server-side, thus
a 1GB upload will result in only in 1GB of data being uploaded to
storage nodes across the network.

Side by side comparison with more details:

- Characteristics:
  - *Storj backend*: Uses native RPC protocol, connects directly
    to the storage nodes which hosts the data. Requires more CPU
    resource of encoding/decoding and has network amplification
    (especially during the upload), uses lots of TCP connections
  - *S3 backend*: Uses S3 compatible HTTP Rest API via the shared
    gateways. There is no network amplification, but performance
    depends on the shared gateways and the secret encryption key is
    shared with the gateway.
- Typical usage:
  - *Storj backend*: Server environments and desktops with enough
    resources, internet speed and connectivity - and applications
    where storjs client-side encryption is required.
  - *S3 backend*: Desktops and similar with limited resources,
    internet speed or connectivity.
- Security:
  - *Storj backend*: **strong**. Private encryption key doesn't
    need to leave the local computer.
  - *S3 backend*: **weaker**. Private encryption key is [shared
    with](https://docs.storj.io/dcs/api-reference/s3-compatible-gateway#security-and-encryption)
    the authentication service of the hosted gateway, where it's
    stored encrypted. It can be stronger when combining with the
    rclone [crypt](/crypt) backend.
- Bandwidth usage (upload):
  - *Storj backend*: **higher**. As data is erasure coded on the
    client side both the original data and the parities should be
    uploaded. About ~2.7 times more data is required to be uploaded.
    Client may start to upload with even higher number of nodes (~3.7
    times more) and abandon/stop the slow uploads.
  - *S3 backend*: **normal**. Only the raw data is uploaded, erasure
    coding happens on the gateway.
- Bandwidth usage (download)
  - *Storj backend*: **almost normal**. Only the minimal number
    of data is required, but to avoid very slow data providers a few
    more sources are used and the slowest are ignored (max 1.2x
    overhead).
  - *S3 backend*: **normal**. Only the raw data is downloaded, erasure
    coding happens on the shared gateway.
- CPU usage:
  - *Storj backend*: **higher**, but more predictable. Erasure
    code and encryption/decryption happens locally which requires
    significant CPU usage.
  - *S3 backend*: **less**. Erasure code and encryption/decryption
    happens on shared s3 gateways (and as is, it depends on the
    current load on the gateways)
- TCP connection usage:
  - *Storj backend*: **high**. A direct connection is required to
    each of the Storj nodes resulting in 110 connections on upload and
    35 on download per 64 MB segment. Not all the connections are
    actively used (slow ones are pruned), but they are all opened.
    [Adjusting the max open file limit](https://rclone.org/storj/#known-issues) may
    be required.
  - *S3 backend*: **normal**. Only one connection per download/upload
    thread is required to the shared gateway.
- Overall performance:
  - *Storj backend*: with enough resources (CPU and bandwidth)
    *storj* backend can provide even 2x better performance. Data
    is directly downloaded to / uploaded from to the client instead of
    the gateway.
  - *S3 backend*: Can be faster on edge devices where CPU and network
    bandwidth is limited as the shared S3 compatible gateways take
    care about the encrypting/decryption and erasure coding and no
    download/upload amplification.
- Decentralization:
  - *Storj backend*: **high**. Data is downloaded directly from
    the distributed cloud of storage providers.
  - *S3 backend*: **low**. Requires a running S3 gateway (either
    self-hosted or Storj-hosted).
- Limitations:
  - *Storj backend*: `rclone checksum` is not possible without
    download, as checksum metadata is not calculated during upload
  - *S3 backend*: secret encryption key is shared with the gateway

## Configuration

To make a new Storj configuration you need one of the following:

- Access Grant that someone else shared with you.
- [API Key](https://documentation.storj.io/getting-started/uploading-your-first-object/create-an-api-key)
  of a Storj project you are a member of.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

### Setup with access grant

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
   \ "storj"
[snip]
Storage> storj
** See help for storj backend at: https://rclone.org/storj/ **

Choose an authentication method.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("existing").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Use an existing access grant.
   \ "existing"
 2 / Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
   \ "new"
provider> existing
Access Grant.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
access_grant> your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: storj
- access_grant: your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

### Setup with API key and passphrase

```text
No remotes found, make a new one\?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
   \ "storj"
[snip]
Storage> storj
** See help for storj backend at: https://rclone.org/storj/ **

Choose an authentication method.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("existing").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Use an existing access grant.
   \ "existing"
 2 / Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
   \ "new"
provider> new
Satellite Address. Custom satellite address should match the format: `<nodeid>@<address>:<port>`.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("us1.storj.io").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / US1
   \ "us1.storj.io"
 2 / EU1
   \ "eu1.storj.io"
 3 / AP1
   \ "ap1.storj.io"
satellite_address> 1
API Key.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
api_key> your-api-key-for-your-storj-project
Encryption Passphrase. To access existing objects enter passphrase used for uploading.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
passphrase> your-human-readable-encryption-passphrase
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: storj
- satellite_address: 12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S@us1.storj.io:7777
- api_key: your-api-key-for-your-storj-project
- passphrase: your-human-readable-encryption-passphrase
- access_grant: the-access-grant-generated-from-the-api-key-and-passphrase
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/storj/storj.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to storj (Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage).

#### --storj-provider

Choose an authentication method.

Properties:

- Config:      provider
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_PROVIDER
- Type:        string
- Default:     "existing"
- Examples:
  - "existing"
    - Use an existing access grant.
  - "new"
    - Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.

#### --storj-access-grant

Access grant.

Properties:

- Config:      access_grant
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_ACCESS_GRANT
- Provider:    existing
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --storj-satellite-address

Satellite address.

Custom satellite address should match the format: `<nodeid>@<address>:<port>`.

Properties:

- Config:      satellite_address
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_SATELLITE_ADDRESS
- Provider:    new
- Type:        string
- Default:     "us1.storj.io"
- Examples:
  - "us1.storj.io"
    - US1
  - "eu1.storj.io"
    - EU1
  - "ap1.storj.io"
    - AP1

#### --storj-api-key

API key.

Properties:

- Config:      api_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_API_KEY
- Provider:    new
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --storj-passphrase

Encryption passphrase.

To access existing objects enter passphrase used for uploading.

Properties:

- Config:      passphrase
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_PASSPHRASE
- Provider:    new
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to storj (Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage).

#### --storj-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_STORJ_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Usage

Paths are specified as `remote:bucket` (or `remote:` for the `lsf`
command.)  You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. `remote:bucket/path/to/dir`.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this.

### Create a new bucket

Use the `mkdir` command to create new bucket, e.g. `bucket`.

```console
rclone mkdir remote:bucket
```

### List all buckets

Use the `lsf` command to list all buckets.

```console
rclone lsf remote:
```

Note the colon (`:`) character at the end of the command line.

### Delete a bucket

Use the `rmdir` command to delete an empty bucket.

```console
rclone rmdir remote:bucket
```

Use the `purge` command to delete a non-empty bucket with all its content.

```console
rclone purge remote:bucket
```

### Upload objects

Use the `copy` command to upload an object.

```console
rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/file.ext remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

The `--progress` flag is for displaying progress information.
Remove it if you don't need this information.

Use a folder in the local path to upload all its objects.

```console
rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

Only modified files will be copied.

### List objects

Use the `ls` command to list recursively all objects in a bucket.

```console
rclone ls remote:bucket
```

Add the folder to the remote path to list recursively all objects in this folder.

```console
$ rclone ls remote:bucket
/path/to/dir/
```

Use the `lsf` command to list non-recursively all objects in a bucket or a folder.

```console
rclone lsf remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

### Download objects

Use the `copy` command to download an object.

```console
rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext /home/local/directory/
```

The `--progress` flag is for displaying progress information.
Remove it if you don't need this information.

Use a folder in the remote path to download all its objects.

```console
rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
```

### Delete objects

Use the `deletefile` command to delete a single object.

```console
rclone deletefile remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext
```

Use the `delete` command to delete all object in a folder.

```console
rclone delete remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

### Print the total size of objects

Use the `size` command to print the total size of objects in a bucket or a folder.

```console
rclone size remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

### Sync two Locations

Use the `sync` command to sync the source to the destination,
changing the destination only, deleting any excess files.

```console
rclone sync --interactive --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

The `--progress` flag is for displaying progress information.
Remove it if you don't need this information.

Since this can cause data loss, test first with the `--dry-run` flag
to see exactly what would be copied and deleted.

The sync can be done also from Storj to the local file system.

```console
rclone sync --interactive --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
```

Or between two Storj buckets.

```console
rclone sync --interactive --progress remote-us:bucket/path/to/dir/ remote-europe:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

Or even between another cloud storage and Storj.

```console
rclone sync --interactive --progress s3:bucket/path/to/dir/ storj:bucket/path/to/dir/
```

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the rclone Storj backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

## Known issues

If you get errors like `too many open files` this usually happens when the
default `ulimit` for system max open files is exceeded. Native Storj protocol
opens a large number of TCP connections (each of which is counted as an open
file). For a single upload stream you can expect 110 TCP connections to be
opened. For a single download stream you can expect 35. This batch of
connections will be opened for every 64 MiB segment and you should also
expect TCP connections to be reused. If you do many transfers you eventually
open a connection to most storage nodes (thousands of nodes).

To fix these, please raise your system limits. You can do this issuing a
`ulimit -n 65536` just before you run rclone. To change the limits more
permanently you can add this to your shell startup script,
e.g. `$HOME/.bashrc`, or change the system-wide configuration,
usually `/etc/sysctl.conf` and/or `/etc/security/limits.conf`, but please
refer to your operating system manual.

# SugarSync

[SugarSync](https://sugarsync.com) is a cloud service that enables
active synchronization of files across computers and other devices for
file backup, access, syncing, and sharing.

## Configuration

The initial setup for SugarSync involves getting a token from SugarSync which you
can do with rclone. `rclone config` walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Sugarsync
   \ "sugarsync"
[snip]
Storage> sugarsync
** See help for sugarsync backend at: https://rclone.org/sugarsync/ **

Sugarsync App ID.
Leave blank to use rclone's.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
app_id> 
Sugarsync Access Key ID.
Leave blank to use rclone's.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
access_key_id> 
Sugarsync Private Access Key
Leave blank to use rclone's.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
private_access_key> 
Permanently delete files if true
otherwise put them in the deleted files.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
hard_delete> 
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Username (email address)> nick@craig-wood.com
Your Sugarsync password is only required during setup and will not be stored.
password:
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: sugarsync
- refresh_token: https://api.sugarsync.com/app-authorization/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Note that the config asks for your email and password but doesn't
store them, it only uses them to get the initial token.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories (sync folders) in top level of your SugarSync

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your SugarSync folder "Test"

```console
rclone ls remote:Test
```

To copy a local directory to an SugarSync folder called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

**NB** you can't create files in the top level folder you have to
create a folder, which rclone will create as a "Sync Folder" with
SugarSync.

### Modification times and hashes

SugarSync does not support modification times or hashes, therefore
syncing will default to `--size-only` checking.  Note that using
`--update` will work as rclone can read the time files were uploaded.

### Restricted filename characters

SugarSync replaces the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
except for DEL.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in XML strings.

### Deleting files

Deleted files will be moved to the "Deleted items" folder by default.

However you can supply the flag `--sugarsync-hard-delete` or set the
config parameter `hard_delete = true` if you would like files to be
deleted straight away.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/sugarsync/sugarsync.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

#### --sugarsync-app-id

Sugarsync App ID.

Leave blank to use rclone's.

Properties:

- Config:      app_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_APP_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-access-key-id

Sugarsync Access Key ID.

Leave blank to use rclone's.

Properties:

- Config:      access_key_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-private-access-key

Sugarsync Private Access Key.

Leave blank to use rclone's.

Properties:

- Config:      private_access_key
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_PRIVATE_ACCESS_KEY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-hard-delete

Permanently delete files if true
otherwise put them in the deleted files.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

#### --sugarsync-refresh-token

Sugarsync refresh token.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      refresh_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_REFRESH_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-authorization

Sugarsync authorization.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      authorization
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_AUTHORIZATION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-authorization-expiry

Sugarsync authorization expiry.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      authorization_expiry
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_AUTHORIZATION_EXPIRY
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-user

Sugarsync user.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-root-id

Sugarsync root id.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      root_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_ROOT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-deleted-id

Sugarsync deleted folder id.

Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

Properties:

- Config:      deleted_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_DELETED_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --sugarsync-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --sugarsync-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_SUGARSYNC_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

`rclone about` is not supported by the SugarSync backend. Backends without
this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or
use policy `mfs` (most free space) as a member of an rclone union
remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Uloz.to

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

The initial setup for Uloz.to involves filling in the user credentials.
`rclone config` walks you through it.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Uloz.to
   \ "ulozto"
[snip]
Storage> ulozto

Option app_token.
The application token identifying the app. An app API key can be either found in the API doc 
https://uloz.to/upload-resumable-api-beta or obtained from customer service.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
app_token> token_value

Option username.
The username of the principal to operate as.
Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
username> user

Option password.
The password for the user.
Choose an alternative below. Press Enter for the default (n).
y) Yes, type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No, leave this optional password blank (default)
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:

Edit advanced config?
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List folders in root level folder:

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your root folder:

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local folder to a Uloz.to folder called backup:

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### User credentials

The only reliable method is to authenticate the user using
username and password. Uloz.to offers an API key as well, but
it's reserved for the use of Uloz.to's in-house application
and using it in different circumstances is unreliable.

### Modification times and hashes

Uloz.to doesn't allow the user to set a custom modification time,
or retrieve the hashes after upload. As a result, the integration
uses a free form field the API provides to encode client-provided
timestamps and hashes. Timestamps are stored with microsecond
precision.

A server calculated MD5 hash of the file is verified upon upload.
Afterwards, the backend only serves the client-side calculated
hashes. Hashes can also be retrieved upon creating a file download
link, but it's impractical for `list`-like use cases.

### Restricted filename characters

In addition to the [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
the following characters are also replaced:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

### Transfers

All files are currently uploaded using a single HTTP request, so
for uploading large files a stable connection is necessary.  Rclone will
upload up to `--transfers` chunks at the same time (shared among all
uploads).

### Deleting files

By default, files are moved to the recycle bin whereas folders
are deleted immediately. Trashed files are permanently deleted after
30 days in the recycle bin.

Emptying the trash is currently not implemented in rclone.

### Root folder ID

You can set the `root_folder_slug` for rclone.  This is the folder
(identified by its `Folder slug`) that rclone considers to be the root
of your Uloz.to drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the
correct root to use itself. However you can set this to restrict rclone
to a specific folder hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the `Folder slug` of the
folder you wish to use as root.  This will be the last segment
of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the Uloz.to web
interface.

For example, for exploring a folder with URL
`https://uloz.to/fm/my-files/foobar`, `foobar` should be used as the
root slug.

`root_folder_slug` can be used alongside a specific path in the remote
path. For example, if your remote's `root_folder_slug` corresponds to `/foo/bar`,
`remote:baz/qux` will refer to `ABSOLUTE_ULOZTO_ROOT/foo/bar/baz/qux`.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/ulozto/ulozto.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to ulozto (Uloz.to).

#### --ulozto-app-token

The application token identifying the app. An app API key can be either found in the API
doc https://uloz.to/upload-resumable-api-beta or obtained from customer service.

Properties:

- Config:      app_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_APP_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ulozto-username

The username of the principal to operate as.

Properties:

- Config:      username
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_USERNAME
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ulozto-password

The password for the user.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      password
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_PASSWORD
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to ulozto (Uloz.to).

#### --ulozto-root-folder-slug

If set, rclone will use this folder as the root folder for all operations. For example,
if the slug identifies 'foo/bar/', 'ulozto:baz' is equivalent to 'ulozto:foo/bar/baz' without
any root slug set.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_slug
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_ROOT_FOLDER_SLUG
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --ulozto-list-page-size

The size of a single page for list commands. 1-500

Properties:

- Config:      list_page_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_LIST_PAGE_SIZE
- Type:        int
- Default:     500

#### --ulozto-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --ulozto-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ULOZTO_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

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## Limitations

Uloz.to file names can't have the `\` character in.  rclone maps this to
and from an identical looking unicode equivalent `＼` (U+FF3C Fullwidth
Reverse Solidus).

Uloz.to only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

Uloz.to rate limits access to the API, but exact details are undisclosed. 
Practical testing reveals that hitting the rate limit during normal use
is very rare, although not impossible with higher number of concurrently 
uploaded files.

`rclone about` is not supported by the Uloz.to backend. Although 
there's an endpoint to retrieve the information for the UI, it's not 
exposed in the API.  Backends without this capability cannot determine 
free space for an rclone mount or use policy `mfs` (most free space) 
as a member of an rclone union remote.

See [List of backends that do not support rclone about](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features)
and [rclone about](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/).

# Union

The `union` backend joins several remotes together to make a single unified view
of them.

During the initial setup with `rclone config` you will specify the upstream
remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can either be a local
paths or other remotes.

The attributes `:ro`, `:nc` and `:writeback` can be attached to the end of the remote
to tag the remote as **read only**, **no create** or **writeback**, e.g.
`remote:directory/subdirectory:ro` or `remote:directory/subdirectory:nc`.

- `:ro` means files will only be read from here and never written
- `:nc` means new files or directories won't be created here
- `:writeback` means files found in different remotes will be written back here.
  See the [writeback section](#writeback) for more info.

Subfolders can be used in upstream remotes. Assume a union remote named `backup`
with the remotes `mydrive:private/backup`. Invoking `rclone mkdir backup:desktop`
is exactly the same as invoking `rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/desktop`.

There is no special handling of paths containing `..` segments. Invoking `rclone
mkdir backup:../desktop` is exactly the same as invoking `rclone mkdir
mydrive:private/backup/../desktop`.

## Configuration

Here is an example of how to make a union called `remote` for local folders.
First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Union merges the contents of several remotes
   \ "union"
[snip]
Storage> union
List of space separated upstreams.
Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '\"upstreama:test/space:ro dir\" upstreamb:', etc.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
upstreams> remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3:dir3
Policy to choose upstream on ACTION class.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epall").
action_policy>
Policy to choose upstream on CREATE class.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epmfs").
create_policy>
Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH class.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("ff").
search_policy>
Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds). This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.
Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default ("120").
cache_time>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: union
- upstreams: remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3:dir3
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               union

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this:

List directories in top level in `remote1:dir1`, `remote2:dir2` and `remote3:dir3`

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in `remote1:dir1`, `remote2:dir2` and `remote3:dir3`

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

Copy another local directory to the union directory called source, which will be
placed into `remote3:dir3`

```console
rclone copy C:\source remote:source
```

### Behavior / Policies

The behavior of union backend is inspired by [trapexit/mergerfs](https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs).
All functions are grouped into 3 categories: **action**, **create** and **search**.
These functions and categories can be assigned a policy which dictates what file
or directory is chosen when performing that behavior. Any policy can be assigned
to a function or category though some may not be very useful in practice. For
instance: **rand** (random) may be useful for file creation (create) but could
lead to very odd behavior if used for `delete` if there were more than one copy
of the file.

### Function / Category classifications

| Category | Description              | Functions                                                                           |
|----------|--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| action   | Writing Existing file    | move, rmdir, rmdirs, delete, purge and copy, sync (as destination when file exist)  |
| create   | Create non-existing file | copy, sync (as destination when file not exist)                                     |
| search   | Reading and listing file | ls, lsd, lsl, cat, md5sum, sha1sum and copy, sync (as source)                       |
| N/A      |                          | size, about                                                                         |

### Path Preservation

Policies, as described below, are of two basic types. `path preserving` and
`non-path preserving`.

All policies which start with `ep` (**epff**, **eplfs**, **eplus**, **epmfs**, **eprand**)
are `path preserving`. `ep` stands for `existing path`.

A path preserving policy will only consider upstreams where the relative path
being accessed already exists.

When using non-path preserving policies paths will be created in target upstreams
as necessary.

### Quota Relevant Policies

Some policies rely on quota information. These policies should be used only if
your upstreams support the respective quota fields.

| Policy     | Required Field |
|------------|----------------|
| lfs, eplfs | Free           |
| mfs, epmfs | Free           |
| lus, eplus | Used           |
| lno, eplno | Objects        |

To check if your upstream supports the field, run `rclone about remote: [flags]`
and see if the required field exists.

### Filters

Policies basically search upstream remotes and create a list of files / paths for
functions to work on. The policy is responsible for filtering and sorting. The
policy type defines the sorting but filtering is mostly uniform as described below.

- No **search** policies filter.
- All **action** policies will filter out remotes which are tagged as **read-only**.
- All **create** policies will filter out remotes which are tagged **read-only**
  or **no-create**.

If all remotes are filtered an error will be returned.

### Policy descriptions

The policies definition are inspired by [trapexit/mergerfs](https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs)
but not exactly the same. Some policy definition could be different due to the
much larger latency of remote file systems.

| Policy           | Description                                                |
|------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| all | Search category: same as **epall**. Action category: same as **epall**. Create category: act on all upstreams. |
| epall (existing path, all) | Search category: Given this order configured, act on the first one found where the relative path exists. Action category: apply to all found. Create category: act on all upstreams where the relative path exists. |
| epff (existing path, first found) | Act on the first one found, by the time upstreams reply, where the relative path exists. |
| eplfs (existing path, least free space) | Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least free space. |
| eplus (existing path, least used space) | Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least used space. |
| eplno (existing path, least number of objects) | Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least number of objects. |
| epmfs (existing path, most free space) | Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the most free space. |
| eprand (existing path, random) | Calls **epall** and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream. |
| ff (first found) | Search category: same as **epff**. Action category: same as **epff**. Create category: Act on the first one found by the time upstreams reply. |
| lfs (least free space) | Search category: same as **eplfs**. Action category: same as **eplfs**. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least available free space. |
| lus (least used space) | Search category: same as **eplus**. Action category: same as **eplus**. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least used space. |
| lno (least number of objects) | Search category: same as **eplno**. Action category: same as **eplno**. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least number of objects. |
| mfs (most free space) | Search category: same as **epmfs**. Action category: same as **epmfs**. Create category: Pick the upstream with the most available free space. |
| newest | Pick the file / directory with the largest mtime. |
| rand (random) | Calls **all** and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream. |

### Writeback {#writeback}

The tag `:writeback` on an upstream remote can be used to make a simple cache
system like this:

```ini
[union]
type = union
action_policy = all
create_policy = all
search_policy = ff
upstreams = /local:writeback remote:dir
```

When files are opened for read, if the file is in `remote:dir` but not `/local`
then rclone will copy the file entirely into `/local` before returning a
reference to the file in `/local`. The copy will be done with the equivalent of
`rclone copy` so will use `--multi-thread-streams` if configured. Any copies
will be logged with an INFO log.

When files are written, they will be written to both `remote:dir` and `/local`.

As many remotes as desired can be added to `upstreams` but there should only be
one `:writeback` tag.

Rclone does not manage the `:writeback` remote in any way other than writing
files back to it. So if you need to expire old files or manage the size then you
will have to do this yourself.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to union (Union merges the contents of several upstream fs).

#### --union-upstreams

List of space separated upstreams.

Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '"upstreama:test/space:ro dir" upstreamb:', etc.

Properties:

- Config:      upstreams
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_UPSTREAMS
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --union-action-policy

Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category.

Properties:

- Config:      action_policy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_ACTION_POLICY
- Type:        string
- Default:     "epall"

#### --union-create-policy

Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category.

Properties:

- Config:      create_policy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_CREATE_POLICY
- Type:        string
- Default:     "epmfs"

#### --union-search-policy

Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category.

Properties:

- Config:      search_policy
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_SEARCH_POLICY
- Type:        string
- Default:     "ff"

#### --union-cache-time

Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds).

This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.

Properties:

- Config:      cache_time
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_CACHE_TIME
- Type:        int
- Default:     120

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to union (Union merges the contents of several upstream fs).

#### --union-min-free-space

Minimum viable free space for lfs/eplfs policies.

If a remote has less than this much free space then it won't be
considered for use in lfs or eplfs policies.

Properties:

- Config:      min_free_space
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_MIN_FREE_SPACE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     1Gi

#### --union-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_UNION_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

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# WebDAV

Paths are specified as `remote:path`

Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

## Configuration

To configure the WebDAV remote you will need to have a URL for it, and
a username and password.  If you know what kind of system you are
connecting to then rclone can enable extra features.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`.  First run:

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / WebDAV
   \ "webdav"
[snip]
Storage> webdav
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "https://example.com"
url> https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Fastmail Files
   \ (fastmail)
 2 / Nextcloud
   \ (nextcloud)
 3 / Owncloud
   \ (owncloud)
 4 / Sharepoint Online, authenticated by Microsoft account
   \ (sharepoint)
 5 / Sharepoint with NTLM authentication, usually self-hosted or on-premises
   \ (sharepoint-ntlm)
 6 / rclone WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the WebDAV protocol
   \ (rclone)
 7 / Other site/service or software
   \ (other)
vendor> 2
User name
user> user
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon)
bearer_token>
Remote config
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: webdav
- url: https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
- vendor: nextcloud
- user: user
- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
- bearer_token:
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

List directories in top level of your WebDAV

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

List all the files in your WebDAV

```console
rclone ls remote:
```

To copy a local directory to an WebDAV directory called backup

```console
rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
```

### Modification times and hashes

Plain WebDAV does not support modified times.  However when used with
Fastmail Files, ownCloud or Nextcloud rclone will support modified times.

Likewise plain WebDAV does not support hashes, however when used with
Fastmail Files, ownCloud or Nextcloud rclone will support SHA1 and MD5 hashes.
Depending on the exact version of ownCloud or Nextcloud hashes may
appear on all objects, or only on objects which had a hash uploaded
with them.

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### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to webdav (WebDAV).

#### --webdav-url

URL of http host to connect to.

E.g. https://example.com.

Properties:

- Config:      url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    true

#### --webdav-vendor

Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using.

Properties:

- Config:      vendor
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_VENDOR
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "fastmail"
    - Fastmail Files
  - "nextcloud"
    - Nextcloud
  - "owncloud"
    - Owncloud 10 PHP based WebDAV server
  - "infinitescale"
    - ownCloud Infinite Scale
  - "sharepoint"
    - Sharepoint Online, authenticated by Microsoft account
  - "sharepoint-ntlm"
    - Sharepoint with NTLM authentication, usually self-hosted or on-premises
  - "rclone"
    - rclone WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the WebDAV protocol
  - "other"
    - Other site/service or software

#### --webdav-user

User name.

In case NTLM authentication is used, the username should be in the format 'Domain\User'.

Properties:

- Config:      user
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_USER
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --webdav-pass

Password.

**NB** Input to this must be obscured - see [rclone obscure](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/).

Properties:

- Config:      pass
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_PASS
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --webdav-bearer-token

Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon).

Properties:

- Config:      bearer_token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_BEARER_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to webdav (WebDAV).

#### --webdav-bearer-token-command

Command to run to get a bearer token.

Properties:

- Config:      bearer_token_command
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_BEARER_TOKEN_COMMAND
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --webdav-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Default encoding is Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8 for sharepoint-ntlm or identity otherwise.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_ENCODING
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --webdav-headers

Set HTTP headers for all transactions.

Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions

The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs.  Standard
[CSV encoding](https://godoc.org/encoding/csv) may be used.

For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.


Properties:

- Config:      headers
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_HEADERS
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --webdav-pacer-min-sleep

Minimum time to sleep between API calls.

Properties:

- Config:      pacer_min_sleep
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_PACER_MIN_SLEEP
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     10ms

#### --webdav-nextcloud-chunk-size

Nextcloud upload chunk size.

We recommend configuring your NextCloud instance to increase the max chunk size to 1 GB for better upload performances.
See https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html#adjust-chunk-size-on-nextcloud-side

Set to 0 to disable chunked uploading.


Properties:

- Config:      nextcloud_chunk_size
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_NEXTCLOUD_CHUNK_SIZE
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --webdav-owncloud-exclude-shares

Exclude ownCloud shares

Properties:

- Config:      owncloud_exclude_shares
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_OWNCLOUD_EXCLUDE_SHARES
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --webdav-owncloud-exclude-mounts

Exclude ownCloud mounted storages

Properties:

- Config:      owncloud_exclude_mounts
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_OWNCLOUD_EXCLUDE_MOUNTS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --webdav-unix-socket

Path to a unix domain socket to dial to, instead of opening a TCP connection directly

Properties:

- Config:      unix_socket
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_UNIX_SOCKET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --webdav-auth-redirect

Preserve authentication on redirect.

If the server redirects rclone to a new domain when it is trying to
read a file then normally rclone will drop the Authorization: header
from the request.

This is standard security practice to avoid sending your credentials
to an unknown webserver.

However this is desirable in some circumstances. If you are getting
an error like "401 Unauthorized" when rclone is attempting to read
files from the webdav server then you can try this option.

Note that enabling this also permits sending your credentials over a
plaintext HTTP connection if the server redirects from HTTPS to HTTP,
which rclone otherwise refuses to do.


Properties:

- Config:      auth_redirect
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_AUTH_REDIRECT
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --webdav-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_WEBDAV_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Provider notes

See below for notes on specific providers.

### Fastmail Files

Use `https://webdav.fastmail.com/` or a subdirectory as the URL,
and your Fastmail email `username@domain.tld` as the username.
Follow [this documentation](https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752854-App-passwords)
to create an app password with access to `Files (WebDAV)` and use
this as the password.

Fastmail supports modified times using the `X-OC-Mtime` header.

### ownCloud

Click on the settings cog in the bottom right of the page and this
will show the WebDAV URL that rclone needs in the config step.  It
will look something like `https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/`.

ownCloud supports modified times using the `X-OC-Mtime` header.

### Nextcloud

This is configured in an identical way to ownCloud.  Note that
Nextcloud initially did not support streaming of files (`rcat`) whereas
ownCloud did, but [this](https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/issues/365)
seems to be fixed as of 2020-11-27 (tested with rclone v1.53.1 and Nextcloud
Server v19).

### ownCloud Infinite Scale

The WebDAV URL for Infinite Scale can be found in the details panel of
any space in Infinite Scale, if the display was enabled in the personal
settings of the user through a checkbox there.

Infinite Scale works with the chunking [tus](https://tus.io) upload protocol.
The chunk size is currently fixed 10 MB.

### Sharepoint Online

Rclone can be used with Sharepoint provided by OneDrive for Business
or Office365 Education Accounts.
This feature is only needed for a few of these Accounts,
mostly Office365 Education ones. These accounts are sometimes not
verified by the domain owner [github#1975](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1975)

This means that these accounts can't be added using the official
API (other Accounts should work with the "onedrive" option). However,
it is possible to access them using webdav.

To use a sharepoint remote with rclone, add it like this:
First, you need to get your remote's URL:

- Go [here](https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/signin/)
  to open your OneDrive or to sign in
- Now take a look at your address bar, the URL should look like this:
  `https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx`

You'll only need this URL up to the email address. After that, you'll
most likely want to add "/Documents". That subdirectory contains
the actual data stored on your OneDrive.

Add the remote to rclone like this:
Configure the `url` as `https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents`
and use your normal account email and password for `user` and `pass`.
If you have 2FA enabled, you have to generate an app password.
Set the `vendor` to `sharepoint`.

Your config file should look like this:

```ini
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents
vendor = sharepoint
user = YourEmailAddress
pass = encryptedpassword
```

### Sharepoint with NTLM Authentication

Use this option in case your (hosted) Sharepoint is not tied to OneDrive
accounts and uses NTLM authentication.

To get the `url` configuration, similarly to the above, first navigate to the
desired directory in your browser to get the URL, then strip everything after
the name of the opened directory.

Example:
If the URL is:
<https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx>

The configuration to use would be:
<https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents>

Set the `vendor` to `sharepoint-ntlm`.

NTLM uses domain and user name combination for authentication,
set `user` to `DOMAIN\username`.

Your config file should look like this:

```ini
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]/some-path-to/Documents
vendor = sharepoint-ntlm
user = DOMAIN\user
pass = encryptedpassword
```

#### Required Flags for SharePoint

As SharePoint does some special things with uploaded documents, you won't be
able to use the documents size or the documents hash to compare if a file has
been changed since the upload / which file is newer.

For Rclone calls copying files (especially Office files such as .docx, .xlsx, etc.)
from/to SharePoint (like copy, sync, etc.), you should append these flags to ensure
Rclone uses the "Last Modified" datetime property to compare your documents:

```text
--ignore-size --ignore-checksum --update
```

## Rclone

Use this option if you are hosting remotes over WebDAV provided by rclone.
Read [rclone serve webdav](commands/rclone_serve_webdav/) for more details.

rclone serve supports modified times using the `X-OC-Mtime` header.

### dCache

dCache is a storage system that supports many protocols and
authentication/authorisation schemes.  For WebDAV clients, it allows
users to authenticate with username and password (BASIC), X.509,
Kerberos, and various bearer tokens, including
[Macaroons](https://www.dcache.org/manuals/workshop-2017-05-29-Umea/000-Final/anupam_macaroons_v02.pdf)
and [OpenID-Connect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID_Connect)
access tokens.

Configure as normal using the `other` type.  Don't enter a username or
password, instead enter your Macaroon as the `bearer_token`.

The config will end up looking something like this.

```ini
[dcache]
type = webdav
url = https://dcache...
vendor = other
user =
pass =
bearer_token = your-macaroon
```

There is a [script](https://github.com/sara-nl/GridScripts/blob/master/get-macaroon)
that obtains a Macaroon from a dCache WebDAV endpoint, and creates an rclone config
file.

Macaroons may also be obtained from the dCacheView
web-browser/JavaScript client that comes with dCache.

### OpenID-Connect

dCache also supports authenticating with OpenID-Connect access tokens.
OpenID-Connect is a protocol (based on OAuth 2.0) that allows services
to identify users who have authenticated with some central service.

Support for OpenID-Connect in rclone is currently achieved using
another software package called
[oidc-agent](https://github.com/indigo-dc/oidc-agent).  This is a
command-line tool that facilitates obtaining an access token.  Once
installed and configured, an access token is obtained by running the
`oidc-token` command.  The following example shows a (shortened)
access token obtained from the *XDC* OIDC Provider.

```text
paul@celebrimbor:~$ oidc-token XDC
eyJraWQ[...]QFXDt0
paul@celebrimbor:~$
```

**Note** Before the `oidc-token` command will work, the refresh token
must be loaded into the oidc agent.  This is done with the `oidc-add`
command (e.g., `oidc-add XDC`).  This is typically done once per login
session.  Full details on this and how to register oidc-agent with
your OIDC Provider are provided in the [oidc-agent
documentation](https://indigo-dc.gitbooks.io/oidc-agent/).

The rclone `bearer_token_command` configuration option is used to
fetch the access token from oidc-agent.

Configure as a normal WebDAV endpoint, using the 'other' vendor,
leaving the username and password empty.  When prompted, choose to
edit the advanced config and enter the command to get a bearer token
(e.g., `oidc-agent XDC`).

The following example config shows a WebDAV endpoint that uses
oidc-agent to supply an access token from the *XDC* OIDC Provider.

```ini
[dcache]
type = webdav
url = https://dcache.example.org/
vendor = other
bearer_token_command = oidc-token XDC
```

# Yandex Disk

[Yandex Disk](https://disk.yandex.com) is a cloud storage solution created by [Yandex](https://yandex.com).

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a yandex configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
[snip]
Storage> yandex
Yandex Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Yandex Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: yandex
- client_id:
- client_secret:
- token: {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"OAuth","expiry":"2016-12-29T12:27:11.362788025Z"}
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the
token as returned from Yandex Disk. This only runs from the moment it
opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code.
This is on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/` and this it may require you to
unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

See top level directories

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new directory

```console
rclone mkdir remote:directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote path, deleting any
excess files in the path.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:directory
```

Yandex paths may be as deep as required, e.g. `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

### Modification times and hashes

Modified times are supported and are stored accurate to 1 ns in custom
metadata called `rclone_modified` in RFC3339 with nanoseconds format.

The MD5 hash algorithm is natively supported by Yandex Disk.

### Emptying Trash

If you wish to empty your trash you can use the `rclone cleanup remote:`
command which will permanently delete all your trashed files. This command
does not take any path arguments.

### Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your usage limit (quota) and the current usage.

### Restricted filename characters

The [default restricted characters set](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-characters)
are replaced.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be used in JSON strings.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/yandex/yandex.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

#### --yandex-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --yandex-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

#### --yandex-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --yandex-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --yandex-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --yandex-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --yandex-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Properties:

- Config:      hard_delete
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_HARD_DELETE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --yandex-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

#### --yandex-spoof-ua

Set the user agent to match an official version of the yandex disk client. May help with upload performance.

Properties:

- Config:      spoof_ua
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_SPOOF_UA
- Type:        bool
- Default:     true

#### --yandex-upload-wait

Wait this long after an upload before setting the modification time.

Yandex Disk finalizes an upload asynchronously on its servers after
the upload has completed. If the modification time is set while this
finalization is still in progress the server returns 500 Internal
Server Error errors.

If you are getting 500 errors on upload then setting this to 2s is
normally enough to stop them, at the cost of slowing down uploads.

Yandex support recommend a value of 1.5s - 3s.

Properties:

- Config:      upload_wait
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_UPLOAD_WAIT
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     0s

#### --yandex-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_YANDEX_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Limitations

When uploading very large files (bigger than about 5 GiB) you will need
to increase the `--timeout` parameter.  This is because Yandex pauses
(perhaps to calculate the MD5SUM for the entire file) before returning
confirmation that the file has been uploaded.  The default handling of
timeouts in rclone is to assume a 5 minute pause is an error and close
the connection - you'll see `net/http: timeout awaiting response
headers` errors in the logs if this is happening.  Setting the timeout
to twice the max size of file in GiB should be enough, so if you want
to upload a 30 GiB file set a timeout of `2 * 30 = 60m`, that is
`--timeout 60m`.

If you get `500 Internal Server Error` errors just after uploads,
particularly when uploading many files in parallel, then try setting
`--yandex-upload-wait 2s`. Yandex Disk finalizes uploads
asynchronously on its servers and can report an upload as complete
slightly before the file is ready, so accessing the file's metadata
too soon causes these errors. Yandex support recommend waiting
1.5s - 3s after each upload.

Having a Yandex Mail account is mandatory to use the Yandex.Disk subscription.
Token generation will work without a mail account, but Rclone won't be able to
complete any actions.

```text
[403 - DiskUnsupportedUserAccountTypeError] User account type is not supported.
```

# Zoho Workdrive

[Zoho WorkDrive](https://www.zoho.com/workdrive/) is a cloud storage solution
created by [Zoho](https://zoho.com).

## Configuration

Here is an example of making a zoho configuration.  First run

```console
rclone config
```

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

```text
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
XX / Zoho
   \ "zoho"
[snip]
Storage> zoho
** See help for zoho backend at: https://rclone.org/zoho/ **

OAuth Client Id
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id> 
OAuth Client Secret
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret> 
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n
Remote config
Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
 * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
 * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> 
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=LVn0IHzxej1ZkmQw31d0wQ
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / MyTeam
   \ "4u28602177065ff22426787a6745dba8954eb"
Enter a Team ID> 1
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / General
   \ "4u2869d2aa6fca04f4f2f896b6539243b85b1"
Enter a Workspace ID> 1
Configuration complete.
Options:
- type: zoho
- token: {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Zoho-oauthtoken","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2020-10-12T00:54:52.370275223+02:00"}
- root_folder_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keep this "remote" remote?
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> 
```

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for how to set it up on a
machine without an internet-connected web browser available.

Rclone runs a webserver on your local computer to collect the
authorization token from Zoho Workdrive. This is only from the moment
your browser is opened until the token is returned.
The webserver runs on `http://127.0.0.1:53682/`.
If local port `53682` is protected by a firewall you may need to temporarily
unblock the firewall to complete authorization.

Once configured you can then use `rclone` like this (replace `remote` with the
name you gave your remote):

See top level directories

```console
rclone lsd remote:
```

Make a new directory

```console
rclone mkdir remote:directory
```

List the contents of a directory

```console
rclone ls remote:directory
```

Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote path, deleting any
excess files in the path.

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/local/directory remote:directory
```

Zoho paths may be as deep as required, eg `remote:directory/subdirectory`.

### Modification times and hashes

Modified times are currently not supported for Zoho Workdrive

No hash algorithms are supported.

### Usage information

To view your current quota you can use the `rclone about remote:`
command which will display your current usage.

### Restricted filename characters

Only control characters and invalid UTF-8 are replaced. In addition most
Unicode full-width characters are not supported at all and will be removed
from filenames during upload.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/zoho/zoho.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Standard options

Here are the Standard options specific to zoho (Zoho).

#### --zoho-client-id

OAuth Client Id.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_CLIENT_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-client-secret

OAuth Client Secret.

Leave blank normally.

Properties:

- Config:      client_secret
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_CLIENT_SECRET
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-region

Zoho region to connect to.

You'll have to use the region your organization is registered in. If
not sure use the same top level domain as you connect to in your
browser.

Properties:

- Config:      region
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_REGION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false
- Examples:
  - "com"
    - United states / Global
  - "eu"
    - Europe
  - "in"
    - India
  - "jp"
    - Japan
  - "com.cn"
    - China
  - "com.au"
    - Australia

### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to zoho (Zoho).

#### --zoho-token

OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

Properties:

- Config:      token
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_TOKEN
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-auth-url

Auth server URL.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      auth_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_AUTH_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-token-url

Token server url.

Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

Properties:

- Config:      token_url
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_TOKEN_URL
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-client-credentials

Use client credentials OAuth flow.

This will use the OAUTH2 client Credentials Flow as described in RFC 6749.

Note that this option is NOT supported by all backends.

Properties:

- Config:      client_credentials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --zoho-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder.

Leave blank normally.

Fill in to make rclone use a non root folder as its starting point.

Properties:

- Config:      root_folder_id
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

#### --zoho-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to large file upload api (>= 10 MiB).

Properties:

- Config:      upload_cutoff
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
- Type:        SizeSuffix
- Default:     10Mi

#### --zoho-tpslimit

Max number of API transactions per second.

Zoho WorkDrive rate limits its API and returns HTTP 429 (error F7008,
"Request rate limit exceeded") when called too quickly, so the data API
calls (list, upload, download, copy, move, delete) are paced to this rate.

Set to 0 to disable the cap, matching the global --tpslimit; pacing still
can't be turned off entirely because backoff and Retry-After always apply.

The default of 6 is a safe sustainable rate. Higher values can trigger long
429 Retry-After stalls that make throughput WORSE, so raise it only if your
account tolerates more.

Properties:

- Config:      tpslimit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_TPSLIMIT
- Type:        float64
- Default:     6

#### --zoho-tpslimit-burst

Number of API calls to allow back-to-back without sleeping, for --zoho-tpslimit.

This is the token-bucket capacity. Keep at 1 for Zoho: a burst > 1
lets several calls fire at once after an idle gap, which can trigger
synchronized clusters of 429 errors.

Properties:

- Config:      tpslimit_burst
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_TPSLIMIT_BURST
- Type:        int
- Default:     1

#### --zoho-list-folder-limit

Max listings of the SAME folder allowed per --zoho-list-folder-window.

Zoho WorkDrive rate limits its listing API (GET files/{id}/files) PER
folder, independently of --zoho-tpslimit: listing one folder too often in a
short time returns HTTP 429 (error F7008) with a multi-minute Retry-After
penalty, which a tight polling loop can hit even at a low overall rate.
Measured live, Zoho allows ~19 listings of one folder in any rolling ~60s
window and the 20th fails, which the defaults (19 per 60s) model exactly.

This is a true per-window cap for any traffic pattern: each window starts
with --zoho-list-folder-burst listings passing back-to-back (the burst
re-arms at every window boundary) and the rest are spaced
--zoho-list-folder-window/(limit - burst) apart (the defaults give ~4.6s),
while a sliding log of recent listings enforces the cap across window
boundaries. 0 disables the limiter. Only REPEATED listings of one folder are
delayed; different folders, or a folder listed fewer than
--zoho-list-folder-burst times, never are.

A HIGHER value means MORE listings per window, not more safety: raising it
above 19 trips F7008. Lower it for a wider margin at the cost of listing
responsiveness.

Properties:

- Config:      list_folder_limit
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_LIST_FOLDER_LIMIT
- Type:        int
- Default:     19

#### --zoho-list-folder-window

The window for --zoho-list-folder-limit.

The default of 60s (shown as 1m0s) matches Zoho's real sliding window: at
most --zoho-list-folder-limit listings of one folder are allowed in any
window of this length. A bare number is parsed as seconds ("60" = "60s").

Widen it (or lower the limit) for a bigger safety margin; the sustained
spacing between same-folder listings is window/(limit - burst).

Properties:

- Config:      list_folder_window
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_LIST_FOLDER_WINDOW
- Type:        Duration
- Default:     1m0s

#### --zoho-list-folder-burst

Same-folder listings allowed back-to-back before --zoho-list-folder-limit paces them.

The burst is carved out of --zoho-list-folder-limit, so raising it never
raises the per-window total: this many listings may fire immediately and the
remaining limit - burst are spaced window/(limit - burst) apart. The burst
RE-ARMS at every window boundary, so sustained re-listing gets a fresh burst
each window while a sliding log of recent listings still enforces the
per-window cap. A folder listed only a handful of times (the common case - a
sync re-listing one directory a few times then moving on) never waits.

The default 6 is the largest burst validated live under the default 19-per-60s
cap (bursts of 4, 5 and 6 all ran clean; an over-cap probe tripped F7008
exactly at the 20th listing in a window). Keep it well below ~15 - Zoho also
has an instantaneous back-to-back cap around 15-16 regardless of the window.
Set to 1 to pace from the second listing. Values >= the limit are clamped to
limit - 1.

Properties:

- Config:      list_folder_burst
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_LIST_FOLDER_BURST
- Type:        int
- Default:     6

#### --zoho-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8

#### --zoho-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_ZOHO_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

## Setting up your own client_id

For Zoho we advise you to set up your own client_id. To do so you have to
complete the following steps.

1. Log in to the [Zoho API Console](https://api-console.zoho.com)

2. Create a new client of type "Server-based Application". The name and website
don't matter, but you must add the redirect URL `http://localhost:53682/`.

3. Once the client is created, you can go to the settings tab and enable it in
other regions.

The client id and client secret can now be used with rclone.

# Local Filesystem

Local paths are specified as normal filesystem paths, e.g. `/path/to/wherever`, so

```console
rclone sync --interactive /home/source /tmp/destination
```

Will sync `/home/source` to `/tmp/destination`.

## Configuration

For consistencies sake one can also configure a remote of type
`local` in the config file, and access the local filesystem using
rclone remote paths, e.g. `remote:path/to/wherever`, but it is probably
easier not to.

### Modification times

Rclone reads and writes the modification times using an accuracy determined
by the OS. Typically this is 1ns on Linux, 10 ns on Windows and 1 Second
on OS X.

### Filenames

Filenames should be encoded in UTF-8 on disk. This is the normal case
for Windows and OS X.

There is a bit more uncertainty in the Linux world, but new
distributions will have UTF-8 encoded files names. If you are using an
old Linux filesystem with non UTF-8 file names (e.g. latin1) then you
can use the `convmv` tool to convert the filesystem to UTF-8. This
tool is available in most distributions' package managers.

If an invalid (non-UTF8) filename is read, the invalid characters will
be replaced with a quoted representation of the invalid bytes. The name
`gro\xdf` will be transferred as `gro‛DF`. `rclone` will emit a debug
message in this case (use `-v` to see), e.g.

```text
Local file system at .: Replacing invalid UTF-8 characters in "gro\xdf"
```

#### Restricted characters

With the local backend, restrictions on the characters that are usable in
file or directory names depend on the operating system. To check what
rclone will replace by default on your system, run `rclone help flags local-encoding`.

On non Windows platforms the following characters are replaced when
handling file names.

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |

When running on Windows the following characters are replaced. This
list is based on the [Windows file naming conventions](https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file#naming-conventions).

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| NUL       | 0x00  | ␀           |
| SOH       | 0x01  | ␁           |
| STX       | 0x02  | ␂           |
| ETX       | 0x03  | ␃           |
| EOT       | 0x04  | ␄           |
| ENQ       | 0x05  | ␅           |
| ACK       | 0x06  | ␆           |
| BEL       | 0x07  | ␇           |
| BS        | 0x08  | ␈           |
| HT        | 0x09  | ␉           |
| LF        | 0x0A  | ␊           |
| VT        | 0x0B  | ␋           |
| FF        | 0x0C  | ␌           |
| CR        | 0x0D  | ␍           |
| SO        | 0x0E  | ␎           |
| SI        | 0x0F  | ␏           |
| DLE       | 0x10  | ␐           |
| DC1       | 0x11  | ␑           |
| DC2       | 0x12  | ␒           |
| DC3       | 0x13  | ␓           |
| DC4       | 0x14  | ␔           |
| NAK       | 0x15  | ␕           |
| SYN       | 0x16  | ␖           |
| ETB       | 0x17  | ␗           |
| CAN       | 0x18  | ␘           |
| EM        | 0x19  | ␙           |
| SUB       | 0x1A  | ␚           |
| ESC       | 0x1B  | ␛           |
| FS        | 0x1C  | ␜           |
| GS        | 0x1D  | ␝           |
| RS        | 0x1E  | ␞           |
| US        | 0x1F  | ␟           |
| /         | 0x2F  | ／           |
| "         | 0x22  | ＂           |
| *         | 0x2A  | ＊           |
| :         | 0x3A  | ：           |
| <         | 0x3C  | ＜           |
| >         | 0x3E  | ＞           |
| ?         | 0x3F  | ？           |
| \         | 0x5C  | ＼           |
| \|        | 0x7C  | ｜           |

File names on Windows can also not end with the following characters.
These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

| Character | Value | Replacement |
| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
| SP        | 0x20  | ␠           |
| .         | 0x2E  | ．           |

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](https://rclone.org/overview/#invalid-utf8),
as they can't be converted to UTF-16.

### Paths on Windows

On Windows there are many ways of specifying a path to a file system resource.
Local paths can be absolute, like `C:\path\to\wherever`, or relative,
like `..\wherever`. Network paths in UNC format, `\\server\share`, are also supported.
Path separator can be either `\` (as in `C:\path\to\wherever`) or `/` (as in `C:/path/to/wherever`).
Length of these paths are limited to 259 characters for files and 247
characters for directories, but there is an alternative extended-length
path format increasing the limit to (approximately) 32,767 characters.
This format requires absolute paths and the use of prefix `\\?\`,
e.g. `\\?\D:\some\very\long\path`. For convenience rclone will automatically
convert regular paths into the corresponding extended-length paths,
so in most cases you do not have to worry about this (read more [below](#long-paths)).
Using the same prefix `\\?\` it is also possible to specify path to volumes
identified by their GUID, e.g. `\\?\Volume{b75e2c83-0000-0000-0000-602f00000000}\some\path`.

#### Long paths

Rclone handles long paths automatically, by converting all paths to
[extended-length path format](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation),
which allows paths up to 32,767 characters.

This conversion will ensure paths are absolute and prefix them with
the `\\?\`. This is why you will see that your paths, for instance
`.\files` is shown as path `\\?\C:\files` in the output, and `\\server\share`
as `\\?\UNC\server\share`.

However, in rare cases this may cause problems with buggy file
system drivers like [EncFS](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/261).
To disable UNC conversion globally, add this to your `.rclone.conf` file:

```ini
[local]
nounc = true
```

If you want to selectively disable UNC, you can add it to a separate entry like this:

```ini
[nounc]
type = local
nounc = true
```

And use rclone like this:

`rclone copy c:\src nounc:z:\dst`

This will use UNC paths on `c:\src` but not on `z:\dst`.
Of course this will cause problems if the absolute path length of a
file exceeds 259 characters on z, so only use this option if you have to.

### Symlinks / Junction points

Normally rclone will ignore symlinks or junction points (which behave
like symlinks under Windows).

If you supply `--copy-links` or `-L` then rclone will follow the
symlink and copy the pointed to file or directory.  Note that this
flag is incompatible with `--links` / `-l`.

This flag applies to all commands.

For example, supposing you have a directory structure like this

```console
$ tree /tmp/a
/tmp/a
├── b -> ../b
├── expected -> ../expected
├── one
└── two
    └── three
```

Then you can see the difference with and without the flag like this

```console
$ rclone ls /tmp/a
        6 one
        6 two/three
```

and

```console
$ rclone -L ls /tmp/a
     4174 expected
        6 one
        6 two/three
        6 b/two
        6 b/one
```

#### --local-links, --links, -l

Normally rclone will ignore symlinks or junction points (which behave
like symlinks under Windows).

If you supply this flag then rclone will copy symbolic links from the local storage,
and store them as text files, with a `.rclonelink` suffix in the remote storage.

The text file will contain the target of the symbolic link (see example).

This flag applies to all commands.

For example, supposing you have a directory structure like this

```console
$ tree /tmp/a
/tmp/a
├── file1 -> ./file4
└── file2 -> /home/user/file3
```

Copying the entire directory with '-l'

```console
rclone copy -l /tmp/a/ remote:/tmp/a/
```

The remote files are created with a `.rclonelink` suffix

```console
$ rclone ls remote:/tmp/a
       5 file1.rclonelink
      14 file2.rclonelink
```

The remote files will contain the target of the symbolic links

```console
$ rclone cat remote:/tmp/a/file1.rclonelink
./file4

$ rclone cat remote:/tmp/a/file2.rclonelink
/home/user/file3
```

Copying them back with '-l'

```console
$ rclone copy -l remote:/tmp/a/ /tmp/b/

$ tree /tmp/b
/tmp/b
├── file1 -> ./file4
└── file2 -> /home/user/file3
```

However, if copied back without '-l'

```console
$ rclone copyto remote:/tmp/a/ /tmp/b/

$ tree /tmp/b
/tmp/b
├── file1.rclonelink
└── file2.rclonelink
```

If you want to copy a single file with `-l` then you must use the `.rclonelink` suffix.

```console
$ rclone copy -l remote:/tmp/a/file1.rclonelink /tmp/c

$ tree /tmp/c
/tmp/c
└── file1 -> ./file4
```

Note that `--local-links` just enables this feature for the local
backend. `--links` and `-l` enable the feature for all supported
backends and the VFS.

Note that this flag is incompatible with `-copy-links` / `-L`.

#### Symlink targets and the destination

When rclone recreates a `.rclonelink` file as a symlink on local storage,
the symlink can point anywhere - including, with an absolute path or one
using `../` - to a location outside the directory you are copying into. This
is normal - rclone reproduces whatever target the link had, so backups
round-trip faithfully.

What rclone will **not** do is *write through* such a link. If a remote you
are copying from contains both a symlink and a file or directory that would
be placed inside it - for example a `dir.rclonelink` pointing somewhere
outside the destination, alongside a `dir/file.txt` - rclone refuses to
follow the symlink when writing `dir/file.txt`. The offending file is
skipped with an error, the rest of the transfer continues, and the skipped
file is counted in the error summary printed at the end of the run.

This protects you from a malicious or compromised remote using `-l` /
`--links` to plant a symlink and then write through it to somewhere outside
your destination. Ordinary symlink round-trips, and symlinks that stay
inside the destination, are unaffected.

If you have intentionally pre-created a symlinked directory inside your
destination and want rclone to write into the directory it points at, do
not use `-l` / `--links` for that copy, or remove the symlink first.

### Restricting filesystems with --one-file-system

Normally rclone will recurse through filesystems as mounted.

However if you set `--one-file-system` or `-x` this tells rclone to
stay in the filesystem specified by the root and not to recurse into
different file systems.

For example if you have a directory hierarchy like this

```console
root
├── disk1     - disk1 mounted on the root
│   └── file3 - stored on disk1
├── disk2     - disk2 mounted on the root
│   └── file4 - stored on disk12
├── file1     - stored on the root disk
└── file2     - stored on the root disk
```

Using `rclone --one-file-system copy root remote:` will only copy `file1`
and `file2`. E.g.

```console
$ rclone -q --one-file-system ls root
        0 file1
        0 file2
```

```console
$ rclone -q ls root
        0 disk1/file3
        0 disk2/file4
        0 file1
        0 file2
```

**NB** Rclone (like most unix tools such as `du`, `rsync` and `tar`)
treats a bind mount to the same device as being on the same
filesystem.

**NB** This flag is only available on Unix based systems.  On systems
where it isn't supported (e.g. Windows) it will be ignored.

<!-- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/local/local.go and run make backenddocs to verify --> <!-- markdownlint-disable-line line-length -->
### Advanced options

Here are the Advanced options specific to local (Local Disk).

#### --local-nounc

Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows.

Properties:

- Config:      nounc
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NOUNC
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false
- Examples:
  - "true"
    - Disables long file names.

#### --copy-links / -L

Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item.

Properties:

- Config:      copy_links
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_COPY_LINKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-links

Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the local backend.

Properties:

- Config:      links
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_LINKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --skip-links

Don't warn about skipped symlinks.

This flag disables warning messages on skipped symlinks or junction
points, as you explicitly acknowledge that they should be skipped.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_links
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_SKIP_LINKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --skip-specials

Don't warn about skipped pipes, sockets and device objects.

This flag disables warning messages on skipped pipes, sockets and
device objects, as you explicitly acknowledge that they should be
skipped.

Properties:

- Config:      skip_specials
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_SKIP_SPECIALS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-zero-size-links

Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated).

Rclone used to use the Stat size of links as the link size, but this fails in quite a few places:

- Windows
- On some virtual filesystems (such ash LucidLink)
- Android

So rclone now always reads the link.


Properties:

- Config:      zero_size_links
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_ZERO_SIZE_LINKS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-unicode-normalization

Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames.

This flag can be used to normalize file names into unicode NFC form
that are read from the local filesystem.

Rclone does not normally touch the encoding of file names it reads from
the file system.

This can be useful when using macOS as it normally provides decomposed (NFD)
unicode which in some language (eg Korean) doesn't display properly on
some OSes.

Note that rclone compares filenames with unicode normalization in the sync
routine so this flag shouldn't normally be used.

Properties:

- Config:      unicode_normalization
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_UNICODE_NORMALIZATION
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-no-check-updated

Don't check to see if the files change during upload.

Normally rclone checks the size and modification time of files as they
are being uploaded and aborts with a message which starts "can't copy -
source file is being updated" if the file changes during upload.

However on some file systems this modification time check may fail (e.g.
[Glusterfs #2206](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2206)) so this
check can be disabled with this flag.

If this flag is set, rclone will use its best efforts to transfer a
file which is being updated. If the file is only having things
appended to it (e.g. a log) then rclone will transfer the log file with
the size it had the first time rclone saw it.

If the file is being modified throughout (not just appended to) then
the transfer may fail with a hash check failure.

In detail, once the file has had stat() called on it for the first
time we:

- Only transfer the size that stat gave
- Only checksum the size that stat gave
- Don't update the stat info for the file

**NB** do not use this flag on a Windows Volume Shadow (VSS). For some
unknown reason, files in a VSS sometimes show different sizes from the
directory listing (where the initial stat value comes from on Windows)
and when stat is called on them directly. Other copy tools always use
the direct stat value and setting this flag will disable that.


Properties:

- Config:      no_check_updated
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_CHECK_UPDATED
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --one-file-system / -x

Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only).

Properties:

- Config:      one_file_system
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_ONE_FILE_SYSTEM
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-case-sensitive

Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive.

Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on
Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else.  Use this flag
to override the default choice.

Properties:

- Config:      case_sensitive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_CASE_SENSITIVE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-case-insensitive

Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive.

Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on
Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else.  Use this flag
to override the default choice.

Properties:

- Config:      case_insensitive
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_CASE_INSENSITIVE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-no-clone

Disable reflink cloning for server-side copies.

Normally, for local-to-local transfers, rclone will "clone" the file when
possible, and fall back to "copying" only when cloning is not supported.

Cloning creates a shallow copy (or "reflink") which initially shares blocks with
the original file. Unlike a "hardlink", the two files are independent and
neither will affect the other if subsequently modified.

Cloning is usually preferable to copying, as it is much faster and is
deduplicated by default (i.e. having two identical files does not consume more
storage than having just one.)  However, for use cases where data redundancy is
preferable, --local-no-clone can be used to disable cloning and force "deep" copies.

Currently, cloning is only supported when using APFS on macOS (support for other
platforms may be added in the future.)

Properties:

- Config:      no_clone
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_CLONE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-no-preallocate

Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files.

Preallocation of disk space helps prevent filesystem fragmentation.
However, some virtual filesystem layers (such as Google Drive File
Stream) may incorrectly set the actual file size equal to the
preallocated space, causing checksum and file size checks to fail.
Use this flag to disable preallocation.

Properties:

- Config:      no_preallocate
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_PREALLOCATE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-no-sparse

Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads.

On Windows platforms rclone will make sparse files when doing
multi-thread downloads. This avoids long pauses on large files where
the OS zeros the file. However sparse files may be undesirable as they
cause disk fragmentation and can be slow to work with.

Properties:

- Config:      no_sparse
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_SPARSE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-no-set-modtime

Disable setting modtime.

Normally rclone updates modification time of files after they are done
uploading. This can cause permissions issues on Linux platforms when 
the user rclone is running as does not own the file uploaded, such as
when copying to a CIFS mount owned by another user. If this option is 
enabled, rclone will no longer update the modtime after copying a file.

Properties:

- Config:      no_set_modtime
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_SET_MODTIME
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-metadata-restore-special-bits

Restore the setuid, setgid and sticky bits from metadata.

When restoring metadata with --metadata rclone applies the "mode" from
the source. By default rclone applies only the permission bits and
strips the setuid, setgid and sticky bits.

The "mode" comes from the source remote which may not be trusted.
Restoring a setuid or setgid bit onto freshly written,
source-controlled content can plant a setuid binary, which is dangerous
in particular when restoring from an untrusted source while running as
root. For this reason these bits are not restored by default.

If you trust the source and want the setuid, setgid and sticky bits
restored - for example when restoring a system backup made by rclone -
set this flag.

Properties:

- Config:      metadata_restore_special_bits
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_METADATA_RESTORE_SPECIAL_BITS
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-fatal-if-no-space

Make out-of-space errors fatal during transfers.

When enabled, an ENOSPC error during a write returns a fatal error so
that rclone aborts rather than retrying the operation. Useful for
backup scripts that should halt loudly on a full disk rather than spin
retrying.

Properties:

- Config:      fatal_if_no_space
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_FATAL_IF_NO_SPACE
- Type:        bool
- Default:     false

#### --local-time-type

Set what kind of time is returned.

Normally rclone does all operations on the mtime or Modification time.

If you set this flag then rclone will return the Modified time as whatever
you set here. So if you use "rclone lsl --local-time-type ctime" then
you will see ctimes in the listing.

If the OS doesn't support returning the time_type specified then rclone
will silently replace it with the modification time which all OSes support.

- mtime is supported by all OSes
- atime is supported on all OSes except: plan9, js
- btime is only supported on: Windows, macOS, freebsd, netbsd
- ctime is supported on all Oses except: Windows, plan9, js

Note that setting the time will still set the modified time so this is
only useful for reading.


Properties:

- Config:      time_type
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_TIME_TYPE
- Type:        mtime|atime|btime|ctime
- Default:     mtime
- Examples:
  - "mtime"
    - The last modification time.
  - "atime"
    - The last access time.
  - "btime"
    - The creation time.
  - "ctime"
    - The last status change time.

#### --local-hashes

Comma separated list of supported checksum types.

Properties:

- Config:      hashes
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_HASHES
- Type:        CommaSepList
- Default:     

#### --local-encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.

Properties:

- Config:      encoding
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_ENCODING
- Type:        Encoding
- Default:     Slash,Dot

#### --local-description

Description of the remote.

Properties:

- Config:      description
- Env Var:     RCLONE_LOCAL_DESCRIPTION
- Type:        string
- Required:    false

### Metadata

Depending on which OS is in use the local backend may return only some
of the system metadata. Setting system metadata is supported on all
OSes but setting user metadata is only supported on linux, freebsd,
netbsd, macOS and Solaris. It is **not** supported on Windows yet
([see pkg/attrs#47](https://github.com/pkg/xattr/issues/47)).

User metadata is stored as extended attributes (which may not be
supported by all file systems) under the "user.*" prefix.

Metadata is supported on files and directories.

When restoring metadata with `--metadata` rclone applies the
"mode", "uid" and "gid" from the source. These come from the source
remote which may not be trusted, so restoring metadata as root from an
untrusted source can change file ownership and is not recommended. The
setuid, setgid and sticky bits are not restored by default - see the
`--local-metadata-restore-special-bits` flag.

Here are the possible system metadata items for the local backend.

| Name | Help | Type | Example | Read Only |
|------|------|------|---------|-----------|
| atime | Time of last access | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| btime | Time of file birth (creation) | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| gid | Group ID of owner | decimal number | 500 | N |
| mode | File type and mode | octal, unix style | 0100664 | N |
| mtime | Time of last modification | RFC 3339 | 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00 | N |
| rdev | Device ID (if special file) | hexadecimal | 1abc | N |
| uid | User ID of owner | decimal number | 500 | N |

See the [metadata](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) docs for more info.

## Backend commands

Here are the commands specific to the local backend.

Run them with:

```console
rclone backend COMMAND remote:
```

The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

See the [backend](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_backend/) command for more
info on how to pass options and arguments.

These can be run on a running backend using the rc command
[backend/command](https://rclone.org/rc/#backend-command).

### noop

A null operation for testing backend commands.

```console
rclone backend noop remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
```

This is a test command which has some options you can try to change the output.

Options:

- "echo": Echo the input arguments.
- "error": Return an error based on option value.

<!-- autogenerated options stop -->

<!-- markdownlint-disable line-length -->

# Changelog

## v1.75.0 - 2026-07-31

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.74.0...v1.75.0)

- New S3 Providers
  - [Scality](https://rclone.org/s3/#scality) (RING / ARTESCA)
  - [Zero Services](https://rclone.org/s3/#zero-z3) (ZERO-Z3)
- Security
  - archive: Don't crash on malformed squashfs images GHSA-6jcg-q3wp-x2f4 CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ftp: Fix ftp command injection when encoding doesn't include CRLF GHSA-8c48-q9wj-3w37 CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/http: Use TLS on all `--addr` listeners when `--cert` and `--key` are set GHSA-mfvx-7rcj-9m5g (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/proxy: Fix unbounded HTTP CONNECT headers causing OOM GHSA-xhf4-832v-7xcr CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - local: Stop source file names escaping the destination directory GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567 CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Don't expose pprof debug handlers on an unauthenticated server GHSA-mfvx-7rcj-9m5g CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Require authentication to list the remotes with `--rc-serve` GHSA-mfvx-7rcj-9m5g (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix leaking stack traces on panics GHSA-gwfq-86j8-7qhv (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - s3
    - Fix redirect credential leaks, reject HTTPS->HTTP and strip secrets GHSA-8mxv-9xhp-86h4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Strip S3 Express session token on cross-host redirects GHSA-8mxv-9xhp-86h4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve ftp: Use constant time comparison for password check GHSA-mfvx-7rcj-9m5g (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve restic: Fix path traversal above the served directory GHSA-45pq-889g-fcgh CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Don't crash the whole server on a bad request GHSA-6jcg-q3wp-x2f4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sftp: Fix command injection via crafted filenames on PowerShell remotes GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2 CVE-PENDING (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - vfs: Don't crash the process if a backend panics on a background goroutine GHSA-6jcg-q3wp-x2f4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - webdav
    - Fix HTTPS to HTTP redirects leaking credentials GHSA-h4mf-4v27-hggj (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Tus: fix potential nil pointer crash GHSA-3x6r-wxxg-53vv (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update `google.golang.org/grpc` to fix multiple security problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - build: Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config
    - Add `config unset` command to remove options from a remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add tier to config wizard (dougal)
  - docker serve
    - Add timeout to volume restore so slow remotes don't block startup (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Restore volumes concurrently so one slow remote doesn't block others (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make Create idempotent to avoid "volume already exists" after restart (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (blackflytech, dougal, Giridhar, KTibow, mathieulongtin, Nick Craig-Wood, p1, Socialpranker, Søren Lindberg, yashanil98)
  - filter
    - Support nested `{}` alternates in glob filters (maximilize)
    - Add `--files-from0` to support NUL-delimited input (Gaurav)
  - fserrors: Make http2 "server sent GOAWAY" a retriable error (phatlc)
  - fshttp
    - Add `--dump errors` to dump only failed HTTP transactions (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--dump trace` to log connection level events via httptrace (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - gui
    - Serve static files with gzip/deflate compression (Leon Brocard)
    - Respect explicit `--rc-allow-origin` instead of always deriving it from the bind address (Kyue)
    - Update embedded release to 1.1.11 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - mount2: Add `--allow-idmap` to advertise FUSE_ALLOW_IDMAP (Valerij Fredriksen)
  - nfsmount: Call mount_nfs directly on OpenBSD so -T is accepted (Socialpranker)
  - rc
    - Respond with 202 if `prefer-async` header is passed (FTCHD)
    - Add `config/oauthstop` and `config/oauthstatus` to control oauth listener (FTCHD)
    - Include OAuth authorization URL in rc `config/oauthstatus` response (Hakan İSMAİL)
    - Allow setting rc config and filter options as flat parameters (Hakan İSMAİL)
  - serve
    - Support custom http response headers (kkocdko)
    - Update serve remote control to accept nested as well as flat options (Hakan İSMAİL)
  - serve dlna: Bound SOAP request bodies (Acts1631)
  - serve nfs
    - Allow NFS clients to mount subpaths of the served remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Advertise AUTH_UNIX so the *BSD NFS clients can mount (Socialpranker)
  - serve s3: Stream multipart uploads to the backend instead of buffering in memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp
    - Implement `statvfs@openssh.com` to report disk usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Use the requested atime when setting file times (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Add gzip compression for compressible responses (Leon Brocard)
  - serve http: Add `--disable-dir-list` flag (Leon Brocard)
- Bug Fixes
  - archive/squashfs: Fix reading images with no fragment or xattr table (maximilize)
  - chunkedreader: Fix spurious errors when a parallel stream is closed early (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config
    - Fix config_template_file and config_template being ignored via config/create (hexbinoct)
    - Fix normalization when obscuring passwords (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docker serve: Fix plugin timeout on restart when volumes have active mounts (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs: Fix passwords and tokens appearing in the debug log during rclone config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - gui: Fix cross-origin API requests when bound to a wildcard address (FTCHD)
  - hash: Fix xxh128 hasher size (Yuhang Cao)
  - log: Fix side effects when importing rclone as a library (Sven Rebhan)
  - march
    - Fix unnecessarily listing dst directory when src listing finished (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix goroutine leak on completed async rc jobs (Yash Anil)
  - nfsmount: Fix mount_nfs options incompatible with OpenBSD (Socialpranker)
  - rc
    - Fix `operations/stat` for directories with large parent dirs (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `_filter` and `_config` parameters being ignored by `mount/*` commands (Hakan İSMAİL)
  - serve: Fix auth proxy using stale config parameters when making a backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve s3
    - Fix aborted multipart uploads appearing as ghosts (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix streamed multipart uploads not being atomic (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix OOM and InvalidPart errors with concurrent multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Fix `--fix-case` rename on backends that need upload before overwrite (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Support flat VFS and Mount options in mount RC command (Hakan İSMAİL)
- VFS
  - Fix IO error by recreating the cache file if it has been removed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "invalid seek position" error when cache files larger than the remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix vfs cache writeback timer not being stopped when `--transfers` reached (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash when multiple mounts or servers share the same VFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Add `--local-fatal-if-no-space` flag (ferrumclaudepilgrim)
  - Don't resolve relative roots to absolute paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Archive
  - Fix squashfs listings failing with invalid argument after update (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix MD5 being dropped on range reads causing vfs cache re-downloads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `use_arrow_list` flag for experimental Apache Arrow listing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - List very large containers in parallel with `list_parallelism` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Fix incorrect modtime after uploading a file or setting its modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Improve modtime precision from 1s to 100ns (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Combine
  - Don't return an error message as the remote name for a bad object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Remove stale mux_status field from Item (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Warn in config wizard before using the shared client_id (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Detect shortcut loops to avoid infinite recursion (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add support for impersonate_admin (Gaurav)
  - Add `--dropbox-skip-shared-folders` and `--dropbox-skip-unowned-folders` (Gaurav)
  - Make Rmdir use one less API call (Socialpranker)
  - Use much less memory when uploading small files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove an unnecessary API call when uploading small files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filen
  - Fix incorrect modtime after updating a file or setting its modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filescom
  - Fix missing MD5 hash after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix incorrect modtime after uploading a file or setting its modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Googlephotos
  - Warn in config wizard before using the shared client_id (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hasher
  - Fix Update not storing hashes in bolt DB after file replacement (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hdfs
  - Fix incorrect modtime after uploading a file or setting its modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hidrive
  - Fix incorrect modtime after setting a file's modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Don't list parent directory when pointing at a single file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Prefer to CORS Access-Control-Allow-Headers header (sijie-Z)
- Iclouddrive
  - Fix "cannot unmarshal number" error when listing photo albums (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix 2FA failing with 409 even when the code is valid (Punya Jain)
- Imagekit
  - Fix Open with a RangeOption returning the wrong data (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add mtime to the available metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Internxt
  - Add Move and DirMove methods for server-side file and directory operations (jzunigax2)
  - Handle file size limit errors during uploads (jzunigax2)
  - Surface re-login error when re-auth fails in NewFs (0rangeSeaW0lf)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix incorrect modtime after setting a file's modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Linkbox
  - Retry bot protection HTML challenge responses instead of failing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mailru
  - Fix incorrect modtime after updating a file or setting its modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mega
  - Fix files reappearing in listings after being renamed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix moved files disappearing from listings between remotes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Netstorage
  - Fix missing MD5 hash after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Add support for no admin mode (TaterLi)
  - Treat non-2xx preauth download as error (ifloppy)
  - Download malware-flagged files via Graph Prefer header (ifloppy)
- Opendrive
  - Fix uploaded objects returning the wrong hash and modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracleobjectstorage
  - Fix crash when downloading objects with unknown length (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--oos-decompress` flag to download gzip-encoded files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pixeldrain
  - Fix incorrect modtime and missing hash after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Protondrive
  - Implement proper retry logic (tomholford)
  - Fix gopenpgp: invalid data: user ID signature with wrong type on custom-domain account (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix long hangs on permanent validation failures (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect modtime after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Putio
  - Fix incorrect modtime after setting a file's modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix sync deletions failing with 400 TRASH_LOCK_TIMEOUT errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Quatrix
  - Fix incorrect modtime after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add Zero Services (ZERO-Z3) provider (Zero Services GmbH)
  - Add Scality (RING / ARTESCA) provider (Dzmitry Nianakhau)
- Seafile
  - Fix rclone sync files with identical size again and again (TowyTowy)
- SFTP
  - Add `--sftp-pin-host-key` - Trust On First Use host key pinning (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--sftp-encoding` support (Puneet Dixit)
  - Don't retry permanent connection errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow silencing no hostkey validation warning (Noah Zalev)
  - Fix cmd shell execution of paths containing variable-expansion or newline characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Shade
  - Retry server errors instead of failing the transfer (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix uploads failing with EOF when completing multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Fix Kerberos credentials being reloaded for every connection (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix TCP connection leak when connection setup fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server-side move of directories with special characters in the name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix spurious "Directory already exists" errors when moving directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Ulozto
  - Fix server side moves between differently rooted remotes losing files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Fix incorrect modtime after setting a file's modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Yandex
  - Fix 500 errors by waiting for uploads to complete before setting modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix missing MD5 hash after uploading a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modtime randomly reverting to the upload time after upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--yandex-upload-wait` to fix 500 errors when uploading (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Honour `Retry-After` header on 429 (Erol Ozcan)
  - Add `--zoho-tpslimit` and `--zoho-tpslimit-burst` (Erol Ozcan)
  - Log throttling once per episode at NOTICE (Erol Ozcan)
  - Rate limit repeated listings of the same folder (Erol Ozcan)
  - Fix flaky folder list limiter test under concurrent listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix large file overwrite creating a duplicate instead of replacing (Erol Ozcan)
  - Treat R008 unauthorized as directory not found (Erol Ozcan)
  - Preserve `root_folder_id` on reconnect and allow setting it (Erol Ozcan)

## v1.74.4 - 2026-07-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.74.3...v1.74.4)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix goroutine leak in ResetCounters (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix goroutine leak in NewStatsGroup for zero-transfer rc jobs (Sanjays2402)
  - archive extract: Fix path traversal letting archives escape the destination CVE-2026-59732 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Fix multiple CVEs by upgrading to go1.26.5 (Nick Craig-Wood)
      - CVE-2026-39822: os: Root escape via symlink plus trailing slash
      - CVE-2026-42505: crypto/tls: Encrypted Client Hello privacy leak
    - Update golang.org/x/image to v0.43.0 to fix image decoding vulnerabilities (Nick Craig-Wood)
      - CVE-2026-46604: panic decoding a TIFF image with an out-of-bounds strip offset
      - CVE-2026-46602: unbounded memory use from lack of a limit on TIFF tile sizes
      - CVE-2026-46601: panic on a WEBP VP8 alpha channel size mismatch
      - CVE-2026-33813: panic decoding a large WEBP image on 32-bit platforms
  - cmd/mount2
    - Fix NFS file creation by implementing Mknod (Sandy Luppino)
    - Fix ESTALE over NFS by reporting stable inode numbers (Sandy Luppino)
    - Fix NFS directory listings by supporting non-zero Seekdir offsets (Sandy Luppino)
  - completion: Fix powershell completion corrupting non-ASCII names (Yash Anil)
  - doc fixes (Bryan Stenson, Castronaut, Filippo, Gaurav, happysnaker, Jan-Philipp Reßler, Nick Craig-Wood, user77)
  - filter: Fix `--files-from` copy stopping at the first unreadable file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs
    - Fix command line flag being ignored when set to its default value (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix negative offset when a suffix Range request exceeds object size (Amit Mishra)
  - gui: Update embedded release to 1.1.10 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ncdu: Fix duplicated keystrokes on Windows by pinning tcell to v2.9.0 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve restic: Fix `--private-repos` isolation bypass CVE-2026-59733 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve s3
    - Fix spurious 404 on HEAD/GET during VFS writeback (max)
    - Fix path traversal letting clients see files in the root GHSA-8v25-v8p6-qf7v (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Fix MOVE overwrite failing without Overwrite header (Sanjay Santhanam)
  - serve/http: Fix `--disable-zip` so it works over rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix hang reopening a file during the handle-caching grace period (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Stop `--links` symlinks escaping the destination directory CVE-2026-54572 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't restore setuid/setgid/sticky bits from metadata by default GHSA-945v-v9p3-v5xw (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Warn when non-exportable Google documents are skipped (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix stray %!(EXTRA) in unexportable google document log message (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Warn when using rclone's shared client_id (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filelu
  - Fix recursive listing path handling and file filtering (kingston125)
- Googlephotos
  - Warn when using rclone's shared client_id (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mega
  - Wait for server events after upload, delete and move (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix hard deleted files reappearing in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Remove session token on cross-host redirects (IceLocke)
  - Strip STS security token on same-host HTTPS->HTTP redirect GHSA-cf44-9pgv-m4xc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error mapping in GetObject to match HeadObject (lewoberst)
  - Correct documented `copy_cutoff` minimum to 1 byte (max)
  - Fix mounting a prefix failing with 403 when HEAD is not permitted (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Fix for IBM iSeries and signature verification (dithwick)
- WebDAV
  - Fix mixed property statuses in multi-status responses (nako-ruru)

## v1.74.3 - 2026-06-05

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.74.2...v1.74.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - rc
    - Fix unauthenticated command execution via `--rc-serve` inline remotes CVE-2026-49980 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Stop `global.*` connection string options changing config CVE-2026-49980 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Fix multiple CVEs by upgrading to go1.26.4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - CVE-2026-42504: mime: quadratic complexity in WordDecoder.DecodeHeader
    - CVE-2026-42507: net/textproto: arbitrary input are included in errors without any escaping
    - CVE-2026-27145: crypto/x509: split candidate hostname only once
  - log: Fix wrong source `file:line` in JSON logs from release builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - mount2: Fix empty directory listings on re-read (Janne Beate Bakeng)
  - serve s3: Fix multipart `ListParts` pagination returning wrong part numbers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp
    - Fix file corruption when a client resumes an upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix truncate request being silently ignored (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix `getXattr` returning empty map instead of nil (Leon Brocard)
- Drime
  - Fix server-side copy and move failing with Cloudflare 520 error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix files being uploaded to the wrong directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove duplicate upload_cutoff config option (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix directory rename leaving the renamed folder empty in VFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix server-side move failing on shared drives with duplicate dirs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Iclouddrive
  - Fix ADP/PCS cookie acquisition for iCloud Drive (Yakov Till)
  - Fix "Index has invalid data" error listing iCloud Photos (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.74.2 - 2026-05-22

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.74.1...v1.74.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Update golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 to address:
      - CVE-2026-42506: html: incorrect handling of namespaced elements in foreign content
      - CVE-2026-39821: idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels
      - CVE-2026-42502: html: incorrect handling of HTML elements in foreign content
      - CVE-2026-25680: html: denial of service when parsing arbitrary HTML
      - CVE-2026-25681: html: incorrect handling of character references in DOCTYPE nodes
      - CVE-2026-27136: html: duplicate attributes can cause XSS
    - Update golang.org/x/crypto to v0.52.0 to address:
      - CVE-2026-46598: ssh/agent: pathological inputs can lead to client panic
      - CVE-2026-46597: ssh: byte arithmetic causes underflow and panic
      - CVE-2026-39828: ssh: bypass of certificate restrictions
      - CVE-2026-39835: ssh: server panic during CheckHostKey/Authenticate
      - CVE-2026-39833: ssh/agent: key constraints not enforced
      - CVE-2026-39832: ssh/agent: agent constraints dropped when forwarding keys
      - CVE-2026-39827: ssh: memory leak when rejecting channels can lead to DoS
      - CVE-2026-39830: ssh: client can cause server deadlock on unexpected responses
      - CVE-2026-39829: ssh: pathological RSA/DSA parameters may cause DoS
      - CVE-2026-39831: ssh: bypass of FIDO/U2F security keys physical interaction
      - CVE-2026-39834: ssh: infinite loop on large channel writes
      - CVE-2026-42508: ssh/knownhosts: auth bypass via unenforced @revoked status
      - CVE-2026-46595: ssh: VerifiedPublicKeyCallback permissions skip enforcement
    - Update golang.org/x/image to v0.41.0 to address:
      - CVE-2026-42500: bmp: panic when reading out of bound palette index
      - CVE-2026-33809: tiff: excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression
    - Update golang.org/x/sys to version v0.45.0 to address:
      - CVE-2026-39824: windows: integer overflow in NewNTUnicodeString
    - Update github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5 to 5.9.0 to fix CVE-2026-44740
    - bisync: Fix --conflict-loser pathname with --conflict-resolve newer (nielash)
    - gui: Update embedded release to 1.1.8 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - lib/http: Replace deprecated h2c.NewHandler with http.Server.Protocols (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - rc: Remove duplicate metrics_addr option registration (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - vfs/vfscache: Fix silent write failure when mounting with remote:. (Lucky945H)
  - doc fixes (FTCHD, Iizuki, Leon Brocard, Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Fix file doesn't exists error when trying to delete (John Volk)
  - Fix 500 errors when listing shared folders (Alvinwylim)
- Jottacloud
  - Support whitelabel service Phonero Sky (Tore Anderson)
- Protondrive
  - Fix corrupted on transfer: sha1 hashes differ (William Tange)
- S3
  - Add new MEGA S4 endpoints on megas4.com including Asia-Pacific region (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Honour auth_redirect on listAll PROPFIND (Sai Asish Y)

## v1.74.1 - 2026-05-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.74.0...v1.74.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - bisync: Fix retryable without `--resync` error message when `--resync` has a critical failure (Gustavo V. F.)
  - build
    - Fix multiple CVEs by upgrading to go1.26.3 (Nick Craig-Wood)
      - CVE-2026-42501: cmd/go: malicious module proxy can bypass checksum database
      - CVE-2026-39825: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards queries with more than urlmaxqueryparams parameters
      - CVE-2026-39836: net: panic in Dial and LookupPort when handling NUL byte on Windows
      - CVE-2026-42499: net/mail: quadratic string concatenation in consumePhrase
      - CVE-2026-39820: net/mail: quadratic string concatentation in consumeComment
      - CVE-2026-39819: cmd/go: "go bug" follows symlinks in predictable temporary filenames
      - CVE-2026-39817: cmd/go: "go tool pack" does not sanitize output paths
      - CVE-2026-33814: net/http: infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE
      - CVE-2026-39826: html/template: escaper bypass leads to XSS
      - CVE-2026-33811: net: crash when handling long CNAME response
      - CVE-2026-39823: html/template: bypass of meta content URL escaping causes XSS
    - Update golang.org/x/net to v0.53.0 to fix CVE-2026-33814 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cmd/serve/s3: Return object listings in key order (Leon Brocard)
- Cloudinary
  - Fix retrying every error and fix pacer sleep units (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Fix large file uploads landing in drive root instead of configured folder (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix uploads of 100..200M files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Protondrive
  - Route HTTP through rclone's transport (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Route library logging through rclone's logger (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix segfault when copying files missing revision metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix STS call per request by caching AssumeRole credentials (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add new Fastly Object Storage regions (Leon Brocard)

## v1.74.0 - 2026-05-01

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.0...v1.74.0)

- New backends
  - [Huawei Drive](https://rclone.org/huaweidrive/) (王一赫)
  - [iCloud Photos](https://rclone.org/iclouddrive/#icloud-photos) (read only) (Yakov Till)
  - New S3 providers
    - [Fastly Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#fastly) (Leon Brocard)
    - [HCP](https://rclone.org/s3/#hcp) (Chris)
    - [Impossible Cloud](https://rclone.org/s3/#impossible-cloud) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - [UCloud US3](https://rclone.org/s3/#us3) (jinkeyuu)
    - [Zadara](https://rclone.org/s3/#zadara) (Shlomi Avihou)
- New commands
  - [gui](https://rclone.org/gui/): launch new embedded web based GUI for basic rclone operations (FTCHD, Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - build
    - Update `golang.org/x/image/webp` to v0.39.0 to fix CVE-2026-33813 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Bump `github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp` to 0.1.1 to fix CVE-2026-32952 (dependabot[bot])
    - Update to go1.26 and make go1.25 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Modernize Go code with go fix for go1.25 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `loong64` and `s390x` build (Suyun)
  - docs
    - Modernize rclone.org site design (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - fixes (albertony, Enduriel, Jason, Luke Cyca, mathieulongtin, Nick Craig-Wood, SyoBoN)
  - fshttp: Add `--dump curl` for dumping HTTP requests as curl commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - graphics: Optimise images losslessly with ImageOptim (Leon Brocard)
  - listremotes: Add `--exact` flag for filtering (Anton Bordwine)
  - rc
    - Flip auth default so all endpoints require auth unless opted out (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `core/disks` to enumerate attached disks (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `deletedDirs` stat to `core/stats` help output (Billy Hughes)
  - serve http
    - Add fallback embedded favicon (Leon Brocard)
    - Add gzip compression for text responses (Leon Brocard)
    - Dark mode for file browser (FTCHD)
    - Add HTTP/2 cleartext support for all http servers (TheBabu)
  - touch: Add metadata when using `--metadata-set` (Prakhar Chhalotre)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Update String method output format for clarity in transfer rate representation (Prakhar Chhalotre)
    - Fix `rcat`/`copyurl` for `files.com` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync
    - Add missing rc params (nielash)
    - Add more structured info to rc output (nielash)
    - Auto-generate rc help docs (nielash)
    - Fix handling of unreadable lockfiles (lif)
    - Fix flaky TestBisyncConcurrent by increasing random name entropy (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix integration tests after sftp log changes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Fix ignored `--upload-headers` and `--download-headers` (Andriy Senyshyn)
  - librclone/ctest: Add Windows support and fix memory management (BizaNator)
  - log: Fix data race on OutputHandler.format field (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Multithread copy: grab memory before making go routines (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Fix Samsung TV compatibility (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve nfs: Fix EOF flag in READ response not being set when read reaches end of file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - rc: fix mounts created with mountPoint "*" overwriting each other (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix slow `nfs serve` by adding `--vfs-handle-caching` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add context parameter to New() for config propagation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Replace `context.TODO`/`Background` with stored VFS context (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Remove fadvise calls that cause spinlock contention (Patrick Farrell)
- Azure Blob
  - Add `--azureblob-copy-total-concurrency` to limit total multipart copy concurrency (Duncan F)
  - Add server side copy real time accounting (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--azureblob-decompress` flag to download gzip-encoded files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Fix missing `x-ms-file-request-intent` header with OAuth (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Add server side copy real time accounting (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Implement About (Cohinem)
  - Fix listings of large directories (John Volk)
- Drive
  - Add integration test for handling folder names with single quotes (Prakhar Chhalotre)
- Filelu
  - Add multipart init response type (kingston125)
  - Migrate API calls to `lib/rest` (kingston125)
- Filen
  - Make multi-threaded upload chunks individually retryable (Enduriel)
- Iclouddrive
  - Replace plaintext signin with SRP authentication (Mike GIllan)
  - Use dynamic origin for SRP auth headers (Xiangzhe)
  - Lowercase Apple ID for SRP authentication (Mike GIllan)
  - Add read only  iCloud Photos support and SRP authentication (Yakov Till)
- Internxt
  - Implement multi-part uploads (José Zúniga)
- Jottacloud
  - Add encoding of percent character to default backend encoding (albertony)
- Linkbox
  - Fix downloading files by using web API (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mega
  - Fix crash when logging in with previous auth keys fails (Andrew Gunnerson)
- Pcloud
  - Fix recursive listing from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Support custom filenames for addurl backend command (wiserain)
- Protondrive
  - Align backend with newer Proton SDK stack (tdawe)
  - Update to latest go-proton-api to use new host (dlaumen)
  - Fix server-side moveto and DirMove against current API (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add Fastly Object Storage provider (Leon Brocard)
  - Add HCP provider and `list_versions_oldest_first` quirk (Chris)
  - Add Impossible Cloud as a new S3 provider (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add UCloud Object Storage provider (#9230) (jinkeyuu)
  - Add Zadara Object Storage provider (Shlomi Avihou)
  - Remove StackPath Object Storage provider (Leon Brocard)
  - Add server side copy real time accounting (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add OVHcloud storage classes (Bjoern Franke)
  - Add Object Lock support (Chris)
  - Add new Fastly Object Storage regions (Leon Brocard)
  - Scaleway: ONEZONE_IA is available in all zones, GLACIER only in FR-PAR (Bjoern Franke)
  - Ionos: updated regions & endpoints (hxnd)
  - IBM COS: provide ibm_iam_endpoint as a configurable param for IBM IAM-based auth (Bhagyashreek8)
  - Fix Content-MD5 for Object Lock uploads and add GCS quirk (Chris)
  - Fix regression where PutObject fails with non-seekable readers (Chris)
  - Fix `--s3-versions` flag ignored by cleanup-hidden when GetBucketVersioning fails (Chris)
  - Fix bucket creation failing on Ceph/radosgw (Jan Heylen)
- SFTP
  - Warn the user if no host key validation is configured (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Permit redirects on PROPFIND for metadata (Brian Bockelman)
  - Request only required properties in listAll to improve performance (ZRHan)
  - Optimize performance by using `Depth=0` for metadata requests (ZRHan)

## v1.73.5 - 2026-04-19

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.4...v1.73.5)

- Bug Fixes
  - operations: Add AuthRequired to operations/fsinfo to prevent backend creation CVE-2026-41179 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add AuthRequired to options/set to prevent auth bypass CVE-2026-41176 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Snapshot NoAuth at startup to prevent runtime auth bypass CVE-2026-41176 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - filter: Fix debug logs that fire before logger is configured (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azureblob
  - Add Microsoft Partner Network User-Agent prefix (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Fix User.EntryPermissions JSON unmarshalling (a1pcm)
- Iclouddrive
  - Fix 'directory not found' error when the directory contains accent marks (Brais Couce)
- S3
  - Fix TencentCOS CDN endpoint failing on bucket check (Mozi)
  - Fix empty delimiter parameter rejected by Archiware P5 server (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.73.4 - 2026-04-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.3...v1.73.4)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Update to go 1.25.9 to fix multiple CVEs (Nick Craig-Wood)
      - CVE-2026-32282: os: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root on Linux
      - CVE-2026-32289: html/template: JS template literal context incorrectly tracked
      - CVE-2026-33810: crypto/x509: excluded DNS constraints not properly applied to wildcard domains
      - CVE-2026-27144: cmd/compile: no-op interface conversion bypasses overlap checking
      - CVE-2026-27143: cmd/compile: possible memory corruption after bound check elimination
      - CVE-2026-32288: archive/tar: unbounded allocation when parsing old format GNU sparse map
      - CVE-2026-32283: crypto/tls: multiple key update handshake messages can cause connection to deadlock
      - CVE-2026-27140: cmd/go: trust layer bypass when using cgo and SWIG
      - CVE-2026-32280: crypto/x509: unexpected work during chain building
      - CVE-2026-32281: crypto/x509: inefficient policy validation
    - Fix Denial of Service due to Panic in AWS SDK for Go v2 SDK EventStream Decoder (dependabot[bot])
    - Update golang.org/x/image to 0.38.0 to fix CVE-2026-33809  (dependabot[bot])
  - docs
    - Fix header level for metadata option (Clément Notin)
    - Fix markdown issues in mount docs (albertony)
    - Fix link to not be language specific (Ross Smith II)
    - Note macOS 10.15 (Catalina) support with version v1.70.3 (kapitainsky)
- Filen
  - Update SDK version (Enduriel)

## v1.73.3 - 2026-03-23

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.2...v1.73.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Update to google.golang.org/grpc 1.79.3 to fix CVE-2026-33186 (dependabot[bot])
    - Update to github.com/buger/jsonparser 1.1.2 to fix GHSA-6g7g-w4f8-9c9x (dependabot[bot])
  - doc fixes
    - Added text to the label showing version-introduced info (Jan-Philipp Reßler)
    - Clarify Filen password change requires updating both password and API key in rclone config (Jason)
    - s3: clarify multi tenant support for Cubbit (Marco Ferretti)
    - jottacloud: Fix broken link (albertony)
  - lib/rest: Fix URLPathEscapeAll breaking WebDAV servers (eg nzbdav) with strict path matching (Andrew Furman)
  - list: Fix nil pointer panic in Sorter when temp file creation fails (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.73.2 - 2026-03-06

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.1...v1.73.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Update to go 1.25.8 to fix CVE-2026-27137 CVE-2026-27138 CVE-2026-25679 CVE-2026-27142 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.6.3 to fix CVE-2026-1229 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update to golang.org/x/net v0.51.0 to fix CVE-2026-27141 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs fixes:
    - bisync: Add group Sync to the bisync command (Jan-Philipp Reßler)
    - Note that --use-server-modtime only works on some backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Document unsupported S3 object keys with double slashes (Adam Kasztenny)
    - Fix headers hierarchy for mount.md (Dark Dragon)
    - Fix new drive flag typo in changelog (razorloves)
- Archive
  - Extract: fix extraction with "./" prefix from tar entry paths (Varun Chawla)
- Drime
  - Fix chunk-uploaded files ignoring workspace ID (a1pcm)
- Internxt
  - Fix Entry doesn't belong in directory errors on windows (jzunigax2)
- WebDAV
  - Escape reserved characters in URL path segments (Varun Chawla)
  - Add missing headers for CORS (Romāns Potašovs)

## v1.73.1 - 2026-02-17

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.73.0...v1.73.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix missing server side stats from core/stats rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Fix CVE-2025-68121 by updating go to 1.25.7 or later (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.2.3 to 5.2.5 to fix GO-2026-4316 (albertony)
  - docs: Extend copyurl docs with an example of CSV FILENAMEs starting with a path. (Jack Kelly)
  - march: Fix runtime: program exceeds 10000-thread limit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pacer
    - Fix deadlock between pacer token and --max-connections (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Re-read the sleep time as it may be stale (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drime
  - Fix files and directories being created in the default workspace (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filelu
  - Avoid buffering entire file in memory (kingston125)
  - Add multipart upload support with configurable cutoff (kingston125)
- Filen
  - Fix 32 bit targets not being able to list directories (Enduriel)
  - Fix potential panic in case of error during upload (Enduriel)
- Internxt
  - Implement re-login under refresh logic, improve retry logic (José Zúniga)
-S3
  - Set list_version to 2 for FileLu S3 configuration (kingston125)

## v1.73.0 - 2026-01-30

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.72.0...v1.73.0)

- New backends
  - [Shade](https://rclone.org/shade/) (jhasse-shade)
  - [Drime](https://rclone.org/drime/) (dougal)
  - [Filen](https://rclone.org/filen/) (Enduriel)
  - [Internxt](https://rclone.org/internxt/) (jzunigax2)
  - New S3 providers
    - [Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#bizflycloud) (vupn0712)
- New Features
  - docs: Add [Support Tiers](https://rclone.org/tiers/) to the documentation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Add [operations/hashsumfile](https://rclone.org/rc/#operations-hashsumfile) to sum a single file only (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Implement download directory as Zip (Leo)
- Bug Fixes
  - fs: fix bwlimit: correct reporting (Mikel Olasagasti Uranga)
  - log: fix systemd adding extra newline (dougal)
  - docs: fixes (albertony, darkdragon-001, Duncan Smart, hyusap, Marc-Philip, Nick Craig-Wood, vicerace, vyv03354, yuval-cloudinary, yy)
  - serve s3: Make errors in `--s3-auth-key` fatal (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Fix OpenBSD mount support. (Nick Owens)
- Azure Blob
  - Add metadata and tags support across upload and copy paths (Cliff Frey)
  - Factor the common auth into a library (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Factor the common auth into a library (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Support authentication with new bucket restricted application keys (DianaNites)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-metadata-enforce-expansive-access` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash when trying to creating shortcut to a Google doc (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Add http proxy authentication support (Nicolas Dessart)
- Mega
  - Reverts TLS workaround (necaran)
- Memory
  - Add `--memory-discard` flag for speed testing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- OneDrive
  - Fix cancelling multipart upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix setting modification time on directories for OneDrive Personal (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix OneDrive Personal no longer supports description (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix require sign in for OneDrive Personal (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix permissions on OneDrive Personal (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracle Object Storage
  - Eliminate unnecessary heap allocation (Qingwei Li)
- Pcloud
  - Add support for `ChangeNotify` to enable real-time updates in mount (masrlinu)
- Protondrive
  - Update to use forks of upstream modules to unblock development (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add ability to specify an IAM role for cross-account interaction (Vladislav Tropnikov)
  - Linode: updated endpoints to use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard (jbagwell-akamai)
  - Fix Copy ignoring storage class (vupn0712)
- SFTP
  - Add http proxy authentication support (Nicolas Dessart)
  - Eliminate unnecessary heap allocation (Qingwei Li)

## v1.72.1 - 2025-12-10

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.72.0...v1.72.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: update to go1.25.5 to fix [CVE-2025-61729](https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4155)
  - doc fixes (Duncan Smart, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - configfile: Fix piped config support (Jonas Tingeborn)
  - log
    - Fix PID not included in JSON log output (Tingsong Xu)
    - Fix backtrace not going to the --log-file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Improve endpoint parameter docs (Johannes Rothe)
- S3
  - Add missing regions for Selectel provider (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.72.0 - 2025-11-21

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.71.0...v1.72.0)

- New backends
  - [Archive](/archive) backend to read archives on cloud storage. (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New S3 providers
  - [Cubbit Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#Cubbit) (Marco Ferretti)
  - [FileLu S5 Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#filelu-s5) (kingston125)
  - [Hetzner Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#hetzner) (spiffytech)
  - [Intercolo Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#intercolo) (Robin Rolf)
  - [Rabata S3-compatible secure cloud storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#Rabata) (dougal)
  - [Servercore Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#servercore) (dougal)
  - [SpectraLogic](https://rclone.org/s3/#spectralogic) (dougal)
- New commands
  - [rclone archive](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive/): command to create and read archive files (Fawzib Rojas)
  - [rclone config string](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_string/): for making connection strings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [rclone test speed](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_speed/): Add command to test a specified remotes speed (dougal)
- New Features
  - backends: many backends have has a paged listing (`ListP`) interface added
    - this enables progress when listing large directories and reduced memory usage
  - build
    - Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 to fix CVE-2025-58181 (dependabot[bot])
    - Modernize code and tests (Nick Craig-Wood, russcoss, juejinyuxitu, reddaisyy, dulanting, Oleksandr Redko)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Enable support for `aix/ppc64` (Lakshmi-Surekha)
  - check: Improved reporting of differences in sizes and contents (albertony)
  - copyurl: Added `--url` to read URLs from CSV file (S-Pegg1, dougal)
  - docs:
    - markdown linting (albertony)
    - fixes (albertony, Andrew Gunnerson, anon-pradip, Claudius Ellsel, dougal, iTrooz, Jean-Christophe Cura, Joseph Brownlee, kapitainsky, Matt LaPaglia, n4n5, Nick Craig-Wood, nielash, SublimePeace, Ted Robertson, vastonus)
  - fs: remove unnecessary Seek call on log file (Aneesh Agrawal)
  - hashsum: Improved output format when listing algorithms (albertony)
  - lib/http: Cleanup indentation and other whitespace in http serve template (albertony)
  - lsf: Add support for `unix` and `unixnano` time formats (Motte)
  - oauthutil: Improved debug logs from token refresh (albertony)
  - rc
    - Add [job/batch](https://rclone.org/rc/#job-batch) for sending batches of rc commands to run concurrently (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `runningIds` and `finishedIds` to [job/list](https://rclone.org/rc/#job-list) (n4n5)
    - Add `osVersion`, `osKernel` and `osArch` to [core/version](https://rclone.org/rc/#core-version) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make sure fatal errors run via the rc don't crash rclone (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `executeId` to job statuses in [job/list](https://rclone.org/rc/#job-list) (Nikolay Kiryanov)
    - `config/unlock`: rename parameter to `configPassword` accept old as well (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve http: Download folders as zip (dougal)
- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Fix tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: negative serial number (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - march
    - Fix `--no-traverse` being very slow (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve s3: Fix log output to remove the EXTRA messages (iTrooz)
- Mount
  - Windows: improve error message on missing WinFSP (divinity76)
- Local
  - Add `--skip-specials` to ignore special files (Adam Dinwoodie)
- Azure Blob
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
- Azurefiles
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
  - Add Server-Side encryption support (fries1234)
  - Fix "expected a FileSseMode but found: ''" (dougal)
  - Allow individual old versions to be deleted with `--b2-versions` (dougal)
- Box
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow configuration with config file contents (Dominik Sander)
- Compress
  - Add zstd compression (Alex)
- Drive
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error moving just created objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix SOCKS proxy support (dougal)
  - Fix transfers from servers that return 250 ok messages (jijamik)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
  - Fix `--gcs-storage-class` to work with server side copy for objects (Riaz Arbi)
- HTTP
  - Add basic metadata and provide it via serve (Oleg Kunitsyn)
- Jottacloud
  - Add support for Let's Go Cloud (from MediaMarkt) as a whitelabel service (albertony)
  - Add support for MediaMarkt Cloud as a whitelabel service (albertony)
  - Added support for traditional oauth authentication also for the main service (albertony)
  - Abort attempts to run unsupported rclone authorize command (albertony)
  - Improved token refresh handling (albertony)
  - Fix legacy authentication (albertony)
  - Fix authentication for whitelabel services from Elkjøp subsidiaries (albertony)
- Mega
  - Implement 2FA login (iTrooz)
- Memory
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
- Onedrive
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracle Object Storage
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
- Pcloud
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Proton Drive
  - Automated 2FA login with OTP secret key (Microscotch)
- S3
  - Make it easier to add new S3 providers (dougal)
  - Add `--s3-use-data-integrity-protections` quirk to fix  BadDigest error in Alibaba, Tencent (hunshcn)
  - Add support for `--upload-header`, `If-Match` and `If-None-Match` (Sean Turner)
  - Fix single file copying behavior with low permission (hunshcn)
- SFTP
  - Fix zombie SSH processes with `--sftp-ssh` (Copilot)
- Smb
  - Optimize smb mount performance by avoiding stat checks during initialization (Sudipto Baral)
- Swift
  - Add ListP interface (dougal)
  - If storage_policy isn't set, use the root containers policy (Andrew Ruthven)
  - Report disk usage in segment containers (Andrew Ruthven)
- Ulozto
  - Implement the About functionality (Lukas Krejci)
  - Fix downloads returning HTML error page (aliaj1)
- WebDAV
  - Optimize bearer token fetching with singleflight (hunshcn)
  - Add ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use SpaceSepList to parse bearer token command (hunshcn)
  - Add `Access-Control-Max-Age` header for CORS preflight caching (viocha)
  - Fix out of memory with sharepoint-ntlm when uploading large file (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.71.2 - 2025-10-20

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.71.1...v1.71.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - update Go to 1.25.3
    - Update Docker image Alpine version to fix CVE-2025-9230
  - bisync: Fix race when CaptureOutput is used concurrently (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, dougal, iTrooz, Matt LaPaglia, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - index: Add missing providers (dougal)
  - serve http: Fix: logging URL on start (dougal)
- Azurefiles
  - Fix server side copy not waiting for completion (Vikas Bhansali)
- B2
  - Fix 1TB+ uploads (dougal)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add region us-east5 (Dulani Woods)
- Mega
  - Fix 402 payment required errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Fix unnecessary retries by using URL expire parameter (Youfu Zhang)

## v1.71.1 - 2025-09-24

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.71.0...v1.71.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - bisync: Fix error handling for renamed conflicts (nielash)
  - march: Fix deadlock when using --fast-list on syncs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix partial name collisions for non --inplace copies (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pacer: Fix deadlock with --max-connections (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, anon-pradip, Claudius Ellsel, dougal, Jean-Christophe Cura, Nick Craig-Wood, nielash)
- Mount
  - Do not log successful unmount as an error (Tilman Vogel)
- VFS
  - Fix SIGHUP killing serve instead of flushing directory caches (dougal)
- Local
  - Fix rmdir "Access is denied" on windows (nielash)
- Box
  - Fix about after change in API return (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Combine
  - Propagate SlowHash feature (skbeh)
- Drive
  - Update making your own client ID instructions (Ed Craig-Wood)
- Internet Archive
  - Fix server side copy files with spaces (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.71.0 - 2025-08-22

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.70.0...v1.71.0)

- New S3 providers
  - [Exaba](https://rclone.org/s3/#exaba) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - We've been working with Exaba and they would love early adopters, self-hosters and testers
  - [OVHcloud Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#ovhcloud) (Florent Vennetier)
  - [Zata](https://rclone.org/s3/#Zata) ($@M@RTH_)
- New Features
  - Allow [global config to be overridden or set on backend creation](https://rclone.org/docs/#globalconfig) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync: Promoted from beta to stable (nielash)
  - build
    - Update to go1.25 and make go1.24 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Upgrade golangci-lint to v2 and fix code and config (albertony)
    - Add markdown linting to workflow and fix all the docs (albertony)
    - Extend check for edits of autogenerated files to all commits in a pull request (albertony)
    - Set default shell to bash in build.yml (Ross Smith II)
  - config
    - Make parsing of `Duration` options consistent (albertony)
    - Add error if `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` was supplied it but didn't decrypt the config (n4n5)
  - copy, copyto: Implement logger flags to store result of sync (Marvin Rösch)
  - doc fixes (albertony, Ali Zein Yousuf, Binbin Qian, curlwget, Ed Craig-Wood, jinjingroad, Lucas Bremgartner, n4n5, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - hash: Add support for BLAKE3, XXH3, XXH128 (albertony)
  - http
    - Add `--client-pass` support for encrypted `--client-key` files (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Allow setting of `--http-proxy` from the command line (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/mmap: Convert to using unsafe.Slice to avoid deprecated reflect.SliceHeader (cui)
  - lib/transform: Avoid empty charmap entry (albertony)
  - log: Add log rotation options when using [`--log-file`](https://rclone.org/docs/#log-file-string) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - move, moveto: Implement logger flags to store result of sync (Marvin Rösch)
  - pool: Unify memory between multipart and asyncreader to use one pool (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - purge: Exit with a fatal error if filters are set on `rclone purge` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add `config/unlock` to unlock the config file (n4n5)
    - Fix `config/listremotes` to send an empty array instead of nil (n4n5)
    - Populate transfer snapshot with "what" value (Timothy Jacobs)
  - serve sftp: Add support for more hashes (crc32, sha256, blake3, xxh3, xxh128) (albertony)
  - transform: Add `truncate_keep_extension` and `truncate_bytes` (nielash)
- Bug Fixes
  - about: Fix potential overflow of about in various backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - accounting
    - Fix incorrect stats with `--transfers=1` (Yu Xin)
    - Fix stats (`speed=0` and `eta=nil`) when starting jobs via rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync
    - Fix concurrent runs via rc (nielash)
    - Fix `--no-slow-hash` settings on path2 (nielash)
  - config: fix problem reading pasted tokens over 4095 bytes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Fix nil pointer crash when started with expired token (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix too many connections open when using `--max-buffer-memory` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pool: Fix deadlock with `--max-buffer-memory` and multipart transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Fix `operations/check` ignoring `oneWay` parameter (houance)
- Mount
  - Fix identification of symlinks in directory listings (huangnauh)
- Local
  - Configurable supported hashes (albertony)
  - Fix `--copy-links` on Windows when listing Junction points (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Azure Blob
  - Add support for client assertion based authentication (Vikas Bhansali)
  - Fix deadlock with `--max-connections` with `InvalidBlockOrBlob` errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix double accounting for multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Add support for client assertion based authentication (Vikas Bhansali)
  - Fix hash getting erased when modtime is set (nielash)
- Box
  - Fix about: cannot unmarshal number 1.0e+18 into Go struct field (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Combine
  - Fix directory not found errors with ListP interface (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filescom
  - Document that hashes need to be enabled (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Allow insecure TLS ciphers (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Make TLS config default to global TLS config (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This allows `--ca-cert`, `--client-cert` etc to be used.
    - This also allows `override.ca_cert = XXX` to be used in the config file.
- Googlephotos
  - Added warning for Google Photos compatibility-fixes (raider13209)
- Imagekit
  - Return correct error when attempting to upload zero length files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't low level retry uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove server side Copy method as it was downloading and uploading (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Internetarchive
  - Fix server side copy of files with `&` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mega
  - Fix tls handshake failure (necaran)
- Oracleobjectstorage
  - Add read only metadata support (praveen-solanki-oracle)
- Pikpak
  - Rewrite upload to bypass AWS S3 manager (wiserain)
  - Enhance Move for better handling of error and name collision (wiserain)
  - Enhance Copy method to handle name collisions and improve error management (wiserain)
  - Add file name integrity check during upload (wiserain)
- S3
  - Add `--s3-use-arn-region` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix memory leak by cloning strings (liubingrun)
  - Fix multipart upload and server side copy when using bucket policy SSE-C (Albin Parou)
  - Fix `Content-Type: aws-chunked` causing upload errors with `--metadata` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add support for more hashes (crc32, sha256, blake3, xxh3, xxh128) (albertony)
- Smb
  - Add `--smb-kerberos-ccache` option to set kerberos ccache per smb backend (Sudipto Baral)
  - Refresh Kerberos credentials when ccache file changes (Sudipto Baral)
  - Improve multithreaded upload performance using multiple connections (Sudipto Baral)

## v1.70.3 - 2025-07-09

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.70.2...v1.70.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - check: Fix difference report (was reporting error counts) (albertony)
  - march: Fix deadlock when using `--no-traverse` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix server side copy error "requires exactly one scope" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Fix finding objects when using `--b2-version-at` (Davide Bizzarri)
- Linkbox
  - Fix upload error "user upload file not exist" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Improve error handling for missing links and unrecoverable 500s (wiserain)
- WebDAV
  - Fix setting modtime to that of local object instead of remote (WeidiDeng)

## v1.70.2 - 2025-06-27

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.70.1...v1.70.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - convmv: Make --dry-run logs less noisy (nielash)
  - sync: Avoid copying dir metadata to itself (nielash)
  - build: Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 to fix GHSA-vrw8-fxc6-2r93 (dependabot[bot])
  - convmv: Fix moving to unicode-equivalent name (nielash)
  - log: Fix deadlock when using systemd logging (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pacer: Fix nil pointer deref in RetryError (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (Ali Zein Yousuf, Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix --skip-links on Windows when skipping Junction points (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.70.1 - 2025-06-19

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.70.0...v1.70.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - convmv: Fix spurious "error running command echo" on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, Ed Craig-Wood, jinjingroad)

## v1.70.0 - 2025-06-17

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.69.0...v1.70.0)

- New backends
  - [DOI](https://rclone.org/doi/) (Flora Thiebaut)
  - [FileLu](https://rclone.org/filelu/) (kingston125)
  - New S3 providers:
    - [MEGA S4](https://rclone.org/s3/#mega) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - [Pure Storage FlashBlade](https://rclone.org/s3/#pure-storage-flashblade) (Jeremy Daer)
- New commands
  - [convmv](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_convmv/): for moving and transforming files (nielash)
- New Features
  - Add [`--max-connections`](https://rclone.org/docs/#max-connections-n) to control maximum backend concurrency (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add [`--max-buffer-memory`](https://rclone.org/docs/#max-buffer-memory) to limit total buffer memory usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add transform library and [`--name-transform`](https://rclone.org/docs/#name-transform-stringarray) flag (nielash)
  - sync: Implement [`--list-cutoff`](https://rclone.org/docs/#list-cutoff) to allow on disk sorting for reduced memory use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - accounting: Add listed stat for number of directory entries listed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - backend: Skip hash calculation when the hashType is None (Oleksiy Stashok)
  - build
    - Update to go1.24 and make go1.22 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Disable docker builds on PRs & add missing dockerfile changes (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
    - Modernize Go usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cmd/authorize: Show required arguments in help text (simwai)
  - cmd/config: add `--no-output` option (Jess)
  - cmd/gitannex
    - Tweak parsing of "rcloneremotename" config (Dan McArdle)
    - Permit remotes with options (Dan McArdle)
    - Reject unknown layout modes in INITREMOTE (Dan McArdle)
  - docker image: Add label org.opencontainers.image.source for release notes in Renovate dependency updates (Robin Schneider)
  - doc fixes (albertony, Andrew Kreimer, Ben Boeckel, Christoph Berger, Danny Garside, Dimitri Papadopoulos, eccoisle, Ed Craig-Wood, Fernando Fernández, jack, Jeff Geerling, Jugal Kishore, kingston125, luzpaz, Markus Gerstel, Matt Ickstadt, Michael Kebe, Nick Craig-Wood, PrathameshLakawade, Ser-Bul, simonmcnair, Tim White, Zachary Vorhies)
  - filter:
    - Add `--hash-filter` to deterministically select a subset of files (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Show `--min-size` and `--max-size` in `--dump` filters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - hash: Add SHA512 support for file hashes (Enduriel)
  - http servers: Add `--user-from-header` to use for authentication (Moises Lima)
  - lib/batcher: Deprecate unused option: batch_commit_timeout (Dan McArdle)
  - log:
    - Remove github.com/sirupsen/logrus and replace with log/slog (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--windows-event-log-level` to support Windows Event Log (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add add `short` parameter to `core/stats` to not return transferring and checking (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - In `options/info` make FieldName contain a "." if it should be nested (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add rc control for serve commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - rcserver: Improve content-type check (Jonathan Giannuzzi)
  - serve nfs
    - Update docs to note Windows is not supported (Zachary Vorhies)
    - Change the format of `--nfs-cache-type symlink` file handles (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make metadata files have special file handles (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - touch: Make touch obey `--transfers` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - version: Add `--deps` flag to show dependencies and other build info (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - serve s3:
    - Fix ListObjectsV2 response (fhuber)
    - Remove redundant handler initialization (Tho Neyugn)
  - stats: Fix goroutine leak and improve stats accounting process (Nathanael Demacon)
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-metadata-extension` to expose metadata sidecar files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Add support for `x-ms-tags` header (Trevor Starick)
  - Cleanup uncommitted blocks on upload errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Speed up server side copies for small files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement multipart server side copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove uncommitted blocks on InvalidBlobOrBlock error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix handling of objects with // in (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Handle retry error codes more carefully (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix errors not being retried when doing single part copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix multipart server side copies of 0 sized files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Add `--azurefiles-use-az` and `--azurefiles-disable-instance-discovery` (b-wimmer)
- B2
  - Add SkipDestructive handling to backend commands (Pat Patterson)
  - Use file id from listing when not presented in headers (ahxxm)
- Cloudinary
  - Automatically add/remove known media files extensions (yuval-cloudinary)
  - Var naming convention (yuval-cloudinary)
- Drive
  - Added `backend moveid` command (Spencer McCullough)
- Dropbox
  - Support Dropbox Paper (Dave Vasilevsky)
- FTP
  - Add `--ftp-http-proxy` to connect via HTTP CONNECT proxy
- Gofile
  - Update to use new direct upload endpoint (wbulot)
- Googlephotos
  - Update read only and read write scopes to meet Google's requirements. (Germán Casares)
- Iclouddrive
  - Fix panic and files potentially downloaded twice (Clément Wehrung)
- Internetarchive
  - Add `--internetarchive-metadata="key=value"` for setting item metadata (Corentin Barreau)
- Onedrive
  - Fix "The upload session was not found" errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Re-add `--onedrive-upload-cutoff` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash if no metadata was updated (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Opendrive
  - Added `--opendrive-access` flag to handle permissions (Joel K Biju)
- Pcloud
  - Fix "Access denied. You do not have permissions to perform this operation" on large uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix handling of objects with // in (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add IBM IAM signer (Alexander Minbaev)
  - Split the GCS quirks into `--s3-use-x-id` and `--s3-sign-accept-encoding` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement paged listing interface ListP (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Pure Storage FlashBlade provider support (Jeremy Daer)
  - Require custom endpoint for Lyve Cloud v2 support (PrathameshLakawade)
  - MEGA S4 support (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add `--sftp-http-proxy` to connect via HTTP CONNECT proxy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Add support for kerberos authentication (Jonathan Giannuzzi)
  - Improve connection pooling efficiency (Jonathan Giannuzzi)
- WebDAV
  - Retry propfind on 425 status (Jörn Friedrich Dreyer)
  - Add an ownCloud Infinite Scale vendor that enables tus chunked upload support (Klaas Freitag)

## v1.69.3 - 2025-05-21

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.69.2...v1.69.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: Reapply update github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 to fix CVE-2025-30204 (dependabot[bot])
  - build: Update github.com/ebitengine/purego to work around bug in go1.24.3 (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.69.2 - 2025-05-01

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.69.1...v1.69.2)

- Bug fixes
  - accounting: Fix percentDiff calculation -- (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - build
    - Update github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 to fix CVE-2025-30204 (dependabot[bot])
    - Update github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 to fix CVE-2025-30204 (dependabot[bot])
    - Update golang.org/x/crypto to v0.35.0 to fix CVE-2025-22869 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update golang.org/x/net from 0.36.0 to 0.38.0 to fix CVE-2025-22870 (dependabot[bot])
    - Update golang.org/x/net to 0.36.0. to fix CVE-2025-22869 (dependabot[bot])
    - Stop building with go < go1.23 as security updates forbade it (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix docker plugin build (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - cmd: Fix crash if rclone is invoked without any arguments (Janne Hellsten)
  - config: Read configuration passwords from stdin even when terminated with EOF (Samantha Bowen)
  - doc fixes (Andrew Kreimer, Danny Garside, eccoisle, Ed Craig-Wood, emyarod, jack, Jugal Kishore, Markus Gerstel, Michael Kebe, Nick Craig-Wood, simonmcnair, simwai, Zachary Vorhies)
  - fs: Fix corruption of SizeSuffix with "B" suffix in config (eg --min-size) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/http: Fix race between Serve() and Shutdown() (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - object: Fix memory object out of bounds Seek (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix call fmt.Errorf with wrong err (alingse)
  - rc
    - Disable the metrics server when running `rclone rc` (hiddenmarten)
    - Fix debug/* commands not being available over unix sockets (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve nfs: Fix unlikely crash (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - stats: Fix the speed not getting updated after a pause in the processing (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - sync
    - Fix cpu spinning when empty directory finding with leading slashes (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Copy dir modtimes even when copyEmptySrcDirs is false (ll3006)
- VFS
  - Fix directory cache serving stale data (Lorenz Brun)
  - Fix inefficient directory caching when directory reads are slow (huanghaojun)
  - Fix integration test failures (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Metadata: fix error when setting copy-requires-writer-permission on a folder (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Retry link without expiry (Dave Vasilevsky)
- HTTP
  - Correct root if definitely pointing to a file (nielash)
- Iclouddrive
  - Fix so created files are writable (Ben Alex)
- Onedrive
  - Fix metadata ordering in permissions (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.69.1 - 2025-02-14

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.69.0...v1.69.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - lib/oauthutil: Fix redirect URL mismatch errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync: Fix listings missing concurrent modifications (nielash)
  - serve s3: Fix list objects encoding-type (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs: Fix confusing "didn't find section in config file" error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (Christoph Berger, Dimitri Papadopoulos, Matt Ickstadt, Nick Craig-Wood, Tim White, Zachary Vorhies)
  - build: Added parallel docker builds and caching for go build in the container (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- VFS
  - Fix the cache failing to upload symlinks when `--links` was specified (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix race detected by race detector (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Close the change notify channel on Shutdown (izouxv)
- B2
  - Fix "fatal error: concurrent map writes" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Iclouddrive
  - Add notes on ADP and Missing PCS cookies (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Mark German (de) region as deprecated (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Added new storage class to magalu provider (Bruno Fernandes)
  - Add DigitalOcean regions SFO2, LON1, TOR1, BLR1 (jkpe)
  - Add latest Linode Object Storage endpoints (jbagwell-akamai)

## v1.69.0 - 2025-01-12

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.68.0...v1.69.0)

- New backends
  - [ICloud Drive](https://rclone.org/iclouddrive/) (lostb1t)
  - [Cloudinary](https://rclone.org/cloudinary/) (yuval-cloudinary)
  - New S3 providers:
    - [Outscale](https://rclone.org/s3/#outscale) (Matthias Gatto)
    - [Selectel](https://rclone.org/s3/#selectel) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Security fixes
  - serve sftp: Resolve CVE-2024-45337 - Misuse of ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback may cause authorization bypass (dependabot)
    - Rclone was **not** vulnerable to this.
    - See <https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v778-237x-gjrc>
  - build: Update golang.org/x/net to v0.33.0 to fix CVE-2024-45338 - Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Rclone was **not** vulnerable to this.
    - See <https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w32m-9786-jp63>
- New Features
  - accounting: Write the current bwlimit to the log on SIGUSR2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync: Change exit code from 2 to 7 for critically aborted run (albertony)
  - build
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Replace Windows-specific `NewLazyDLL` with `NewLazySystemDLL` (albertony)
  - cmd: Change exit code from 1 to 2 for syntax and usage errors (albertony)
  - docker serve: make sure all mount and VFS options are parsed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, Alexandre Hamez, Anthony Metzidis, buengese, Dan McArdle, David Seifert, Francesco Frassinelli, Michael R. Davis, Nick Craig-Wood, Pawel Palucha, Randy Bush, remygrandin, Sam Harrison, shenpengfeng, tgfisher, Thomas ten Cate, ToM, Tony Metzidis, vintagefuture, Yxxx)
  - fs: Make `--links` flag global and add new `--local-links` and `--vfs-links` flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - http servers: Disable automatic authentication skipping for unix sockets in http servers (Moises Lima)
    - This was making it impossible to use unix sockets with an proxy
    - This might now cause rclone to need authentication where it didn't before
  - oauthutil: add support for OAuth client credential flow (Martin Hassack, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: make log messages consistent for mkdir/rmdir at INFO level (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Add `relative` to [vfs/queue-set-expiry](https://rclone.org/rc/#vfs-queue-set-expiry) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Sort the directory entries by directories first then alphabetically by name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve nfs
    - Introduce symlink support (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement `--nfs-cache-type` symlink (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - size: Make output compatible with `-P` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - test makefiles: Add `--flat` flag for making directories with many entries (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix global error acounting (Benjamin Legrand)
    - Fix debug printing when debug wasn't set (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix race stopping/starting the stats counter (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc/job: Use mutex for adding listeners thread safety (hayden.pan)
  - serve docker: Fix incorrect GID assignment (TAKEI Yuya)
  - serve nfs: Fix missing inode numbers which was messing up `ls -laR` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve s3: Fix `Last-Modified` timestamp (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Fix loading of authorized keys file with comment on last line (albertony)
- Mount
  - Introduce symlink support (Filipe Azevedo, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Better snap mount error message (divinity76)
  - mount2: Fix missing `.` and `..` entries (Filipe Azevedo)
- VFS
  - With `--vfs-used-is-size` value is calculated and then thrown away (Ilias Ozgur Can Leonard)
  - Add symlink support to VFS (Filipe Azevedo, Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This can be enabled with the specific `--vfs-links` flag or the global `--links` flag
  - Fix open files disappearing from directory listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add remote name to vfs cache log messages (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Fix parent not getting pinned when remote is a file (nielash)
- Azure Blob
  - Add `--azureblob-disable-instance-discovery` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--azureblob-use-az` to force the use of the Azure CLI for auth (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Quit multipart uploads if the context is cancelled (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Fix missing x-ms-file-request-intent header (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Add `daysFromStartingToCancelingUnfinishedLargeFiles` to `backend lifecycle` command (Louis Laureys)
- Box
  - Fix server-side copying a file over existing dst (nielash)
  - Fix panic when decoding corrupted PEM from JWT file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add support for markdown format (Noam Ross)
  - Implement `rclone backend rescue` to rescue orphaned files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix return status when full to be fatal error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Implement `--ftp-no-check-upload` to allow upload to write only dirs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix ls commands returning empty on "Microsoft FTP Service" servers (Francesco Frassinelli)
- Gofile
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add access token auth with `--gcs-access-token` (Leandro Piccilli)
  - Update docs on service account access tokens (Anthony Metzidis)
- Googlephotos
  - Implement `--gphotos-proxy` to allow download of full resolution media (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix nil pointer crash on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Fix incorrect URLs with initial slash (Oleg Kunitsyn)
- Onedrive
  - Add support for OAuth client credential flow (Martin Hassack, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix time precision for OneDrive personal (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Opendrive
  - Add `rclone about` support to backend (quiescens)
- Oracle Object Storage
  - Make specifying `compartmentid` optional (Manoj Ghosh)
  - Quit multipart uploads if the context is cancelled (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Add option to use original file links (wiserain)
- Protondrive
  - Improve performance of Proton Drive backend (Lawrence Murray)
- Putio
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add initial `--s3-directory-bucket` to support AWS Directory Buckets (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Wasabi `eu-south-1` region (Diego Monti)
  - Fix download of compressed files from Cloudflare R2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Rename glacier storage class to flexible retrieval (Henry Lee)
  - Quit multipart uploads if the context is cancelled (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Allow inline ssh public certificate for sftp (Dimitar Ivanov)
  - Fix nil check when using auth proxy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Add initial support for Kerberos authentication (more work needed). (Francesco Frassinelli)
  - Fix panic if stat fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sugarsync
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Nextcloud: implement backoff and retry for 423 LOCKED errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--webdav-auth-redirect` to fix 401 unauthorized on redirect (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Yandex
  - Fix server side copying over existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Use download server to accelerate downloads (buengese)
  - Switch to large file upload API for larger files, fix missing URL encoding of filenames for the upload API (buengese)
  - Print clear error message when missing oauth scope (buengese)
  - Try to handle rate limits a bit better (buengese)
  - Add support for private spaces (buengese)
  - Make upload cutoff configurable (buengese)

## v1.68.2 - 2024-11-15

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.68.1...v1.68.2)

- Security fixes
  - local backend: CVE-2024-52522: fix permission and ownership on symlinks with `--links` and `--metadata` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Only affects users using `--metadata` and `--links` and copying files to the local backend
    - See <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv>
  - build: bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (dependabot)
    - This is an issue in a dependency which is used for JWT certificates
    - See <https://github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/security/advisories/GHSA-29wx-vh33-7x7r>
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix wrong message on SIGUSR2 to enable/disable bwlimit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync: Fix output capture restoring the wrong output for logrus (Dimitrios Slamaris)
  - dlna: Fix loggingResponseWriter disregarding log level (Simon Bos)
  - serve s3: Fix excess locking which was making serve s3 single threaded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (Nick Craig-Wood, tgfisher, Alexandre Hamez, Randy Bush)
- Local
  - Fix permission and ownership on symlinks with `--links` and `--metadata` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--copy-links` on macOS when cloning (nielash)
- Onedrive
  - Fix Retry-After handling to look at 503 errors also (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Fix cid/gcid calculations for fs.OverrideRemote (wiserain)
  - Fix fatal crash on startup with token that can't be refreshed (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix crash when using `--s3-download-url` after migration to SDKv2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Storj provider: fix server-side copy of files bigger than 5GB (Kaloyan Raev)
  - Fix multitenant multipart uploads with CEPH (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.68.1 - 2024-09-24

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.68.0...v1.68.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: Fix docker release build (ttionya)
  - doc fixes (Nick Craig-Wood, Pawel Palucha)
  - fs
    - Fix `--dump filters` not always appearing (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix setting `stringArray` config values from environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Fix default value of `--metrics-addr` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve docker: Add missing `vfs-read-chunk-streams` option in docker volume driver (Divyam)
- Onedrive
  - Fix spurious "Couldn't decode error response: EOF" DEBUG (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Fix login issue where token retrieval fails (wiserain)
- S3
  - Fix rclone ignoring static credentials when `env_auth=true` (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.68.0 - 2024-09-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.67.0...v1.68.0)

- New backends
  - [Files.com](/filescom) (Sam Harrison)
  - [Gofile](https://rclone.org/gofile/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [Pixeldrain](https://rclone.org/pixeldrain/) (Fornax)
- Changed backends
  - [S3](https://rclone.org/s3/) backend updated to use [AWS SDKv2](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2) as v1 is now unsupported.
    - The matrix of providers and auth methods is huge and there could be problems with obscure combinations.
    - Please report problems in a [new issue](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/new/choose) on Github.
- New commands
  - [config encryption](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_encryption/): set, remove and check to manage config file encryption (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - build
    - Update to go1.23 and make go1.21 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Disable wasm/js build due to [go bug #64856](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64856) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Enable custom linting rules with ruleguard via gocritic (albertony)
    - Update logging statements to make `--use-json-log` work always (albertony)
    - Adding new code quality tests and fixing the fallout (albertony)
  - config
    - Internal config re-organised to be more consistent and make it available from the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Avoid remotes with empty names from the environment (albertony)
    - Make listing of remotes more consistent (albertony)
    - Make getting config values more consistent (albertony)
    - Use `--password-command` to set config file password if supplied (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, crystalstall, David Seifert, Eng Zer Jun, Ernie Hershey, Florian Klink, John Oxley, kapitainsky, Mathieu Moreau, Nick Craig-Wood, nipil, Pétr Bozsó, Russ Bubley, Sam Harrison, Thearas, URenko, Will Miles, yuval-cloudinary)
  - fs: Allow semicolons as well as spaces in `--bwlimit` timetable parsing (Kyle Reynolds)
  - help
    - Global flags help command now takes glob filter (albertony)
    - Make help command output less distracting (albertony)
  - lib/encoder: Add Raw encoding for use where no encoding at all is required, eg `--local-encoding Raw` (URenko)
  - listremotes: Added options for filtering, ordering and json output (albertony)
  - nfsmount
    - Make the `--sudo` flag work for umount as well as mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `-o tcp` option to NFS mount options to fix mounting under Linux (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: copy: generate stable partial suffix (Georg Welzel)
  - rc
    - Add [options/info](https://rclone.org/rc/#options-info) call to enumerate options (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add option blocks parameter to [options/get](https://rclone.org/rc/#options-get) and [options/info](/rc/#options-info) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add [vfs/queue](https://rclone.org/rc/#vfs-queue) to show the status of the upload queue (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add [vfs/queue-set-expiry](https://rclone.org/rc/#vfs-queue-set-expiry) to adjust expiry of items in the VFS queue (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--unix-socket` option to `rc` command (Florian Klink)
    - Prevent unmount rc command from sending a `STOPPING=1` sd-notify message (AThePeanut4)
  - rcserver: Implement [prometheus metrics](https://rclone.org/docs/#metrics) on a dedicated port (Oleg Kunitsyn)
  - serve dlna
    - Also look at "Subs" subdirectory (Florian Klink)
    - Don't swallow `video.{idx,sub}` (Florian Klink)
    - Set more correct mime type (Florian Klink)
  - serve nfs
    - Implement on disk cache for file handles selected with `--nfs-cache-type` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add tracing to filesystem calls (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Mask unimplemented error from chmod (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Unify the nfs library logging with rclone's logging better (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix incorrect user id and group id exported to NFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve s3
    - Implement `--auth-proxy` (Sawjan Gurung)
    - Update to AWS SDKv2 by updating `github.com/rclone/gofakes3` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - bisync: Fix sync time problems with backends that round time (eg Dropbox) (nielash)
  - serve dlna: Fix panic: invalid argument to Int63n (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add [--vfs-read-chunk-streams](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-read-chunk-streams-0-1) to parallel read chunks from files (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This can increase mount performance on high bandwidth or large latency links
  - Fix cache encoding with special characters (URenko)
- Local
  - Fix encoding of root path fix (URenko)
  - Add server-side copy (using clone) with xattrs on macOS (nielash)
    - `--local-no-clone` flag to disable cloning for server-side copies (nielash)
  - Support setting custom `--metadata` during server-side Copy (nielash)
- Azure Blob
  - Allow anonymous access for public resources (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Include custom upload headers in large file info (Pat Patterson)
- Drive
  - Fix copying Google Docs to a backend which only supports SHA1 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Fix detection of Flood Detected error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side move (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Reload client certificates on expiry (Saleh Dindar)
  - Support listening on passed FDs (Florian Klink)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix setting of metadata on server side move (albertony)
- Onedrive
  - Fix nil pointer error when uploading small files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pcloud
  - Implement `SetModTime` (Georg Welzel)
  - Implement `OpenWriterAt` feature to enable multipart uploads (Georg Welzel)
  - Fix failing large file uploads (Georg Welzel)
- Pikpak
  - Improve data consistency by ensuring async tasks complete (wiserain)
  - Implement custom hash to replace wrong sha1 (wiserain)
  - Fix error with `copyto` command (wiserain)
  - Optimize file move by removing unnecessary `readMetaData()` call (wiserain)
  - Non-buffered hash calculation for local source files (wiserain)
  - Optimize upload by pre-fetching gcid from API (wiserain)
  - Correct file transfer progress for uploads by hash (wiserain)
  - Update to using AWS SDK v2 (wiserain)
- S3
  - Update to using AWS SDK v2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--s3-sdk-log-mode` to control SDKv2 debugging (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect region for Magalu provider (Filipe Herculano)
  - Allow restoring from intelligent-tiering storage class (Pawel Palucha)
- SFTP
  - Use `uint32` for mtime to save memory (Tomasz Melcer)
  - Ignore useless errors when closing the connection pool (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support listening on passed FDs (Florian Klink)
- Swift
  - Add workarounds for bad listings in Ceph RGW (Paul Collins)
  - Add total/free space info in `about` command. (fsantagostinobietti)
- Ulozto
  - Fix upload of > 2GB files on 32 bit platforms (Tobias Markus)
- WebDAV
  - Add `--webdav-unix-socket-path` to connect to a unix socket (Florian Klink)
- Yandex
  - Implement custom user agent to help with upload speeds (Sebastian Bünger)
- Zoho
  - Fix inefficiencies uploading with new API to avoid throttling (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.67.0 - 2024-06-14

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.66.0...v1.67.0)

- New backends
  - [uloz.to](https://rclone.org/ulozto/) (iotmaestro)
  - New S3 providers
    - [Magalu Object Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#magalu) (Bruno Fernandes)
- New commands
  - [gitannex](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_gitannex/): Enables git-annex to store and retrieve content from an rclone remote (Dan McArdle)
- New Features
  - accounting: Add deleted files total size to status summary line (Kyle Reynolds)
  - build
    - Fix `CVE-2023-45288` by upgrading `golang.org/x/net` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `CVE-2024-35255` by upgrading `github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity` to 1.6.0 (dependabot)
    - Convert source files with CRLF to LF (albertony)
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc updates (albertony, Alex Garel, Dave Nicolson, Dominik Joe Pantůček, Eric Wolf, Erisa A, Evan Harris, Evan McBeth, Gachoud Philippe, hidewrong, jakzoe, jumbi77, kapitainsky, Kyle Reynolds, Lewis Hook, Nick Craig-Wood, overallteach, pawsey-kbuckley, Pieter van Oostrum, psychopatt, racerole, static-moonlight, Warrentheo, yudrywet, yumeiyin )
  - ncdu: Do not quit on Esc to aid usability (Katia Esposito)
  - rcserver: Set `ModTime` for dirs and files served by `--rc-serve` (Nikita Shoshin)
- Bug Fixes
  - bisync: Add integration tests against all backends and fix many many problems (nielash)
  - config: Fix default value for `description` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copy: Fix `nil` pointer dereference when corrupted on transfer with `nil` dst (nielash)
  - fs
    - Improve JSON Unmarshalling for `Duration` types (Kyle Reynolds)
    - Close the CPU profile on exit (guangwu)
    - Replace `/bin/bash` with `/usr/bin/env bash` (Florian Klink)
  - oauthutil: Clear client secret if client ID is set (Michael Terry)
  - operations
    - Rework `rcat` so that it doesn't call the `--metadata-mapper` twice (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Ensure `SrcFsType` is set correctly when using `--metadata-mapper` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix "optional feature not implemented" error with a crypted sftp bug (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix very long file names when using copy with `--partial` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix retries downloading too much data with certain backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix move when dst is nil and fdst is case-insensitive (nielash)
    - Fix lsjson `--encrypted` when using `--crypt-XXX` parameters (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix missing metadata for multipart transfers to local disk (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix incorrect modtime on some multipart transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix hashing problem in integration tests (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Fix stats groups being ignored in `operations/check` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix incorrect `Content-Type` in HTTP API (Kyle Reynolds)
  - serve s3
    - Fix `Last-Modified` header format (Butanediol)
    - Fix in-memory metadata storing wrong modtime (nielash)
    - Fix XML of error message (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Fix webdav with `--baseurl` under Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Make `BrowseMetadata` more compliant (albertony)
  - serve http: Added `Content-Length` header when HTML directory is served (Sunny)
  - sync
    - Don't sync directories if they haven't been modified (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Don't test reading metadata if we can't write it (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix case normalisation (problem on on s3) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix management of empty directories to make it more accurate (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix creation of empty directories when `--create-empty-src-dirs=false` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix directory modification times not being set (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix "failed to update directory timestamp or metadata: directory not found" (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix expecting SFTP to have MkdirMetadata method: optional feature not implemented (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - test info: Improve cleanup of temp files (Kyle Reynolds)
  - touch: Fix using `-R` on certain backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Add `--direct-io` flag to force uncached access (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix download loop when file size shrunk (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix renaming a directory (nielash)
- Local
  - Add `--local-time-type` to use `mtime`/`atime`/`btime`/`ctime` as the time (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow `SeBackupPrivilege` and/or `SeRestorePrivilege` to work on Windows (Charles Hamilton)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix encoding issue with dir path comparison (nielash)
- B2
  - Add new [cleanup](https://rclone.org/b2/#cleanup) and [cleanup-hidden](/b2/#cleanup-hidden) backend commands. (Pat Patterson)
  - Update B2 URLs to new home (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Fix startup when root points to composite multi-chunk file without metadata (nielash)
  - Fix case-insensitive comparison on local without metadata (nielash)
  - Fix "finalizer already set" error (nielash)
- Drive
  - Add [backend query](https://rclone.org/drive/#query) command for general purpose querying of files (John-Paul Smith)
  - Stop sending notification emails when setting permissions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side copy with metadata from my drive to shared drive (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Set all metadata permissions and return error summary instead of stopping on the first error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make errors setting permissions into no retry errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix description being overwritten on server side moves (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow setting metadata to fail if `failok` flag is set (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix panic when using `--metadata-mapper` on large google doc files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add `--dropbox-root-namespace` to override the root namespace (Bill Fraser)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix encoding issue with dir path comparison (nielash)
- Hdfs
  - Fix f.String() not including subpath (nielash)
- Http
  - Add `--http-no-escape` to not escape URL metacharacters in path names (Kyle Reynolds)
- Jottacloud
  - Set metadata on server side copy and move (albertony)
- Linkbox
  - Fix working with names longer than 8-25 Unicode chars. (Vitaly)
  - Fix list paging and optimized synchronization. (gvitali)
- Mailru
  - Attempt to fix throttling by increasing min sleep to 100ms (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Memory
  - Fix dst mutating src after server-side copy (nielash)
  - Fix deadlock in operations.Purge (nielash)
  - Fix incorrect list entries when rooted at subdirectory (nielash)
- Onedrive
  - Add `--onedrive-hard-delete` to permanently delete files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make server-side copy work in more scenarios (YukiUnHappy)
  - Fix "unauthenticated: Unauthenticated" errors when downloading (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--metadata-mapper` being called twice if writing permissions (nielash)
  - Set all metadata permissions and return error summary instead of stopping on the first error (nielash)
  - Make errors setting permissions into no retry errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Skip writing permissions with 'owner' role (nielash)
  - Fix references to deprecated permissions properties (nielash)
  - Add support for group permissions (nielash)
  - Allow setting permissions to fail if `failok` flag is set (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pikpak
  - Make getFile() usage more efficient to avoid the download limit (wiserain)
  - Improve upload reliability and resolve potential file conflicts (wiserain)
  - Implement configurable chunk size for multipart upload (wiserain)
- Protondrive
  - Don't auth with an empty access token (Michał Dzienisiewicz)
- Qingstor
  - Disable integration tests as test account suspended (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Quatrix
  - Fix f.String() not including subpath (nielash)
- S3
  - Add new AWS region `il-central-1` Tel Aviv (yoelvini)
  - Update Scaleway's configuration options (Alexandre Lavigne)
  - Ceph: fix quirks when creating buckets to fix trying to create an existing bucket (Thomas Schneider)
  - Fix encoding issue with dir path comparison (nielash)
  - Fix 405 error on HEAD for delete marker with versionId (nielash)
  - Validate `--s3-copy-cutoff` size before copy (hoyho)
- SFTP
  - Add `--sftp-connections` to limit the maximum number of connections (Tomasz Melcer)
- Storj
  - Update `storj.io/uplink` to latest release (JT Olio)
  - Update bio on request (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Implement `--swift-use-segments-container` to allow >5G files on Blomp (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Fix deleting dirs when all remotes can't have empty dirs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Fix setting modification times erasing checksums on owncloud and nextcloud (nielash)
  - owncloud: Add `--webdav-owncloud-exclude-mounts` which allows excluding mounted folders when listing remote resources (Thomas Müller)
- Zoho
  - Fix throttling problem when uploading files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use cursor listing for improved performance (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry reading info after upload if size wasn't returned (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove simple file names complication which is no longer needed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Sleep for 60 seconds if rate limit error received (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.66.0 - 2024-03-10

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.65.0...v1.66.0)

- Major features
  - Rclone will now sync directory modification times if the backend supports it.
    - This can be disabled with [--no-update-dir-modtime](https://rclone.org/docs/#no-update-dir-modtime)
    - See [the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#features) and look for the `D` flags in the `ModTime` column to see which backends support it.
  - Rclone will now sync directory metadata if the backend supports it when `-M`/`--metadata` is in use.
    - See [the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#features) and look for the `D` flags in the `Metadata` column to see which backends support it.
  - Bisync has received many updates see below for more details or [bisync's changelog](https://rclone.org/bisync/#changelog)
- Removed backends
  - amazonclouddrive: Remove Amazon Drive backend code and docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - backend
    - Add description field for all backends (Paul Stern)
  - build
    - Update to go1.22 and make go1.20 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `CVE-2024-24786` by upgrading `google.golang.org/protobuf` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - check: Respect `--no-unicode-normalization` and `--ignore-case-sync` for `--checkfile` (nielash)
  - cmd: Much improved shell auto completion which reduces the size of the completion file and works faster (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc updates (albertony, ben-ba, Eli, emyarod, huajin tong, Jack Provance, kapitainsky, keongalvin, Nick Craig-Wood, nielash, rarspace01, rzitzer, Tera, Vincent Murphy)
  - fs: Add more detailed logging for file includes/excludes (Kyle Reynolds)
  - lsf
    - Add `--time-format` flag (nielash)
    - Make metadata appear for directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Make metadata appear for directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add `srcFs` and `dstFs` to `core/stats` and `core/transferred` stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `operations/hashsum` to the rc as `rclone hashsum` equivalent (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `config/paths` to the rc as `rclone config paths` equivalent (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync
    - Optionally report list of synced paths to file (nielash)
    - Implement directory sync for mod times and metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Don't set directory modtimes if already set (nielash)
    - Don't sync directory modtimes from backends which don't have directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - backend
    - Make backends which use oauth implement the `Shutdown` and shutdown the oauth properly (rkonfj)
  - bisync
    - Handle unicode and case normalization consistently (nielash)
    - Partial uploads known issue on `local`/`ftp`/`sftp` has been resolved (unless using `--inplace`) (nielash)
    - Fixed handling of unicode normalization and case insensitivity, support for [`--fix-case`](https://rclone.org/docs/#fix-case), [`--ignore-case-sync`](/docs/#ignore-case-sync), [`--no-unicode-normalization`](/docs/#no-unicode-normalization) (nielash)
    - Bisync no longer fails to find the correct listing file when configs are overridden with backend-specific flags. (nielash)
  - nfsmount
    - Fix exit after external unmount (nielash)
    - Fix `--volname` being ignored (nielash)
  - operations
    - Fix renaming a file on macOS (nielash)
    - Fix case-insensitive moves in operations.Move (nielash)
    - Fix TestCaseInsensitiveMoveFileDryRun on chunker integration tests (nielash)
    - Fix TestMkdirModTime test (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix TestSetDirModTime for backends with SetDirModTime but not Metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix typo in log messages (nielash)
  - serve nfs: Fix writing files via Finder on macOS (nielash)
  - serve restic: Fix error handling (Michael Eischer)
  - serve webdav: Fix `--baseurl` without leading / (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - stats: Fix race between ResetCounters and stopAverageLoop called from time.AfterFunc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync
    - `--fix-case` flag to rename case insensitive dest (nielash)
    - Use operations.DirMove instead of sync.MoveDir for `--fix-case` (nielash)
  - systemd: Fix detection and switch to the coreos package everywhere rather than having 2 separate libraries (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Mount
  - Fix macOS not noticing errors with `--daemon` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Notice daemon dying much quicker (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix unicode normalization on macOS (nielash)
- Bisync
  - Copies and deletes are now handled in one operation instead of two (nielash)
  - `--track-renames` and `--backup-dir` are now supported (nielash)
  - Final listings are now generated from sync results, to avoid needing to re-list (nielash)
  - Bisync is now much more resilient to changes that happen during a bisync run, and far less prone to critical errors / undetected changes (nielash)
  - Bisync is now capable of rolling a file listing back in cases of uncertainty, essentially marking the file as needing to be rechecked next time. (nielash)
  - A few basic terminal colors are now supported, controllable with [`--color`](https://rclone.org/docs/#color-autoneveralways) (`AUTO`|`NEVER`|`ALWAYS`) (nielash)
  - Initial listing snapshots of Path1 and Path2 are now generated concurrently, using the same "march" infrastructure as `check` and `sync`, for performance improvements and less risk of error. (nielash)
  - `--resync` is now much more efficient (especially for users of `--create-empty-src-dirs`) (nielash)
  - Google Docs (and other files of unknown size) are now supported (with the same options as in `sync`) (nielash)
  - Equality checks before a sync conflict rename now fall back to `cryptcheck` (when possible) or `--download`, (nielash)
instead of of `--size-only`, when `check` is not available.
  - Bisync now fully supports comparing based on any combination of size, modtime, and checksum, lifting the prior restriction on backends without modtime support. (nielash)
  - Bisync now supports a "Graceful Shutdown" mode to cleanly cancel a run early without requiring `--resync`. (nielash)
  - New `--recover` flag allows robust recovery in the event of interruptions, without requiring `--resync`. (nielash)
  - A new `--max-lock` setting allows lock files to automatically renew and expire, for better automatic recovery when a run is interrupted. (nielash)
  - Bisync now supports auto-resolving sync conflicts and customizing rename behavior with new [`--conflict-resolve`](#conflict-resolve), [`--conflict-loser`](#conflict-loser), and [`--conflict-suffix`](#conflict-suffix) flags. (nielash)
  - A new [`--resync-mode`](#resync-mode) flag allows more control over which version of a file gets kept during a `--resync`. (nielash)
  - Bisync now supports [`--retries`](https://rclone.org/docs/#retries-int) and [`--retries-sleep`](/docs/#retries-sleep-duration) (when [`--resilient`](#resilient) is set.) (nielash)
  - Clarify file operation directions in dry-run logs (Kyle Reynolds)
- Local
  - Fix cleanRootPath on Windows after go1.21.4 stdlib update (nielash)
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (nielash)
  - Implement modtime and metadata for directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix setting of btime on directories on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Delete backend implementation of Purge to speed up and make stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support metadata setting and mapping on server side Move (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Improve handling of undecryptable file names (nielash)
  - Add missing error check spotted by linter (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Implement `--azureblob-delete-snapshots` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Clarify exactly what `--b2-download-auth-duration` does in the docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Combine
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix directory metadata error on upstream root (nielash)
  - Fix directory move across upstreams (nielash)
- Compress
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (nielash)
  - Implement modtime and metadata setting for directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support metadata setting and mapping on server side Move,Copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix mkdir with rsftp which is returning the wrong code (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hasher
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error from trying to stop an already-stopped db (nielash)
  - Look for cached hash if passed hash unexpectedly blank (nielash)
- Imagekit
  - Updated docs and web content (Harshit Budhraja)
  - Updated overview - supported operations (Harshit Budhraja)
- Mega
  - Fix panic with go1.22 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Netstorage
  - Fix Root to return correct directory when pointing to a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Add metadata support (nielash)
- Opendrive
  - Fix moving file/folder within the same parent dir (nielash)
- Oracle Object Storage
  - Support `backend restore` command (Nikhil Ahuja)
  - Support workload identity authentication for OKE (Anders Swanson)
- Protondrive
  - Fix encoding of Root method (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Quatrix
  - Fix `Content-Range` header (Volodymyr)
  - Add option to skip project folders (Oksana Zhykina)
  - Fix Root to return correct directory when pointing to a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add `--s3-version-deleted` to show delete markers in listings when using versions. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add IPv6 support with option `--s3-use-dual-stack` (Anthony Metzidis)
  - Copy parts in parallel when doing chunked server side copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - GCS provider: fix server side copy of files bigger than 5G (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support metadata setting and mapping on server side Copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Seafile
  - Fix download/upload error when `FILE_SERVER_ROOT` is relative (DanielEgbers)
  - Fix Root to return correct directory when pointing to a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (nielash)
  - Set directory modtimes update on write flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Shorten wait delay for external ssh binaries now that we are using go1.20 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Avoid unnecessary container versioning check (Joe Cai)
- Union
  - Implement setting modification time on directories (if supported by wrapped remote) (nielash)
  - Implement setting metadata on directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Reduce priority of chunks upload log (Gabriel Ramos)
  - owncloud: Add config `owncloud_exclude_shares` which allows to exclude shared files and folders when listing remote resources (Thomas Müller)

## v1.65.2 - 2024-01-24

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.65.1...v1.65.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: bump github.com/cloudflare/circl from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7 (dependabot)
  - docs updates (Nick Craig-Wood, kapitainsky, nielash, Tera, Harshit Budhraja)
- VFS
  - Fix stale data when using `--vfs-cache-mode` full (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - **IMPORTANT** Fix data corruption bug - see [#7590](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7590) (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.65.1 - 2024-01-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.65.0...v1.65.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Bump golang.org/x/crypto to fix ssh terrapin CVE-2023-48795 (dependabot)
    - Update to go1.21.5 to fix Windows path problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix docker build on arm/v6 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - install.sh: fix harmless error message on install (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - accounting: fix stats to show server side transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (albertony, ben-ba, Eli Orzitzer, emyarod, keongalvin, rarspace01)
  - nfsmount: Compile for all unix oses, add `--sudo` and fix error/option handling (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix files moved by rclone move not being counted as transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Avoid panic when `*token` and `*ts.token` are the same (rkonfj)
  - serve s3: Fix listing oddities (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Note that `--vfs-refresh` runs in the background (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azurefiles
  - Fix storage base url (Oksana)
- Crypt
  - Fix rclone move a file over itself deleting the file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Fix rclone move a file over itself deleting the file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Compress
  - Fix rclone move a file over itself deleting the file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Fix used space on dropbox team accounts (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix multi-thread copy (WeidiDeng)
- Googlephotos
  - Fix nil pointer exception when batch failed (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hasher
  - Fix rclone move a file over itself deleting the file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix invalid memory address error when MaxAge == 0 (nielash)
- Onedrive
  - Fix error listing: unknown object type `<nil>` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "unauthenticated: Unauthenticated" errors when uploading (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracleobjectstorage
  - Fix object storage endpoint for custom endpoints (Manoj Ghosh)
  - Multipart copy create bucket if it doesn't exist. (Manoj Ghosh)
- Protondrive
  - Fix CVE-2023-45286 / GHSA-xwh9-gc39-5298 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix crash if no UploadId in multipart upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Fix shares not listed by updating go-smb2 (halms)
- Union
  - Fix rclone move a file over itself deleting the file (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.65.0 - 2023-11-26

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.64.0...v1.65.0)

- New backends
  - Azure Files (karan, moongdal, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ImageKit (Abhinav Dhiman)
  - Linkbox (viktor, Nick Craig-Wood)
- New commands
  - `serve s3`: Let rclone act as an S3 compatible server (Mikubill, Artur Neumann, Saw-jan, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `nfsmount`: mount command to provide mount mechanism on macOS without FUSE (Saleh Dindar)
  - `serve nfs`: to serve a remote for use by `nfsmount` (Saleh Dindar)
- New Features
  - install.sh: Clean up temp files in install script (Jacob Hands)
  - build
    - Update all dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Refactor version info and icon resource handling on windows (albertony)
  - doc updates (albertony, alfish2000, asdffdsazqqq, Dimitri Papadopoulos, Herby Gillot, Joda Stößer, Manoj Ghosh, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--metadata-mapper` to transform metadata with a user supplied program (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `ChunkWriterDoesntSeek` feature flag and set it for b2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/http: Export basic go string functions for use in `--template` (Gabriel Espinoza)
  - makefile: Use POSIX compatible install arguments (Mina Galić)
  - operations
    - Use less memory when doing multithread uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement `--partial-suffix` to control extension of temporary file names (Volodymyr)
  - rc
    - Add `operations/check` to the rc API (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Always report an error as JSON (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Set `Last-Modified` header for files served by `--rc-serve` (Nikita Shoshin)
  - size: Dont show duplicate object count when less than 1k (albertony)
- Bug Fixes
  - fshttp: Fix `--contimeout` being ignored (你知道未来吗)
  - march: Fix excessive parallelism when using `--no-traverse` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ncdu: Fix crash when re-entering changed directory after rescan (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix overwrite of destination when multi-thread transfer fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix invalid UTF-8 when truncating file names when not using `--inplace` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dnla: Fix crash on graceful exit (wuxingzhong)
- Mount
  - Disable mount for freebsd and alias cmount as mount on that platform (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-refresh` flag to read all the directories on start (Beyond Meat)
  - Implement Name() method in WriteFileHandle and ReadFileHandle (Saleh Dindar)
  - Add go-billy dependency and make sure vfs.Handle implements billy.File (Saleh Dindar)
  - Error out early if can't upload 0 length file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix copying from Windows Volume Shadows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Add support for cold tier (Ivan Yanitra)
- B2
  - Implement "rclone backend lifecycle" to read and set bucket lifecycles (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--b2-lifecycle` to control lifecycle when creating buckets (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix listing all buckets when not needed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix multi-thread upload with copyto going to wrong name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side chunked copy when file size was exactly `--b2-copy-cutoff` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix streaming chunked files an exact multiple of chunk size (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Filter more EventIDs when polling (David Sze)
  - Add more logging for polling (David Sze)
  - Fix performance problem reading metadata for single files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add read/write metadata support (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support for SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums (rinsuki)
  - Add `--drive-show-all-gdocs` to allow unexportable gdocs to be server side copied (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add a note that `--drive-scope` accepts comma-separated list of scopes (Keigo Imai)
  - Fix error updating created time metadata on existing object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix integration tests by enabling metadata support from the context (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Factor batcher into lib/batcher (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix missing encoding for rclone purge (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix 400 Bad request errors when using multi-thread copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Googlephotos
  - Implement batcher for uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hdfs
  - Added support for list of namenodes in hdfs remote config (Tayo-pasedaRJ)
- HTTP
  - Implement set backend command to update running backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Enable methods used with WebDAV (Alen Šiljak)
- Jottacloud
  - Add support for reading and writing metadata (albertony)
- Onedrive
  - Implement ListR method which gives `--fast-list` support (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This must be enabled with the `--onedrive-delta` flag
- Quatrix
  - Add partial upload support (Oksana Zhykina)
  - Overwrite files on conflict during server-side move (Oksana Zhykina)
- S3
  - Add Linode provider (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add docs on how to add a new provider (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix no error being returned when creating a bucket we don't own (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Emit a debug message if anonymous credentials are in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-disable-multipart-uploads` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Detect looping when using gcs and versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Implement `--sftp-copy-is-hardlink` to server side copy as hardlink (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Fix incorrect `about` size by switching to `github.com/cloudsoda/go-smb2` fork (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modtime of multithread uploads by setting PartialUploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Added an rclone vendor to work with `rclone serve webdav` (Adithya Kumar)

## v1.64.2 - 2023-10-19

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.64.1...v1.64.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - selfupdate: Fix "invalid hashsum signature" error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Fix docker build running out of space (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.64.1 - 2023-10-17

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.64.0...v1.64.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - cmd: Make `--progress` output logs in the same format as without (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs fixes (Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Herby Gillot, Manoj Ghosh, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Make sure we set the global metadata flag too (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Ensure concurrency is no greater than the number of chunks (Pat Patterson)
    - Fix OpenOptions ignored in copy if operation was a multiThreadCopy (Vitor Gomes)
    - Fix error message on delete to have file name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Return not supported error for not supported commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Upgrade golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0 to fix HTTP/2 rapid reset (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pacer: Fix b2 deadlock by defaulting max connections to unlimited (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Fix automount not detecting drive is ready (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix update dir modification time (Saleh Dindar)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix "fatal error: concurrent map writes" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Fix multipart upload: corrupted on transfer: sizes differ XXX vs 0 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix locking window when getting multipart upload URL (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side copies greater than 4GB (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix chunked streaming uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Reduce default `--b2-upload-concurrency` to 4 to reduce memory usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Fix the configurator to allow `/teams/ID` in the config (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracleobjectstorage
  - Fix OpenOptions being ignored in uploadMultipart with chunkWriter (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix slice bounds out of range error when listing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix OpenOptions being ignored in uploadMultipart with chunkWriter (Vitor Gomes)
- Storj
  - Update storj.io/uplink to v1.12.0 (Kaloyan Raev)

## v1.64.0 - 2023-09-11

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.63.0...v1.64.0)

- New backends
  - [Proton Drive](https://rclone.org/protondrive/) (Chun-Hung Tseng)
  - [Quatrix](https://rclone.org/quatrix/) (Oksana, Volodymyr Kit)
  - New S3 providers
    - [Synology C2](https://rclone.org/s3/#synology-c2) (BakaWang)
    - [Leviia](https://rclone.org/s3/#leviia) (Benjamin)
  - New Jottacloud providers
    - [Onlime](https://rclone.org/jottacloud/) (Fjodor42)
    - [Telia Sky](https://rclone.org/jottacloud/) (NoLooseEnds)
- Major changes
  - Multi-thread transfers (Vitor Gomes, Nick Craig-Wood, Manoj Ghosh, Edwin Mackenzie-Owen)
    - Multi-thread transfers are now available when transferring to:
      - `local`, `s3`, `azureblob`, `b2`, `oracleobjectstorage` and `smb`
    - This greatly improves transfer speed between two network sources.
    - In memory buffering has been unified between all backends and should share memory better.
    - See [--multi-thread docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#multi-thread-cutoff) for more info
- New commands
  - `rclone config redacted` support mechanism for showing redacted config (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - accounting
    - Show server side stats in own lines and not as bytes transferred (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - bisync
    - Add new `--ignore-listing-checksum` flag to distinguish from `--ignore-checksum` (nielash)
    - Add experimental `--resilient` mode to allow recovery from self-correctable errors (nielash)
    - Add support for `--create-empty-src-dirs` (nielash)
    - Dry runs no longer commit filter changes (nielash)
    - Enforce `--check-access` during `--resync` (nielash)
    - Apply filters correctly during deletes (nielash)
    - Equality check before renaming (leave identical files alone) (nielash)
    - Fix `dryRun` rc parameter being ignored (nielash)
  - build
    - Update to `go1.21` and make `go1.19` the minimum required version (Anagh Kumar Baranwal, Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update dependencies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add snap installation (hideo aoyama)
    - Change Winget Releaser job to `ubuntu-latest` (sitiom)
  - cmd: Refactor and use sysdnotify in more commands (eNV25)
  - config: Add `--multi-thread-chunk-size` flag (Vitor Gomes)
  - doc updates (antoinetran, Benjamin, Bjørn Smith, Dean Attali, gabriel-suela, James Braza, Justin Hellings, kapitainsky, Mahad, Masamune3210, Nick Craig-Wood, Nihaal Sangha, Niklas Hambüchen, Raymond Berger, r-ricci, Sawada Tsunayoshi, Tiago Boeing, Vladislav Vorobev)
  - fs
    - Use atomic types everywhere (Roberto Ricci)
    - When `--max-transfer` limit is reached exit with code (10) (kapitainsky)
    - Add rclone completion powershell - basic implementation only (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - http servers: Allow CORS to be set with `--allow-origin` flag (yuudi)
  - lib/rest: Remove unnecessary `nil` check (Eng Zer Jun)
  - ncdu: Add keybinding to rescan filesystem (eNV25)
  - rc
    - Add `executeId` to job listings (yuudi)
    - Add `core/du` to measure local disk usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `operations/settier` to API (Drew Stinnett)
  - rclone test info: Add `--check-base32768` flag to check can store all base32768 characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rmdirs: Remove directories concurrently controlled by `--checkers` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Don't stop calculating average transfer speed until the operation is complete (Jacob Hands)
  - fs: Fix `transferTime` not being set in JSON logs (Jacob Hands)
  - fshttp: Fix `--bind 0.0.0.0` allowing IPv6 and `--bind ::0` allowing IPv4 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix overlapping check on case insensitive file systems (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Fix MIME type if backend can't identify it (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve ftp: Fix race condition when using the auth proxy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Fix hash calculations with `--vfs-cache-mode full` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Fix error: Expecting fs.Object or fs.Directory, got `nil` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Fix lockup with `--cutoff-mode=soft` and `--max-duration` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - fix: Mount parsing for linux (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-cache-min-free-space` to control minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added cache cleaner for directories to reduce memory usage (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Update parent directory modtimes on vfs actions (David Pedersen)
  - Keep virtual directory status accurate and reduce deadlock potential (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Make sure struct field is aligned for atomic access (Roberto Ricci)
- Local
  - Rmdir return an error if the path is not a dir (zjx20)
- Azure Blob
  - Implement `OpenChunkWriter` and multi-thread uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix creation of directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix purging with directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Implement `OpenChunkWriter` and multi-thread uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rclone link when object path contains special characters (Alishan Ladhani)
- Box
  - Add polling support (David Sze)
  - Add `--box-impersonate` to impersonate a user ID (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix unhelpful decoding of error messages into decimal numbers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Update documentation to mention issue with small files (Ricardo D'O. Albanus)
- Compress
  - Fix ChangeNotify (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-fast-list-bug-fix` to control ListR bug workaround (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Implement `DirMove` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error code parsing (alexia)
- FTP
  - Add socks_proxy support for SOCKS5 proxies (Zach)
  - Fix 425 "TLS session of data connection not resumed" errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hdfs
  - Retry "replication in progress" errors when uploading (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix uploading to the wrong object on Update with overridden remote name (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - CORS should not be sent if not set (yuudi)
  - Fix webdav OPTIONS response (yuudi)
- Opendrive
  - Fix List on a just deleted and remade directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Oracleobjectstorage
  - Use rclone's rate limiter in multipart transfers (Manoj Ghosh)
  - Implement `OpenChunkWriter` and multi-thread uploads (Manoj Ghosh)
- S3
  - Refactor multipart upload to use `OpenChunkWriter` and `ChunkWriter` (Vitor Gomes)
  - Factor generic multipart upload into `lib/multipart` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix purging of root directory with `--s3-directory-markers` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `rclone backend set` command to update the running config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `rclone backend restore-status` command (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Stop uploads re-using the same ssh connection to improve performance (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--sftp-ssh` to specify an external ssh binary to use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add socks_proxy support for SOCKS5 proxies (Zach)
  - Support dynamic `--sftp-path-override` (nielash)
  - Fix spurious warning when using `--sftp-ssh` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Implement multi-threaded writes for copies to smb (Edwin Mackenzie-Owen)
- Storj
  - Performance improvement for large file uploads (Kaloyan Raev)
- Swift
  - Fix HEADing 0-length objects when `--swift-no-large-objects` set (Julian Lepinski)
- Union
  - Add `:writback` to act as a simple cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Nextcloud: fix segment violation in low-level retry (Paul)
- Zoho
  - Remove Range requests workarounds to fix integration tests (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.63.1 - 2023-07-17

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.63.0...v1.63.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: Fix macos builds for versions < 12 (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - dirtree: Fix performance with large directories of directories and `--fast-list` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix deadlock when using `lsd`/`ls` with `--progress` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `.rclonelink` files not being converted back to symlinks (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc fixes (Dean Attali, Mahad, Nick Craig-Wood, Sawada Tsunayoshi, Vladislav Vorobev)
- Local
  - Fix partial directory read for corrupted filesystem (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Fix reconnect failing with HTTP 400 Bad Request (albertony)
- Smb
  - Fix "Statfs failed: bucket or container name is needed" when mounting (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Nextcloud: fix must use /dav/files/USER endpoint not /webdav error (Paul)
  - Nextcloud chunking: add more guidance for the user to check the config (darix)

## v1.63.0 - 2023-06-30

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.62.0...v1.63.0)

- New backends
  - [Pikpak](https://rclone.org/pikpak/) (wiserain)
  - New S3 providers
    - [petabox.io](https://rclone.org/s3/#petabox) (Andrei Smirnov)
    - [Google Cloud Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#google-cloud-storage) (Anthony Pessy)
  - New WebDAV providers
    - [Fastmail](https://rclone.org/webdav/#fastmail-files) (Arnavion)
- Major changes
  - Files will be copied to a temporary name ending in `.partial` when copying to `local`,`ftp`,`sftp` then renamed at the end of the transfer. (Janne Hellsten, Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This helps with data integrity as we don't delete the existing file until the new one is complete.
    - It can be disabled with the [--inplace](https://rclone.org/docs/#inplace) flag.
    - This behaviour will also happen if the backend is wrapped, for example `sftp` wrapped with `crypt`.
  - The [s3](https://rclone.org/s3/#s3-directory-markers), [azureblob](/azureblob/#azureblob-directory-markers) and [gcs](/googlecloudstorage/#gcs-directory-markers) backends now support directory markers so empty directories are supported (Jānis Bebrītis, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - The [--default-time](https://rclone.org/docs/#default-time-time) flag now controls the unknown modification time of files/dirs (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - If a file or directory does not have a modification time rclone can read then rclone will display this fixed time instead.
    - For the old behaviour use `--default-time 0s` which will set this time to the time rclone started up.
- New Features
  - build
    - Modernise linters in use and fixup all affected code (albertony)
    - Push docker beta to GHCR (GitHub container registry) (Richard Tweed)
  - cat: Add `--separator` option to cat command (Loren Gordon)
  - config
    - Do not remove/overwrite other files during config file save (albertony)
    - Do not overwrite config file symbolic link (albertony)
    - Stop `config create` making invalid config files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc updates (Adam K, Aditya Basu, albertony, asdffdsazqqq, Damo, danielkrajnik, Dimitri Papadopoulos, dlitster, Drew Parsons, jumbi77, kapitainsky, mac-15, Mariusz Suchodolski, Nick Craig-Wood, NickIAm, Rintze Zelle, Stanislav Gromov, Tareq Sharafy, URenko, yuudi, Zach Kipp)
  - fs
    - Add `size` to JSON logs when moving or copying an object (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Allow boolean features to be enabled with `--disable !Feature` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - genautocomplete: Rename to `completion` with alias to the old name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - librclone: Added example on using `librclone` with Go (alankrit)
  - lsjson: Make `--stat` more efficient (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Implement `--multi-thread-write-buffer-size` for speed improvements on downloads (Paulo Schreiner)
    - Reopen downloads on error when using `check --download` and `cat` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: `config/listremotes` includes remotes defined with environment variables (kapitainsky)
  - selfupdate: Obey `--no-check-certificate` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve restic: Trigger systemd notify (Shyim)
  - serve webdav: Implement owncloud checksum and modtime extensions (WeidiDeng)
  - sync: `--suffix-keep-extension` preserve 2 part extensions like .tar.gz (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix Prometheus metrics to be the same as `core/stats` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Bwlimit signal handler should always start (Sam Lai)
  - bisync: Fix `maxDelete` parameter being ignored via the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cmd/ncdu: Fix screen corruption when logging (eNV25)
  - filter: Fix deadlock with errors on `--files-from` (douchen)
  - fs
    - Fix interaction between `--progress` and `--interactive` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix infinite recursive call in pacer ModifyCalculator (fixes issue reported by the staticcheck linter) (albertony)
  - lib/atexit: Ensure OnError only calls cancel function once (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/rest: Fix problems re-using HTTP connections (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Fix `operations/stat` with trailing `/` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix missing `--rc` flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix output of Time values in `options/get` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Fix potential data race (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - version: Fix reported os/kernel version for windows (albertony)
- Mount
  - Add `--mount-case-insensitive` to force the mount to be case insensitive (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Removed unnecessary byte slice allocation for reads (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Clarify rclone mount error when installed via homebrew (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added _netdev to the example mount so it gets treated as a remote-fs rather than local-fs (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Mount2
  - Updated go-fuse version (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Fixed statfs (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Disable xattrs (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- VFS
  - Add MkdirAll function to make a directory and all beneath (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix reload: failed to add virtual dir entry: file does not exist (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix writing to a read only directory creating spurious directory entries (WeidiDeng)
  - Fix potential data race (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix backends being Shutdown too early when startup takes a long time (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix filtering of symlinks with `-l`/`--links` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix /path/to/file.rclonelink when `-l`/`--links` is in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash with `--metadata` on Android (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Fix backends shutting down when in use when used via the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Add `--crypt-suffix` option to set a custom suffix for encrypted files (jladbrook)
  - Add `--crypt-pass-bad-blocks` to allow corrupted file output (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix reading 0 length files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Try not to return "unexpected EOF" error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Reduce allocations (albertony)
  - Recommend Dropbox for `base32768` encoding (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Empty directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support azure workload identities (Tareq Sharafy)
  - Fix azure blob uploads with multiple bits of metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix azurite compatibility by sending nil tier if set to empty string (Roel Arents)
- Combine
  - Implement missing methods (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix goroutine stack overflow on bad object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-env-auth` to get IAM credentials from runtime (Peter Brunner)
  - Update drive service account guide (Juang, Yi-Lin)
  - Fix change notify picking up files outside the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix trailing slash mis-identification of folder as file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect remote after Update on object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Implement `--dropbox-pacer-min-sleep` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix the dropbox batcher stalling (Misty)
- Fichier
  - Add `--ficicher-cdn` option to use the CDN for download (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Lower log message priority when `SetModTime` is not supported to debug (Tobias Gion)
  - Fix "unsupported LIST line" errors on startup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "501 Not a valid pathname." errors when creating directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Empty directory markers (Jānis Bebrītis, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added `--gcs-user-project` needed for requester pays (Christopher Merry)
- HTTP
  - Add client certificate user auth middleware. This can auth `serve restic` from the username in the client cert. (Peter Fern)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix vfs writeback stuck in a failed upload loop with file versioning disabled (albertony)
- Onedrive
  - Add `--onedrive-av-override` flag to download files flagged as virus (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix quickxorhash on 32 bit architectures (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Report any list errors during `rclone cleanup` (albertony)
- Putio
  - Fix uploading to the wrong object on Update with overridden remote name (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modification times not being preserved for server side copy and move (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side copy failures (400 errors) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Empty directory markers (Jānis Bebrītis, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update Scaleway storage classes (Brian Starkey)
  - Fix `--s3-versions` on individual objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix hang on aborting multipart upload with iDrive e2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix missing "tier" metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix V3sign: add missing subresource delete (cc)
  - Fix Arvancloud Domain and region changes and alphabetise the provider (Ehsan Tadayon)
  - Fix Qiniu KODO quirks virtualHostStyle is false (zzq)
- SFTP
  - Add `--sftp-host-key-algorithms` to allow specifying SSH host key algorithms (Joel)
  - Fix using `--sftp-key-use-agent` and `--sftp-key-file` together needing private key file (Arnav Singh)
  - Fix move to allow overwriting existing files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't stat directories before listing them (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't check remote points to a file if it ends with / (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sharefile
  - Disable streamed transfers as they no longer work (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Code cleanup to avoid overwriting ctx before first use (fixes issue reported by the staticcheck linter) (albertony)
- Storj
  - Fix "uplink: too many requests" errors when uploading to the same file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix uploading to the wrong object on Update with overridden remote name (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Ignore 404 error when deleting an object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Implement missing methods (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow errors to be unwrapped for inspection (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Uptobox
  - Add `--uptobox-private` flag to make all uploaded files private (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix improper regex (Aaron Gokaslan)
  - Fix Update returning the wrong object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rmdir declaring that directories weren't empty (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - nextcloud: Add support for chunked uploads (Paul)
  - Set modtime using propset for owncloud and nextcloud (WeidiDeng)
  - Make pacer minSleep configurable with `--webdav-pacer-min-sleep` (ed)
  - Fix server side copy/move not overwriting (WeidiDeng)
  - Fix modtime on server side copy for owncloud and nextcloud (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Yandex
  - Fix 400 Bad Request on transfer failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Fix downloads with `Range:` header returning the wrong data (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.62.2 - 2023-03-16

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.62.1...v1.62.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - docker volume plugin: Add missing fuse3 dependency (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs: Fix size documentation (asdffdsazqqq)
- FTP
  - Fix 426 errors on downloads with vsftpd (Lesmiscore)

## v1.62.1 - 2023-03-15

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.62.0...v1.62.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - docker: Add missing fuse3 dependency (cycneuramus)
  - build: Update release docs to be more careful with the tag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Set Github release to draft while uploading binaries (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.62.0 - 2023-03-14

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.61.0...v1.62.0)

- New Features
  - accounting: Make checkers show what they are doing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - authorize: Add support for custom templates (Hunter Wittenborn)
  - build
    - Update to go1.20 (Nick Craig-Wood, Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
    - Add winget releaser workflow (Ryan Caezar Itang)
    - Add dependabot (Ryan Caezar Itang)
  - doc updates (albertony, Bryan Kaplan, Gerard Bosch, IMTheNachoMan, Justin Winokur, Manoj Ghosh, Nick Craig-Wood, Ole Frost, Peter Brunner, piyushgarg, Ryan Caezar Itang, Simmon Li, ToBeFree)
  - filter: Emit INFO message when can't work out directory filters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs
    - Added multiple ca certificate support. (alankrit)
    - Add `--max-delete-size` a delete size threshold (Leandro Sacchet)
  - fspath: Allow the symbols `@` and `+` in remote names (albertony)
  - lib/terminal: Enable windows console virtual terminal sequences processing (ANSI/VT100 colors) (albertony)
  - move: If `--check-first` and `--order-by` are set then delete with perfect ordering (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve http: Support `--auth-proxy` (Matthias Baur)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Avoid negative ETA values for very slow speeds (albertony)
    - Limit length of ETA string (albertony)
    - Show human readable elapsed time when longer than a day (albertony)
  - all: Apply codeql fixes (Aaron Gokaslan)
  - build
    - Fix condition for manual workflow run (albertony)
    - Fix building for ARMv5 and ARMv6 (albertony)
      - selfupdate: Consider ARM version
      - install.sh: fix ARMv6 download
      - version: Report ARM version
  - deletefile: Return error code 4 if file does not exist (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docker: Fix volume plugin does not remount volume on docker restart (logopk)
  - fs: Fix race conditions in `--max-delete` and `--max-delete-size` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/oauthutil: Handle fatal errors better (Alex Chen)
  - mount2: Fix `--allow-non-empty` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix concurrency: use `--checkers` unless transferring files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve ftp: Fix timestamps older than 1 year in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Fix concurrency: use `--checkers` unless transferring files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - tree
    - Fix nil pointer exception on stat failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix colored output on windows (albertony)
    - Fix display of files with illegal Windows file system names (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Fix creating and renaming files on case insensitive backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Do not treat `\\?\` prefixed paths as network share paths on windows (albertony)
  - Fix check for empty mount point on Linux (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--allow-non-empty` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Avoid incorrect or premature overlap check on windows (albertony)
  - Update to fuse3 after bazil.org/fuse update (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Make uploaded files retain modtime with non-modtime backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect modtime on fs which don't support setting modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rename of directory containing files to be uploaded (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix `%!w(<nil>)` in "failed to read directory" error (Marks Polakovs)
  - Fix exclusion of dangling symlinks with -L/--copy-links (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Obey `--ignore-checksum` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix for unencrypted directory names on case insensitive remotes (Ole Frost)
- Azure Blob
  - Remove workarounds for SDK bugs after v0.6.1 update (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Fix uploading files bigger than 1TiB (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Note that `--drive-acknowledge-abuse` needs SA Manager permission (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--drive-stop-on-upload-limit` to respond to storageQuotaExceeded (Ninh Pham)
- FTP
  - Retry 426 errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry errors when initiating downloads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Revert to upstream `github.com/jlaffaye/ftp` now fix is merged (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add `--gcs-env-auth` to pick up IAM credentials from env/instance (Peter Brunner)
- Mega
  - Add `--mega-use-https` flag (NodudeWasTaken)
- Onedrive
  - Default onedrive personal to QuickXorHash as Microsoft is removing SHA1 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--onedrive-hash-type` to change the hash in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Improve speed of QuickXorHash (LXY)
- Oracle Object Storage
  - Speed up operations by using S3 pacer and setting minsleep to 10ms (Manoj Ghosh)
  - Expose the `storage_tier` option in config (Manoj Ghosh)
  - Bring your own encryption keys (Manoj Ghosh)
- S3
  - Check multipart upload ETag when `--s3-no-head` is in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-sts-endpoint` to specify STS endpoint (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect tier support for StorJ and IDrive when pointing at a file (Ole Frost)
  - Fix AWS STS failing if `--s3-endpoint` is set (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make purge remove directory markers too (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Seafile
  - Renew library password (Fred)
- SFTP
  - Fix uploads being 65% slower than they should be with crypt (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Allow SPN (service principal name) to be configured (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Check smb connection is closed (happyxhw)
- Storj
  - Implement `rclone link` (Kaloyan Raev)
  - Implement `rclone purge` (Kaloyan Raev)
  - Update satellite urls and labels (Kaloyan Raev)
- WebDAV
  - Fix interop with davrods server (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.61.1 - 2022-12-23

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.61.0...v1.61.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - docs:
    - Show only significant parts of version number in version introduced label (albertony)
    - Fix unescaped HTML (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/http: Shutdown all servers on exit to remove unix socket (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Fix `--rc-addr` flag (which is an alternate for `--url`) (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - serve restic
    - Don't serve via http if serving via `--stdio` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix immediate exit when not using stdio (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav
    - Fix `--baseurl` handling after `lib/http` refactor (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix running duplicate Serve call (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix "409 Public access is not permitted on this storage account" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - storj: Update endpoints (Kaloyan Raev)

## v1.61.0 - 2022-12-20

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.60.0...v1.61.0)

- New backends
  - New S3 providers
    - [Liara LOS](https://rclone.org/s3/#liara-cloud) (MohammadReza)
- New Features
  - build: Add vulnerability testing using govulncheck (albertony)
  - cmd: Enable `SIGINFO` (Ctrl-T) handler on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Dragonfly BSD (x3-apptech)
  - config: Add [config/setpath](https://rclone.org/rc/#config-setpath) for setting config path via rc/librclone (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dedupe
    - Count Checks in the stats while scanning for duplicates (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make dedupe obey the filters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dlna: Properly attribute code used from <https://github.com/anacrolix/dms> (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs
    - Add minimum versions and status badges to backend and command docs (Nick Craig-Wood, albertony)
    - Remote names may not start or end with space (albertony)
  - filter: Add metadata filters [--metadata-include/exclude/filter](https://rclone.org/filtering/#metadata) and friends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs
    - Make all duration flags take `y`, `M`, `w`, `d` etc suffixes (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add global flag `--color` to control terminal colors (Kevin Verstaen)
  - fspath: Allow unicode numbers and letters in remote names (albertony)
  - lib/file: Improve error message for creating dir on non-existent network host on windows (albertony)
  - lib/http: Finish port of rclone servers to `lib/http` (Tom Mombourquette, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/oauthutil: Improved usability of config flows needing web browser (Ole Frost)
  - ncdu
    - Add support for modification time (albertony)
    - Fallback to sort by name also for sort by average size (albertony)
    - Rework to use tcell directly instead of the termbox wrapper (eNV25)
  - rc: Add commands to set [GC Percent](https://rclone.org/rc/#debug-set-gc-percent) & [Memory Limit](/rc/#debug-set-soft-memory-limit) (go 1.19+) (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - rcat: Preserve metadata when Copy falls back to Rcat (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd: Refactor rclone rc server to use `lib/http` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcserver: Avoid generating default credentials with htpasswd (Kamui)
  - restic: Refactor to use `lib/http` (Nolan Woods)
  - serve http: Support unix sockets and multiple listeners (Tom Mombourquette)
  - serve webdav: Refactor to use `lib/http` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - test: Replace defer cleanup with `t.Cleanup` (Eng Zer Jun)
  - test memory: Read metadata if `-M` flag is specified (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - wasm: Comply with `wasm_exec.js` licence terms (Matthew Vernon)
- Bug Fixes
  - build: Update `golang.org/x/net/http2` to fix GO-2022-1144 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - restic: Fix typo in docs 'remove' should be 'remote' (asdffdsazqqq)
  - serve dlna: Fix panic: Logger uninitialized. (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Update cgofuse for FUSE-T support for mounting volumes on Mac (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Windows: fix slow opening of exe files by not truncating files when not necessary (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix IO Error opening a file with `O_CREATE|O_RDONLY` in `--vfs-cache-mode` not full (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Fix compress wrapping crypt giving upload errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Port to new SDK (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Revamp authentication to include all methods and docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Port old authentication methods to new SDK (Nick Craig-Wood, Brad Ackerman)
    - Thanks to [Stonebranch](https://www.stonebranch.com/) for sponsoring this work.
  - Add `--azureblob-no-check-container` to assume container exists (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--use-server-modtime` support (Abdullah Saglam)
  - Add support for custom upload headers (rkettelerij)
  - Allow emulator account/key override (Roel Arents)
  - Support simple "environment credentials" (Nathaniel Wesley Filardo)
  - Ignore `AuthorizationFailure` when trying to create a create a container (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Added note on Box API rate limits (Ole Frost)
- Drive
  - Handle shared drives with leading/trailing space in name (related to) (albertony)
- FTP
  - Update help text of implicit/explicit TLS options to refer to FTPS instead of FTP (ycdtosa)
  - Improve performance to speed up `--files-from` and `NewObject` (Anthony Pessy)
- HTTP
  - Parse GET responses when `no_head` is set (Arnie97)
  - Do not update object size based on `Range` requests (Arnie97)
  - Support `Content-Range` response header (Arnie97)
- Onedrive
  - Document workaround for shared with me files (vanplus)
- S3
  - Add Liara LOS to provider list (MohammadReza)
  - Add DigitalOcean Spaces regions `sfo3`, `fra1`, `syd1` (Jack)
  - Avoid privileged `GetBucketLocation` to resolve s3 region (Anthony Pessy)
  - Stop setting object and bucket ACL to `private` if it is an empty string (Philip Harvey)
  - If bucket or object ACL is empty string then don't add `X-Amz-Acl:` header (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Reduce memory consumption for s3 objects (Erik Agterdenbos)
  - Fix listing loop when using v2 listing on v1 server (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix nil pointer exception when using Versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix excess memory usage when using versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore versionIDs from uploads unless using `--s3-versions` or `--s3-versions-at` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add configuration options to set ssh Ciphers / MACs / KeyExchange (dgouju)
  - Auto-detect shell type for fish (albertony)
  - Fix NewObject with leading / (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Smb
  - Fix issue where spurious dot directory is created (albertony)
- Storj
  - Implement server side Copy (Kaloyan Raev)

## v1.60.1 - 2022-11-17

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.60.0...v1.60.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - lib/cache: Fix alias backend shutting down too soon (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - wasm: Fix walltime link error by adding up-to-date wasm_exec.js (João Henrique Franco)
  - docs
    - Update faq.md with bisync (Samuel Johnson)
    - Corrected download links in windows install docs (coultonluke)
    - Add direct download link for windows arm64 (albertony)
    - Remove link to rclone slack as it is no longer supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Faq: how to use a proxy server that requires a username and password (asdffdsazqqq)
    - Oracle-object-storage: doc fix (Manoj Ghosh)
    - Fix typo `remove` in rclone_serve_restic command (Joda Stößer)
    - Fix character that was incorrectly interpreted as markdown (Clément Notin)
- VFS
  - Fix deadlock caused by cache cleaner and upload finishing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Clean absolute paths (albertony)
  - Fix -L/--copy-links with filters missing directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mailru
  - Note that an app password is now needed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow timestamps to be before the epoch 1970-01-01 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add provider quirk `--s3-might-gzip` to fix corrupted on transfer: sizes differ (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow Storj to server side copy since it seems to work now (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix for unchecked err value in s3 listv2 (Aaron Gokaslan)
  - Add additional Wasabi locations (techknowlogick)
- Smb
  - Fix `Failed to sync: context canceled` at the end of syncs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Fix Move/Copy/DirMove when using -server-side-across-configs (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.60.0 - 2022-10-21

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.59.0...v1.60.0)

- New backends
  - [Oracle object storage](https://rclone.org/oracleobjectstorage/) (Manoj Ghosh)
  - [SMB](https://rclone.org/smb/) / CIFS (Windows file sharing) (Lesmiscore)
  - New S3 providers
    - [IONOS Cloud Storage](https://rclone.org/s3/#ionos) (Dmitry Deniskin)
    - [Qiniu KODO](https://rclone.org/s3/#qiniu) (Bachue Zhou)
- New Features
  - build
    - Update to go1.19 and make go1.17 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Install.sh: fix arm-v7 download (Ole Frost)
  - fs: Warn the user when using an existing remote name without a colon (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - httplib: Add `--xxx-min-tls-version` option to select minimum TLS version for HTTP servers (Robert Newson)
  - librclone: Add PHP bindings and test program (Jordi Gonzalez Muñoz)
  - operations
    - Add `--server-side-across-configs` global flag for any backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Optimise `--copy-dest` and `--compare-dest` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: add `job/stopgroup` to stop group (Evan Spensley)
  - serve dlna
    - Add `--announce-interval` to control SSDP Announce Interval (YanceyChiew)
    - Add `--interface` to Specify SSDP interface names line (Simon Bos)
    - Add support for more external subtitles (YanceyChiew)
    - Add verification of addresses (YanceyChiew)
  - sync: Optimise `--copy-dest` and `--compare-dest` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - doc updates (albertony, Alexander Knorr, anonion, João Henrique Franco, Josh Soref, Lorenzo Milesi, Marco Molteni, Mark Trolley, Ole Frost, partev, Ryan Morey, Tom Mombourquette, YFdyh000)
- Bug Fixes
  - filter
    - Fix incorrect filtering with `UseFilter` context flag and wrapping backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make sure we check `--files-from` when looking for a single file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Fix `mount/listmounts` not returning the full Fs entered in `mount/mount` (Tom Mombourquette)
    - Handle external unmount when mounting (Isaac Aymerich)
    - Validate Daemon option is not set when mounting a volume via RC (Isaac Aymerich)
  - sync: Update docs and error messages to reflect fixes to overlap checks (Nick Naumann)
- VFS
  - Reduce memory use by embedding `sync.Cond` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Reduce memory usage by re-ordering commonly used structures (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix excess CPU used by VFS cache cleaner looping (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Obey file filters in listing to fix errors on excluded files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "Failed to read metadata: function not implemented" on old Linux kernels (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Compress
  - Fix crash due to nil metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error handling to not use or return nil objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Make `--drive-stop-on-upload-limit` obey quota exceeded error (Steve Kowalik)
- FTP
  - Add `--ftp-force-list-hidden` option to show hidden items (Øyvind Heddeland Instefjord)
  - Fix hang when using ExplicitTLS to certain servers. (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add `--gcs-endpoint` flag and config parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hubic
  - Remove backend as service has now shut down (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Rename Onedrive(cn) 21Vianet to Vnet Group (Yen Hu)
  - Disable change notify in China region since it is not supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Implement `--s3-versions` flag to show old versions of objects if enabled (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--s3-version-at` flag to show versions of objects at a particular time (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `backend versioning` command to get/set bucket versioning (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `Purge` to purge versions and `backend cleanup-hidden` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-decompress` flag to decompress gzip-encoded files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-sse-customer-key-base64` to supply keys with binary data (Richard Bateman)
  - Try to keep the maximum precision in ModTime with `--user-server-modtime` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Drop binary metadata with an ERROR message as it can't be stored (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-no-system-metadata` to suppress read and write of system metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Fix directory creation races (Lesmiscore)
- Swift
  - Add `--swift-no-large-objects` to reduce HEAD requests (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Propagate SlowHash feature to fix hasher interaction (Lesmiscore)

## v1.59.2 - 2022-09-15

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.59.1...v1.59.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - config: Move locking to fix fatal error: concurrent map read and map write (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Disable xattr support if the filesystems indicates it is not supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Fix chunksize calculations producing too many parts (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Fix chunksize calculations producing too many parts (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix chunksize calculations producing too many parts (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.59.1 - 2022-08-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.59.0...v1.59.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix panic in core/stats-reset with unknown group (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Fix android build after GitHub actions change (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dlna: Fix SOAP action header parsing (Joram Schrijver)
  - docs: Fix links to mount command from install docs (albertony)
  - dropbox: Fix ChangeNotify was unable to decrypt errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs: Fix parsing of times and durations of the form "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Fix checksum detection (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Add accidentally missed filter-sensitivity to --backup-dir option (Nick Naumann)
- Combine
  - Fix docs showing `remote=` instead of `upstreams=` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Throw error if duplicate directory name is specified (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix errors with backends shutting down while in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Fix hang on quit with --dropbox-batch-mode off (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix infinite loop on uploading a corrupted file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Internetarchive
  - Ignore checksums for files using the different method (Lesmiscore)
  - Handle hash symbol in the middle of filename (Lesmiscore)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix working with whitelabel Elgiganten Cloud
  - Do not store username in config when using standard auth (albertony)
- Mega
  - Fix nil pointer exception when bad node received (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix --s3-no-head panic: reflect: Elem of invalid type s3.PutObjectInput (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Fix issue with WS_FTP by working around failing RealPath (albertony)
- Union
  - Fix duplicated files when using directories with leading / (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix multiple files being uploaded when roots don't exist (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix panic due to misalignment of struct field in 32 bit architectures (r-ricci)

## v1.59.0 - 2022-07-09

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.58.0...v1.59.0)

- New backends
  - [Combine](/combine) multiple remotes in one directory tree (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [Hidrive](https://rclone.org/hidrive/) (Ovidiu Victor Tatar)
  - [Internet Archive](https://rclone.org/internetarchive/) (Lesmiscore (Naoya Ozaki))
  - New S3 providers
    - [ArvanCloud AOS](https://rclone.org/s3/#arvan-cloud) (ehsantdy)
    - [Cloudflare R2](https://rclone.org/s3/#cloudflare-r2) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - [Huawei OBS](https://rclone.org/s3/#huawei-obs) (m00594701)
    - [IDrive e2](https://rclone.org/s3/#idrive-e2) (vyloy)
- New commands
  - [test makefile](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_makefile/): Create a single file for testing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - [Metadata framework](https://rclone.org/docs/#metadata) to read and write system and user metadata on backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implemented initially for `local`, `s3` and `internetarchive` backends
    - `--metadata`/`-M` flag to control whether metadata is copied
    - `--metadata-set` flag to specify metadata for uploads
    - Thanks to [Manz Solutions](https://manz-solutions.at/) for sponsoring this work.
  - build
    - Update to go1.18 and make go1.16 the minimum required version (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update android go build to 1.18.x and NDK to 23.1.7779620 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - All windows binaries now no longer CGO (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `linux/arm/v6` to docker images (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - A huge number of fixes found with [staticcheck](https://staticcheck.io/) (albertony)
    - Configurable version suffix independent of version number (albertony)
  - check: Implement `--no-traverse` and `--no-unicode-normalization` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: Readability improvements (albertony)
  - copyurl: Add `--header-filename` to honor the HTTP header filename directive (J-P Treen)
  - filter: Allow multiple `--exclude-if-present` flags (albertony)
  - fshttp: Add `--disable-http-keep-alives` to disable HTTP Keep Alives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - install.sh
    - Set the modes on the files and/or directories on macOS (Michael C Tiernan - MIT-Research Computing Project)
    - Pre verify sudo authorization `-v` before calling curl. (Michael C Tiernan - MIT-Research Computing Project)
  - lib/encoder: Add Semicolon encoding (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsf: Add metadata support with `M` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Add `--metadata`/`-M` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ncdu
    - Implement multi selection (CrossR)
    - Replace termbox with tcell's termbox wrapper (eNV25)
    - Display correct path in delete confirmation dialog (Roberto Ricci)
  - operations
    - Speed up hash checking by aborting the other hash if first returns nothing (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Use correct src/dst in some log messages (zzr93)
  - rcat: Check checksums by default like copy does (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - selfupdate: Replace deprecated `x/crypto/openpgp` package with `ProtonMail/go-crypto` (albertony)
  - serve ftp: Check `--passive-port` arguments are correct (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - size: Warn about inaccurate results when objects with unknown size (albertony)
  - sync: Overlap check is now filter-sensitive so `--backup-dir` can be in the root provided it is filtered (Nick)
  - test info: Check file name lengths using 1,2,3,4 byte unicode characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - test makefile(s): `--sparse`, `--zero`, `--pattern`, `--ascii`, `--chargen` flags to control file contents (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make sure we call the `Shutdown` method on backends (Martin Czygan)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix unknown length file transfers counting 3 transfers each (buda)
  - ncdu: Fix issue where dir size is summed when file sizes are -1 (albertony)
  - sync/copy/move
    - Fix `--fast-list` `--create-empty-src-dirs` and `--exclude` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `--max-duration` and `--cutoff-mode soft` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix fs cache unpin (Martin Czygan)
  - Set proper exit code for errors that are not low-level retried (e.g. size/timestamp changing) (albertony)
- Mount
  - Support `windows/arm64` (may still be problems - see [#5828](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/5828)) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Log IO errors at ERROR level (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore `_netdev` mount argument (Hugal31)
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-fast-fingerprint` for less accurate but faster fingerprints (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--vfs-disk-space-total-size` option to manually set the total disk space (Claudio Maradonna)
  - vfscache: Fix fatal error: sync: unlock of unlocked mutex error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix parsing of `--local-nounc` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Metadata support (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Support metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Calculate Chunksize/blocksize to stay below maxUploadParts (Leroy van Logchem)
  - Use chunksize lib to determine chunksize dynamically (Derek Battams)
  - Case insensitive access tier (Rob Pickerill)
  - Allow remote emulator (azurite) (Lorenzo Maiorfi)
- B2
  - Add `--b2-version-at` flag to show file versions at time specified (SwazRGB)
  - Use chunksize lib to determine chunksize dynamically (Derek Battams)
- Chunker
  - Mark as not supporting metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Compress
  - Support metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Make `backend config -o config` add a combined `AllDrives:` remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--drive-shared-with-me` work with shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--drive-resource-key` for accessing link-shared files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add backend commands `exportformats` and `importformats` for debugging (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix 404 errors on copy/server side copy objects from public folder (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update Internal OAuth consent screen docs (Phil Shackleton)
  - Moved `root_folder_id` to advanced section (Abhiraj)
- Dropbox
  - Migrate from deprecated api (m8rge)
  - Add logs to show when poll interval limits are exceeded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix nil pointer exception on dropbox impersonate user not found (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Parse api error codes and them accordingly (buengese)
- FTP
  - Add support for `disable_utf8` option (Jason Zheng)
  - Revert to upstream `github.com/jlaffaye/ftp` from our fork (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add `--gcs-no-check-bucket` to minimise transactions and perms (Nick Gooding)
  - Add `--gcs-decompress` flag to decompress gzip-encoded files (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - by default these will be downloaded compressed (which previously failed)
- Hasher
  - Support metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Fix missing response when using custom auth handler (albertony)
- Jottacloud
  - Add support for upload to custom device and mountpoint (albertony)
  - Always store username in config and use it to avoid initial API request (albertony)
  - Fix issue with server-side copy when destination is in trash (albertony)
  - Fix listing output of remote with special characters (albertony)
- Mailru
  - Fix timeout by using int instead of time.Duration for keeping number of seconds (albertony)
- Mega
  - Document using MEGAcmd to help with login failures (Art M. Gallagher)
- Onedrive
  - Implement `--poll-interval` for onedrive (Hugo Laloge)
  - Add access scopes option (Sven Gerber)
- Opendrive
  - Resolve lag and truncate bugs (Scott Grimes)
- Pcloud
  - Fix about with no free space left (buengese)
  - Fix cleanup (buengese)
- S3
  - Use PUT Object instead of presigned URLs to upload single part objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Backend restore command to skip non-GLACIER objects (Vincent Murphy)
  - Use chunksize lib to determine chunksize dynamically (Derek Battams)
  - Retry RequestTimeout errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement reading and writing of metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add support for about and hashsum on windows server (albertony)
  - Use vendor-specific VFS statistics extension for about if available (albertony)
  - Add `--sftp-chunk-size` to control packets sizes for high latency links (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--sftp-concurrency` to improve high latency transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--sftp-set-env` option to set environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Hetzner Storage Boxes to supported sftp backends (Anthrazz)
- Storj
  - Fix put which lead to the file being unreadable when using mount (Erik van Velzen)
- Union
  - Add `min_free_space` option for `lfs`/`eplfs` policies (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix uploading files to union of all bucket based remotes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix get free space for remotes which don't support it (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `eplus` policy to select correct entry for existing files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Uptobox
  - Fix root path handling (buengese)
- WebDAV
  - Add SharePoint in other specific regions support (Noah Hsu)
- Yandex
  - Handle api error on server-side move (albertony)
- Zoho
  - Add Japan and China regions (buengese)

## v1.58.1 - 2022-04-29

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.58.0...v1.58.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - build: Update github.com/billziss-gh to github.com/winfsp (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - filter: Fix timezone of `--min-age`/`-max-age` from UTC to local as documented (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc/js: Correct RC method names (Sơn Trần-Nguyễn)
  - docs
    - Fix some links to command pages (albertony)
    - Add `--multi-thread-streams` note to `--transfers`. (Zsolt Ero)
- Mount
  - Fix `--devname` and fusermount: unknown option 'fsname' when mounting via rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Remove wording which suggests VFS is only for mounting (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Fix retries of multipart uploads with incorrect_offset error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Use the s3 pacer to speed up transactions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - pacer: Default the Google pacer to a burst of 100 to fix gcs pacing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix scope in token request (albertony)
- Netstorage
  - Fix unescaped HTML in documentation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make levels of headings consistent (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support contacts to netstorage doc (Nil Alexandrov)
- Onedrive
  - Note that sharepoint also changes web files (.html, .aspx) (GH)
- Putio
  - Handle rate limit errors (Berkan Teber)
  - Fix multithread download and other ranged requests (rafma0)
- S3
  - Add ChinaMobile EOS to provider list (GuoXingbin)
  - Sync providers in config description with providers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Fix OpenSSH 8.8+ RSA keys incompatibility (KARBOWSKI Piotr)
  - Note that Scaleway C14 is deprecating SFTP in favor of S3 (Adrien Rey-Jarthon)
- Storj
  - Fix bucket creation on Move (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Don't override Referer if user sets it (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.58.0 - 2022-03-18

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.57.0...v1.58.0)

- New backends
  - [Akamai Netstorage](/netstorage) (Nil Alexandrov)
  - [Seagate Lyve](https://rclone.org/s3/#lyve), [SeaweedFS](/s3/#seaweedfs), [Storj](/s3/#storj), [RackCorp](/s3/#RackCorp) via s3 backend
  - [Storj](https://rclone.org/storj/) (renamed from Tardigrade - your old config files will continue working)
- New commands
  - [bisync](https://rclone.org/bisync/) - experimental bidirectional cloud sync (Ivan Andreev, Chris Nelson)
- New Features
  - build
    - Add `windows/arm64` build (`rclone mount` not supported yet) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Raise minimum go version to go1.15 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: Allow dot in remote names and improve config editing (albertony)
  - dedupe: Add quit as a choice in interactive mode (albertony)
  - dlna: Change icons to the newest ones. (Alain Nussbaumer)
  - filter: Add [`{{ regexp }}` syntax](https://rclone.org/filtering/#regexp) to pattern matches (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Add prometheus metrics for HTTP status code (Michał Matczuk)
  - hashsum: Support creating hash from data received on stdin (albertony)
  - librclone
    - Allow empty string or null input instead of empty json object (albertony)
    - Add support for mount commands (albertony)
  - operations: Add server-side moves to stats (Ole Frost)
  - rc: Allow user to disable authentication for web gui (negative0)
  - tree: Remove obsolete `--human` replaced by global `--human-readable` (albertony)
  - version: Report correct friendly-name for newer Windows 10/11 versions (albertony)
- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Fix ARM architecture version in .deb packages after nfpm change (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Hard fork `github.com/jlaffaye/ftp` to fix `go get github.com/rclone/rclone` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Fix crash when webbrowser requests `/robots.txt` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix goroutine leak in case of copy retry (Ankur Gupta)
  - rc:
    - Fix `operations/publiclink` default for `expires` parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix missing computation of `transferQueueSize` when summing up statistics group (Carlo Mion)
    - Fix missing `StatsInfo` fields in the computation of the group sum (Carlo Mion)
  - sync: Fix `--max-duration` so it doesn't retry when the duration is exceeded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - touch: Fix issue where a directory is created instead of a file (albertony)
- Mount
  - Add `--devname` to set the device name sent to FUSE for mount display (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add `vfs/stats` remote control to show statistics (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `failed to _ensure cache internal error: downloaders is nil error` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix handling of special characters in file names (Bumsu Hyeon)
- Local
  - Fix hash invalidation which caused errors with local crypt mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Add `base64` and `base32768` filename encoding options (Max Sum, Sinan Tan)
- Azure Blob
  - Implement `--azureblob-upload-concurrency` parameter to speed uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove 100MB upper limit on `chunk_size` as it is no longer needed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Raise `--azureblob-upload-concurrency` to 16 by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash with SAS URL and no container (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Compress
  - Fix crash if metadata upload failed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix memory leak (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Added `--drive-copy-shortcut-content` (Abhiraj)
  - Disable OAuth OOB flow (copy a token) due to Google deprecation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - See [the deprecation note](https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flows-safer.html#disallowed-oob).
  - Add `--drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - When using a link type `--drive-export-formats` shows all doc types (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Speed up directory listings by specifying 1000 items in a chunk (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Save an API request when at the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Implemented About functionality (Gourav T)
- FTP
  - Add `--ftp-ask-password` to prompt for password when needed (Borna Butkovic)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add missing regions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Disable OAuth OOB flow (copy a token) due to Google deprecation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - See [the deprecation note](https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flows-safer.html#disallowed-oob).
- Googlephotos
  - Disable OAuth OOB flow (copy a token) due to Google deprecation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - See [the deprecation note](https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flows-safer.html#disallowed-oob).
- Hasher
  - Fix crash on object not found (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hdfs
  - Add file (Move) and directory move (DirMove) support (Andy Jackson)
- HTTP
  - Improved recognition of URL pointing to a single file (albertony)
- Jottacloud
  - Change API used by recursive list (ListR) (Kim)
  - Add support for Tele2 Cloud (Fredric Arklid)
- Koofr
  - Add Digistorage service as a Koofr provider. (jaKa)
- Mailru
  - Fix int32 overflow on arm32 (Ivan Andreev)
- Onedrive
  - Add config option for oauth scope `Sites.Read.All` (Charlie Jiang)
  - Minor optimization of quickxorhash (Isaac Levy)
  - Add `--onedrive-root-folder-id` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Do not retry on `400 pathIsTooLong` error (ctrl-q)
- Pcloud
  - Add support for recursive list (ListR) (Niels van de Weem)
  - Fix pre-1970 time stamps (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Use `ListObjectsV2` for faster listings (Felix Bünemann)
    - Fallback to `ListObject` v1 on unsupported providers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use the `ETag` on multipart transfers to verify the transfer was OK (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--s3-use-multipart-etag` provider quirk to disable this on unsupported providers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - New Providers
    - RackCorp object storage (bbabich)
    - Seagate Lyve Cloud storage (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - SeaweedFS (Chris Lu)
    - Storj Shared gateways (Márton Elek, Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Wasabi AP Northeast 2 endpoint info (lindwurm)
  - Add `GLACIER_IR` storage class (Yunhai Luo)
  - Document `Content-MD5` workaround for object-lock enabled buckets (Paulo Martins)
  - Fix multipart upload with `--no-head` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Simplify content length processing in s3 with download url (Logeshwaran Murugesan)
- SFTP
  - Add rclone to list of supported `md5sum`/`sha1sum` commands to look for (albertony)
  - Refactor so we only have one way of running remote commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix timeout on hashing large files by sending keepalives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix unnecessary seeking when uploading and downloading files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update docs on how to create `known_hosts` file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Storj
  - Rename tardigrade backend to storj backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement server side Move for files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update docs to explain differences between s3 and this backend (Elek, Márton)
- Swift
  - Fix About so it shows info about the current container only (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Fix treatment of remotes with `//` in (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix deadlock when one part of a multi-upload fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix eplus policy returned nil (Vitor Arruda)
- Yandex
  - Add permanent deletion support (deinferno)

## v1.57.0 - 2021-11-01

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.56.0...v1.57.0)

- New backends
  - Sia: for Sia decentralized cloud (Ian Levesque, Matthew Sevey, Ivan Andreev)
  - Hasher: caches hashes and enable hashes for backends that don't support them (Ivan Andreev)
- New commands
  - lsjson --stat: to get info about a single file/dir and `operations/stat` api (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config paths: show configured paths (albertony)
- New Features
  - about: Make human-readable output more consistent with other commands (albertony)
  - build
    - Use go1.17 for building and make go1.14 the minimum supported  (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update Go to 1.16 and NDK to 22b for Android builds (x0b)
  - config
    - Support hyphen in remote name from environment variable (albertony)
    - Make temporary directory user-configurable (albertony)
    - Convert `--cache-dir` value to an absolute path (albertony)
    - Do not override MIME types from OS defaults (albertony)
  - docs
    - Toc styling and header levels cleanup (albertony)
    - Extend documentation on valid remote names (albertony)
    - Mention make for building and cmount tag for macos (Alex Chen)
    - ...and many more contributions to numerous to mention!
  - fs: Move with `--ignore-existing` will not delete skipped files (Nathan Collins)
  - hashsum
    - Treat hash values in sum file as case insensitive (Ivan Andreev)
    - Don't put `ERROR` or `UNSUPPORTED` in output (Ivan Andreev)
  - lib/encoder: Add encoding of square brackets (Ivan Andreev)
  - lib/file: Improve error message when attempting to create dir on nonexistent drive on windows (albertony)
  - lib/http: Factor password hash salt into options with default (Nolan Woods)
  - lib/kv: Add key-value database api (Ivan Andreev)
  - librclone
    - Add `RcloneFreeString` function (albertony)
    - Free strings in python example (albertony)
  - log: Optionally print pid in logs (Ivan Andreev)
  - ls: Introduce `--human-readable` global option to print human-readable sizes (albertony)
  - ncdu: Introduce key `u` to toggle human-readable (albertony)
  - operations: Add `rmdirs -v` output (Justin Winokur)
  - serve sftp
    - Generate an ECDSA server key as well as RSA (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Generate an Ed25519 server key as well as ECDSA and RSA (albertony)
  - serve docker
    - Allow to customize proxy settings of docker plugin (Ivan Andreev)
    - Build docker plugin for multiple platforms (Thomas Stachl)
  - size: Include human-readable count (albertony)
  - touch: Add support for touching files in directory, with recursive option, filtering and `--dry-run`/`-i` (albertony)
  - tree: Option to print human-readable sizes removed in favor of global option (albertony)
- Bug Fixes
  - lib/http
    - Fix bad username check in single auth secret provider (Nolan Woods)
    - Fix handling of SSL credentials (Nolan Woods)
  - serve ftp: Ensure modtime is passed as UTC always to fix timezone oddities (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Fix generation of server keys on windows (albertony)
  - serve docker: Fix octal umask (Ivan Andreev)
- Mount
  - Enable rclone to be run as mount helper direct from the fstab (Ivan Andreev)
  - Use procfs to validate mount on linux (Ivan Andreev)
  - Correctly daemonize for compatibility with automount (Ivan Andreev)
- VFS
  - Ensure names used in cache path are legal on current OS (albertony)
  - Ignore `ECLOSED` when truncating file handles to fix intermittent bad file descriptor error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Refactor default OS encoding out from local backend into shared encoder lib (albertony)
- Crypt
  - Return wrapped object even with `--crypt-no-data-encryption` (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix uploads with `--crypt-no-data-encryption` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Add `--azureblob-no-head-object` (Tatsuya Noyori)
- Box
  - Make listings of heavily used directories more reliable (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - When doing cleanup delete as much as possible (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--box-list-chunk` to control listing chunk size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Delete items in parallel in cleanup using `--checkers` threads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--box-owned-by` to only show items owned by the login passed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry `operation_blocked_temporary` errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Md5all must create metadata if base hash is slow (Ivan Andreev)
- Drive
  - Speed up directory listings by constraining the API listing using the current filters (fotile96, Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix buffering for single request upload for files smaller than `--drive-upload-cutoff` (YenForYang)
  - Add `-o config` option to `backend drives` to make config for all shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add `--dropbox-batch-commit-timeout` to control batch timeout (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Filefabric
  - Make backoff exponential for error_background to fix errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix directory move after API change (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Enable tls session cache by default (Ivan Andreev)
  - Add option to disable tls13 (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix timeout after long uploads (Ivan Andreev)
  - Add support for precise time (Ivan Andreev)
  - Enable CI for ProFtpd, PureFtpd, VsFtpd (Ivan Andreev)
- Googlephotos
  - Use encoder for album names to fix albums with control characters (Parth Shukla)
- Jottacloud
  - Implement `SetModTime` to support modtime-only changes (albertony)
  - Improved error handling with `SetModTime` and corrupt files in general (albertony)
  - Add support for `UserInfo` (`rclone config userinfo`) feature (albertony)
  - Return direct download link from `rclone link` command (albertony)
- Koofr
  - Create direct share link (Dmitry Bogatov)
- Pcloud
  - Add sha256 support (Ken Enrique Morel)
- Premiumizeme
  - Fix directory listing after API changes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side move after API change (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server side directory move after API changes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add support to use CDN URL to download the file (Logeshwaran)
  - Add AWS Snowball Edge to providers examples (r0kk3rz)
  - Use a combination of SDK retries and rclone retries (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix IAM Role for Service Account not working and other auth problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `shared_credentials_file` auth after reverting incorrect fix (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix corrupted on transfer: sizes differ 0 vs xxxx with Ceph (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Seafile
  - Fix error when not configured for 2fa (Fred)
- SFTP
  - Fix timeout when doing MD5SUM of large file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Update OCI URL (David Liu)
  - Document OVH Cloud Archive (HNGamingUK)
- Union
  - Fix rename not working with union of local disk and bucket based remote (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.56.2 - 2021-10-01

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.56.1...v1.56.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - serve http: Re-add missing auth to http service (Nolan Woods)
  - build: Update golang.org/x/sys to fix crash on macOS when compiled with go1.17 (Herby Gillot)
- FTP
  - Fix deadlock after failed update when concurrency=1 (Ivan Andreev)

## v1.56.1 - 2021-09-19

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.56.0...v1.56.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix maximum bwlimit by scaling scale max token bucket size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Fix speed does not update in core/stats (negative0)
  - selfupdate: Fix `--quiet` option, not quite quiet (yedamo)
  - serve http: Fix `serve http` exiting directly after starting (Cnly)
  - build
    - Apply gofmt from golang 1.17 (Ivan Andreev)
    - Update Go to 1.16 and NDK to 22b for android/any (x0b)
- Mount
  - Fix `--daemon` mode (Ivan Andreev)
- VFS
  - Fix duplicates on rename (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash when truncating a just uploaded object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix issue where empty dirs would build up in cache meta dir (albertony)
- Drive
  - Fix instructions for auto config (Greg Sadetsky)
  - Fix lsf example without drive-impersonate (Greg Sadetsky)
- Onedrive
  - Handle HTTP 400 better in PublicLink (Alex Chen)
  - Clarification of the process for creating custom client_id (Mariano Absatz)
- Pcloud
  - Return an early error when Put is called with an unknown size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Try harder to delete a failed upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add Wasabi's AP-Northeast endpoint info (hota)
  - Fix typo in s3 documentation (Greg Sadetsky)
- Seafile
  - Fix 2fa config state machine (Fred)
- SFTP
  - Remove spurious error message on `--sftp-disable-concurrent-reads` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sugarsync
  - Fix initial connection after config re-arrangement (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.56.0 - 2021-07-20

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.55.0...v1.56.0)

- New backends
  - [Uptobox](https://rclone.org/uptobox/) (buengese)
- New commands
  - [serve docker](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_docker/) (Antoine GIRARD) (Ivan Andreev)
    - and accompanying [docker volume plugin](https://rclone.org/docker/)
  - [checksum](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_checksum/) to check files against a file of checksums (Ivan Andreev)
    - this is also available as `rclone md5sum -C` etc
  - [config touch](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_touch/): ensure config exists at configured location (albertony)
  - [test changenotify](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test_changenotify/): command to help debugging changenotify (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Deprecations
  - `dbhashsum`: Remove command deprecated a year ago (Ivan Andreev)
  - `cache`: Deprecate cache backend (Ivan Andreev)
- New Features
  - rework config system so it can be used non-interactively via cli and rc API.
    - See docs in [config create](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config_create/)
    - This is a very big change to all the backends so may cause breakages - please file bugs!
  - librclone - export the rclone RC as a C library (lewisxy) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Link a C-API rclone shared object into your project
    - Use the RC as an in memory interface
    - Python example supplied
    - Also supports Android and gomobile
  - fs
    - Add `--disable-http2` for global http2 disable (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make `--dump` imply `-vv` (Alex Chen)
    - Use binary prefixes for size and rate units (albertony)
    - Use decimal prefixes for counts (albertony)
    - Add google search widget to rclone.org (Ivan Andreev)
  - accounting: Calculate rolling average speed (Haochen Tong)
  - atexit: Terminate with non-zero status after receiving signal (Michael Hanselmann)
  - build
    - Only run event-based workflow scripts under rclone repo with manual override (Mathieu Carbou)
    - Add Android build with gomobile (x0b)
  - check: Log the hash in use like cryptcheck does (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - version: Print os/version, kernel and bitness (Ivan Andreev)
  - config
    - Prevent use of Windows reserved names in config file name (albertony)
    - Create config file in windows appdata directory by default (albertony)
    - Treat any config file paths with filename notfound as memory-only config (albertony)
    - Delay load config file (albertony)
    - Replace defaultConfig with a thread-safe in-memory implementation (Chris Macklin)
    - Allow `config create` and friends to take `key=value` parameters (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fixed issues with flags/options set by environment vars. (Ole Frost)
  - fshttp: Implement graceful DSCP error handling (Tyson Moore)
  - lib/http - provides an abstraction for a central http server that services can bind routes to (Nolan Woods)
    - Add `--template` config and flags to serve/data (Nolan Woods)
    - Add default 404 handler (Nolan Woods)
  - link: Use "off" value for unset expiry (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Raise fatal error if token expired without refresh token (Alex Chen)
  - rcat: Add `--size` flag for more efficient uploads of known size (Nazar Mishturak)
  - serve sftp: Add `--stdio` flag to serve via stdio (Tom)
  - sync: Don't warn about `--no-traverse` when `--files-from` is set (Nick Gaya)
  - `test makefiles`
    - Add `--seed` flag and make data generated repeatable (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add log levels and speed summary (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix startTime of statsGroups.sum (Haochen Tong)
  - cmd/ncdu: Fix out of range panic in delete (buengese)
  - config
    - Fix issues with memory-only config file paths (albertony)
    - Fix in memory config not saving on the fly backend config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Fix address parsing for DSCP (Tyson Moore)
  - ncdu: Update termbox-go library to fix crash (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Fix old authorize result not recognised (Cnly)
  - operations: Don't update timestamps of files in `--compare-dest` (Nick Gaya)
  - selfupdate: fix archive name on macos (Ivan Andreev)
- Mount
  - Refactor before adding serve docker (Antoine GIRARD)
- VFS
  - Add cache reset for `--vfs-cache-max-size` handling at cache poll interval (Leo Luan)
  - Fix modtime changing when reading file into cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Avoid unnecessary subdir in cache path (albertony)
  - Fix that umask option cannot be set as environment variable (albertony)
  - Do not print notice about missing poll-interval support when set to 0 (albertony)
- Local
  - Always use readlink to read symlink size for better compatibility (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--local-unicode-normalization` (and remove `--local-no-unicode-normalization`) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Skip entries removed concurrently with List() (Ivan Andreev)
- Crypt
  - Support timestamped filenames from `--b2-versions` (Dominik Mydlil)
- B2
  - Don't include the bucket name in public link file prefixes (Jeffrey Tolar)
  - Fix versions and .files with no extension (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Factor version handling into lib/version (Dominik Mydlil)
- Box
  - Use upload preflight check to avoid listings in file uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Return errors instead of calling log.Fatal with them (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Switch to the Drives API for looking up shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix some google docs being treated as files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add `--dropbox-batch-mode` flag to speed up uploading (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Read the [batch mode](https://rclone.org/dropbox/#batch-mode) docs for more info
  - Set visibility in link sharing when `--expire` is set (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Simplify chunked uploads (Alexey Ivanov)
  - Improve "own App IP" instructions (Ivan Andreev)
- Fichier
  - Check if more than one upload link is returned (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support downloading password protected files and folders (Florian Penzkofer)
  - Make error messages report text from the API (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix move of files in the same directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Check that we actually got a download token and retry if we didn't (buengese)
- Filefabric
  - Fix listing after change of from field from "int" to int. (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Make upload error 250 indicate success (Nick Craig-Wood)
- GCS
  - Make compatible with gsutil's mtime metadata (database64128)
  - Clean up time format constants (database64128)
- Google Photos
  - Fix read only scope not being used properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Replace httplib with lib/http (Nolan Woods)
  - Clean up Bind to better use middleware (Nolan Woods)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix legacy auth with state based config system (buengese)
  - Fix invalid url in output from link command (albertony)
  - Add no versions option (buengese)
- Onedrive
  - Add `list_chunk option` (Nick Gaya)
  - Also report root error if unable to cancel multipart upload (Cnly)
  - Fix  failed to configure: empty token found error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make link return direct download link (Xuanchen Wu)
- S3
  - Add `--s3-no-head-object` (Tatsuya Noyori)
  - Remove WebIdentityRoleProvider to fix crash on auth (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't check to see if remote is object if it ends with / (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add SeaweedFS (Chris Lu)
  - Update Alibaba OSS endpoints (Chuan Zh)
- SFTP
  - Fix performance regression by re-enabling concurrent writes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Expand tilde and environment variables in configured `known_hosts_file` (albertony)
- Tardigrade
  - Upgrade to uplink v1.4.6 (Caleb Case)
  - Use negative offset (Caleb Case)
  - Add warning about `too many open files` (acsfer)
- WebDAV
  - Fix sharepoint auth over http (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add headers option (Antoon Prins)

## v1.55.1 - 2021-04-26

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.55.0...v1.55.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - selfupdate
    - Dont detect FUSE if build is static (Ivan Andreev)
    - Add build tag noselfupdate (Ivan Andreev)
  - sync: Fix incorrect error reported by graceful cutoff (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - install.sh: fix macOS arm64 download (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build: Fix version numbers in android branch builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs
    - Contributing.md: update setup instructions for go1.16 (Nick Gaya)
    - WinFsp 2021 is out of beta (albertony)
    - Minor cleanup of space around code section (albertony)
    - Fixed some typos (albertony)
- VFS
  - Fix a code path which allows dirty data to be removed causing data loss (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Compress
  - Fix compressed name regexp (buengese)
- Drive
  - Fix backend copyid of google doc to directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't open browser when service account... (Ansh Mittal)
- Dropbox
  - Add missing team_data.member scope for use with --impersonate (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix About after scopes changes - rclone config reconnect needed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix Unable to decrypt returned paths from changeNotify (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix implicit TLS (Ivan Andreev)
- Onedrive
  - Work around for random "Unable to initialize RPS" errors (OleFrost)
- SFTP
  - Revert sftp library to v1.12.0 from v1.13.0 to fix performance regression (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix Update ReadFrom failed: failed to send packet: EOF errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Fix error when region isn't set (buengese)
  - Do not ask for mountpoint twice when using headless setup (buengese)

## v1.55.0 - 2021-03-31

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.54.0...v1.55.0)

- New commands
  - [selfupdate](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_selfupdate/) (Ivan Andreev)
    - Allows rclone to update itself in-place or via a package (using `--package` flag)
    - Reads cryptographically signed signatures for non beta releases
    - Works on all OSes.
  - [test](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test/) - these are test commands - use with care!
    - `histogram` - Makes a histogram of file name characters.
    - `info` - Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.
    - `makefiles` - Make a random file hierarchy for testing.
    - `memory` - Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.
- New Features
  - [Connection strings](https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings)
    - Config parameters can now be passed as part of the remote name as a connection string.
    - For example, to do the equivalent of `--drive-shared-with-me` use `drive,shared_with_me:`
    - Make sure we don't save on the fly remote config to the config file (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make sure backends with additional config have a different name for caching (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This work was sponsored by CERN, through the [CS3MESH4EOSC Project](https://cs3mesh4eosc.eu/).
      - CS3MESH4EOSC has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
      - research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 863353.
  - build
    - Update go build version to go1.16 and raise minimum go version to go1.13 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make a macOS ARM64 build to support Apple Silicon (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Install macfuse 4.x instead of osxfuse 3.x (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Use `GO386=softfloat` instead of deprecated `GO386=387` for 386 builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Disable IOS builds for the time being (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Androids builds made with up to date NDK (x0b)
    - Add an rclone user to the Docker image but don't use it by default (cynthia kwok)
  - dedupe: Make largest directory primary to minimize data moved (Saksham Khanna)
  - config
    - Wrap config library in an interface (Fionera)
    - Make config file system pluggable (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - `--config ""` or `"/notfound"` for in memory config only (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Clear fs cache of stale entries when altering config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Add option to print resulting auto-filename (albertony)
  - delete: Make `--rmdirs` obey the filters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs - many fixes and reworks from edwardxml, albertony, pvalls, Ivan Andreev, Evan Harris, buengese, Alexey Tabakman
  - encoder/filename - add SCSU as tables (Klaus Post)
  - Add multiple paths support to `--compare-dest` and `--copy-dest` flag (K265)
  - filter: Make `--exclude "dir/"` equivalent to `--exclude "dir/**"` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Add DSCP support with `--dscp` for QoS with differentiated services (Max Sum)
  - lib/cache: Add Delete and DeletePrefix methods (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/file
    - Make pre-allocate detect disk full errors and return them (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Don't run preallocate concurrently (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Retry preallocate on EINTR (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Made copy and sync operations obey a RetryAfterError (Ankur Gupta)
  - rc
    - Add string alternatives for setting options over the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `options/local` to see the options configured in the context (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `_config` parameter to set global config for just this rc call (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement passing filter config with `_filter` parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `fscache/clear` and `fscache/entries` to control the fs cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Avoid +Inf value for speed in `core/stats` (albertony)
    - Add a full set of stats to `core/stats` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Allow `fs=` params to be a JSON blob (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd: Added systemd notification during the `rclone rcd` command. (Naveen Honest Raj)
  - rmdirs: Make `--rmdirs` obey the filters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - version: Show build tags and type of executable (Ivan Andreev)
- Bug Fixes
  - install.sh: make it fail on download errors (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix excessive retries missing `--max-duration` timeout (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash when `--low-level-retries=0` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix failed token refresh on mounts created via the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Fix bandwidth limiting after bad merge (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/atexit
    - Unregister interrupt handler once it has fired so users can interrupt again (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix occasional failure to unmount with CTRL-C (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix deadlock calling Finalise while Run is running (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib/rest: Fix multipart uploads not stopping on context cancel (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Allow mounting to root directory on windows (albertony)
  - Improved handling of relative paths on windows (albertony)
  - Fix unicode issues with accented characters on macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Docs: document the new FileSecurity option in WinFsp 2021 (albertony)
  - Docs: add note about volume path syntax on windows (albertony)
  - Fix caching of old directories after renaming them (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update cgofuse to the latest version to bring in macfuse 4 fix (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - `--vfs-used-is-size` to report used space using recursive scan (tYYGH)
  - Don't set modification time if it was already correct (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix Create causing windows explorer to truncate files on CTRL-C CTRL-V (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modtimes not updating when writing via cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modtimes changing by fractional seconds after upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix modtime set if `--vfs-cache-mode writes`/`full` and no write (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Rename files in cache and cancel uploads on directory rename (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix directory renaming by renaming dirs cached in memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Add flag `--local-no-preallocate` (David Sze)
  - Make `nounc` an advanced option except on Windows (albertony)
  - Don't ignore preallocate disk full errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Add `--fs-cache-expire-duration` to control the fs cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Add option to not encrypt data (Vesnyx)
  - Log hash ok on upload (albertony)
- Azure Blob
  - Add container public access level support. (Manish Kumar)
- B2
  - Fix HTML files downloaded via cloudflare (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Fix transfers getting stuck on token expiry after API change (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Partially implement no-rename transactions (Maxwell Calman)
- Drive
  - Don't stop server side copy if couldn't read description (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Pass context on to drive SDK - to help with cancellation (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add polling for changes support (Robert Thomas)
  - Make `--timeout 0` work properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Raise priority of rate limited message to INFO to make it more noticeable (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Implement copy & move (buengese)
  - Implement public link (buengese)
- FTP
  - Implement Shutdown method (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Close idle connections after `--ftp-idle-timeout` (1m by default) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--timeout 0` work properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--ftp-close-timeout` flag for use with awkward ftp servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry connections and logins on 421 errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hdfs
  - Fix permissions for when directory is created (Lucas Messenger)
- Onedrive
  - Make `--timeout 0` work properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix `--s3-profile` which wasn't working (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Close idle connections after `--sftp-idle-timeout` (1m by default) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "file not found" errors for read once servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix SetModTime stat failed: object not found with `--sftp-set-modtime=false` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Update github.com/ncw/swift to v2.0.0 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement copying large objects (nguyenhuuluan434)
- Union
  - Fix crash when using epff policy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix union attempting to update files on a read only file system (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Refactor to use fspath.SplitFs instead of fs.ParseRemote (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix initialisation broken in refactor (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Add support for sharepoint with NTLM authentication (Rauno Ots)
  - Make sharepoint-ntlm docs more consistent (Alex Chen)
  - Improve terminology in sharepoint-ntlm docs (Ivan Andreev)
  - Disable HTTP/2 for NTLM authentication (georne)
  - Fix sharepoint-ntlm error 401 for parallel actions (Ivan Andreev)
  - Check that purged directory really exists (Ivan Andreev)
- Yandex
  - Make `--timeout 0` work properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Replace client id - you will need to `rclone config reconnect` after this (buengese)
  - Add forgotten setupRegion() to NewFs - this finally fixes regions other than EU (buengese)

## v1.54.1 - 2021-03-08

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.54.0...v1.54.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix --bwlimit when up or down is off (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs
    - Fix nesting of brackets and backticks in ftp docs (edwardxml)
    - Fix broken link in sftp page (edwardxml)
    - Fix typo in crypt.md (Romeo Kienzler)
    - Changelog: Correct link to digitalis.io (Alex JOST)
    - Replace #file-caching with #vfs-file-caching (Miron Veryanskiy)
    - Convert bogus example link to code (edwardxml)
    - Remove dead link from rc.md (edwardxml)
  - rc: Sync,copy,move: document createEmptySrcDirs parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Fix unterminated JSON in the presence of errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Fix mount dropping on macOS by setting --daemon-timeout 10m (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Document simultaneous usage with the same cache shouldn't be used (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Automatically raise upload cutoff to avoid spurious error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix failed to create file system with application key limited to a prefix (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Refer to Shared Drives instead of Team Drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add scopes to oauth request and optionally "members.read" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix failed to create file system with folder level permissions policy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix Wasabi HEAD requests returning stale data by using only 1 transport (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix shared_credentials_file auth (Dmitry Chepurovskiy)
  - Add --s3-no-head to reducing costs docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Fix mkdir at root with remote:/ (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Zoho
  - Fix custom client id's (buengese)

## v1.54.0 - 2021-02-02

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.53.0...v1.54.0)

- New backends
  - Compression remote (experimental) (buengese)
  - Enterprise File Fabric (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This work was sponsored by [Storage Made Easy](https://storagemadeeasy.com/)
  - HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) (Yury Stankevich)
  - Zoho workdrive (buengese)
- New Features
  - Deglobalise the config (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Global config now read from the context
    - This will enable passing of global config via the rc
    - This work was sponsored by [Digitalis](https://digitalis.io/)
  - Add `--bwlimit` for upload and download (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Obey bwlimit in http Transport for better limiting
  - Enhance systemd integration (Hekmon)
    - log level identification, manual activation with flag, automatic systemd launch detection
    - Don't compile systemd log integration for non unix systems (Benjamin Gustin)
  - Add a `--download` flag to md5sum/sha1sum/hashsum to force rclone to download and hash files locally (lostheli)
  - Add `--progress-terminal-title` to print ETA to terminal title (LaSombra)
  - Make backend env vars show in help as the defaults for backend flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Raise minimum go version to go1.12 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dedupe
    - Add `--by-hash` to dedupe on content hash not file name (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--dedupe-mode list` to just list dupes, changing nothing (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add warning if used on a remote which can't have duplicate names (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fs
    - Add Shutdown optional method for backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - When using `--files-from` check files concurrently (zhucan)
    - Accumulate stats when using `--dry-run` (Ingo Weiss)
    - Always show stats when using `--dry-run` or `--interactive` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add support for flag `--no-console` on windows to hide the console window (albertony)
  - genautocomplete: Add support to output to stdout (Ingo)
  - ncdu
    - Highlight read errors instead of aborting (Claudio Bantaloukas)
    - Add sort by average size in directory (Adam Plánský)
    - Add toggle option for average s3ize in directory - key 'a' (Adam Plánský)
    - Add empty folder flag into ncdu browser (Adam Plánský)
    - Add `!` (error) and `.` (unreadable) file flags to go with `e` (empty) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - obscure: Make `rclone obscure -` ignore newline at end of line (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Add logs when need to upload files to set mod times (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Move and copy log name of the destination object in verbose (Adam Plánský)
    - Add size if known to skipped items and JSON log (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Prefer actual listener address if using ":port" or "addr:0" only (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add listener for finished jobs (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - serve ftp: Add options to enable TLS (Deepak Sah)
  - serve http/webdav: Redirect requests to the base url without the / (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve restic: Implement object cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - stats: Add counter for deleted directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Only print "There was nothing to transfer" if no errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - webui
    - Prompt user for updating webui if an update is available (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Fix plugins initialization (negative0)
- Bug Fixes
  - fs
    - Fix nil pointer on copy & move operations directly to remote (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
    - Fix parsing of .. when joining remotes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - log: Fix enabling systemd logging when using `--log-file` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - check
    - Make the error count match up in the log message (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - move: Fix data loss when source and destination are the same object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix `--cutoff-mode` hard not cutting off immediately (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `--immutable` error message (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync
    - Fix `--cutoff-mode` soft & cautious so it doesn't end the transfer early (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `--immutable` errors retrying many times (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Docs
  - Many fixes and a rewrite of the filtering docs (edwardxml)
  - Many spelling and grammar fixes (Josh Soref)
  - Doc fixes for commands delete, purge, rmdir, rmdirs and mount (albertony)
  - And thanks to these people for many doc fixes too numerous to list
    - Ameer Dawood, Antoine GIRARD, Bob Bagwill, Christopher Stewart
    - CokeMine, David, Dov Murik, Durval Menezes, Evan Harris, gtorelly
    - Ilyess Bachiri, Janne Johansson, Kerry Su, Marcin Zelent,
    - Martin Michlmayr, Milly, Sơn Trần-Nguyễn
- Mount
  - Update systemd status with cache stats (Hekmon)
  - Disable bazil/fuse based mount on macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make `rclone mount` actually run `rclone cmount` under macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement mknod to make NFS file creation work (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make sure we don't call umount more than once (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - More user friendly mounting as network drive on windows (albertony)
  - Detect if uid or gid are set in same option string: -o uid=123,gid=456 (albertony)
  - Don't attempt to unmount if fs has been destroyed already (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix virtual entries causing deleted files to still appear (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "file already exists" error for stale cache files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix file leaks with `--vfs-cache-mode` full and `--buffer-size 0` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix invalid cache path on windows when using :backend: as remote (albertony)
- Local
  - Continue listing files/folders when a circular symlink is detected (Manish Gupta)
  - New flag `--local-zero-size-links` to fix sync on some virtual filesystems (Riccardo Iaconelli)
- Azure Blob
  - Add support for service principals (James Lim)
  - Add support for managed identities (Brad Ackerman)
  - Add examples for access tier (Bob Pusateri)
  - Utilize the streaming capabilities from the SDK for multipart uploads (Denis Neuling)
  - Fix setting of mime types (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash when listing outside a SAS URL's root (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Delete archive tier blobs before update if `--azureblob-archive-tier-delete` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix crash on startup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix memory usage by upgrading the SDK to v0.13.0 and implementing a TransferManager (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Require go1.14+ to compile due to SDK changes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Make NewObject use less expensive API calls (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This will improve `--files-from` and `restic serve` in particular
  - Fixed crash on an empty file name (lluuaapp)
- Box
  - Fix NewObject for files that differ in case (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix finding directories in a case insensitive way (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Skip long local hashing, hash in-transit (fixes) (Ivan Andreev)
  - Set Features ReadMimeType to false as Object.MimeType not supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix case-insensitive NewObject, test metadata detection (Ivan Andreev)
- Drive
  - Implement `rclone backend copyid` command for copying files by ID (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added flag `--drive-stop-on-download-limit` to stop transfers when the download limit is exceeded (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Implement CleanUp workaround for team drives (buengese)
  - Allow shortcut resolution and creation to be retried (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Log that emptying the trash can take some time (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add xdg office icons to xdg desktop files (Pau Rodriguez-Estivill)
- Dropbox
  - Add support for viewing shared files and folders (buengese)
  - Enable short lived access tokens (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement IDer on Objects so `rclone lsf` etc can read the IDs (buengese)
  - Set Features ReadMimeType to false as Object.MimeType not supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make malformed_path errors from too long files not retriable (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Test file name length before upload to fix upload loop (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Set Features ReadMimeType to true as Object.MimeType is supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Add `--ftp-disable-msld` option to ignore MLSD for really old servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--tpslimit apply` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Storage class object header support (Laurens Janssen)
  - Fix anonymous client to use rclone's HTTP client (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `Entry doesn't belong in directory "" (same as directory) - ignoring` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Googlephotos
  - New flag `--gphotos-include-archived` to show archived photos as well (Nicolas Rueff)
- Jottacloud
  - Don't erroneously report support for writing mime types (buengese)
  - Add support for Telia Cloud (Patrik Nordlén)
- Mailru
  - Accept special folders eg camera-upload (Ivan Andreev)
  - Avoid prehashing of large local files (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix uploads after recent changes on server (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix range requests after June 2020 changes on server (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix invalid timestamp on corrupted files (fixes) (Ivan Andreev)
  - Remove deprecated protocol quirks (Ivan Andreev)
- Memory
  - Fix setting of mime types (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Add support for China region operated by 21vianet and other regional suppliers (NyaMisty)
  - Warn on gateway timeout errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fall back to normal copy if server-side copy unavailable (Alex Chen)
  - Fix server-side copy completely disabled on OneDrive for Business (Cnly)
  - (business only) workaround to replace existing file on server-side copy (Alex Chen)
  - Enhance link creation with expiry, scope, type and password (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove % and # from the set of encoded characters (Alex Chen)
  - Support addressing site by server-relative URL (kice)
- Opendrive
  - Fix finding directories in a case insensitive way (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pcloud
  - Fix setting of mime types (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Premiumizeme
  - Fix finding directories in a case insensitive way (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Qingstor
  - Fix error propagation in CleanUp (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rclone cleanup (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Added `--s3-disable-http2` to disable http/2 (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Complete SSE-C implementation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix hashes on small files with AWS:KMS and SSE-C (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add MD5 metadata to objects uploaded with SSE-AWS/SSE-C (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-no-head parameter` to minimise transactions on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update docs with a Reducing Costs section (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added error handling for error code 429 indicating too many requests (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Add requester pays option (kelv)
  - Fix copy multipart with v2 auth failing with 'SignatureDoesNotMatch' (Louis Koo)
- SFTP
  - Allow cert based auth via optional pubkey (Stephen Harris)
  - Allow user to optionally check server hosts key to add security (Stephen Harris)
  - Defer asking for user passwords until the SSH connection succeeds (Stephen Harris)
  - Remember entered password in AskPass mode (Stephen Harris)
  - Implement Shutdown method (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement keyboard interactive authentication (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--tpslimit` apply (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--sftp-use-fstat` for unusual SFTP servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sugarsync
  - Fix NewObject for files that differ in case (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix finding directories in a case insensitive way (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Fix deletion of parts of Static Large Object (SLO) (Nguyễn Hữu Luân)
  - Ensure partially uploaded large files are uploaded unless `--swift-leave-parts-on-error` (Nguyễn Hữu Luân)
- Tardigrade
  - Upgrade to uplink v1.4.1 (Caleb Case)
- WebDAV
  - Updated docs to show streaming to nextcloud is working (Durval Menezes)
- Yandex
  - Set Features WriteMimeType to false as Yandex ignores mime types (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.53.4 - 2021-01-20

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.53.3...v1.53.4)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix data race in Transferred() (Maciej Zimnoch)
  - build
    - Stop tagged releases making a current beta (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Upgrade docker buildx action (Matteo Pietro Dazzi)
    - Add -buildmode to cross-compile.go (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix docker build by upgrading ilteoood/docker_buildx (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Revert GitHub actions brew fix since this is now fixed (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix brew install --cask syntax for macOS build (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update nfpm syntax to fix build of .deb/.rpm packages (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix for Windows build errors (Ivan Andreev)
  - fs: Parseduration: fixed tests to use UTC time (Ankur Gupta)
  - fshttp: Prevent overlap of HTTP headers in logs (Nathan Collins)
  - rc
    - Fix core/command giving 500 internal error (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add Copy method to rc.Params (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix 500 error when marshalling errors from core/command (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - plugins: Create plugins files only if webui is enabled. (negative0)
  - serve http: Fix serving files of unknown length (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Fix authentication on one connection blocking others (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Add optional `brew` tag to throw an error when using mount in the binaries installed via Homebrew (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Add "." and ".." to directories to match cmount and expectations (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Make cache dir absolute before using it to fix path too long errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Improve detection of incompatible metadata (Ivan Andreev)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix server side copy of large objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix token renewer to fix long uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix token refresh failed: is not a regular file error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pcloud
  - Only use SHA1 hashes in EU region (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sharefile
  - Undo Fix backend due to API swapping integers for strings (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Fix Open Range requests to fix 4shared mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add "Depth: 0" to GET requests to fix bitrix (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.53.3 - 2020-11-19

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.53.2...v1.53.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - random: Fix incorrect use of math/rand instead of crypto/rand CVE-2020-28924 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Passwords you have generated with `rclone config` may be insecure
    - See [issue #4783](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4783) for more details and a checking tool
  - random: Seed math/rand in one place with crypto strong seed (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix vfs/refresh calls with fs= parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sharefile
  - Fix backend due to API swapping integers for strings (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.53.2 - 2020-10-26

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.53.1...v1.53.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix incorrect speed and transferTime in core/stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Stabilize display order of transfers on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix use of --suffix without --backup-dir (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix spurious "--checksum is in use but the source and destination have no hashes in common" (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Work around GitHub actions brew problem (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Stop using set-env and set-path in the GitHub actions (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - mount2: Fix the swapped UID / GID values (Russell Cattelan)
- VFS
  - Detect and recover from a file being removed externally from the cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix a deadlock vulnerability in downloaders.Close (Leo Luan)
  - Fix a race condition in retryFailedResets (Leo Luan)
  - Fix missed concurrency control between some item operations and reset (Leo Luan)
  - Add exponential backoff during ENOSPC retries (Leo Luan)
  - Add a missed update of used cache space (Leo Luan)
  - Fix --no-modtime to not attempt to set modtimes (as documented) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix sizes and syncing with --links option on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Chunker
  - Disable ListR to fix missing files on GDrive (workaround) (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix upload over crypt (Ivan Andreev)
- Fichier
  - Increase maximum file size from 100GB to 300GB (gyutw)
- Jottacloud
  - Remove clientSecret from config when upgrading to token based authentication (buengese)
  - Avoid double url escaping of device/mountpoint (albertony)
  - Remove DirMove workaround as it's not required anymore - also (buengese)
- Mailru
  - Fix uploads after recent changes on server (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix range requests after june changes on server (Ivan Andreev)
  - Fix invalid timestamp on corrupted files (fixes) (Ivan Andreev)
- Onedrive
  - Fix disk usage for sharepoint (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add missing regions for AWS (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Seafile
  - Fix accessing libraries > 2GB on 32 bit systems (Muffin King)
- SFTP
  - Always convert the checksum to lower case (buengese)
- Union
  - Create root directories if none exist (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.53.1 - 2020-09-13

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.53.0...v1.53.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Remove new line from end of --stats-one-line display (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - check
    - Add back missing --download flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs
    - Note --log-file does append (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add full stops for consistency in rclone --help (edwardxml)
    - Add Tencent COS to s3 provider list (wjielai)
    - Updated mount command to reflect that it requires Go 1.13 or newer (Evan Harris)
    - jottacloud: Mention that uploads from local disk will not need to cache files to disk for md5 calculation (albertony)
    - Fix formatting of rc docs page (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Include vendor tar ball in release and fix startdev (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix "Illegal instruction" error for ARMv6 builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix architecture name in ARMv7 build (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix spurious error "vfs cache: failed to _ensure cache EOF" (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Log an ERROR if we fail to set the file to be sparse (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Log an ERROR if we fail to set the file to be sparse (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Re-adds special oauth help text (Tim Gallant)
- Opendrive
  - Do not retry 400 errors (Evan Harris)

## v1.53.0 - 2020-09-02

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.52.0...v1.53.0)

- New Features
  - The [VFS layer](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-virtual-file-system) was heavily reworked for this release - see below for more details
  - Interactive mode [-i/--interactive](https://rclone.org/docs/#interactive) for destructive operations (fishbullet)
  - Add [--bwlimit-file](https://rclone.org/docs/#bwlimit-file-bwtimetable) flag to limit speeds of individual file transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Transfers are sorted by start time in the stats and progress output (Max Sum)
  - Make sure backends expand `~` and environment vars in file names they use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add [--refresh-times](https://rclone.org/docs/#refresh-times) flag to set modtimes on hashless backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Remove vendor directory in favour of Go modules (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Build with go1.15.x by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Drop macOS 386 build as it is no longer supported by go1.15 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add ARMv7 to the supported builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Enable `rclone cmount` on macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make rclone build with gccgo (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make rclone build with wasm (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Change beta numbering to be semver compatible (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add file properties and icon to Windows executable (albertony)
    - Add experimental interface for integrating rclone into browsers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lib: Add file name compression (Klaus Post)
  - rc
    - Allow installation and use of plugins and test plugins with rclone-webui (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Add reverse proxy pluginsHandler for serving plugins (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Add `mount/listmounts` option for listing current mounts (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Add `operations/uploadfile` to upload a file through rc using encoding multipart/form-data (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Add `core/command` to execute rclone terminal commands. (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
  - `rclone check`
    - Add reporting of filenames for same/missing/changed (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make check command obey `--dry-run`/`-i`/`--interactive` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make check do `--checkers` files concurrently (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Retry downloads if they fail when using the `--download` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make it show stats by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone obscure`: Allow obscure command to accept password on STDIN (David Ibarra)
  - `rclone config`
    - Set RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR for use in config files and subprocesses (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Reject remote names starting with a dash. (jtagcat)
  - `rclone cryptcheck`: Add reporting of filenames for same/missing/changed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone dedupe`: Make it obey the `--size-only` flag for duplicate detection (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone link`: Add `--expire` and `--unlink` flags (Roman Kredentser)
  - `rclone mkdir`: Warn when using mkdir on remotes which can't have empty directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone rc`: Allow JSON parameters to simplify command line usage (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone serve ftp`
    - Don't compile on < go1.13 after dependency update (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add error message if auth proxy fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Use refactored goftp.io/server library for binary shrink (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone serve restic`: Expose interfaces so that rclone can be used as a library from within restic (Jack)
  - `rclone sync`: Add `--track-renames-strategy leaf` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone touch`: Add ability to set nanosecond resolution times (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone tree`: Remove `-i` shorthand for `--noindent` as it conflicts with `-i`/`--interactive` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix documentation for `speed`/`speedAvg` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix elapsed time not show actual time since beginning (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Fix deadlock in stats printing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Fix file handle leak in GitHub release tool (Garrett Squire)
  - `rclone check`: Fix successful retries with `--download` counting errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `rclone dedupe`: Fix logging to be easier to understand (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Warn macOS users that mount implementation is changing (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - to test the new implementation use `rclone cmount` instead of `rclone mount`
    - this is because the library rclone uses has dropped macOS support
  - rc interface
    - Add call for unmount all (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Make `mount/mount` remote control take vfsOpt option (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add mountOpt to `mount/mount` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add VFS and Mount options to `mount/listmounts` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Catch panics in cgofuse initialization and turn into error messages (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Always supply stat information in Readdir (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support for reading unknown length files using direct IO (Windows) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix On Windows don't add `-o uid/gid=-1` if user supplies `-o uid/gid`. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix macOS losing directory contents in cmount (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix volume name broken in recent refactor (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Implement partial reads for `--vfs-cache-mode full` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--vfs-writeback` option to delay writes back to cloud storage (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--vfs-read-ahead` parameter for use with `--vfs-cache-mode full` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Restart pending uploads on restart of the cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support synchronous cache space recovery upon ENOSPC (Leo Luan)
  - Allow ReadAt and WriteAt to run concurrently with themselves (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Change modtime of file before upload to current (Rob Calistri)
  - Recommend `--vfs-cache-modes writes` on backends which can't stream (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add an optional `fs` parameter to vfs rc methods (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix errors when using > 260 char files in the cache in Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix renaming of items while they are being uploaded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix very high load caused by slow directory listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix renamed files not being uploaded with `--vfs-cache-mode minimal` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix directory locking caused by slow directory listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix saving from chrome without `--vfs-cache-mode writes` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Add `--local-no-updated` to provide a consistent view of changing objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--local-no-set-modtime` option to prevent modtime changes (tyhuber1)
  - Fix race conditions updating and reading Object metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Make any created backends be cached to fix rc problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix dedupe on caches wrapping drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Add `--crypt-server-side-across-configs` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make any created backends be cached to fix rc problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Alias
  - Make any created backends be cached to fix rc problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Don't compile on < go1.13 after dependency update (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Implement server-side copy for files > 5GB (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Cancel in progress multipart uploads and copies on rclone exit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Note that b2's encoding now allows \ but rclone's hasn't changed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix transfers when using download_url (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Implement rclone cleanup (buengese)
  - Cancel in progress multipart uploads and copies on rclone exit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow authentication with access token (David)
- Chunker
  - Make any created backends be cached to fix rc problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add `rclone backend drives` to list shared drives (teamdrives) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `rclone backend untrash` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Work around drive bug which didn't set modtime of copied docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added `--drive-starred-only` to only show starred files (Jay McEntire)
  - Deprecate `--drive-alternate-export` as it is no longer needed (themylogin)
  - Fix duplication of Google docs on server-side copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "panic: send on closed channel" when recycling dir entries (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add copyright detector info in limitations section in the docs (Alex Guerrero)
  - Fix `rclone link` by removing expires parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Detect Flood detected: IP Locked error and sleep for 30s (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Add explicit TLS support (Heiko Bornholdt)
  - Add support for `--dump bodies` and `--dump auth` for debugging (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix interoperation with pure-ftpd (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add support for anonymous access (Kai Lüke)
- Jottacloud
  - Bring back legacy authentication for use with whitelabel versions (buengese)
  - Switch to new api root - also implement a very ugly workaround for the DirMove failures (buengese)
- Onedrive
  - Rework cancel of multipart uploads on rclone exit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement rclone cleanup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--onedrive-no-versions` flag to remove old versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pcloud
  - Implement `rclone link` for public link creation (buengese)
- Qingstor
  - Cancel in progress multipart uploads on rclone exit (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Preserve metadata when doing multipart copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Cancel in progress multipart uploads and copies on rclone exit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `rclone link` for public link sharing (Roman Kredentser)
  - Add `rclone backend restore` command to restore objects from GLACIER (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `rclone cleanup` and `rclone backend cleanup` to clean unfinished multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `rclone backend list-multipart-uploads` to list unfinished multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-max-upload-parts` support (Kamil Trzciński)
  - Add `--s3-no-check-bucket` for minimising rclone transactions and perms (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-profile` and `--s3-shared-credentials-file` options (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use regional s3 us-east-1 endpoint (David)
  - Add Scaleway provider (Vincent Feltz)
  - Update IBM COS endpoints (Egor Margineanu)
  - Reduce the default `--s3-copy-cutoff` to < 5GB for Backblaze S3 compatibility (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix detection of bucket existing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Use the absolute path instead of the relative path for listing for improved compatibility (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--sftp-subsystem` and `--sftp-server-command` options (aus)
- Swift
  - Fix dangling large objects breaking the listing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix purge not deleting directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix update multipart object removing all of its own parts (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix missing hash from object returned from upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Tardigrade
  - Upgrade to uplink v1.2.0 (Kaloyan Raev)
- Union
  - Fix writing with the all policy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Fix directory creation with 4shared (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.52.3 - 2020-08-07

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.52.2...v1.52.3)

- Bug Fixes
  - docs
    - Disable smart typography (e.g. en-dash) in MANUAL.* and man page (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update install.md to reflect minimum Go version (Evan Harris)
    - Update install from source instructions (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - make_manual: Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Morten Linderud)
  - log: Fix --use-json-log going to stderr not --log-file on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Fix file list on Samsung Series 6+ TVs (Matteo Pietro Dazzi)
  - sync: Fix deadlock with --track-renames-strategy modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Fix moveto/copyto remote:file remote:file2 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Stop using root_folder_id as a cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make dangling shortcuts appear in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Drop "Disabling ListR" messages down to debug (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Workaround and policy for Google Drive API (Dmitry Ustalov)
- FTP
  - Add note to docs about home vs root directory selection (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Fix reverting to Copy when Move would have worked (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Avoid comma rendered in URL in onedrive.md (Kevin)
- Pcloud
  - Fix oauth on European region "eapi.pcloud.com" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix bucket Region auto detection when Region unset in config (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.52.2 - 2020-06-24

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.52.1...v1.52.2)

- Bug Fixes
  - build
    - Fix docker release build action (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix custom timezone in Docker image (NoLooseEnds)
  - check: Fix misleading message which printed errors instead of differences (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - errors: Add WSAECONNREFUSED and more to the list of retriable Windows errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd: Fix incorrect prometheus metrics (Gary Kim)
  - serve restic: Fix flags so they use environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Fix flags so they use environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync: Fix --track-renames-strategy modtime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix not being able to delete a directory with a trashed shortcut (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix creating a directory inside a shortcut (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix --drive-impersonate with cached root_folder_id (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Fix SSH key PEM loading (Zac Rubin)
- Swift
  - Speed up deletes by not retrying segment container deletes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Tardigrade
  - Upgrade to uplink v1.1.1 (Caleb Case)
- WebDAV
  - Fix free/used display for rclone about/df for certain backends (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.52.1 - 2020-06-10

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.52.0...v1.52.1)

- Bug Fixes
  - lib/file: Fix SetSparse on Windows 7 which fixes downloads of files > 250MB (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Update go.mod to go1.14 to enable -mod=vendor build (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Remove quicktest from Dockerfile (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Build Docker images with GitHub actions (Matteo Pietro Dazzi)
    - Update Docker build workflows (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Set user_allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf in the Docker image (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix xgo build after go1.14 go.mod update (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs
    - Add link to source and modified time to footer of every page (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Remove manually set dates and use git dates instead (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Minor tense, punctuation, brevity and positivity changes for the home page (edwardxml)
    - Remove leading slash in page reference in footer when present (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Note commands which need obscured input in the docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - obscure: Write more help as we are referencing it elsewhere (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix OS vs Unix path confusion - fixes ChangeNotify on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix missing items when listing using --fast-list / ListR (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Putio
  - Fix panic on Object.Open (Cenk Alti)
- S3
  - Fix upload of single files into buckets without create permission (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix --header-upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Tardigrade
  - Fix listing bug by upgrading to v1.0.7
  - Set UserAgent to rclone (Caleb Case)

## v1.52.0 - 2020-05-27

Special thanks to Martin Michlmayr for proof reading and correcting
all the docs and Edward Barker for helping re-write the front page.

[See commits](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/compare/v1.51.0...v1.52.0)

- New backends
  - [Tardigrade](https://rclone.org/tardigrade/) backend for use with storj.io (Caleb Case)
  - [Union](https://rclone.org/union/) re-write to have multiple writable remotes (Max Sum)
  - [Seafile](/seafile) for Seafile server (Fred @creativeprojects)
- New commands
  - backend: command for backend-specific commands (see backends) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cachestats: Deprecate in favour of `rclone backend stats cache:` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dbhashsum: Deprecate in favour of `rclone hashsum DropboxHash` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - Add `--header-download` and `--header-upload` flags for setting HTTP headers when uploading/downloading (Tim Gallant)
  - Add `--header` flag to add HTTP headers to every HTTP transaction (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--check-first` to do all checking before starting transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--track-renames-strategy` for configurable matching criteria for `--track-renames` (Bernd Schoolmann)
  - Add `--cutoff-mode` hard,soft,cautious (Shing Kit Chan & Franklyn Tackitt)
  - Filter flags (e.g. `--files-from -`) can read from stdin (fishbullet)
  - Add `--error-on-no-transfer` option (Jon Fautley)
  - Implement `--order-by xxx,mixed` for copying some small and some big files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow `--max-backlog` to be negative meaning as large as possible (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added `--no-unicode-normalization` flag to allow Unicode filenames to remain unique (Ben Zenker)
  - Allow `--min-age`/`--max-age` to take a date as well as a duration (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add rename statistics for file and directory renames (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add statistics output to JSON log (reddi)
  - Make stats be printed on non-zero exit code (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - When running `--password-command` allow use of stdin (Sébastien Gross)
  - Stop empty strings being a valid remote path (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - accounting: support WriterTo for less memory copying (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Update to use go1.14 for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `-trimpath` to release build for reproduceable builds (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Remove GOOS and GOARCH from Dockerfile (Brandon Philips)
  - config
    - Fsync the config file after writing to save more reliably (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--obscure` and `--no-obscure` flags to `config create`/`update` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make `config show` take `remote:` as well as `remote` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Add `--no-clobber` flag (Denis)
  - delete: Added `--rmdirs` flag to delete directories as well (Kush)
  - filter: Added `--files-from-raw` flag (Ankur Gupta)
  - genautocomplete: Add support for fish shell (Matan Rosenberg)
  - log: Add support for syslog LOCAL facilities (Patryk Jakuszew)
  - lsjson: Add `--hash-type` parameter and use it in lsf to speed up hashing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add `-o`/`--opt` and `-a`/`--arg` for more structured input (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement `backend/command` for running backend-specific commands remotely (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `mount/mount` command for starting `rclone mount` via the API (Chaitanya)
  - rcd: Add Prometheus metrics support (Gary Kim)
  - serve http
    - Added a `--template` flag for user defined markup (calistri)
    - Add Last-Modified headers to files and directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp: Add support for multiple host keys by repeating `--key` flag (Maxime Suret)
  - touch: Add `--localtime` flag to make `--timestamp` localtime not UTC (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Restore "Max number of stats groups reached" log line (Michał Matczuk)
    - Correct exitcode on Transfer Limit Exceeded flag. (Anuar Serdaliyev)
    - Reset bytes read during copy retry (Ankur Gupta)
    - Fix race clearing stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copy: Only create empty directories when they don't exist on the remote (Ishuah Kariuki)
  - dedupe: Stop dedupe deleting files with identical IDs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauth
    - Use custom http client so that `--no-check-certificate` is honored by oauth token fetch (Mark Spieth)
    - Replace deprecated oauth2.NoContext (Lars Lehtonen)
  - operations
    - Fix setting the timestamp on Windows for multithread copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make rcat obey `--ignore-checksum` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make `--max-transfer` more accurate (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Fix dropped error (Lars Lehtonen)
    - Fix misplaced http server config (Xiaoxing Ye)
    - Disable duplicate log (ElonH)
  - serve dlna
    - Cds: don't specify childCount at all when unknown (Dan Walters)
    - Cds: use modification time as date in dlna metadata (Dan Walters)
  - serve restic: Fix tests after restic project removed vendoring (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sync
    - Fix incorrect "nothing to transfer" message using `--delete-before` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Only create empty directories when they don't exist on the remote (Ishuah Kariuki)
- Mount
  - Add `--async-read` flag to disable asynchronous reads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore `--allow-root` flag with a warning as it has been removed upstream (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Warn if `--allow-non-empty` used on Windows and clarify docs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Constrain to go1.13 or above otherwise bazil.org/fuse fails to compile (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix fail because of too long volume name (evileye)
  - Report 1PB free for unknown disk sizes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Map more rclone errors into file systems errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix disappearing cwd problem (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use ReaddirPlus on Windows to improve directory listing performance (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Send a hint as to whether the filesystem is case insensitive or not (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add rc command `mount/types` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Change maximum leaf name length to 1024 bytes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-read-wait` and `--vfs-write-wait` flags to control time waiting for a sequential read/write (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Change default `--vfs-read-wait` to 20ms (it was 5ms and not configurable) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `df` output more consistent on a rclone mount. (Yves G)
  - Report 1PB free for unknown disk sizes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix race condition caused by unlocked reading of Dir.path (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make File lock and Dir lock not overlap to avoid deadlock (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement lock ordering between File and Dir to eliminate deadlocks (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Factor the vfs cache into its own package (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Pin the Fs in use in the Fs cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add SetSys() methods to Node to allow caching stuff on a node (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore file not found errors from Hash in Read.Release (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix hang in read wait code (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Speed up multi thread downloads by using sparse files on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--local-no-sparse` flag for disabling sparse files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `rclone backend noop` for testing purposes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "file not found" errors on post transfer Hash calculation (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Implement `rclone backend stats` command (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix Server Side Copy with Temp Upload (Brandon McNama)
  - Remove Unused Functions (Lars Lehtonen)
  - Disable race tests until bbolt is fixed (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Move methods used for testing into test file (greatroar)
  - Add Pin and Unpin and canonicalised lookup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use proper import path go.etcd.io/bbolt (Robert-André Mauchin)
- Crypt
  - Calculate hashes for uploads from local disk (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This allows encrypted Jottacloud uploads without using local disk
    - This means encrypted s3/b2 uploads will now have hashes
  - Added `rclone backend decode`/`encode` commands to replicate functionality of `cryptdecode` (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Get rid of the unused Cipher interface as it obfuscated the code (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Implement streaming of unknown sized files so `rcat` is now supported (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement memory pooling to control memory use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--azureblob-disable-checksum` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry `InvalidBlobOrBlock` error as it may indicate block concurrency problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove unused `Object.parseTimeString()` (Lars Lehtonen)
  - Fix permission error on SAS URL limited to container (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Ignore directory markers at the root also (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Force the case of the SHA1 to lowercase (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove unused `largeUpload.clearUploadURL()` (Lars Lehtonen)
- Box
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Implement About to read size used (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add token renew function for jwt auth (David Bramwell)
  - Added support for interchangeable root folder for Box backend (Sunil Patra)
  - Remove unnecessary iat from jws claims (David)
- Drive
  - Follow shortcuts by default, skip with `--drive-skip-shortcuts` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `rclone backend shortcut` command for creating shortcuts (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added `rclone backend` command to change `service_account_file` and `chunk_size` (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Fix missing files when using `--fast-list` and `--drive-shared-with-me` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix duplicate items when using `--drive-shared-with-me` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Extend `--drive-stop-on-upload-limit` to respond to `teamDriveFileLimitExceeded`. (harry)
  - Don't delete files with multiple parents to avoid data loss (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Server side copy docs use default description if empty (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Make error insufficient space to be fatal (harry)
  - Add info about required redirect url (Elan Ruusamäe)
- Fichier
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Implement custom pacer to deal with the new rate limiting (buengese)
- FTP
  - Fix lockup when using concurrency limit on failed connections (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix lockup on failed upload when using concurrency limit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix lockup on Close failures when using concurrency limit (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Work around pureftp sending spurious 150 messages (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `ARCHIVE` storage class to help (Adam Stroud)
  - Ignore directory markers at the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Googlephotos
  - Make the start year configurable (Daven)
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Create feature/favorites directory (Brandon Philips)
  - Fix "concurrent map write" error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't put an image in error message (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Improved directory listing with new template from Caddy project (calisro)
- Jottacloud
  - Implement `--jottacloud-trashed-only` (buengese)
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Use `RawURLEncoding` when decoding base64 encoded login token (buengese)
  - Implement cleanup (buengese)
  - Update docs regarding cleanup, removed remains from old auth, and added warning about special mountpoints. (albertony)
- Mailru
  - Describe 2FA requirements (valery1707)
- Onedrive
  - Implement `--onedrive-server-side-across-configs` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Fix occasional 416 errors on multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added maximum chunk size limit warning in the docs (Harry)
  - Fix missing drive on config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make error `quotaLimitReached` to be fatal (harry)
- Opendrive
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
- Pcloud
  - Added support for interchangeable root folder for pCloud backend (Sunil Patra)
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Fix initial config "Auth state doesn't match" message (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Premiumizeme
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Prune unused functions (Lars Lehtonen)
- Putio
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make downloading files use the rclone http Client (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix parsing of remotes with leading and trailing / (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Qingstor
  - Make `rclone cleanup` remove pending multipart uploads older than 24h (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Try harder to cancel failed multipart uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Prune `multiUploader.list()` (Lars Lehtonen)
  - Lint fix (Lars Lehtonen)
- S3
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Use memory pool for buffer allocations (Maciej Zimnoch)
  - Add SSE-C support for AWS, Ceph, and MinIO (Jack Anderson)
  - Fail fast multipart upload (Michał Matczuk)
  - Report errors on bucket creation (mkdir) correctly (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Specify that Minio supports URL encoding in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added 500 as retryErrorCode (Michał Matczuk)
  - Use `--low-level-retries` as the number of SDK retries (Aleksandar Janković)
  - Fix multipart abort context (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - Replace deprecated `session.New()` with `session.NewSession()` (Lars Lehtonen)
  - Use the provided size parameter when allocating a new memory pool (Joachim Brandon LeBlanc)
  - Use rclone's low level retries instead of AWS SDK to fix listing retries (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore directory markers at the root also (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use single memory pool (Michał Matczuk)
  - Do not resize buf on put to memBuf (Michał Matczuk)
  - Improve docs for `--s3-disable-checksum` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't leak memory or tokens in edge cases for multipart upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Seafile
  - Implement 2FA (Fred)
- SFTP
  - Added `--sftp-pem-key` to support inline key files (calisro)
  - Fix post transfer copies failing with 0 size when using `set_modtime=false` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Sharefile
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
- Sugarsync
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
- Swift
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix cosmetic issue in error message (Martin Michlmayr)
- Union
  - Implement multiple writable remotes (Max Sum)
  - Fix server-side copy (Max Sum)
  - Implement ListR (Max Sum)
  - Enable ListR when upstreams contain local (Max Sum)
- WebDAV
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)
  - Fix `X-OC-Mtime` header for Transip compatibility (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Report full and consistent usage with `about` (Yves G)
- Yandex
  - Add support for `--header-upload` and `--header-download` (Tim Gallant)

## v1.51.0 - 2020-02-01

- New backends
  - [Memory](https://rclone.org/memory/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [Sugarsync](https://rclone.org/sugarsync/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - Adjust all backends to have `--backend-encoding` parameter (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - this enables the encoding for special characters to be adjusted or disabled
  - Add `--max-duration` flag to control the maximum duration of a transfer session (boosh)
  - Add `--expect-continue-timeout` flag, default 1s (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--no-check-dest` flag for copying without testing the destination (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--order-by` flag to order transfers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - accounting
    - Don't show entries in both transferring and checking (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add option to delete stats (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - build
    - Compress the test builds with gzip (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement a framework for starting test servers during tests (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cmd: Always print elapsed time to tenth place seconds in progress (Gary Kim)
  - config
    - Add `--password-command` to allow dynamic config password (Damon Permezel)
    - Give config questions default values (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Check a remote exists when creating a new one (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Add `--stdout` flag to write to stdout (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dedupe: Implement keep smallest too (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - hashsum: Add flag `--base64` flag (landall)
  - lsf: Speed up on s3/swift/etc by not reading mimetype by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Add `--no-mimetype` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Add methods to turn on blocking and mutex profiling (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd
    - Adding group parameter to stats (Chaitanya)
    - Move webgui apart; option to disable browser (Xiaoxing Ye)
  - serve sftp: Add support for public key with auth proxy (Paul Tinsley)
  - stats: Show deletes in stats and hide zero stats (anuar45)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix error counter counting multiple times (Ankur Gupta)
    - Fix error count shown as checks (Cnly)
    - Clear finished transfer in stats-reset (Maciej Zimnoch)
    - Added StatsInfo locking in statsGroups sum function (Michał Matczuk)
  - asyncreader: Fix EOF error (buengese)
  - check: Fix `--one-way` recursing more directories than it needs to (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - chunkedreader: Disable hash calculation for first segment (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config
    - Do not open browser on headless on drive/gcs/google photos (Xiaoxing Ye)
    - SetValueAndSave ignore error if config section does not exist yet (buengese)
  - cmd: Fix completion with an encrypted config (Danil Semelenov)
  - dbhashsum: Stop it returning UNSUPPORTED on dropbox (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dedupe: Add missing modes to help string (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix dedupe continuing on errors like insufficientFilePersimmon (SezalAgrawal)
    - Clear accounting before low level retry (Maciej Zimnoch)
    - Write debug message when hashes could not be checked (Ole Schütt)
    - Move interface assertion to tests to remove pflag dependency (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make NewOverrideObjectInfo public and factor uses (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - proxy: Replace use of bcrypt with sha256 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - vendor
    - Update bazil.org/fuse to fix FreeBSD 12.1 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update github.com/t3rm1n4l/go-mega to fix mega "illegal base64 data at input byte 22" (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update termbox-go to fix ncdu command on FreeBSD (Kuang-che Wu)
    - Update t3rm1n4l/go-mega - fixes mega: couldn't login: crypto/aes: invalid key size 0 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Enable async reads for a 20% speedup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Replace use of WriteAt with Write for cache mode >= writes and O_APPEND (Brett Dutro)
  - Make sure we call unmount when exiting (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't build on go1.10 as bazil/fuse no longer supports it (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - When setting dates discard out of range dates (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add a newly created file straight into the directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Only calculate one hash for reads for a speedup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make ReadAt for non cached files work better with non-sequential reads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix edge cases when reading ModTime from file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make sure existing files opened for write show correct size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't cache the path in RW file objects to fix renaming (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rename of open files when using the VFS cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - When renaming files in the cache, rename the cache item in memory too (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix open file renaming on drive when using `--vfs-cache-mode writes` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix incorrect modtime for mv into mount with `--vfs-cache-modes writes` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - On rename, rename in cache too if the file exists (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Local
  - Make source file being updated errors be NoLowLevelRetry errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix update of hidden files on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Follow move of upstream library github.com/coreos/bbolt github.com/etcd-io/bbolt (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `fatal error: concurrent map writes` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Reorder the filename encryption options (Thomas Eales)
  - Correctly handle trailing dot (buengese)
- Chunker
  - Reduce length of temporary suffix (Ivan Andreev)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-stop-on-upload-limit` flag to stop syncs when upload limit reached (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--drive-use-shared-date` to use date file was shared instead of modified date (Garry McNulty)
  - Make sure invalid auth for teamdrives always reports an error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--fast-list` when using appDataFolder (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use multipart resumable uploads for streaming and uploads in mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Log an ERROR if an incomplete search is returned (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Hide dangerous config from the configurator (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Treat `insufficient_space` errors as non retriable errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Use new auth method used by official client (buengese)
  - Add URL to generate Login Token to config wizard (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support whitelabel versions (buengese)
- Koofr
  - Use rclone HTTP client. (jaKa)
- Onedrive
  - Add Sites.Read.All permission (Benjamin Richter)
  - Add support "Retry-After" header (Motonori IWAMURO)
- Opendrive
  - Implement `--opendrive-chunk-size` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Re-implement multipart upload to fix memory issues (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-copy-cutoff` for size to switch to multipart copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add new region Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) (Outvi V)
  - Reduce memory usage streaming files by reducing max stream upload size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-list-chunk` option for bucket listing (Thomas Kriechbaumer)
  - Force path style bucket access to off for AWS deprecation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use AWS web identity role provider if available (Tennix)
  - Add StackPath Object Storage Support (Dave Koston)
  - Fix ExpiryWindow value (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - Fix DisableChecksum condition (Aleksandar Janković)
  - Fix URL decoding of NextMarker (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add `--sftp-skip-links` to skip symlinks and non regular files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry Creation of Connection (Sebastian Brandt)
  - Fix "failed to parse private key file: ssh: not an encrypted key" error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Open files for update write only to fix AWS SFTP interop (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Reserve segments of dynamic large object when delete objects in container what was enabled versioning. (Nguyễn Hữu Luân)
  - Fix parsing of X-Object-Manifest (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update OVH API endpoint (unbelauscht)
- WebDAV
  - Make nextcloud only upload SHA1 checksums (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix case of "Bearer" in Authorization: header to agree with RFC (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add Referer header to fix problems with WAFs (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.50.2 - 2019-11-19

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix memory leak on retries operations (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix listing of the root directory with drive.files scope (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix --drive-root-folder-id with team/shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.50.1 - 2019-11-02

- Bug Fixes
  - hash: Fix accidentally changed hash names for `DropboxHash` and `CRC-32` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Fix error reporting on tpslimit token bucket errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - fshttp: Don't print token bucket errors on context cancelled (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Fix listings of . on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Fix DirMove/Move after Onedrive change (Xiaoxing Ye)

## v1.50.0 - 2019-10-26

- New backends
  - [Citrix Sharefile](https://rclone.org/sharefile/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [Chunker](https://rclone.org/chunker/) - an overlay backend to split files into smaller parts (Ivan Andreev)
  - [Mail.ru Cloud](https://rclone.org/mailru/) (Ivan Andreev)
- New Features
  - encodings (Fabian Möller & Nick Craig-Wood)
    - All backends now use file name encoding to ensure any file name can be written to any backend.
    - See the [restricted file name docs](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-filenames) for more info and the [local backend docs](/local/#filenames).
    - Some file names may look different in rclone if you are using any control characters in names or [unicode FULLWIDTH symbols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_(Unicode_block)).
  - build
    - Update to use go1.13 for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Drop support for go1.9 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Build rclone with GitHub actions (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Convert python scripts to python3 (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Swap Azure/go-ansiterm for mattn/go-colorable (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Dockerfile fixes (Matei David)
    - Add [plugin support](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#writing-a-plugin) for backends and commands (Richard Patel)
  - config
    - Use alternating Red/Green in config to make more obvious (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - contrib
    - Add sample DLNA server Docker Compose manifest. (pataquets)
    - Add sample WebDAV server Docker Compose manifest. (pataquets)
  - copyurl
    - Add `--auto-filename` flag for using file name from URL in destination path (Denis)
  - serve dlna:
    - Many compatibility improvements (Dan Walters)
    - Support for external srt subtitles (Dan Walters)
  - rc
    - Added command core/quit (Saksham Khanna)
- Bug Fixes
  - sync
    - Make `--update`/`-u` not transfer files that haven't changed (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Free objects after they come out of the transfer pipe to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `--files-from without --no-traverse` doing a recursive scan (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations
    - Fix accounting for server-side copies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Display 'All duplicates removed' only if dedupe successful (Sezal Agrawal)
    - Display 'Deleted X extra copies' only if dedupe successful (Sezal Agrawal)
  - accounting
    - Only allow up to 100 completed transfers in the accounting list to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Cull the old time ranges when possible to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix panic due to server-side copy fallback (Ivan Andreev)
    - Fix memory leak noticeable for transfers of large numbers of objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix total duration calculation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - cmd
    - Fix environment variables not setting command line flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Make autocomplete compatible with bash's posix mode for macOS (Danil Semelenov)
    - Make `--progress` work in git bash on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix 'compopt: command not found' on autocomplete on macOS (Danil Semelenov)
  - config
    - Fix setting of non top level flags from environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Check config names more carefully and report errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Remove error: can't use `--size-only` and `--ignore-size` together. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - filter: Prevent mixing options when `--files-from` is in use (Michele Caci)
  - serve sftp: Fix crash on unsupported operations (e.g. Readlink) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Allow files of unknown size to be read properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Skip tests on <= 2 CPUs to avoid lockup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix panic on File.Open (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix "mount_fusefs: -o timeout=: option not supported" on FreeBSD (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't pass huge filenames (>4k) to FUSE as it can't cope (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Add flag `--vfs-case-insensitive` for windows/macOS mounts (Ivan Andreev)
  - Make objects of unknown size readable through the VFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Move writeback of dirty data out of close() method into its own method (FlushWrites) and remove close() call from Flush() (Brett Dutro)
  - Stop empty dirs disappearing when renamed on bucket-based remotes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Stop change notify polling clearing so much of the directory cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Disable logging to the Windows event log (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Remove `unverified:` prefix on sha1 to improve interop (e.g. with CyberDuck) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Add options to get access token via JWT auth (David)
- Drive
  - Disable HTTP/2 by default to work around INTERNAL_ERROR problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make sure that drive root ID is always canonical (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--drive-shared-with-me` from the root with lsand `--fast-list` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix ChangeNotify polling for shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix change notify polling when using appDataFolder (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Make disallowed filenames errors not retry (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix nil pointer exception on restricted files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fichier
  - Fix accessing files > 2GB on 32 bit systems (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Allow disabling EPSV mode (Jon Fautley)
- HTTP
  - HEAD directory entries in parallel to speedup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--http-no-head` to stop rclone doing HEAD in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Putio
  - Add ability to resume uploads (Cenk Alti)
- S3
  - Fix signature v2_auth headers (Anthony Rusdi)
  - Fix encoding for control characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Only ask for URL encoded directory listings if we need them on Ceph (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add option for multipart failure behaviour (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - Support for multipart copy (庄天翼)
  - Fix nil pointer reference if no metadata returned for object (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Fix `--sftp-ask-password` trying to contact the ssh agent (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix hashes of files with backslashes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Include more ciphers with `--sftp-use-insecure-cipher` (Carlos Ferreyra)
- WebDAV
  - Parse and return Sharepoint error response (Henning Surmeier)

## v1.49.5 - 2019-10-05

- Bug Fixes
  - Revert back to go1.12.x for the v1.49.x builds as go1.13.x was causing issues (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rpm packages by using master builds of nfpm (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix macOS build after brew changes (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.49.4 - 2019-09-29

- Bug Fixes
  - cmd/rcd: Address ZipSlip vulnerability (Richard Patel)
  - accounting: Fix file handle leak on errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - oauthutil: Fix security problem when running with two users on the same machine (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Fix listing of an empty root returning: error dir not found (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix SetModTime on GLACIER/ARCHIVE objects and implement set/get tier (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.49.3 - 2019-09-15

- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix total duration calculation (Aleksandar Jankovic)
    - Fix "file already closed" on transfer retries (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.49.2 - 2019-09-08

- New Features
  - build: Add Docker workflow support (Alfonso Montero)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix locking in Transfer to avoid deadlock with `--progress` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs: Fix template argument for mktemp in install.sh (Cnly)
  - operations: Fix `-u`/`--update` with google photos / files of unknown size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Fix docs for config/create /update /password (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix need for elevated permissions on SetModTime (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.49.1 - 2019-08-28

- Bug Fixes
  - config: Fix generated passwords being stored as empty password (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd: Added missing parameter for web-gui info logs. (Chaitanya)
- Googlephotos
  - Fix crash on error response (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Fix crash on error response (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.49.0 - 2019-08-26

- New backends
  - [1fichier](https://rclone.org/fichier/) (Laura Hausmann)
  - [Google Photos](https://rclone.org/googlephotos/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - [Putio](https://rclone.org/putio/) (Cenk Alti)
  - [premiumize.me](https://rclone.org/premiumizeme/) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - Experimental [web GUI](https://rclone.org/gui/) (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
  - Implement `--compare-dest` & `--copy-dest` (yparitcher)
  - Implement `--suffix` without `--backup-dir` for backup to current dir (yparitcher)
  - `config reconnect` to re-login (re-run the oauth login) for the backend. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `config userinfo` to discover which user you are logged in as. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - `config disconnect` to disconnect you (log out) from the backend. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--use-json-log` for JSON logging (justinalin)
  - Add context propagation to rclone (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - Reworking internal statistics interfaces so they work with rc jobs (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - Add Higher units for ETA (AbelThar)
  - Update rclone logos to new design (Andreas Chlupka)
  - hash: Add CRC-32 support (Cenk Alti)
  - help showbackend: Fixed advanced option category when there are no standard options (buengese)
  - ncdu: Display/Copy to Clipboard Current Path (Gary Kim)
  - operations:
    - Run hashing operations in parallel (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Don't calculate checksums when using `--ignore-checksum` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Check transfer hashes when using `--size-only` mode (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Disable multi thread copy for local to local copies (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Debug successful hashes as well as failures (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add ability to stop async jobs (Aleksandar Jankovic)
    - Return current settings if core/bwlimit called without parameters (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Rclone-WebUI integration with rclone (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Added command line parameter to control the cross origin resource sharing (CORS) in the rcd. (Security Improvement) (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Add anchor tags to the docs so links are consistent (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Remove _async key from input parameters after parsing so later operations won't get confused (buengese)
    - Add call to clear stats (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - rcd
    - Auto-login for web-gui (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
    - Implement `--baseurl` for rcd and web-gui (Chaitanya Bankanhal)
  - serve dlna
    - Only select interfaces which can multicast for SSDP (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add more builtin mime types to cover standard audio/video (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix missing mime types on Android causing missing videos (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve ftp
    - Refactor to bring into line with other serve commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement `--auth-proxy` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve http: Implement `--baseurl` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve restic: Implement `--baseurl` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve sftp
    - Implement auth proxy (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix detection of whether server is authorized (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav
    - Implement `--baseurl` (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Support `--auth-proxy` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - Make "bad record MAC" a retriable error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Fix copying files that return HTTP errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - march: Fix checking sub-directories when using `--no-traverse` (buengese)
  - rc
    - Fix unmarshalable http.AuthFn in options and put in test for marshalability (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Move job expire flags to rc to fix initialization problem (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix `--loopback` with rc/list and others (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcat: Fix slowdown on systems with multiple hashes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rcd: Fix permissions problems on cache directory with web gui download (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Default `--daemon-timeout` to 15 minutes on macOS and FreeBSD (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update docs to show mounting from root OK for bucket-based (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove nonseekable flag from write files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Make write without cache more efficient (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--vfs-cache-mode minimal` and `writes` ignoring cached files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Add `--local-case-sensitive` and `--local-case-insensitive` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Avoid polluting page cache when uploading local files to remote backends (Michał Matczuk)
  - Don't calculate any hashes by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fadvise run syscall on a dedicated go routine (Michał Matczuk)
- Azure Blob
  - Azure Storage Emulator support (Sandeep)
  - Updated config help details to remove connection string references (Sandeep)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Implement link sharing (yparitcher)
  - Enable server-side copy to copy between buckets (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix server-side copy of big files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update API for teamdrive use (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add error for purge with `--drive-trashed-only` (ginvine)
- Fichier
  - Make FolderID int and adjust related code (buengese)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Reduce oauth scope requested as suggested by Google (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Add `--http-headers` flag for setting arbitrary headers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Use new api for retrieving internal username (buengese)
  - Refactor configuration and minor cleanup (buengese)
- Koofr
  - Support setting modification times on Koofr backend. (jaKa)
- Opendrive
  - Refactor to use existing lib/rest facilities for uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Qingstor
  - Upgrade to v3 SDK and fix listing loop (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Add INTELLIGENT_TIERING storage class (Matti Niemenmaa)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Add missing interface check and fix About (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Completely ignore all modtime checks if SetModTime=false (Jon Fautley)
  - Support md5/sha1 with rsync.net (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Save the md5/sha1 command in use to the config file for efficiency (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Opt-in support for diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 (Yi FU)
- Swift
  - Use FixRangeOption to fix 0 length files via the VFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix upload when using no_chunk to return the correct size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make all operations work from the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix segments leak during failed large file uploads. (nguyenhuuluan434)
- WebDAV
  - Add `--webdav-bearer-token-command` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Refresh token when it expires with `--webdav-bearer-token-command` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add docs for using bearer_token_command with oidc-agent (Paul Millar)

## v1.48.0 - 2019-06-15

- New commands
  - serve sftp: Serve an rclone remote over SFTP (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - Multi threaded downloads to local storage (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - controlled with `--multi-thread-cutoff` and `--multi-thread-streams`
  - Use rclone.conf from rclone executable directory to enable portable use (albertony)
  - Allow sync of a file and a directory with the same name (forgems)
    - this is common on bucket-based remotes, e.g. s3, gcs
  - Add `--ignore-case-sync` for forced case insensitivity (garry415)
  - Implement `--stats-one-line-date` and `--stats-one-line-date-format` (Peter Berbec)
  - Log an ERROR for all commands which exit with non-zero status (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use go-homedir to read the home directory more reliably (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Enable creating encrypted config through external script invocation (Wojciech Smigielski)
  - build: Drop support for go1.8 (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: Make config create/update encrypt passwords where necessary (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - copyurl: Honor `--no-check-certificate` (Stefan Breunig)
  - install: Linux skip man pages if no mandb (didil)
  - lsf: Support showing the Tier of the object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson
    - Added EncryptedPath to output (calisro)
    - Support showing the Tier of the object (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add IsBucket field for bucket-based remote listing of the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Add `--loopback` flag to run commands directly without a server (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add operations/fsinfo: Return information about the remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Skip auth for OPTIONS request (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - cmd/providers: Add DefaultStr, ValueStr and Type fields (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - jobs: Make job expiry timeouts configurable (Aleksandar Jankovic)
  - serve dlna reworked and improved (Dan Walters)
  - serve ftp: add `--ftp-public-ip` flag to specify public IP (calistri)
  - serve restic: Add support for `--private-repos` in `serve restic` (Florian Apolloner)
  - serve webdav: Combine serve webdav and serve http (Gary Kim)
  - size: Ignore negative sizes when calculating total (Garry McNulty)
- Bug Fixes
  - Make move and copy individual files obey `--backup-dir` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - If `--ignore-checksum` is in effect, don't calculate checksum (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - moveto: Fix case-insensitive same remote move (Gary Kim)
  - rc: Fix serving bucket-based objects with `--rc-serve` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve webdav: Fix serveDir not being updated with changes from webdav (Gary Kim)
- Mount
  - Fix poll interval documentation (Animosity022)
- VFS
  - Make WriteAt for non cached files work with non-sequential writes (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Only calculate the required hashes for big speedup (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Log errors when listing instead of returning an error (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix preallocate warning on Linux with ZFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Make rclone dedupe work through crypt (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix wrapping of ChangeNotify to decrypt directories properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support PublicLink (rclone link) of underlying backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement Optional methods SetTier, GetTier (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Implement server-side copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement SetModTime (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Fix move and copy from TeamDrive to GDrive (Fionera)
  - Add notes that cleanup works in the background on drive (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--drive-server-side-across-configs` to default back to old server-side copy semantics by default (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--drive-size-as-quota` to show storage quota usage for file size (Garry McNulty)
- FTP
  - Add FTP List timeout (Jeff Quinn)
  - Add FTP over TLS support (Gary Kim)
  - Add `--ftp-no-check-certificate` option for FTPS (Gary Kim)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix upload errors when uploading pre 1970 files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Add support for selecting device and mountpoint. (buengese)
- Mega
  - Add cleanup support (Gary Kim)
- Onedrive
  - More accurately check if root is found (Cnly)
- S3
  - Support S3 Accelerated endpoints with `--s3-use-accelerate-endpoint` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add config info for Wasabi's EU Central endpoint (Robert Marko)
  - Make SetModTime work for GLACIER while syncing (Philip Harvey)
- SFTP
  - Add About support (Gary Kim)
  - Fix about parsing of `df` results so it can cope with -ve results (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Send custom client version and debug server version (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Retry on 423 Locked errors (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.47.0 - 2019-04-13

- New backends
  - Backend for Koofr cloud storage service. (jaKa)
- New Features
  - Resume downloads if the reader fails in copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - this means rclone will restart transfers if the source has an error
    - this is most useful for downloads or cloud to cloud copies
  - Use `--fast-list` for listing operations where it won't use more memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - this should speed up the following operations on remotes which support `ListR`
    - `dedupe`, `serve restic` `lsf`, `ls`, `lsl`, `lsjson`, `lsd`, `md5sum`, `sha1sum`, `hashsum`, `size`, `delete`, `cat`, `settier`
    - use `--disable ListR` to get old behaviour if required
  - Make `--files-from` traverse the destination unless `--no-traverse` is set (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - this fixes `--files-from` with Google drive and excessive API use in general.
  - Make server-side copy account bytes and obey `--max-transfer` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--create-empty-src-dirs` flag and default to not creating empty dirs (ishuah)
  - Add client side TLS/SSL flags `--ca-cert`/`--client-cert`/`--client-key` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement `--suffix-keep-extension` for use with `--suffix` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build:
    - Switch to semver compliant version tags to be go modules compliant (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update to use go1.12.x for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve dlna: Add connection manager service description to improve compatibility (Dan Walters)
  - lsf: Add 'e' format to show encrypted names and 'o' for original IDs (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Added `--files-only` and `--dirs-only` flags (calistri)
  - rc: Implement operations/publiclink the equivalent of `rclone link` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting: Fix total ETA when `--stats-unit bits` is in effect (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Bash TAB completion
    - Use private custom func to fix clash between rclone and kubectl (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix for remotes with underscores in their names (Six)
    - Fix completion of remotes (Florian Gamböck)
    - Fix autocompletion of remote paths with spaces (Danil Semelenov)
  - serve dlna: Fix root XML service descriptor (Dan Walters)
  - ncdu: Fix display corruption with Chinese characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add SIGTERM to signals which run the exit handlers on unix (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc: Reload filter when the options are set via the rc (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS / Mount
  - Fix FreeBSD: Ignore Truncate if called with no readers and already the correct size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Read directory and check for a file before mkdir (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Shorten the locking window for vfs/refresh (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Enable MD5 checksums when uploading files bigger than the "Cutoff" (Dr.Rx)
  - Fix SAS URL support (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Allow manual configuration of backblaze downloadUrl (Vince)
  - Ignore already_hidden error on remove (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore malformed `src_last_modified_millis` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add `--skip-checksum-gphotos` to ignore incorrect checksums on Google Photos (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Allow server-side move/copy between different remotes. (Fionera)
  - Add docs on team drives and `--fast-list` eventual consistency (Nestar47)
  - Fix imports of text files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix range requests on 0 length files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix creation of duplicates with server-side copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Retry blank errors to fix long listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Add `--ftp-concurrency` to limit maximum number of connections (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fall back to default application credentials (marcintustin)
  - Allow bucket policy only buckets (Nick Craig-Wood)
- HTTP
  - Add `--http-no-slash` for websites with directories with no slashes (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove duplicates from listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix socket leak on 404 errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix token refresh (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Add device registration (Oliver Heyme)
- Onedrive
  - Implement graceful cancel of multipart uploads if rclone is interrupted (Cnly)
  - Always add trailing colon to path when addressing items, (Cnly)
  - Return errors instead of panic for invalid uploads (Fabian Möller)
- S3
  - Add support for "Glacier Deep Archive" storage class (Manu)
  - Update Dreamhost endpoint (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Note incompatibility with CEPH Jewel (Nick Craig-Wood)
- SFTP
  - Allow custom ssh client config (Alexandru Bumbacea)
- Swift
  - Obey Retry-After to enable OVH restore from cold storage (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Work around token expiry on CEPH (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Allow IsCollection property to be integer or boolean (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix race when creating directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix About/df when reading the available/total returns 0 (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.46 - 2019-02-09

- New backends
  - Support Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) OSS via the s3 backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New commands
  - serve dlna: serves a remove via DLNA for the local network (nicolov)
- New Features
  - copy, move: Restore deprecated `--no-traverse` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This is useful for when transferring a small number of files into a large destination
  - genautocomplete: Add remote path completion for bash completion (Christopher Peterson & Danil Semelenov)
  - Buffer memory handling reworked to return memory to the OS better (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Buffer recycling library to replace sync.Pool
    - Optionally use memory mapped memory for better memory shrinking
    - Enable with `--use-mmap` if having memory problems - not default yet
  - Parallelise reading of files specified by `--files-from` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - check: Add stats showing total files matched. (Dario Guzik)
  - Allow rename/delete open files under Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - lsjson: Use exactly the correct number of decimal places in the seconds (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add cookie support with cmdline switch `--use-cookies` for all HTTP based remotes (qip)
  - Warn if `--checksum` is set but there are no hashes available (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Rework rate limiting (pacer) to be more accurate and allow bursting (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Improve error reporting for too many/few arguments in commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - listremotes: Remove `-l` short flag as it conflicts with the new global flag (weetmuts)
  - Make http serving with auth generate INFO messages on auth fail (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix layout of stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix `--progress` crash under Windows Jenkins (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix transfer of google/onedrive docs by calling Rcat in Copy when size is -1 (Cnly)
  - copyurl: Fix checking of `--dry-run` (Denis Skovpen)
- Mount
  - Check that mountpoint and local directory to mount don't overlap (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix mount size under 32 bit Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Implement renaming of directories for backends without DirMove (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - now all backends except b2 support renaming directories
  - Implement `--vfs-cache-max-size` to limit the total size of the cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--dir-perms` and `--file-perms` flags to set default permissions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix deadlock on concurrent operations on a directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix deadlock between RWFileHandle.close and File.Remove (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix renaming/deleting open files with cache mode "writes" under Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix panic on rename with `--dry-run` set (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix vfs/refresh with recurse=true needing the `--fast-list` flag
- Local
  - Add support for `-l`/`--links` (symbolic link translation) (yair@unicorn)
    - this works by showing links as `link.rclonelink` - see local backend docs for more info
    - this errors if used with `-L`/`--copy-links`
  - Fix renaming/deleting open files on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Check for maximum length before decrypting filename to fix panic (Garry McNulty)
- Azure Blob
  - Allow building azureblob backend on *BSD (themylogin)
  - Use the rclone HTTP client to support `--dump headers`, `--tpslimit`, etc. (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Use the s3 pacer for 0 delay in non error conditions (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Ignore directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Stop Mkdir attempting to create existing containers (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - cleanup: will remove unfinished large files >24hrs old (Garry McNulty)
  - For a bucket limited application key check the bucket name (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - before this, rclone would use the authorised bucket regardless of what you put on the command line
  - Added `--b2-disable-checksum` flag (Wojciech Smigielski)
    - this enables large files to be uploaded without a SHA-1 hash for speed reasons
- Drive
  - Set default pacer to 100ms for 10 tps (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This fits the Google defaults much better and reduces the 403 errors massively
    - Add `--drive-pacer-min-sleep` and `--drive-pacer-burst` to control the pacer
  - Improve ChangeNotify support for items with multiple parents (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix ListR for items with multiple parents - this fixes oddities with `vfs/refresh` (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix using `--drive-impersonate` and appfolders (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix google docs in rclone mount for some (not all) applications (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Retry-After support for Dropbox backend (Mathieu Carbou)
- FTP
  - Wait for 60 seconds for a connection to Close then declare it dead (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - helps with indefinite hangs on some FTP servers
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Update google cloud storage endpoints (weetmuts)
- HTTP
  - Add an example with username and password which is supported but wasn't documented (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix backend with `--files-from` and nonexistent files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Hubic
  - Make error message more informative if authentication fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Resume and deduplication support (Oliver Heyme)
  - Use token auth for all API requests Don't store password anymore (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Add support for 2-factor authentication (Sebastian Bünger)
- Mega
  - Implement v2 account login which fixes logins for newer Mega accounts (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Return error if an unknown length file is attempted to be uploaded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add new error codes for better error reporting (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Fix broken support for "shared with me" folders (Alex Chen)
  - Fix root ID not normalised (Cnly)
  - Return err instead of panic on unknown-sized uploads (Cnly)
- Qingstor
  - Fix go routine leak on multipart upload errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add upload chunk size/concurrency/cutoff control (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Default `--qingstor-upload-concurrency` to 1 to work around bug (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Implement `--s3-upload-cutoff` for single part uploads below this (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Change `--s3-upload-concurrency` default to 4 to increase performance (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-bucket-acl` to control bucket ACL (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Auto detect region for buckets on operation failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add GLACIER storage class (William Cocker)
  - Add Scaleway to s3 documentation (Rémy Léone)
  - Add AWS endpoint eu-north-1 (weetmuts)
- SFTP
  - Add support for PEM encrypted private keys (Fabian Möller)
  - Add option to force the usage of an ssh-agent (Fabian Möller)
  - Perform environment variable expansion on key-file (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix rmdir on Windows based servers (e.g. CrushFTP) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix rmdir deleting directory contents on some SFTP servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix error on dangling symlinks (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Add `--swift-no-chunk` to disable segmented uploads in rcat/mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Introduce application credential auth support (kayrus)
  - Fix memory usage by slimming Object (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix extra requests on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix reauth on big files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Fix poll-interval not working (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Support About which means rclone mount will show the correct disk size (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Support MD5 and SHA1 hashes with Owncloud and Nextcloud (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fail soft on time parsing errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix infinite loop on failed directory creation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix identification of directories for Bitrix Site Manager (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix upload of 0 length files on some servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix if MKCOL fails with 423 Locked assume the directory exists (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.45 - 2018-11-24

- New backends
  - The Yandex backend was re-written - see below for details (Sebastian Bünger)
- New commands
  - rcd: New command just to serve the remote control API (Nick Craig-Wood)
- New Features
  - The remote control API (rc) was greatly expanded to allow full control over rclone (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - sensitive operations require authorization or the `--rc-no-auth` flag
    - config/* operations to configure rclone
    - options/* for reading/setting command line flags
    - operations/* for all low level operations, e.g. copy file, list directory
    - sync/* for sync, copy and move
    - `--rc-files` flag to serve files on the rc http server
      - this is for building web native GUIs for rclone
    - Optionally serving objects on the rc http server
    - Ensure rclone fails to start up if the `--rc` port is in use already
    - See [the rc docs](https://rclone.org/rc/) for more info
  - sync/copy/move
    - Make `--files-from` only read the objects specified and don't scan directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
      - This is a huge speed improvement for destinations with lots of files
  - filter: Add `--ignore-case` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - ncdu: Add remove function ('d' key) (Henning Surmeier)
  - rc command
    - Add `--json` flag for structured JSON input (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--user` and `--pass` flags and interpret `--rc-user`, `--rc-pass`, `--rc-addr` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Require go1.8 or later for compilation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Enable softfloat on MIPS arch (Scott Edlund)
    - Integration test framework revamped with a better report and better retries (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - cmd: Make `--progress` update the stats correctly at the end (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: Create config directory on save if it is missing (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - dedupe: Check for existing filename before renaming a dupe file (ssaqua)
  - move: Don't create directories with `--dry-run` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - operations: Fix Purge and Rmdirs when dir is not the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - serve http/webdav/restic: Ensure rclone exits if the port is in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Mount
  - Make `--volname` work for Windows and macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Avoid context deadline exceeded error by setting a large TryTimeout value (brused27)
  - Fix erroneous Rmdir error "directory not empty" (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Wait for up to 60s to create a just deleted container (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Dropbox
  - Add dropbox impersonate support (Jake Coggiano)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix bug in `--fast-list` handing of empty folders (albertony)
- Opendrive
  - Fix transfer of files with `+` and `&` in (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix retries of upload chunks (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Set ACL for server-side copies to that provided by the user (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix role_arn, credential_source, ... (Erik Swanson)
  - Add config info for Wasabi's US-West endpoint (Henry Ptasinski)
- SFTP
  - Ensure file hash checking is really disabled (Jon Fautley)
- Swift
  - Add pacer for retries to make swift more reliable (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Add Content-Type to PUT requests (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix config parsing so `--webdav-user` and `--webdav-pass` flags work (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add RFC3339 date format (Ralf Hemberger)
- Yandex
  - The yandex backend was re-written (Sebastian Bünger)
    - This implements low level retries (Sebastian Bünger)
    - Copy, Move, DirMove, PublicLink and About optional interfaces (Sebastian Bünger)
    - Improved general error handling (Sebastian Bünger)
    - Removed ListR for now due to inconsistent behaviour (Sebastian Bünger)

## v1.44 - 2018-10-15

- New commands
  - serve ftp: Add ftp server (Antoine GIRARD)
  - settier: perform storage tier changes on supported remotes (sandeepkru)
- New Features
  - Reworked command line help
    - Make default help less verbose (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Split flags up into global and backend flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Implement specialised help for flags and backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Show URL of backend help page when starting config (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - stats: Long names now split in center (Joanna Marek)
  - Add `--log-format` flag for more control over log output (dcpu)
  - rc: Add support for OPTIONS and basic CORS (frenos)
  - stats: show FatalErrors and NoRetryErrors in stats (Cédric Connes)
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix -P not ending with a new line (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: don't create default config dir when user supplies `--config` (albertony)
  - Don't print non-ASCII characters with `--progress` on windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Correct logs for excluded items (ssaqua)
- Mount
  - Remove EXPERIMENTAL tags (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Fix race condition detected by serve ftp tests (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add vfs/poll-interval rc command (Fabian Möller)
  - Enable rename for nearly all remotes using server-side Move or Copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Reduce directory cache cleared by poll-interval (Fabian Möller)
  - Remove EXPERIMENTAL tags (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Local
  - Skip bad symlinks in dir listing with -L enabled (Cédric Connes)
  - Preallocate files on Windows to reduce fragmentation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Preallocate files on linux with fallocate(2) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Add cache/fetch rc function (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix worker scale down (Fabian Möller)
  - Improve performance by not sending info requests for cached chunks (dcpu)
  - Fix error return value of cache/fetch rc method (Fabian Möller)
  - Documentation fix for cache-chunk-total-size (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
  - Preserve leading / in wrapped remote path (Fabian Möller)
  - Add plex_insecure option to skip certificate validation (Fabian Möller)
  - Remove entries that no longer exist in the source (dcpu)
- Crypt
  - Preserve leading / in wrapped remote path (Fabian Möller)
- Alias
  - Fix handling of Windows network paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Add `--azureblob-list-chunk` parameter (Santiago Rodríguez)
  - Implemented settier command support on azureblob remote. (sandeepkru)
  - Work around SDK bug which causes errors for chunk-sized files (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Implement link sharing. (Sebastian Bünger)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-import-formats` - google docs can now be imported (Fabian Möller)
    - Rewrite mime type and extension handling (Fabian Möller)
    - Add document links (Fabian Möller)
    - Add support for multipart document extensions (Fabian Möller)
    - Add support for apps-script to json export (Fabian Möller)
    - Fix escaped chars in documents during list (Fabian Möller)
  - Add `--drive-v2-download-min-size` a workaround for slow downloads (Fabian Möller)
  - Improve directory notifications in ChangeNotify (Fabian Möller)
  - When listing team drives in config, continue on failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
- FTP
  - Add a small pause after failed upload before deleting file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix service_account_file being ignored (Fabian Möller)
- Jottacloud
  - Minor improvement in quota info (omit if unlimited) (albertony)
  - Add `--fast-list` support (albertony)
  - Add permanent delete support: `--jottacloud-hard-delete` (albertony)
  - Add link sharing support (albertony)
  - Fix handling of reserved characters. (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Fix socket leak on Object.Remove (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Rework to support Microsoft Graph (Cnly)
    - **NB** this will require re-authenticating the remote
  - Removed upload cutoff and always do session uploads (Oliver Heyme)
  - Use single-part upload for empty files (Cnly)
  - Fix new fields not saved when editing old config (Alex Chen)
  - Fix sometimes special chars in filenames not replaced (Alex Chen)
  - Ignore OneNote files by default (Alex Chen)
  - Add link sharing support (jackyzy823)
- S3
  - Use custom pacer, to retry operations when reasonable (Craig Miskell)
  - Use configured server-side-encryption and storage class options when calling CopyObject() (Paul Kohout)
  - Make `--s3-v2-auth` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix v2 auth on files with spaces (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Union
  - Implement union backend which reads from multiple backends (Felix Brucker)
  - Implement optional interfaces (Move, DirMove, Copy, etc.) (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix ChangeNotify to support multiple remotes (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix `--backup-dir` on union backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Add another time format (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add a small pause after failed upload before deleting file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add workaround for missing mtime (buergi)
  - Sharepoint: Renew cookies after 12hrs (Henning Surmeier)
- Yandex
  - Remove redundant nil checks (teresy)

## v1.43.1 - 2018-09-07

Point release to fix hubic and azureblob backends.

- Bug Fixes
  - ncdu: Return error instead of log.Fatal in Show (Fabian Möller)
  - cmd: Fix crash with `--progress` and `--stats 0` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - docs: Tidy website display (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Azure Blob:
  - Fix multi-part uploads. (sandeepkru)
- Hubic
  - Fix uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Retry auth fetching if it fails to make hubic more reliable (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.43 - 2018-09-01

- New backends
  - Jottacloud (Sebastian Bünger)
- New commands
  - copyurl: copies a URL to a remote (Denis)
- New Features
  - Reworked config for backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - All backend config can now be supplied by command line, env var or config file
    - Advanced section in the config wizard for the optional items
    - A large step towards rclone backends being usable in other go software
    - Allow on the fly remotes with :backend: syntax
  - Stats revamp
    - Add `--progress`/`-P` flag to show interactive progress (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Show the total progress of the sync in the stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Add `--stats-one-line` flag for single line stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Added weekday schedule into `--bwlimit` (Mateusz)
  - lsjson: Add option to show the original object IDs (Fabian Möller)
  - serve webdav: Make Content-Type without reading the file and add `--etag-hash` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - build
    - Build macOS with native compiler (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Update to use go1.11 for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - rc
    - Added core/stats to return the stats (reddi1)
  - `version --check`: Prints the current release and beta versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Bug Fixes
  - accounting
    - Fix time to completion estimates (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - Fix moving average speed for file stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - config: Fix error reading password from piped input (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - move: Fix `--delete-empty-src-dirs` flag to delete all empty dirs on move (ishuah)
- Mount
  - Implement `--daemon-timeout` flag for OSXFUSE (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix mount `--daemon` not working with encrypted config (Alex Chen)
  - Clip the number of blocks to 2^32-1 on macOS - fixes borg backup (Nick Craig-Wood)
- VFS
  - Enable vfs-read-chunk-size by default (Fabian Möller)
  - Add the vfs/refresh rc command (Fabian Möller)
  - Add non recursive mode to vfs/refresh rc command (Fabian Möller)
  - Try to seek buffer on read only files (Fabian Möller)
- Local
  - Fix crash when deprecated `--local-no-unicode-normalization` is supplied (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix mkdir error when trying to copy files to the root of a drive on windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Cache
  - Fix nil pointer deref when using lsjson on cached directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix nil pointer deref for occasional crash on playback (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Crypt
  - Fix accounting when checking hashes on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Amazon Cloud Drive
  - Make very clear in the docs that rclone has no ACD keys (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Azure Blob
  - Add connection string and SAS URL auth (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - List the container to see if it exists (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Port new Azure Blob Storage SDK (sandeepkru)
  - Added blob tier, tier between Hot, Cool and Archive. (sandeepkru)
  - Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- B2
  - Support Application Keys (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Box
  - Fix upload of > 2GB files on 32 bit platforms (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Make `--box-commit-retries` flag defaulting to 100 to fix large uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-keep-revision-forever` flag (lewapm)
  - Handle gdocs when filtering file names in list (Fabian Möller)
  - Support using `--fast-list` for large speedups (Fabian Möller)
- FTP
  - Fix Put mkParentDir failed: 521 for BunnyCDN (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix index out of range error with `--fast-list` (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Jottacloud
  - Fix MD5 error check (Oliver Heyme)
  - Handle empty time values (Martin Polden)
  - Calculate missing MD5s (Oliver Heyme)
  - Docs, fixes and tests for MD5 calculation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add optional MimeTyper interface. (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Implement optional About interface (for `df` support). (Sebastian Bünger)
- Mega
  - Wait for events instead of arbitrary sleeping (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--mega-hard-delete` flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix failed logins with upper case chars in email (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Onedrive
  - Shared folder support (Yoni Jah)
  - Implement DirMove (Cnly)
  - Fix rmdir sometimes deleting directories with contents (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Pcloud
  - Delete half uploaded files on upload error (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Qingstor
  - Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- S3
  - Fix index out of range error with `--fast-list` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add `--s3-force-path-style` (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add support for KMS Key ID (bsteiss)
  - Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Swift
  - Add `storage_policy` (Ruben Vandamme)
  - Make it so just `storage_url` or `auth_token` can be overridden (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix server-side copy bug for unusual file names (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
- WebDAV
  - Ensure we call MKCOL with a URL with a trailing / for QNAP interop (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - If root ends with / then don't check if it is a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Don't accept redirects when reading metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add bearer token (Macaroon) support for dCache (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Document dCache and Macaroons (Onno Zweers)
  - Sharepoint recursion with different depth (Henning)
  - Attempt to remove failed uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Yandex
  - Fix listing/deleting files in the root (Nick Craig-Wood)

## v1.42 - 2018-06-16

- New backends
  - OpenDrive (Oliver Heyme, Jakub Karlicek, ncw)
- New commands
  - deletefile command (Filip Bartodziej)
- New Features
  - copy, move: Copy single files directly, don't use `--files-from` work-around
    - this makes them much more efficient
  - Implement `--max-transfer` flag to quit transferring at a limit
    - make exit code 8 for `--max-transfer` exceeded
  - copy: copy empty source directories to destination (Ishuah Kariuki)
  - check: Add `--one-way` flag (Kasper Byrdal Nielsen)
  - Add siginfo handler for macOS for ctrl-T stats (kubatasiemski)
  - rc
    - add core/gc to run a garbage collection on demand
    - enable go profiling by default on the `--rc` port
    - return error from remote on failure
  - lsf
    - Add `--absolute` flag to add a leading / onto path names
    - Add `--csv` flag for compliant CSV output
    - Add 'm' format specifier to show the MimeType
    - Implement 'i' format for showing object ID
  - lsjson
    - Add MimeType to the output
    - Add ID field to output to show Object ID
  - Add `--retries-sleep` flag (Benjamin Joseph Dag)
  - Oauth tidy up web page and error handling (Henning Surmeier)
- Bug Fixes
  - Password prompt output with `--log-file` fixed for unix (Filip Bartodziej)
  - Calculate ModifyWindow each time on the fly to fix various problems (Stefan Breunig)
- Mount
  - Only print "File.rename error" if there actually is an error (Stefan Breunig)
  - Delay rename if file has open writers instead of failing outright (Stefan Breunig)
  - Ensure atexit gets run on interrupt
  - macOS enhancements
    - Make `--noappledouble` `--noapplexattr`
    - Add `--volname` flag and remove special chars from it
    - Make Get/List/Set/Remove xattr return ENOSYS for efficiency
    - Make `--daemon` work for macOS without CGO
- VFS
  - Add `--vfs-read-chunk-size` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit` (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix ChangeNotify for new or changed folders (Fabian Möller)
- Local
  - Fix symlink/junction point directory handling under Windows
    - **NB** you will need to add `-L` to your command line to copy files with reparse points
- Cache
  - Add non cached dirs on notifications (Remus Bunduc)
  - Allow root to be expired from rc (Remus Bunduc)
  - Clean remaining empty folders from temp upload path (Remus Bunduc)
  - Cache lists using batch writes (Remus Bunduc)
  - Use secure websockets for HTTPS Plex addresses (John Clayton)
  - Reconnect plex websocket on failures (Remus Bunduc)
  - Fix panic when running without plex configs (Remus Bunduc)
  - Fix root folder caching (Remus Bunduc)
- Crypt
  - Check the encrypted hash of files when uploading for extra data security
- Dropbox
  - Make Dropbox for business folders accessible using an initial `/` in the path
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Low level retry all operations if necessary
- Google Drive
  - Add `--drive-acknowledge-abuse` to download flagged files
  - Add `--drive-alternate-export` to fix large doc export
  - Don't attempt to choose Team Drives when using rclone config create
  - Fix change list polling with team drives
  - Fix ChangeNotify for folders (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix about (and df on a mount) for team drives
- Onedrive
  - Errorhandler for onedrive for business requests (Henning Surmeier)
- S3
  - Adjust upload concurrency with `--s3-upload-concurrency` (themylogin)
  - Fix `--s3-chunk-size` which was always using the minimum
- SFTP
  - Add `--ssh-path-override` flag (Piotr Oleszczyk)
  - Fix slow downloads for long latency connections
- Webdav
  - Add workarounds for biz.mail.ru
  - Ignore Reason-Phrase in status line to fix 4shared (Rodrigo)
  - Better error message generation

## v1.41 - 2018-04-28

- New backends
  - Mega support added
  - Webdav now supports SharePoint cookie authentication (hensur)
- New commands
  - link: create public link to files and folders (Stefan Breunig)
  - about: gets quota info from a remote (a-roussos, ncw)
  - hashsum: a generic tool for any hash to produce md5sum like output
- New Features
  - lsd: Add -R flag and fix and update docs for all ls commands
  - ncdu: added a "refresh" key - CTRL-L (Keith Goldfarb)
  - serve restic: Add append-only mode (Steve Kriss)
  - serve restic: Disallow overwriting files in append-only mode (Alexander Neumann)
  - serve restic: Print actual listener address (Matt Holt)
  - size: Add --json flag (Matthew Holt)
  - sync: implement --ignore-errors (Mateusz Pabian)
  - dedupe: Add dedupe largest functionality (Richard Yang)
  - fs: Extend SizeSuffix to include TB and PB for rclone about
  - fs: add --dump goroutines and --dump openfiles for debugging
  - rc: implement core/memstats to print internal memory usage info
  - rc: new call rc/pid (Michael P. Dubner)
- Compile
  - Drop support for go1.6
- Release
  - Fix `make tarball` (Chih-Hsuan Yen)
- Bug Fixes
  - filter: fix --min-age and --max-age together check
  - fs: limit MaxIdleConns and MaxIdleConnsPerHost in transport
  - lsd,lsf: make sure all times we output are in local time
  - rc: fix setting bwlimit to unlimited
  - rc: take note of the --rc-addr flag too as per the docs
- Mount
  - Use About to return the correct disk total/used/free (e.g. in `df`)
  - Set `--attr-timeout default` to `1s` - fixes:
    - rclone using too much memory
    - rclone not serving files to samba
    - excessive time listing directories
  - Fix `df -i` (upstream fix)
- VFS
  - Filter files `.` and `..` from directory listing
  - Only make the VFS cache if --vfs-cache-mode > Off
- Local
  - Add --local-no-check-updated to disable updated file checks
  - Retry remove on Windows sharing violation error
- Cache
  - Flush the memory cache after close
  - Purge file data on notification
  - Always forget parent dir for notifications
  - Integrate with Plex websocket
  - Add rc cache/stats (seuffert)
  - Add info log on notification
- Box
  - Fix failure reading large directories - parse file/directory size as float
- Dropbox
  - Fix crypt+obfuscate on dropbox
  - Fix repeatedly uploading the same files
- FTP
  - Work around strange response from box FTP server
  - More workarounds for FTP servers to fix mkParentDir error
  - Fix no error on listing nonexistent directory
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add service_account_credentials (Matt Holt)
  - Detect bucket presence by listing it - minimises permissions needed
  - Ignore zero length directory markers
- Google Drive
  - Add service_account_credentials (Matt Holt)
  - Fix directory move leaving a hardlinked directory behind
  - Return proper google errors when Opening files
  - When initialized with a filepath, optional features used incorrect root path (Stefan Breunig)
- HTTP
  - Fix sync for servers which don't return Content-Length in HEAD
- Onedrive
  - Add QuickXorHash support for OneDrive for business
  - Fix socket leak in multipart session upload
- S3
  - Look in S3 named profile files for credentials
  - Add `--s3-disable-checksum` to disable checksum uploading (Chris Redekop)
  - Hierarchical configuration support (Giri Badanahatti)
  - Add in config for all the supported S3 providers
  - Add One Zone Infrequent Access storage class (Craig Rachel)
  - Add --use-server-modtime support (Peter Baumgartner)
  - Add --s3-chunk-size option to control multipart uploads
  - Ignore zero length directory markers
- SFTP
  - Update docs to match code, fix typos and clarify disable_hashcheck prompt (Michael G. Noll)
  - Update docs with Synology quirks
  - Fail soft with a debug on hash failure
- Swift
  - Add --use-server-modtime support (Peter Baumgartner)
- Webdav
  - Support SharePoint cookie authentication (hensur)
  - Strip leading and trailing / off root

## v1.40 - 2018-03-19

- New backends
  - Alias backend to create aliases for existing remote names (Fabian Möller)
- New commands
  - `lsf`: list for parsing purposes (Jakub Tasiemski)
    - by default this is a simple non recursive list of files and directories
    - it can be configured to add more info in an easy to parse way
  - `serve restic`: for serving a remote as a Restic REST endpoint
    - This enables restic to use any backends that rclone can access
    - Thanks Alexander Neumann for help, patches and review
  - `rc`: enable the remote control of a running rclone
    - The running rclone must be started with --rc and related flags.
    - Currently there is support for bwlimit, and flushing for mount and cache.
- New Features
  - `--max-delete` flag to add a delete threshold (Bjørn Erik Pedersen)
  - All backends now support RangeOption for ranged Open
    - `cat`: Use RangeOption for limited fetches to make more efficient
    - `cryptcheck`: make reading of nonce more efficient with RangeOption
  - serve http/webdav/restic
    - support SSL/TLS
    - add `--user` `--pass` and `--htpasswd` for authentication
  - `copy`/`move`: detect file size change during copy/move and abort transfer (ishuah)
  - `cryptdecode`: added option to return encrypted file names. (ishuah)
  - `lsjson`: add `--encrypted` to show encrypted name (Jakub Tasiemski)
  - Add `--stats-file-name-length` to specify the printed file name length for stats (Will Gunn)
- Compile
  - Code base was shuffled and factored
    - backends moved into a backend directory
    - large packages split up
    - See the CONTRIBUTING.md doc for info as to what lives where now
  - Update to using go1.10 as the default go version
  - Implement daily [full integration tests](https://pub.rclone.org/integration-tests/)
- Release
  - Include a source tarball and sign it and the binaries
  - Sign the git tags as part of the release process
  - Add .deb and .rpm packages as part of the build
  - Make a beta release for all branches on the main repo (but not pull requests)
- Bug Fixes
  - config: fixes errors on nonexistent config by loading config file only on first access
  - config: retry saving the config after failure (Mateusz)
  - sync: when using `--backup-dir` don't delete files if we can't set their modtime
    - this fixes odd behaviour with Dropbox and `--backup-dir`
  - fshttp: fix idle timeouts for HTTP connections
  - `serve http`: fix serving files with : in - fixes
  - Fix `--exclude-if-present` to ignore directories which it doesn't have permission for (Iakov Davydov)
  - Make accounting work properly with crypt and b2
  - remove `--no-traverse` flag because it is obsolete
- Mount
  - Add `--attr-timeout` flag to control attribute caching in kernel
    - this now defaults to 0 which is correct but less efficient
    - see [the mount docs](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#attribute-caching) for more info
  - Add `--daemon` flag to allow mount to run in the background (ishuah)
  - Fix: Return ENOSYS rather than EIO on attempted link
    - This fixes FileZilla accessing an rclone mount served over sftp.
  - Fix setting modtime twice
  - Mount tests now run on CI for Linux (mount & cmount)/Mac/Windows
  - Many bugs fixed in the VFS layer - see below
- VFS
  - Many fixes for `--vfs-cache-mode` writes and above
    - Update cached copy if we know it has changed (fixes stale data)
    - Clean path names before using them in the cache
    - Disable cache cleaner if `--vfs-cache-poll-interval=0`
    - Fill and clean the cache immediately on startup
  - Fix Windows opening every file when it stats the file
  - Fix applying modtime for an open Write Handle
  - Fix creation of files when truncating
  - Write 0 bytes when flushing unwritten handles to avoid race conditions in FUSE
  - Downgrade "poll-interval is not supported" message to Info
  - Make OpenFile and friends return EINVAL if O_RDONLY and O_TRUNC
- Local
  - Downgrade "invalid cross-device link: trying copy" to debug
  - Make DirMove return fs.ErrorCantDirMove to allow fallback to Copy for cross device
  - Fix race conditions updating the hashes
- Cache
  - Add support for polling - cache will update when remote changes on supported backends
  - Reduce log level for Plex api
  - Fix dir cache issue
  - Implement `--cache-db-wait-time` flag
  - Improve efficiency with RangeOption and RangeSeek
  - Fix dirmove with temp fs enabled
  - Notify vfs when using temp fs
  - Offline uploading
  - Remote control support for path flushing
- Amazon cloud drive
  - Rclone no longer has any working keys - disable integration tests
  - Implement DirChangeNotify to notify cache/vfs/mount of changes
- Azureblob
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
  - Improve accounting for chunked uploads
- Backblaze B2
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- Box
  - Improve accounting for chunked uploads
- Dropbox
  - Fix custom oauth client parameters
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- Google Drive
  - Migrate to api v3 (Fabian Möller)
  - Add scope configuration and root folder selection
  - Add `--drive-impersonate` for service accounts
    - thanks to everyone who tested, explored and contributed docs
  - Add `--drive-use-created-date` to use created date as modified date (nbuchanan)
  - Request the export formats only when required
    - This makes rclone quicker when there are no google docs
  - Fix finding paths with latin1 chars (a workaround for a drive bug)
  - Fix copying of a single Google doc file
  - Fix `--drive-auth-owner-only` to look in all directories
- HTTP
  - Fix handling of directories with & in
- Onedrive
  - Removed upload cutoff and always do session uploads
    - this stops the creation of multiple versions on business onedrive
  - Overwrite object size value with real size when reading file. (Victor)
    - this fixes oddities when onedrive misreports the size of images
- Pcloud
  - Remove unused chunked upload flag and code
- Qingstor
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- S3
  - Support hashes for multipart files (Chris Redekop)
  - Initial support for IBM COS (S3) (Giri Badanahatti)
  - Update docs to discourage use of v2 auth with CEPH and others
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
  - Fix server-side copy and set modtime on files with + in
- SFTP
  - Add option to disable remote hash check command execution (Jon Fautley)
  - Add `--sftp-ask-password` flag to prompt for password when needed (Leo R. Lundgren)
  - Add `set_modtime` configuration option
  - Fix following of symlinks
  - Fix reading config file outside of Fs setup
  - Fix reading $USER in username fallback not $HOME
  - Fix running under crontab - Use correct OS way of reading username
- Swift
  - Fix refresh of authentication token
    - in v1.39 a bug was introduced which ignored new tokens - this fixes it
  - Fix extra HEAD transaction when uploading a new file
  - Don't check for bucket/container presence if listing was OK
    - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- Webdav
  - Add new time formats to support mydrive.ch and others

## v1.39 - 2017-12-23

- New backends
  - WebDAV
    - tested with nextcloud, owncloud, put.io and others!
  - Pcloud
  - cache - wraps a cache around other backends (Remus Bunduc)
    - useful in combination with mount
    - NB this feature is in beta so use with care
- New commands
  - serve command with subcommands:
    - serve webdav: this implements a webdav server for any rclone remote.
    - serve http: command to serve a remote over HTTP
  - config: add sub commands for full config file management
    - create/delete/dump/edit/file/password/providers/show/update
  - touch: to create or update the timestamp of a file (Jakub Tasiemski)
- New Features
  - curl install for rclone (Filip Bartodziej)
  - --stats now shows percentage, size, rate and ETA in condensed form (Ishuah Kariuki)
  - --exclude-if-present to exclude a directory if a file is present (Iakov Davydov)
  - rmdirs: add --leave-root flag (lewapm)
  - move: add --delete-empty-src-dirs flag to remove dirs after move (Ishuah Kariuki)
  - Add --dump flag, introduce --dump requests, responses and remove --dump-auth, --dump-filters
    - Obscure X-Auth-Token: from headers when dumping too
  - Document and implement exit codes for different failure modes (Ishuah Kariuki)
- Compile
- Bug Fixes
  - Retry lots more different types of errors to make multipart transfers more reliable
  - Save the config before asking for a token, fixes disappearing oauth config
  - Warn the user if --include and --exclude are used together (Ernest Borowski)
  - Fix duplicate files (e.g. on Google drive) causing spurious copies
  - Allow trailing and leading whitespace for passwords (Jason Rose)
  - ncdu: fix crashes on empty directories
  - rcat: fix goroutine leak
  - moveto/copyto: Fix to allow copying to the same name
- Mount
  - --vfs-cache mode to make writes into mounts more reliable.
    - this requires caching files on the disk (see --cache-dir)
    - As this is a new feature, use with care
  - Use sdnotify to signal systemd the mount is ready (Fabian Möller)
  - Check if directory is not empty before mounting (Ernest Borowski)
- Local
  - Add error message for cross file system moves
  - Fix equality check for times
- Dropbox
  - Rework multipart upload
    - buffer the chunks when uploading large files so they can be retried
    - change default chunk size to 48MB now we are buffering them in memory
    - retry every error after the first chunk is done successfully
  - Fix error when renaming directories
- Swift
  - Fix crash on bad authentication
- Google Drive
  - Add service account support (Tim Cooijmans)
- S3
  - Make it work properly with Digital Ocean Spaces (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio)
  - Fix crash if a bad listing is received
  - Add support for ECS task IAM roles (David Minor)
- Backblaze B2
  - Fix multipart upload retries
  - Fix --hard-delete to make it work 100% of the time
- Swift
  - Allow authentication with storage URL and auth key (Giovanni Pizzi)
  - Add new fields for swift configuration to support IBM Bluemix Swift (Pierre Carlson)
  - Add OS_TENANT_ID and OS_USER_ID to config
  - Allow configs with user id instead of user name
  - Check if swift segments container exists before creating (John Leach)
  - Fix memory leak in swift transfers (upstream fix)
- SFTP
  - Add option to enable the use of aes128-cbc cipher (Jon Fautley)
- Amazon cloud drive
  - Fix download of large files failing with "Only one auth mechanism allowed"
- crypt
  - Option to encrypt directory names or leave them intact
  - Implement DirChangeNotify (Fabian Möller)
- onedrive
  - Add option to choose resourceURL during setup of OneDrive Business account if more than one is available for user

## v1.38 - 2017-09-30

- New backends
  - Azure Blob Storage (thanks Andrei Dragomir)
  - Box
  - Onedrive for Business (thanks Oliver Heyme)
  - QingStor from QingCloud (thanks wuyu)
- New commands
  - `rcat` - read from standard input and stream upload
  - `tree` - shows a nicely formatted recursive listing
  - `cryptdecode` - decode encrypted file names (thanks ishuah)
  - `config show` - print the config file
  - `config file` - print the config file location
- New Features
  - Empty directories are deleted on `sync`
  - `dedupe` - implement merging of duplicate directories
  - `check` and `cryptcheck` made more consistent and use less memory
  - `cleanup` for remaining remotes (thanks ishuah)
  - `--immutable` for ensuring that files don't change (thanks Jacob McNamee)
  - `--user-agent` option (thanks Alex McGrath Kraak)
  - `--disable` flag to disable optional features
  - `--bind` flag for choosing the local addr on outgoing connections
  - Support for zsh auto-completion (thanks bpicode)
  - Stop normalizing file names but do a normalized compare in `sync`
- Compile
  - Update to using go1.9 as the default go version
  - Remove snapd build due to maintenance problems
- Bug Fixes
  - Improve retriable error detection which makes multipart uploads better
  - Make `check` obey `--ignore-size`
  - Fix bwlimit toggle in conjunction with schedules (thanks cbruegg)
  - `config` ensures newly written config is on the same mount
- Local
  - Revert to copy when moving file across file system boundaries
  - `--skip-links` to suppress symlink warnings (thanks Zhiming Wang)
- Mount
  - Reuse `rcat` internals to support uploads from all remotes
- Dropbox
  - Fix "entry doesn't belong in directory" error
  - Stop using deprecated API methods
- Swift
  - Fix server-side copy to empty container with `--fast-list`
- Google Drive
  - Change the default for `--drive-use-trash` to `true`
- S3
  - Set session token when using STS (thanks Girish Ramakrishnan)
  - Glacier docs and error messages (thanks Jan Varho)
  - Read 1000 (not 1024) items in dir listings to fix Wasabi
- Backblaze B2
  - Fix SHA1 mismatch when downloading files with no SHA1
  - Calculate missing hashes on the fly instead of spooling
  - `--b2-hard-delete` to permanently delete (not hide) files (thanks John Papandriopoulos)
- Hubic
  - Fix creating containers - no longer have to use the `default` container
- Swift
  - Optionally configure from a standard set of OpenStack environment vars
  - Add `endpoint_type` config
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix bucket creation to work with limited permission users
- SFTP
  - Implement connection pooling for multiple ssh connections
  - Limit new connections per second
  - Add support for MD5 and SHA1 hashes where available (thanks Christian Brüggemann)
- HTTP
  - Fix URL encoding issues
  - Fix directories with `:` in
  - Fix panic with URL encoded content

## v1.37 - 2017-07-22

- New backends
  - FTP - thanks to Antonio Messina
  - HTTP - thanks to Vasiliy Tolstov
- New commands
  - rclone ncdu - for exploring a remote with a text based user interface.
  - rclone lsjson - for listing with a machine-readable output
  - rclone dbhashsum - to show Dropbox style hashes of files (local or Dropbox)
- New Features
  - Implement --fast-list flag
    - This allows remotes to list recursively if they can
    - This uses less transactions (important if you pay for them)
    - This may or may not be quicker
    - This will use more memory as it has to hold the listing in memory
    - --old-sync-method deprecated - the remaining uses are covered by --fast-list
    - This involved a major re-write of all the listing code
  - Add --tpslimit and --tpslimit-burst to limit transactions per second
    - this is useful in conjunction with `rclone mount` to limit external apps
  - Add --stats-log-level so can see --stats without -v
  - Print password prompts to stderr - Hraban Luyat
  - Warn about duplicate files when syncing
  - Oauth improvements
    - allow auth_url and token_url to be set in the config file
    - Print redirection URI if using own credentials.
  - Don't Mkdir at the start of sync to save transactions
- Compile
  - Update build to go1.8.3
  - Require go1.6 for building rclone
  - Compile 386 builds with "GO386=387" for maximum compatibility
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix menu selection when no remotes
  - Config saving reworked to not kill the file if disk gets full
  - Don't delete remote if name does not change while renaming
  - moveto, copyto: report transfers and checks as per move and copy
- Local
  - Add --local-no-unicode-normalization flag - Bob Potter
- Mount
  - Now supported on Windows using cgofuse and WinFsp - thanks to Bill Zissimopoulos for much help
  - Compare checksums on upload/download via FUSE
  - Unmount when program ends with SIGINT (Ctrl+C) or SIGTERM - Jérôme Vizcaino
  - On read only open of file, make open pending until first read
  - Make --read-only reject modify operations
  - Implement ModTime via FUSE for remotes that support it
  - Allow modTime to be changed even before all writers are closed
  - Fix panic on renames
  - Fix hang on errored upload
- Crypt
  - Report the name:root as specified by the user
  - Add an "obfuscate" option for filename encryption - Stephen Harris
- Amazon Drive
  - Fix initialization order for token renewer
  - Remove revoked credentials, allow oauth proxy config and update docs
- B2
  - Reduce minimum chunk size to 5MB
- Drive
  - Add team drive support
  - Reduce bandwidth by adding fields for partial responses - Martin Kristensen
  - Implement --drive-shared-with-me flag to view shared with me files - Danny Tsai
  - Add --drive-trashed-only to read only the files in the trash
  - Remove obsolete --drive-full-list
  - Add missing seek to start on retries of chunked uploads
  - Fix stats accounting for upload
  - Convert / in names to a unicode equivalent (／)
  - Poll for Google Drive changes when mounted
- OneDrive
  - Fix the uploading of files with spaces
  - Fix initialization order for token renewer
  - Display speeds accurately when uploading - Yoni Jah
  - Swap to using `http://localhost:53682/` as redirect URL - Michael Ledin
  - Retry on token expired error, reset upload body on retry - Yoni Jah
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Add ability to specify location and storage class via config and command line - thanks gdm85
  - Create container if necessary on server-side copy
  - Increase directory listing chunk to 1000 to increase performance
  - Obtain a refresh token for GCS - Steven Lu
- Yandex
  - Fix the name reported in log messages (was empty)
  - Correct error return for listing empty directory
- Dropbox
  - Rewritten to use the v2 API
    - Now supports ModTime
      - Can only set by uploading the file again
      - If you uploaded with an old rclone, rclone may upload everything again
      - Use `--size-only` or `--checksum` to avoid this
    - Now supports the Dropbox content hashing scheme
    - Now supports low level retries
- S3
  - Work around eventual consistency in bucket creation
  - Create container if necessary on server-side copy
  - Add us-east-2 (Ohio) and eu-west-2 (London) S3 regions - Zahiar Ahmed
- Swift, Hubic
  - Fix zero length directory markers showing in the subdirectory listing
    - this caused lots of duplicate transfers
  - Fix paged directory listings
    - this caused duplicate directory errors
  - Create container if necessary on server-side copy
  - Increase directory listing chunk to 1000 to increase performance
  - Make sensible error if the user forgets the container
- SFTP
  - Add support for using ssh key files
  - Fix under Windows
  - Fix ssh agent on Windows
  - Adapt to latest version of library - Igor Kharin

## v1.36 - 2017-03-18

- New Features
  - SFTP remote (Jack Schmidt)
  - Re-implement sync routine to work a directory at a time reducing memory usage
  - Logging revamped to be more inline with rsync - now much quieter
    - -v only shows transfers
    - -vv is for full debug
    - --syslog to log to syslog on capable platforms
  - Implement --backup-dir and --suffix
  - Implement --track-renames (initial implementation by Bjørn Erik Pedersen)
  - Add time-based bandwidth limits (Lukas Loesche)
  - rclone cryptcheck: checks integrity of crypt remotes
  - Allow all config file variables and options to be set from environment variables
  - Add --buffer-size parameter to control buffer size for copy
  - Make --delete-after the default
  - Add --ignore-checksum flag (fixed by Hisham Zarka)
  - rclone check: Add --download flag to check all the data, not just hashes
  - rclone cat: add --head, --tail, --offset, --count and --discard
  - rclone config: when choosing from a list, allow the value to be entered too
  - rclone config: allow rename and copy of remotes
  - rclone obscure: for generating encrypted passwords for rclone's config (T.C. Ferguson)
  - Comply with XDG Base Directory specification (Dario Giovannetti)
    - this moves the default location of the config file in a backwards compatible way
  - Release changes
    - Ubuntu snap support (Dedsec1)
    - Compile with go 1.8
    - MIPS/Linux big and little endian support
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix copyto copying things to the wrong place if the destination dir didn't exist
  - Fix parsing of remotes in moveto and copyto
  - Fix --delete-before deleting files on copy
  - Fix --files-from with an empty file copying everything
  - Fix sync: don't update mod times if --dry-run set
  - Fix MimeType propagation
  - Fix filters to add ** rules to directory rules
- Local
  - Implement -L, --copy-links flag to allow rclone to follow symlinks
  - Open files in write only mode so rclone can write to an rclone mount
  - Fix unnormalised unicode causing problems reading directories
  - Fix interaction between -x flag and --max-depth
- Mount
  - Implement proper directory handling (mkdir, rmdir, renaming)
  - Make include and exclude filters apply to mount
  - Implement read and write async buffers - control with --buffer-size
  - Fix fsync on for directories
  - Fix retry on network failure when reading off crypt
- Crypt
  - Add --crypt-show-mapping to show encrypted file mapping
  - Fix crypt writer getting stuck in a loop
    - **IMPORTANT** this bug had the potential to cause data corruption when
      - reading data from a network based remote and
      - writing to a crypt on Google Drive
    - Use the cryptcheck command to validate your data if you are concerned
    - If syncing two crypt remotes, sync the unencrypted remote
- Amazon Drive
  - Fix panics on Move (rename)
  - Fix panic on token expiry
- B2
  - Fix inconsistent listings and rclone check
  - Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
  - Constrain memory usage when doing multipart uploads
  - Fix upload url not being refreshed properly
- Drive
  - Fix Rmdir on directories with trashed files
  - Fix "Ignoring unknown object" when downloading
  - Add --drive-list-chunk
  - Add --drive-skip-gdocs (Károly Oláh)
- OneDrive
  - Implement Move
  - Fix Copy
    - Fix overwrite detection in Copy
    - Fix waitForJob to parse errors correctly
  - Use token renewer to stop auth errors on long uploads
  - Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Fix depth 1 directory listings
- Yandex
  - Fix single level directory listing
- Dropbox
  - Normalise the case for single level directory listings
  - Fix depth 1 listing
- S3
  - Added ca-central-1 region (Jon Yergatian)

## v1.35 - 2017-01-02

- New Features
  - moveto and copyto commands for choosing a destination name on copy/move
  - rmdirs command to recursively delete empty directories
  - Allow repeated --include/--exclude/--filter options
  - Only show transfer stats on commands which transfer stuff
    - show stats on any command using the `--stats` flag
  - Allow overlapping directories in move when server-side dir move is supported
  - Add --stats-unit option - thanks Scott McGillivray
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix the config file being overwritten when two rclone instances are running
  - Make rclone lsd obey the filters properly
  - Fix compilation on mips
  - Fix not transferring files that don't differ in size
  - Fix panic on nil retry/fatal error
- Mount
  - Retry reads on error - should help with reliability a lot
  - Report the modification times for directories from the remote
  - Add bandwidth accounting and limiting (fixes --bwlimit)
  - If --stats provided will show stats and which files are transferring
  - Support R/W files if truncate is set.
  - Implement statfs interface so df works
  - Note that write is now supported on Amazon Drive
  - Report number of blocks in a file - thanks Stefan Breunig
- Crypt
  - Prevent the user pointing crypt at itself
  - Fix failed to authenticate decrypted block errors
    - these will now return the underlying unexpected EOF instead
- Amazon Drive
  - Add support for server-side move and directory move - thanks Stefan Breunig
  - Fix nil pointer deref on size attribute
- B2
  - Use new prefix and delimiter parameters in directory listings
    - This makes --max-depth 1 dir listings as used in mount much faster
  - Reauth the account while doing uploads too - should help with token expiry
- Drive
  - Make DirMove more efficient and complain about moving the root
  - Create destination directory on Move()

## v1.34 - 2016-11-06

- New Features
  - Stop single file and `--files-from` operations iterating through the source bucket.
  - Stop removing failed upload to cloud storage remotes
  - Make ContentType be preserved for cloud to cloud copies
  - Add support to toggle bandwidth limits via SIGUSR2 - thanks Marco Paganini
  - `rclone check` shows count of hashes that couldn't be checked
  - `rclone listremotes` command
  - Support linux/arm64 build - thanks Fredrik Fornwall
  - Remove `Authorization:` lines from `--dump-headers` output
- Bug Fixes
  - Ignore files with control characters in the names
  - Fix `rclone move` command
    - Delete src files which already existed in dst
    - Fix deletion of src file when dst file older
  - Fix `rclone check` on encrypted file systems
  - Make failed uploads not count as "Transferred"
  - Make sure high level retries show with `-q`
  - Use a vendor directory with godep for repeatable builds
- `rclone mount` - FUSE
  - Implement FUSE mount options
    - `--no-modtime`, `--debug-fuse`, `--read-only`, `--allow-non-empty`, `--allow-root`, `--allow-other`
    - `--default-permissions`, `--write-back-cache`, `--max-read-ahead`, `--umask`, `--uid`, `--gid`
  - Add `--dir-cache-time` to control caching of directory entries
  - Implement seek for files opened for read (useful for video players)
    - with `-no-seek` flag to disable
  - Fix crash on 32 bit ARM (alignment of 64 bit counter)
  - ...and many more internal fixes and improvements!
- Crypt
  - Don't show encrypted password in configurator to stop confusion
- Amazon Drive
  - New wait for upload option `--acd-upload-wait-per-gb`
    - upload timeouts scale by file size and can be disabled
  - Add 502 Bad Gateway to list of errors we retry
  - Fix overwriting a file with a zero length file
  - Fix ACD file size warning limit - thanks Felix Bünemann
- Local
  - Unix: implement `-x`/`--one-file-system` to stay on a single file system
    - thanks Durval Menezes and Luiz Carlos Rumbelsperger Viana
  - Windows: ignore the symlink bit on files
  - Windows: Ignore directory-based junction points
- B2
  - Make sure each upload has at least one upload slot - fixes strange upload stats
  - Fix uploads when using crypt
  - Fix download of large files (sha1 mismatch)
  - Return error when we try to create a bucket which someone else owns
  - Update B2 docs with Data usage, and Crypt section - thanks Tomasz Mazur
- S3
  - Command line and config file support for
    - Setting/overriding ACL  - thanks Radek Šenfeld
    - Setting storage class - thanks Asko Tamm
- Drive
  - Make exponential backoff work exactly as per Google specification
  - add `.epub`, `.odp` and `.tsv` as export formats.
- Swift
  - Don't read metadata for directory marker objects

## v1.33 - 2016-08-24

- New Features
  - Implement encryption
    - data encrypted in NACL secretbox format
    - with optional file name encryption
  - New commands
    - rclone mount - implements FUSE mounting of remotes (EXPERIMENTAL)
      - works on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X (need testers for the last 2!)
    - rclone cat - outputs remote file or files to the terminal
    - rclone genautocomplete - command to make a bash completion script for rclone
  - Editing a remote using `rclone config` now goes through the wizard
  - Compile with go 1.7 - this fixes rclone on macOS Sierra and on 386 processors
  - Use cobra for sub commands and docs generation
- drive
  - Document how to make your own client_id
- s3
  - User-configurable Amazon S3 ACL (thanks Radek Šenfeld)
- b2
  - Fix stats accounting for upload - no more jumping to 100% done
  - On cleanup delete hide marker if it is the current file
  - New B2 API endpoint (thanks Per Cederberg)
  - Set maximum backoff to 5 Minutes
- onedrive
  - Fix URL escaping in file names - e.g. uploading files with `+` in them.
- amazon cloud drive
  - Fix token expiry during large uploads
  - Work around 408 REQUEST_TIMEOUT and 504 GATEWAY_TIMEOUT errors
- local
  - Fix filenames with invalid UTF-8 not being uploaded
  - Fix problem with some UTF-8 characters on OS X

## v1.32 - 2016-07-13

- Backblaze B2
  - Fix upload of files large files not in root

## v1.31 - 2016-07-13

- New Features
  - Reduce memory on sync by about 50%
  - Implement --no-traverse flag to stop copy traversing the destination remote.
    - This can be used to reduce memory usage down to the smallest possible.
    - Useful to copy a small number of files into a large destination folder.
  - Implement cleanup command for emptying trash / removing old versions of files
    - Currently B2 only
  - Single file handling improved
    - Now copied with --files-from
    - Automatically sets --no-traverse when copying a single file
  - Info on using installing with ansible - thanks Stefan Weichinger
  - Implement --no-update-modtime flag to stop rclone fixing the remote modified times.
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix move command - stop it running for overlapping Fses - this was causing data loss.
- Local
  - Fix incomplete hashes - this was causing problems for B2.
- Amazon Drive
  - Rename Amazon Cloud Drive to Amazon Drive - no changes to config file needed.
- Swift
  - Add support for non-default project domain - thanks Antonio Messina.
- S3
  - Add instructions on how to use rclone with minio.
  - Add ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) and ap-south-1 (Mumbai) regions.
  - Skip setting the modified time for objects > 5GB as it isn't possible.
- Backblaze B2
  - Add --b2-versions flag so old versions can be listed and retrieved.
  - Treat 403 errors (e.g. cap exceeded) as fatal.
  - Implement cleanup command for deleting old file versions.
  - Make error handling compliant with B2 integrations notes.
  - Fix handling of token expiry.
  - Implement --b2-test-mode to set `X-Bz-Test-Mode` header.
  - Set cutoff for chunked upload to 200MB as per B2 guidelines.
  - Make upload multi-threaded.
- Dropbox
  - Don't retry 461 errors.

## v1.30 - 2016-06-18

- New Features
  - Directory listing code reworked for more features and better error reporting (thanks to Klaus Post for help).  This enables
    - Directory include filtering for efficiency
    - --max-depth parameter
    - Better error reporting
    - More to come
  - Retry more errors
  - Add --ignore-size flag - for uploading images to onedrive
  - Log -v output to stdout by default
  - Display the transfer stats in more human-readable form
  - Make 0 size files specifiable with `--max-size 0b`
  - Add `b` suffix so we can specify bytes in --bwlimit, --min-size, etc.
  - Use "password:" instead of "password>" prompt - thanks Klaus Post and Leigh Klotz
- Bug Fixes
  - Fix retry doing one too many retries
- Local
  - Fix problems with OS X and UTF-8 characters
- Amazon Drive
  - Check a file exists before uploading to help with 408 Conflict errors
  - Reauth on 401 errors - this has been causing a lot of problems
  - Work around spurious 403 errors
  - Restart directory listings on error
- Google Drive
  - Check a file exists before uploading to help with duplicates
  - Fix retry of multipart uploads
- Backblaze B2
  - Implement large file uploading
- S3
  - Add AES256 server-side encryption for - thanks Justin R. Wilson
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Make sure we don't use conflicting content types on upload
  - Add service account support - thanks Michal Witkowski
- Swift
  - Add auth version parameter
  - Add domain option for openstack (v3 auth) - thanks Fabian Ruff

## v1.29 - 2016-04-18

- New Features
  - Implement `-I, --ignore-times` for unconditional upload
  - Improve `dedupe`command
    - Now removes identical copies without asking
    - Now obeys `--dry-run`
    - Implement `--dedupe-mode` for non interactive running
      - `--dedupe-mode interactive` - interactive the default.
      - `--dedupe-mode skip` - removes identical files then skips anything left.
      - `--dedupe-mode first` - removes identical files then keeps the first one.
      - `--dedupe-mode newest` - removes identical files then keeps the newest one.
      - `--dedupe-mode oldest` - removes identical files then keeps the oldest one.
      - `--dedupe-mode rename` - removes identical files then renames the rest to be different.
- Bug fixes
  - Make rclone check obey the `--size-only` flag.
  - Use "application/octet-stream" if discovered mime type is invalid.
  - Fix missing "quit" option when there are no remotes.
- Google Drive
  - Increase default chunk size to 8 MB - increases upload speed of big files
  - Speed up directory listings and make more reliable
  - Add missing retries for Move and DirMove - increases reliability
  - Preserve mime type on file update
- Backblaze B2
  - Enable mod time syncing
    - This means that B2 will now check modification times
    - It will upload new files to update the modification times
    - (there isn't an API to just set the mod time.)
    - If you want the old behaviour use `--size-only`.
  - Update API to new version
  - Fix parsing of mod time when not in metadata
- Swift/Hubic
  - Don't return an MD5SUM for static large objects
- S3
  - Fix uploading files bigger than 50GB

## v1.28 - 2016-03-01

- New Features
  - Configuration file encryption - thanks Klaus Post
  - Improve `rclone config` adding more help and making it easier to understand
  - Implement `-u`/`--update` so creation times can be used on all remotes
  - Implement `--low-level-retries` flag
  - Optionally disable gzip compression on downloads with `--no-gzip-encoding`
- Bug fixes
  - Don't make directories if `--dry-run` set
  - Fix and document the `move` command
  - Fix redirecting stderr on unix-like OSes when using `--log-file`
  - Fix `delete` command to wait until all finished - fixes missing deletes.
- Backblaze B2
  - Use one upload URL per go routine fixes `more than one upload using auth token`
  - Add pacing, retries and reauthentication - fixes token expiry problems
  - Upload without using a temporary file from local (and remotes which support SHA1)
  - Fix reading metadata for all files when it shouldn't have been
- Drive
  - Fix listing drive documents at root
  - Disable copy and move for Google docs
- Swift
  - Fix uploading of chunked files with non ASCII characters
  - Allow setting of `storage_url` in the config - thanks Xavier Lucas
- S3
  - Allow IAM role and credentials from environment variables - thanks Brian Stengaard
  - Allow low privilege users to use S3 (check if directory exists during Mkdir) - thanks Jakub Gedeon
- Amazon Drive
  - Retry on more things to make directory listings more reliable

## v1.27 - 2016-01-31

- New Features
  - Easier headless configuration with `rclone authorize`
  - Add support for multiple hash types - we now check SHA1 as well as MD5 hashes.
  - `delete` command which does obey the filters (unlike `purge`)
  - `dedupe` command to deduplicate a remote.  Useful with Google Drive.
  - Add `--ignore-existing` flag to skip all files that exist on destination.
  - Add `--delete-before`, `--delete-during`, `--delete-after` flags.
  - Add `--memprofile` flag to debug memory use.
  - Warn the user about files with same name but different case
  - Make `--include` rules add their implicit exclude `*` at the end of the filter list
  - Deprecate compiling with go1.3
- Amazon Drive
  - Fix download of files > 10 GB
  - Fix directory traversal ("Next token is expired") for large directory listings
  - Remove 409 conflict from error codes we will retry - stops very long pauses
- Backblaze B2
  - SHA1 hashes now checked by rclone core
- Drive
  - Add `--drive-auth-owner-only` to only consider files owned by the user - thanks Björn Harrtell
  - Export Google documents
- Dropbox
  - Make file exclusion error controllable with -q
- Swift
  - Fix upload from unprivileged user.
- S3
  - Fix updating of mod times of files with `+` in.
- Local
  - Add local file system option to disable UNC on Windows.

## v1.26 - 2016-01-02

- New Features
  - Yandex storage backend - thank you Dmitry Burdeev ("dibu")
  - Implement Backblaze B2 storage backend
  - Add --min-age and --max-age flags - thank you Adriano Aurélio Meirelles
  - Make ls/lsl/md5sum/size/check obey includes and excludes
- Fixes
  - Fix crash in http logging
  - Upload releases to github too
- Swift
  - Fix sync for chunked files
- OneDrive
  - Re-enable server-side copy
  - Don't mask HTTP error codes with JSON decode error
- S3
  - Fix corrupting Content-Type on mod time update (thanks Joseph Spurrier)

## v1.25 - 2015-11-14

- New features
  - Implement Hubic storage system
- Fixes
  - Fix deletion of some excluded files without --delete-excluded
    - This could have deleted files unexpectedly on sync
    - Always check first with `--dry-run`!
- Swift
  - Stop SetModTime losing metadata (e.g. X-Object-Manifest)
    - This could have caused data loss for files > 5GB in size
  - Use ContentType from Object to avoid lookups in listings
- OneDrive
  - disable server-side copy as it seems to be broken at Microsoft

## v1.24 - 2015-11-07

- New features
  - Add support for Microsoft OneDrive
  - Add `--no-check-certificate` option to disable server certificate verification
  - Add async readahead buffer for faster transfer of big files
- Fixes
  - Allow spaces in remotes and check remote names for validity at creation time
  - Allow '&' and disallow ':' in Windows filenames.
- Swift
  - Ignore directory marker objects where appropriate - allows working with Hubic
  - Don't delete the container if fs wasn't at root
- S3
  - Don't delete the bucket if fs wasn't at root
- Google Cloud Storage
  - Don't delete the bucket if fs wasn't at root

## v1.23 - 2015-10-03

- New features
  - Implement `rclone size` for measuring remotes
- Fixes
  - Fix headless config for drive and gcs
  - Tell the user they should try again if the webserver method failed
  - Improve output of `--dump-headers`
- S3
  - Allow anonymous access to public buckets
- Swift
  - Stop chunked operations logging "Failed to read info: Object Not Found"
  - Use Content-Length on uploads for extra reliability

## v1.22 - 2015-09-28

- Implement rsync like include and exclude flags
- swift
  - Support files > 5GB - thanks Sergey Tolmachev

## v1.21 - 2015-09-22

- New features
  - Display individual transfer progress
  - Make lsl output times in localtime
- Fixes
  - Fix allowing user to override credentials again in Drive, GCS and ACD
- Amazon Drive
  - Implement compliant pacing scheme
- Google Drive
  - Make directory reads concurrent for increased speed.

## v1.20 - 2015-09-15

- New features
  - Amazon Drive support
  - Oauth support redone - fix many bugs and improve usability
    - Use "golang.org/x/oauth2" as oauth library of choice
    - Improve oauth usability for smoother initial signup
    - drive, googlecloudstorage: optionally use auto config for the oauth token
  - Implement --dump-headers and --dump-bodies debug flags
  - Show multiple matched commands if abbreviation too short
  - Implement server-side move where possible
- local
  - Always use UNC paths internally on Windows - fixes a lot of bugs
- dropbox
  - force use of our custom transport which makes timeouts work
- Thanks to Klaus Post for lots of help with this release

## v1.19 - 2015-08-28

- New features
  - Server side copies for s3/swift/drive/dropbox/gcs
  - Move command - uses server-side copies if it can
  - Implement --retries flag - tries 3 times by default
  - Build for plan9/amd64 and solaris/amd64 too
- Fixes
  - Make a current version download with a fixed URL for scripting
  - Ignore rmdir in limited fs rather than throwing error
- dropbox
  - Increase chunk size to improve upload speeds massively
  - Issue an error message when trying to upload bad file name

## v1.18 - 2015-08-17

- drive
  - Add `--drive-use-trash` flag so rclone trashes instead of deletes
  - Add "Forbidden to download" message for files with no downloadURL
- dropbox
  - Remove datastore
    - This was deprecated and it caused a lot of problems
    - Modification times and MD5SUMs no longer stored
  - Fix uploading files > 2GB
- s3
  - use official AWS SDK from github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go
  - **NB** will most likely require you to delete and recreate remote
  - enable multipart upload which enables files > 5GB
  - tested with Ceph / RadosGW / S3 emulation
  - many thanks to Sam Liston and Brian Haymore at the [Utah Center for High Performance Computing](https://www.chpc.utah.edu/) for a Ceph test account
- misc
  - Show errors when reading the config file
  - Do not print stats in quiet mode - thanks Leonid Shalupov
  - Add FAQ
  - Fix created directories not obeying umask
  - Linux installation instructions - thanks Shimon Doodkin

## v1.17 - 2015-06-14

- dropbox: fix case insensitivity issues - thanks Leonid Shalupov

## v1.16 - 2015-06-09

- Fix uploading big files which was causing timeouts or panics
- Don't check md5sum after download with --size-only

## v1.15 - 2015-06-06

- Add --checksum flag to only discard transfers by MD5SUM - thanks Alex Couper
- Implement --size-only flag to sync on size not checksum & modtime
- Expand docs and remove duplicated information
- Document rclone's limitations with directories
- dropbox: update docs about case insensitivity

## v1.14 - 2015-05-21

- local: fix encoding of non utf-8 file names - fixes a duplicate file problem
- drive: docs about rate limiting
- google cloud storage: Fix compile after API change in "google.golang.org/api/storage/v1"

## v1.13 - 2015-05-10

- Revise documentation (especially sync)
- Implement --timeout and --conntimeout
- s3: ignore etags from multipart uploads which aren't md5sums

## v1.12 - 2015-03-15

- drive: Use chunked upload for files above a certain size
- drive: add --drive-chunk-size and --drive-upload-cutoff parameters
- drive: switch to insert from update when a failed copy deletes the upload
- core: Log duplicate files if they are detected

## v1.11 - 2015-03-04

- swift: add region parameter
- drive: fix crash on failed to update remote mtime
- In remote paths, change native directory separators to /
- Add synchronization to ls/lsl/lsd output to stop corruptions
- Ensure all stats/log messages to go stderr
- Add --log-file flag to log everything (including panics) to file
- Make it possible to disable stats printing with --stats=0
- Implement --bwlimit to limit data transfer bandwidth

## v1.10 - 2015-02-12

- s3: list an unlimited number of items
- Fix getting stuck in the configurator

## v1.09 - 2015-02-07

- windows: Stop drive letters (e.g. C:) getting mixed up with remotes (e.g. drive:)
- local: Fix directory separators on Windows
- drive: fix rate limit exceeded errors

## v1.08 - 2015-02-04

- drive: fix subdirectory listing to not list entire drive
- drive: Fix SetModTime
- dropbox: adapt code to recent library changes

## v1.07 - 2014-12-23

- google cloud storage: fix memory leak

## v1.06 - 2014-12-12

- Fix "Couldn't find home directory" on OSX
- swift: Add tenant parameter
- Use new location of Google API packages

## v1.05 - 2014-08-09

- Improved tests and consequently lots of minor fixes
- core: Fix race detected by go race detector
- core: Fixes after running errcheck
- drive: reset root directory on Rmdir and Purge
- fs: Document that Purger returns error on empty directory, test and fix
- google cloud storage: fix ListDir on subdirectory
- google cloud storage: re-read metadata in SetModTime
- s3: make reading metadata more reliable to work around eventual consistency problems
- s3: strip trailing / from ListDir()
- swift: return directories without / in ListDir

## v1.04 - 2014-07-21

- google cloud storage: Fix crash on Update

## v1.03 - 2014-07-20

- swift, s3, dropbox: fix updated files being marked as corrupted
- Make compile with go 1.1 again

## v1.02 - 2014-07-19

- Implement Dropbox remote
- Implement Google Cloud Storage remote
- Verify Md5sums and Sizes after copies
- Remove times from "ls" command - lists sizes only
- Add add "lsl" - lists times and sizes
- Add "md5sum" command

## v1.01 - 2014-07-04

- drive: fix transfer of big files using up lots of memory

## v1.00 - 2014-07-03

- drive: fix whole second dates

## v0.99 - 2014-06-26

- Fix --dry-run not working
- Make compatible with go 1.1

## v0.98 - 2014-05-30

- s3: Treat missing Content-Length as 0 for some ceph installations
- rclonetest: add file with a space in

## v0.97 - 2014-05-05

- Implement copying of single files
- s3 & swift: support paths inside containers/buckets

## v0.96 - 2014-04-24

- drive: Fix multiple files of same name being created
- drive: Use o.Update and fs.Put to optimise transfers
- Add version number, -V and --version

## v0.95 - 2014-03-28

- rclone.org: website, docs and graphics
- drive: fix path parsing

## v0.94 - 2014-03-27

- Change remote format one last time
- GNU style flags

## v0.93 - 2014-03-16

- drive: store token in config file
- cross compile other versions
- set strict permissions on config file

## v0.92 - 2014-03-15

- Config fixes and --config option

## v0.91 - 2014-03-15

- Make config file

## v0.90 - 2013-06-27

- Project named rclone

## v0.00 - 2012-11-18

- Project started

# Bugs and Limitations

## Limitations

### Directory timestamps aren't preserved on some backends

As of `v1.66`, rclone supports syncing directory modtimes, if the backend
supports it. Some backends do not support it -- see
[overview](https://rclone.org/overview/) for a complete list. Additionally, note
that empty directories are not synced by default (this can be enabled with
`--create-empty-src-dirs`.)

### Rclone struggles with millions of files in a directory/bucket

Currently rclone loads each directory/bucket entirely into memory before
using it.  Since each rclone object takes 0.5k-1k of memory this can take
a very long time and use a large amount of memory.

Millions of files in a directory tends to occur on bucket-based remotes
(e.g. S3 buckets) since those remotes do not segregate subdirectories within
the bucket.

### Bucket-based remotes and folders

Bucket-based remotes (e.g. S3/GCS/Swift/B2) do not have a concept of
directories.  Rclone therefore cannot create directories in them which
means that empty directories on a bucket-based remote will tend to
disappear.

Some software creates empty keys ending in `/` as directory markers.
Rclone doesn't do this as it potentially creates more objects and
costs more.  This ability may be added in the future (probably via a
flag/option).

## Bugs

Bugs are stored in rclone's GitHub project:

- [Reported bugs](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug)
- [Known issues](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Known+Problem%22)

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# Frequently Asked Questions

### Do all cloud storage systems support all rclone commands

Yes they do.  All the rclone commands (e.g. `sync`, `copy`, etc.) will
work on all the remote storage systems.

### Can I copy the config from one machine to another

Sure!  Rclone stores all of its config in a single file.  If you want
to find this file, run `rclone config file` which will tell you where
it is.

See the [remote setup docs](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/) for more info.

### How do I configure rclone on a remote / headless box with no browser?

This has now been documented in its own [remote setup page](https://rclone.org/remote_setup/).

### How can I get rid of the "Config file not found" notice?

If you see a notice like 'NOTICE: Config file "rclone.conf" not found', this
means you have not configured any remotes.

If you need to configure a remote, see the [config help docs](https://rclone.org/docs/#configure).

If you are using rclone entirely with [on the fly remotes](https://rclone.org/docs/#backend-path-to-dir),
you can create an empty config file to get rid of this notice, for example:

```console
rclone config touch
```

### Can rclone sync directly from drive to s3

Rclone can sync between two remote cloud storage systems just fine.

Note that it effectively downloads the file and uploads it again, so
the node running rclone would need to have lots of bandwidth.

The syncs would be incremental (on a file by file basis).

e.g.

```console
rclone sync --interactive drive:Folder s3:bucket
```

### Using rclone from multiple locations at the same time

You can use rclone from multiple places at the same time if you choose
different subdirectory for the output, e.g.

```console
Server A> rclone sync --interactive /tmp/whatever remote:ServerA
Server B> rclone sync --interactive /tmp/whatever remote:ServerB
```

If you sync to the same directory then you should use rclone copy
otherwise the two instances of rclone may delete each other's files, e.g.

```console
Server A> rclone copy /tmp/whatever remote:Backup
Server B> rclone copy /tmp/whatever remote:Backup
```

The file names you upload from Server A and Server B should be
different in this case, otherwise some file systems (e.g. Drive) may
make duplicates.

### Why doesn't rclone support partial transfers / binary diffs like rsync?

Rclone stores each file you transfer as a native object on the remote
cloud storage system.  This means that you can see the files you
upload as expected using alternative access methods (e.g. using the
Google Drive web interface).  There is a 1:1 mapping between files on
your hard disk and objects created in the cloud storage system.

Cloud storage systems (at least none I've come across yet) don't
support partially uploading an object. You can't take an existing
object, and change some bytes in the middle of it.

It would be possible to make a sync system which stored binary diffs
like rsync does, instead of whole objects, but that would break the
1:1 mapping of files on your hard disk to objects in the remote cloud
storage system.

All the cloud storage systems support partial downloads of content, so
it would be possible to make partial downloads work.  However to make
this work efficiently this would require storing a significant amount
of metadata, which breaks the desired 1:1 mapping of files to objects.

### Can rclone do bi-directional sync?

Yes, since rclone v1.58.0, [bidirectional cloud sync](https://rclone.org/bisync/) is
available.

### Can I use rclone with an HTTP proxy?

Yes. rclone will follow the standard environment variables for
proxies, similar to cURL and other programs.

In general the variables are called `http_proxy` (for services reached
over `http`) and `https_proxy` (for services reached over `https`).  Most
public services will be using `https`, but you may wish to set both.

The content of the variable is `protocol://server:port`.  The protocol
value is the one used to talk to the proxy server, itself, and is commonly
either `http` or `socks5`.

Slightly annoyingly, there is no *standard* for the name; some applications
may use `http_proxy` but another one `HTTP_PROXY`.  The `Go` libraries
used by `rclone` will try both variations, but you may wish to set all
possibilities.  So, on Linux, you may end up with code similar to

```console
export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:12345
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy
```

Note: If the proxy server requires a username and password, then use

```console
export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:12345
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy
```

The `NO_PROXY` allows you to disable the proxy for specific hosts.
Hosts must be comma separated, and can contain domains or parts.
For instance "foo.com" also matches "bar.foo.com".

e.g.

```console
export no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,my.host.name
export NO_PROXY=$no_proxy
```

Note that the FTP backend does not support `ftp_proxy` yet.

You can use the command line argument `--http-proxy` to set the proxy,
and in turn use an override in the config file if you want it set for
a single backend, eg `override.http_proxy = http://...` in the config
file.

The FTP and SFTP backends have their own `http_proxy` settings to
support an HTTP CONNECT proxy (
[--ftp-http-proxy](https://rclone.org/ftp/#ftp-http-proxy) and
[--sftp-http-proxy](https://rclone.org/ftp/#sftp-http-proxy) )

### Rclone gives x509 SSL root certificates error

`x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided` means that `rclone` can't
find the SSL root certificates.  Likely you are running `rclone` on a NAS with
a cut-down Linux OS, or possibly on Solaris.

`x509: certificate signed by unknown authority` error may occur on outdated systems,
where `rclone` can't verify the server with the SSL root certificates.

Rclone (via the Go runtime) tries to load the root certificates from
these places on Linux.

```text
"/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt", // Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo etc.
"/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt",   // Fedora/RHEL
"/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.pem",             // OpenSUSE
"/etc/pki/tls/cacert.pem",            // OpenELEC
```

So doing something like this should fix the problem.  It also sets the
time which is important for SSL to work properly.

```console
mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs/
curl -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
```

The two environment variables `SSL_CERT_FILE` and `SSL_CERT_DIR`, mentioned in
the [x509 package](https://godoc.org/crypto/x509), provide an additional way to
provide the SSL root certificates on Unix systems other than macOS.

Note that you may need to add the `--insecure` option to the `curl` command line
if it doesn't work without.

```console
curl --insecure -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt
```

On macOS, you can install
[ca-certificates](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ca-certificates) with
Homebrew, and specify the SSL root certificates with the
[--ca-cert](https://rclone.org/docs/#ca-cert-stringarray) flag.

```console
brew install ca-certificates
find $(brew --prefix)/etc/ca-certificates -type f
```

### Rclone gives Failed to load config file: function not implemented error

Likely this means that you are running rclone on Linux version not
supported by the go runtime, ie earlier than version 2.6.23.

See the [system requirements section in the go install
docs](https://golang.org/doc/install) for full details.

### All my uploaded docx/xlsx/pptx files appear as archive/zip

This is caused by uploading these files from a Windows computer which
hasn't got the Microsoft Office suite installed.  The easiest way to
fix is to install the Word viewer and the Microsoft Office
Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 and later
versions' file formats

### tcp lookup some.domain.com no such host

This happens when rclone cannot resolve a domain. Please check that
your DNS setup is generally working, e.g.

```sh
# both should print a long list of possible IP addresses
dig www.googleapis.com          # resolve using your default DNS
dig www.googleapis.com @8.8.8.8 # resolve with Google's DNS server
```

If you are using `systemd-resolved` (default on Arch Linux), ensure it
is at version 233 or higher. Previous releases contain a bug which
causes not all domains to be resolved properly.

The Go resolver decision can be influenced with the `GODEBUG=netdns=...`
environment variable. This also allows to resolve certain issues with
DNS resolution. On Windows or MacOS systems, try forcing use of the
internal Go resolver by setting `GODEBUG=netdns=go` at runtime. On
other systems (Linux, \*BSD, etc) try forcing use of the system
name resolver by setting `GODEBUG=netdns=cgo` (and recompile rclone
from source with CGO enabled if necessary). See the
[name resolution section in the go docs](https://golang.org/pkg/net/#hdr-Name_Resolution).

### Failed to start auth webserver on Windows

```text
Error: config failed to refresh token: failed to start auth webserver: listen tcp 127.0.0.1:53682: bind: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.
...
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss Fatal error: config failed to refresh token: failed to start auth webserver: listen tcp 127.0.0.1:53682: bind: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.
```

This is sometimes caused by the Host Network Service causing issues with opening
the port on the host.

A simple solution may be restarting the Host Network Service with eg. Powershell

```powershell
Restart-Service hns
```

### The total size reported in the stats for a sync is wrong and keeps changing

It is likely you have more than 10,000 files that need to be
synced. By default, rclone only gets 10,000 files ahead in a sync so as
not to use up too much memory. You can change this default with the
[--max-backlog](https://rclone.org/docs/#max-backlog-int) flag.

### Rclone is using too much memory or appears to have a memory leak

Rclone is written in Go which uses a garbage collector.  The default
settings for the garbage collector mean that it runs when the heap
size has doubled.

However it is possible to tune the garbage collector to use less
memory by [setting GOGC](https://dave.cheney.net/tag/gogc) to a lower
value, say `export GOGC=20`.  This will make the garbage collector
work harder, reducing memory size at the expense of CPU usage.

The most common cause of rclone using lots of memory is a single
directory with millions of files in.

Before rclone v1.70 has to load this entirely into memory as rclone
objects. Each rclone object takes 0.5k-1k of memory. There is
[a workaround for this](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/Big-syncs-with-millions-of-files)
which involves a bit of scripting.

However with rclone v1.70 and later rclone will automatically save
directory entries to disk when a directory with more than
[`--list-cutoff`](https://rclone.org/docs/#list-cutoff) (1,000,000 by default) entries
is detected.

From v1.70 rclone also has the [--max-buffer-memory](https://rclone.org/docs/#max-buffer-memory)
flag which helps particularly when multi-thread transfers are using
too much memory.

### Rclone changes fullwidth Unicode punctuation marks in file names

For example: On a Windows system, you have a file with name `Test：1.jpg`,
where `：` is the Unicode fullwidth colon symbol. When using rclone
to copy this to your Google Drive, you will notice that the file
gets renamed to `Test:1.jpg`, where `:` is the regular (halfwidth) colon.

The reason for such renames is the way rclone handles different
[restricted filenames](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-filenames) on different
cloud storage systems. It tries to avoid ambiguous file names as
much and allow moving files between many cloud storage systems
transparently, by replacing invalid characters with similar looking
Unicode characters when transferring to one storage system, and replacing
back again when transferring to a different storage system where the
original characters are supported. When the same Unicode characters
are intentionally used in file names, this replacement strategy leads
to unwanted renames. Read more under section [caveats](https://rclone.org/overview/#restricted-filenames-caveats).

### Why does rclone fail to connect over TLS but another client works?

If you see TLS handshake failures (or packet captures show the server
rejecting all offered ciphers), the server/proxy may only support
legacy TLS cipher suites (for example RSA key-exchange ciphers
such as `RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256`, or old 3DES ciphers). Recent Go
versions (which rclone is built with) have **removed insecure ciphers
from the default list**, so rclone may refuse to negotiate them even
if other tools still do.

If you can't update/reconfigure the server/proxy to support modern TLS
(TLS 1.2/1.3) and ECDHE-based cipher suites you can re-enable legacy
ciphers via `GODEBUG`:

- Windows (cmd.exe):

  ```bat
  set GODEBUG=tlsrsakex=1
  rclone copy ...
  ```

- Windows (PowerShell):

  ```powershell
  $env:GODEBUG="tlsrsakex=1"
  rclone copy ...
  ```

- Linux/macOS:

  ```sh
  GODEBUG=tlsrsakex=1 rclone copy ...
  ```

If the server only supports 3DES, try:

```sh
GODEBUG=tls3des=1 rclone ...
```

This applies to **any rclone feature using TLS** (HTTPS, FTPS, WebDAV
over TLS, proxies with TLS interception, etc.). Use these workarounds
only long enough to get the server/proxy updated.

# License

This is free software under the terms of the MIT license (check the
COPYING file included with the source code).

```text
Copyright (C) 2019 by Nick Craig-Wood https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
```

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# Authors and contributors

## Authors

- Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>

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- Puneet Dixit <puneetdixit4321@gmail.com>
- Yakov Till <yakov.till@gmail.com>
- Janne Beate Bakeng <436265+jbbakeng@users.noreply.github.com>
- IceLocke <lockeice@gmail.com>
- nako-ruru <nako_ruru@163.com>
- bright <nako_ruru@sina.com>
- Filippo <57143294+FilippoMuschera@users.noreply.github.com>
- Gaurav <amvermagaurav007@gmail.com>
- Yuhang Cao <caoyuhang@fwerkor.com>
- Yash Anil <yashanil98@gmail.com>
- yashanil98 <79158725+yashanil98@users.noreply.github.com>
- lewoberst <github@jan-o-sch.net>
- max <max@example.com>
- Bryan Stenson <bryan.stenson@gmail.com>
- happysnaker <73147033+happysnaker@users.noreply.github.com>
- Jan Schlien <rclone-github@jan-o-sch.net>
- user77 <abubakarm@gmail.com>
- maximilize <3752128+maximilize@users.noreply.github.com>
- dithwick <46924962+dithwick@users.noreply.github.com>
- Sandy Luppino <s.luppino@opendrives.com>
- Sanjays2402 <51058514+Sanjays2402@users.noreply.github.com>
- blackflytech <blackflytech@outlook.com>
- Amit Mishra <amit.mishra.eee21@itbhu.ac.in>
- Erol Ozcan <erol.ozcan@gmail.com>
- TowyTowy <towy@airreps.link>
- 0rangeSeaW0lf <0sw-8m4k2v@waku.li>
- sijie-Z <sijie-zhou@users.noreply.github.com>
- Søren Lindberg <deeferentleeg@gmail.com>
- Kyue <Gooh456@users.noreply.github.com>
- Giridhar <80974392+giri256@users.noreply.github.com>
- p1 <giridharpavan593@gmail.com>
- Zero Services GmbH <info@zeroservices.eu>
- Noah Zalev <github@nzalev.ca>
- Acts1631 <69813585+acts-1631@users.noreply.github.com>
- ifloppy <68799904+ifloppy@users.noreply.github.com>
- Dzmitry Nianakhau <dzmitry.nianakhau@scality.com>
- Anupam Mediratta <mediratta@gmail.com>
- Socialpranker <273312799+Socialpranker@users.noreply.github.com>
- phatlc <phatle.hsd@gmail.com>
- Punya Jain <4511945+punya10@users.noreply.github.com>

# Contact the rclone project

## Forum

Forum for questions and general discussion:

- <https://forum.rclone.org>

## Business support

For business support or sponsorship enquiries please see:

- <https://rclone.com/>
- <sponsorship@rclone.com>

## GitHub repository

The project's repository is located at:

- <https://github.com/rclone/rclone>

There you can file bug reports or contribute with pull requests.

## Twitter

You can also follow Nick on twitter for rclone announcements:

- [@njcw](https://twitter.com/njcw)

## Email

Or if all else fails or you want to ask something private or
confidential

- <info@rclone.com>

Please don't email requests for help to this address - those are
better directed to the forum unless you'd like to sign up for business
support.

