I use rclone in production. Let me try to answer some of your questions. rclone aims to be an rsync like utility for interacting with commercial/proprietary cloud services but it also supports all of the usual stuff, such as SFTP, SMB, etc. Here is a list of supported services: https://rclone.org/overview/
> - is rclone good? I think it's "good". I've used it since 2019 to transfer an average of 1TB of data per 24h to object storage providers (AWS S3, Backblaze B2). > - is rclone easy to use? As easy as rsync. > - does rclone handle encryption of remotes (mostly) transparently? In my case the data is encrypted at rest with the object storage provider. In transit the data is protected with TLS. I have not looked into the using the rclone crypt backend. > - in particular, is mounting remote encrypted cloud drives as local > drives fairly easy? I've never tried that. > - what cloud storage providers have you used rclone with? SFTP, Backblaze B2, Amazon AWS S3, Storj. > - do you recommend a particular cloud storage provider? Why? I use mostly B2 for large object storage needs. The speeds are not great, but it doesn't matter much for my use case. They have been otherwise reliable and very competitive on pricing (storage and egress are two separate costs). It's the company of the hard drive reliability stats fame. I use Storj for backing up logs. > On Jun 3, 2023, at 12:18, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > I saw a tech news article about a cloud storage provider reducing > their rates ( > https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/dropbox-like-cloud-storage-service-shadow-drive-lowers-its-price/ > ) and this reminded me that I've been thinking about using cloud > storage as backup ... so long as it's encrypted with a key that's on > my side (only). A quick search pointed me to "rclone" ( > https://rclone.org/ ) which sounds outstanding if their self-promotion > is to be believed. The fact that rclone is included as a standard > package in Debian stable goes a long way to convincing me. > Ironically, "Shadow Drive" isn't one of the providers that rclone > lists themselves as working with. > > This seems like a good starting guide (and makes rclone look fairly > straight-forward). I haven't used it so I'm uncertain of its > accuracy: > https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/05/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-files-with.html > > My current backup systems live and die by 'rsync', so I'm quite > familiar with a program rclone seems to be partially based on. I've > been trying/hoping to move to 'rsnapshot', although it's kind of a > PITA (but good). I use Fedora occasionally, but mostly Debian. > > This has left me with so many questions, to which I would happily take > any and all answers: > - is rclone good? > - is rclone easy to use? > - does rclone handle encryption of remotes (mostly) transparently? > - in particular, is mounting remote encrypted cloud drives as local > drives fairly easy? > - what cloud storage providers have you used rclone with? > - do you recommend a particular cloud storage provider? Why? > - do you disrecommend a particular cloud storage provider? Why? > > -- > Giles > https://www.gilesorr.com/ > giles...@gmail.com > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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