RClone is a command line syncronisation tool like Rsync but for connecting to cloud storage services such as ObjSpace. In this article, we're going to cover backing up and restoring files from a Linux host to Delimiter's ObjSpace.

Installing RClone in 7 Steps

StepActionCentos / RedhatDebian / UbuntuDescription
1Install Unzipyum -y install unzipapt-get -y install unzipUnzip is required to unzip the binary version of RClone
2Change to Home Directorycd ~ 
3Download RClone binarywget http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip 
4Unpack zip file

unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip

 
5Change to RClone directory

cd rclone-v*-linux-amd64/

 
6Copy RClone to /usr/sbin

sudo cp rclone /usr/sbin/

 
7Generate basic configurationcat >> ~/.rclone.conf << EOF
[objspace]
type = s3
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETKEY
endpoint = https://obj.space/
region = other-v2-signature
EOF

YOURACCESSKEY and YOURSECRETKEY are shown on the welcome email.

If your Secret Key has an escaped / ie \/ (backslash then forward slash) then remove the backslash so just the forward slash is copied into the config.

 

Using RClone

 

 

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