Rclone copy gdrive:Backup/ dropbox:Backup/ Let’s assume you have a folder on Google Drive named ‘backup’. We will be using ‘copy’ to copy files from one remote to another. Transfer files from dropbox to google drive It is very similar to dropbox’s configuration.

The whole setup looks like the following:Īs you can see, it is very intuitive. You will see the token field in the terminal.Rclone will launch dropbox will launch your browser asking for permission. Leave ‘Dropbox App Secret’ empty i.e just press enter key. Leave ‘Dropbox App Key’ empty i.e just press enter key. At the time this was written it was number 5. Press n for new remote.Ĭhoose ‘Dropbox’ from list of providers. Remotes simplified are various cloud providers. On doing this you will see the following menu. (terminal app for mac, command prompt for windows etc) Once installed, we will setup both Google Drive and dropbox for rclone. If you use macOS, then you can use homebrew i.e. You can find the binaries for rclone over here. If it interests you, rclone is written in golang which has easy cross compilation, hence it can support a bunch of OS’s. Rclone is a command line tool and can be used on Windows, osx, linux, freeBSD etc. I use Google drive mac app for syncing to Google and rclone for all others. I generally store my files in Google drive and then once a month sync them over to dropbox and backblaze.

This is a mental dump of how to setup rclone and sync between dropbox and google drive. An exhaustive list can be found over here. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud service providers.Īmong others, it supports Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon Drive, Box, Microsoft One Drive, Yandex and Backblaze.

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