What is Rclone?

Rclone is a robust, mature command-line program to manage files across a wide range of cloud storage services. It supports over 90 backends and is especially known for its speed, flexibility, and extensive automation capabilities. Rclone allows encrypted, synchronized, and high-performance transfers—making it a natural fit for enterprise-grade solutions like piqlConnect.

piqlConnect now supports integration with Rclone, a powerful open-source command-line tool for managing files on cloud storage. With this implementation, users can seamlessly transfer data from leading cloud platforms directly into piqlConnect, streamlining workflows for digital preservation and secure archiving.

Rclone helps you:

• Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage
• Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage
• Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally
• Migrate data to the cloud, or between cloud storage vendors
• Mount multiple, encrypted, cached or diverse cloud storage as a disk

Features:

• Transfers
  • MD5, SHA1 hashes are checked at all times for file integrity
  • Timestamps are preserved on files
  • Operations can be restarted at any time
  • Can be to and from network, e.g. two different cloud providers
  • Can use multi-threaded downloads to local disk
• Copy new or changed files to cloud storage
• Sync (one way) to make a directory identical and Bisync (two way) to keep two directories in sync bidirectionally
• Check hashes and for missing/extra files

Supported Cloud Platforms

With Rclone integration, piqlConnect now enables direct data ingestion from among others some of the biggest storage platforms:

• ✅ Dropbox
• ✅ Google Drive
• ✅ Apple iCloud