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 ===== Rclone ===== ===== Rclone =====
  
-**Home**: https://rclone.org+**Docs**: https://rclone.org/docs
  
-**Forum**: https://forum.rclone.org/+**Filtering**: https://rclone.org/filtering/ 
 + 
 +**Forum**: https://forum.rclone.org
  
   * **Command-line tool to manage files on cloud storage**   * **Command-line tool to manage files on cloud storage**
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   * No installation required for Windows, just unzip into folder of your choice   * No installation required for Windows, just unzip into folder of your choice
  
-<note tip>This tool seems to offer the best performance when uploading/moving/migrating large shares to cloud storage.</note>+<note tip>**This tool seems to offer the best performance when uploading/moving/migrating large shares to/from cloud storage.**</note>
  
 ==== Configure Remote ==== ==== Configure Remote ====
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 </file> </file>
  
-Choose WebDAV for many cloud services, enter the WebDAV URL, username and password.+Choose **WebDAV** for many cloud services, enter the WebDAV URL, username and password.
  
 <note tip> <note tip>
-VA Cloud Storage URL: https://cloud.virtualarchitects.com/remote.php/dav/files/<username/+VA Cloud Storage URL: 
 + 
 +''https://cloud.virtualarchitects.com/remote.php/dav/files/<username>/''
 </note> </note>
  
-<note>**Copy**: copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files+<note>**Copy**: copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files, does not delete files on destination
  
-**Sync**: copy files from source to dest, delete anything else on destination</note>+**Sync**: make destination the sames as source, delete anything else on destination</note>
  
 ==== Copy ==== ==== Copy ====
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 --dry-run --dry-run
 --progress --progress
---log-file mylogfile.txt 
---log-level INFO 
 </file> </file>
  
-https://rclone.org/docs/#log-level-level+==== Sync ====
  
-Log levels are, from least verbose to most: ERROR or NOTICE or INFO or DEBUG+<file> 
 +.\rclone.exe sync ... 
 +</file>
  
-The defaultNOTICE, is usually sufficient.+The sync subcommand **makes the source and destination identical**modifying only the destination.  Files in the destination not in source are deleted.
  
 ==== Exclusions ==== ==== Exclusions ====
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 <file> <file>
 --exclude '.**' --exclude '.**'
 +</file>
 +
 +==== Logging ====
 +
 +https://rclone.org/docs/#log-level-level
 +
 +Log levels are, from least verbose to most: **ERROR** or **NOTICE** or **INFO** or **DEBUG**.  The default, NOTICE, is usually sufficient.
 +
 +<file>
 +--log-file mylogfile.txt
 +--log-level INFO
 </file> </file>
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