What's the latest on the "backup" command development?

I’ve seen on github that this idea is now over a year old and I’m wondering how the progress has been on this?

My main feature requests would be:

  • versioning
  • encryption
  • deduplication

I have a plan for this. The first step is to get --backup-dir working: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/98

This requires server side moves to be working on as many remotes as possible. Now that Amazon Drive is covered then that is the major ones.

Finally I’m going to make a specialised rclone backup command which will do the versioning.

BTW which issue are you looking at?

That’s great news & I see that you expect the --backup-dir to be backed into version 1.36.

A few questions:

  1. Does Google Drive allow server side moves?
  2. And this backup will work with rclone encryption?
  3. Will deduplication be part of that or some sort of compression?
  4. Not sure what you were asking me “BTW which issue are you looking at?”

Yes

Yes

Deduplication as in if you’ve got 10 backups but the fileA has only changed once, then there will be two copies of fileA held, not 10.

It won’t help you if you have fileA and fileB both of which are identical.

Compression isn’t planned.

Just wondering which issue on github you were looking at - can you post a link?

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Deduplication as in if you’ve got 10 backups but the fileA has only changed once, then there will be two copies of fileA held, not 10.

It won’t help you if you have fileA and fileB both of which are identical.[/quote]

What about incremental backups of files. For example if I have a file of 100MB and very little has changed. It would be a great upload speed & time saver if only the changes are uploaded instead of the entire file. Is that something that will be implemented?

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Compression isn’t planned.[/quote]
May I ask why?

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Just wondering which issue on github you were looking at - can you post a link?[/quote]

this one here https://github.com/ncw/rclone/projects/2

Not initially, no. It might come later as part of an overlay to split big files up. In general cloud storage systems don’t support changing an upload in the way you’d need for an rsync style binary diff.

Again not initially, but could be part of an overlay which does support it. See issues on github

thanks for the link.