rsync VS rclone

So we have our SSH connection all oiled and ready to go. In the next post on the series, we will see how can we use Rsync to sync our music files, bidirectionally. See ya, on the next tab.

Rsync is a command-line tool that enables syncing files and directories between the local and remote system. It's highly flexible and it's similar to scp, if you worked on scp before, the rsync is just scp on steroids.

rsync can be used to synchronize a local disk to the pCloud drive p. Works similarly as the Sync option of the pCloud Drive app. May be useful if one prefers a bulk upload once a day over a continuous synchronization.

Tools that can be used to handle this include Rsync, Duplicati, Cohesity

To overcome this issue, you can use rsync, a powerful command-line tool for synchronizing files and directories, along with a bash script that excludes the node_modules folder and also filter out anything in a .gitignore file that you specify. In this article, I'll guide you through the process of setting up and using this bash script to sync your Node.js project while ignoring the node_modules folder.

On OL9 I installed rsync using https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/blob/master/INSTALL.md and installing dependencies using the For Fedora 33 commands where possible except xxhash which wasn't found, so I used https://oraclelinux.pkgs.org/9/ol9-codeready-builder-aarch64/xxhash-devel-0.8.1-3.el9.aarch64.rpm.html

rsync will probably work better for this use case

I would prefer to use a revision control system, like git if keeping multiple versions of documents is important. Otherwise, if you don't find anything else to your liking, you could write your own scripts based on rsync with the clone-dest, detect-renamed, and detect-renamed-lax patches.

Give rsync a try, it should handle UTF filenames just fine.

You might want to have a look at rclone. Not sure if it does real-time sync, but it’s very capable. No GUI though, at least not in the official distribution

https://rclone.org/

Rclone supports tons of different storage backends. I like to use R2 on Cloudflare with their generous free tier, but you can use AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, or even FTP among others.

Its worth keeping this (from their readme) in mind though:

> However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker).

Not that it is unusable or anything, it is still in widespread use, but I'd guess many assume it to be part of openssh and maintained with it, when it isn't.

An interesting alternative might be https://rclone.org/, which can speak SFTP and can mount all (of the many) protocols it speaks.

It's a hard lesson to learn like this, but it's a learning moment nonetheless. You don't rely on your provider to make backups for business-critical stuff like this, you need to manage it (and test!) it yourself.

rclone[1] supports tons of storage providers. If you get access back and recover your business, start making backups onto other providers.

[1] https://rclone.org/

rclone: a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.

Synchronise buckets with Sclone or Rclone