Is it possible to run sync WITHOUT deleting remote files?

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Hi, all,

I am running rclone sync to google drive as follows:
rclone -v sync /local/sync/ remote:sync/

Is it possible to run sync WITHOUT deleting remote files?
e.g. /local/sync/ has file1, file2
remote:sync/ has file3
In remote:sync/ directory, there are some files not existent in /local/sync/.
I would like to sync the file change of file1 & file2 only, and keep file3 at remote.

It seems rclone always delete the files not found in local during the sync.
My rclone version is 1.35.

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Why not just use rclone copy instead?

Quite certain if I understand your question correctly that it will do just that.

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Because sync happens server side while copy will download / upload

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Hmm, that’s not entirely true. According to your OP, you’re trying to sync from a local folder to a remote folder:

rclone -v sync /local/sync/ remote:sync/

Also, not all cloud providers support server-side operations, check the Optional Features table on this page: http://rclone.org/overview/

Google for instance can support server-side copy/move, Amazon cannot (and thus every operation, copy, move, sync will require download and re-upload).

But again, your example you provide is not server to server. If you do a copy operation it will not erase file3. and as you can see from the table, Google does support server-side copy.

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Oh I missed that op was going local to cloud but I routinely use sync for server side with google however I can not get server side copy to work thought maybe that was their problem

OP stokkes is correct copy is what you want