rclone VS rsync

Compare rclone vs rsync and see what are their differences.

rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files (by rclone)

rsync

An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. (by RsyncProject)
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rclone rsync
963 39
43,588 2,295
1.8% 8.8%
9.8 3.5
6 days ago 8 days ago
Go C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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rclone

Posts with mentions or reviews of rclone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.

rsync

Posts with mentions or reviews of rsync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rclone and rsync you can also consider the following projects:

syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

s3fs-fuse - FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

dupeguru - Find duplicate files

aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services

rmlint - Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.