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Windows File Synchronization Tools
FreeFileSync
Unison
Rclone
Home: https://rclone.org
Forum: https://forum.rclone.org/
- Command-line tool to manage files on cloud storage
- Multi-platform, including Windows, Linux and MacOS
- No installation required for Windows, just unzip into folder of your choice
This tool seems to offer the best performance when uploading/moving/migrating large shares to/from cloud storage.
Configure Remote
cd c:\Support\rclone\rclone .\rclone.exe config
Choose WebDAV for many cloud services, enter the WebDAV URL, username and password.
VA Cloud Storage URL:
https://cloud.virtualarchitects.com/remote.php/dav/files/<username/
Copy: copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files
Sync: copy files from source to dest, delete anything else on destination
Copy
Example copy a drive to the cloud, excluding dot files and some others:
.\rclone.exe copy x:\ remotename:foldername --exclude '.**' --exclude=**.tmp** --exclude *.ffs_lock --exclude Thumbs.db --progress --log-file=foldername.txt --dry-run
--dry-run --progress --log-file mylogfile.txt --log-level INFO
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.
Exclusions
Exclude dot files (hidden files with filenames beginning with a period):
--exclude '.**'
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