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Can rclone sync directly from drive to s3 Rclone can sync between two remote cloud storage systems just fine.
Note that it effectively downloads the file and uploads it again, so the node running rclone would need to have lots of bandwidth. ----
This guy realistically had plenty of time to figure it out, the real problem is they don't want to pay $$$ for somewhere else to host the files and have now reached the point it has become a problem.
Most “independent journalists” I know aren’t operating on the kind of household budget where they can handwave that kind of bill away.
You're not storing any data on rsync.net - you're just using our 'rclone' that is built into the platform.
The minimum is $9/mo. Or less if you ask about the HN discount.
That seems like incredible value for that kind of connectivity. Thank you for broadening my toolset. I can immediately think of a few little projects where such a technique will be useful.
Agreed that this is a crisis but it is not impossible.
You can use 'rclone' - running on your own system or hosted elsewhere - to move data between cloud providers.
You don't rely on your own bandwidth - they talk directly to one another:
... and if you don't want to bother even installing rclone, you can run it somewhere it is already installed: Which means ... for either the price of (zero) or (minimum rsync.net) you can move that data at (whatever speeds google <--> aws are capable of).I am, admittedly, hand-waving away the actual configuration of those "remotes" as they are called, which involve your login and/or API keys, etc. - here is an example of what that config might look like:
https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html