Rclone Sync Deleting Destination Folders

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm using rclone sync rc apis to sync Aws s3 to local windows directory. Ex:- rclone sync s3bukcetname/directory1 destinationDirectory1.
If source (directory1) doesn't exist, then rclone is deleting everything from destination (destinationDirectory1).
Is there a way to handle this ?
I would ideally want rclone to handle path that doesnt exist.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.61.1

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.19045.3086 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.19.4
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

AWS

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

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The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

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When you chose to use sync you want make source and destination the same so deleting from destination not existing in source content is correct behaviour.

I think what you want is just to use rclone copy

As per sync documentation:

Destination is updated to match source, including deleting files if necessary (except duplicate objects, see below). If you don't want to delete files from destination, use the copy command instead.

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no, I want to use sync.
but can rclone handle source that doesn't exist ? instead of deleting everything on destination ?

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You want to use sync which behaves like copy....

You do not want to sync source to destination (it includes deleting things). You want to copy source to destination - leaving whatever is only at destination intact.

Not with sync. Documentation is very clear how sync works. This is what copy does:)

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