Rclone with rsync server?

[Strider3000]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Does rclone operate with rsync servers? I have colleague using an unencrypted rsync server on port 873 and I'd like to know if rclone can connect to and pull data from that.

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

Using rclone 1.56

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Ubuntu 21.04 64-bit.

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

rsync server.

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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A log from the command with the -vv flag

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[Ole (Ole Frost)]

Hi Strider3000, welcome to the forum.

@Strider3000

Does rclone operate with rsync servers?

The short answer is: No.

You can find a more elaborate answer here:

Using Rsync via Rclone, possible?

Hi Corine, I recommend you consider rsync and rclone as completely different tools. They have some common functionality like synchronizing files to a remote server, but once you dig a bit deeper in the possibilities and limitations, they are quite different. You may be able to achieve your goal by using rclone sync with --backup-dir and associated flags/options. You may also be able to achieve you goal by using rsync to a (remote) folder exposed by rclone mount. Finally, there are services …

[jwink3101 (Justin Winokur)]

Is it the rsync protocol (which is more or less deprecated) or is it over ssh? Generally, if it supports SSH, you can use SFTP.