Rclone Alternatives

rclone reviews and mentions

• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2026

  While there isn't a proper Linux client, if you find yourself on a Linux box and need to sync to or from iCloud, rclone[1] works great. Just putting this out there in the hope that it might help someone. It's also (ironically given TFA) what I used to sync all my files off dropbox when I cancelled my subscription because of their misuse of root to re-add their thing to special permissions on macOs after I had removed it.[2]

  [1] https://rclone.org/

  [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338 not trying to reopen a flame war, but for me personally, that was one of those things where a company doesn't get to do to me twice. As soon as it happened, I copied my files off and cancelled. In fact I'm there somewhere in the comments on that article saying I was going to be cancelling and I immediately did.

• Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2026

  I just merged a commit for exactly this in rclone

  https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/ad8a108453f3ce983fb6...

  It is interesting to dig into why.

  There was a security vulnerability in golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c which meant govulncheck warned about it in the CI.

  So I updated it and got a warning from the linter that the h2c sub package was deprecated in the latest version, so I removed it.

  That is a lot of great tooling working to make things more secure in the Go ecosystem.

  It does make work for maintainers though, and the Cambrian explosion of AI discovered security vulnerabilities has been particularly trying!

• Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2026

  hello,

  as always: imho (!)

  tar is great, and well kown - but not particularly for "incremental backups over the net" ...

  this is what rsync is/was for.

  idk ... whatever the problem is with rsync, but apparently thats none of my business ;))

  you could use, which usage is very similar to rsync:

  rclone

  * https://rclone.org/

  intro

• My Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2026
• iCloud Photos Downloader
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2026

  Because icloudpd supports downloading photos from icloud and rclone does not (yet): https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/8734

• Self Hosting Gitlab
  3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2026

  For backups I use a script with a systemd timer and rclone. Rclone is a very flexible and configurable tool, and it can be configured with a lot of services. I use it mainly with web dav, smb and Google Drive.

• Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2025
• Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2025

  You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down.

  It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

  Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: https://rclone.org/#providers

• Restic vs Rclone vs Rsync: Choosing the Right Tool for Backups
  3 projects | dev.to | 1 Sep 2025

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• .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2025

  This story definitely resonates with me.

  While I don't think we've ever merged a pr with ide files, we do merge the .gitignore part when people put them in their commits which has lead to growth over time...

  https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commits/master/.gitignore

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