Como usar o RClone

Steps for using RClone with Google Drive

1. Get your Google Drive Api Client ID and Client Secret, either in saved in your computer or directly with Google at https://console.developers.google.com/
2. Install RClone
3. Run the command rclone config
4. Run the following options:
   • n) New Remote
   • name> drive (or whatever other name you want)
   • storage> drive
   • client_id> PASTE YOUR CLIENT ID FROM GOOGLE DRIVE API HERE
   • client_secret> PASTE YOUR CLIENT SECRET FROM GOOGLE DRIVE API HERE
   • scope> 1
   • root_folder_id> LEAVE BLANK
   • service_account_file> LEAVE BLANK
   • Edit advanced config? | y/n> n
   • Use auto config? | y/n> y
   • DO THE LOGIN IN THE BROWSER WINDOW OPENED
   • Configure this as a team drive? | y/n> n
   • Is this remote OK? | y/e/d> y
   • What to do now? | e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

RClone Commands

List files

Standard ls is recursive

rclone ls remote:path

With the param --max-depth you can decide how much recursive the ls will be, with value 1 it is not recursive

rclone ls remote:path --max-depth 1

• rclone ls drive:
• rclone ls drive: --max-depth 1
• rclone ls drive:documents/cv

List directories

rclone lsd remote:path

• rclone lsd drive:
• rclone lsd drive:jhow
• rclone lsd drive:jhow/art

Copy files

rclone copy remote:path local:path

rclone copy local:path remote:path

• rclone copy desktop/file.md drive:jhow/temp
• rclone copy drive:documents/cv/curriculum.pdf desktop

Move files

rclone move remote:path local:path

rclone move local:path remote:path

• rclone move desktop/file.md drive:jhow/temp
• rclone move drive:documents/cv/curriculum.pdf desktop

Create folder

rclone mkdir remote:folder

• rclone mkdir drive:someFolder

Move file or directory

rclone moveto source:something destination:something

• rclone moveto drive:file.md drive:jhow/file.md

Deleting files

Delete a empty folder

rclone rmdir remote:folder

• rclone rmdir drive:someFolder

Delete all empty folders inside a directory

rclone rmdirs remote:folder

• rclone rmdirs drive:someFolder

Delete a filled folder

rclone purge remote:folder

• rclone purge drive:someFolder

Delete a file

rclone delete remote:file.ext

• rclone delete drive:file.md

Advanced delete

Delete files bigger than 100MB inside a folder

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

Get size of file

rclone size remote:file

• rclone size drive:
• rclone size drive:jhow

Show file content

rclone cat remote:file

• rclone cat drive:file.md

Sync

Simple sync

• rclone sync source:path destination:path

Show progress

• rclone sync source:path destination:path -P

Show what would be synced, withou syncing, useful for knowing exactly what would be changed, to prevent data loss

• rclone sync source:path destination:path --dry-run