Connection of the Object Storage (S3) using rclone tool

This guide serves for rclone tool configuration. Rclone is the swiss knife for connection to multiple types of storage. However, the following guides are limited only to Object Storage namely S3 service. The following guides are suited for Windows users as well as Linux users. Using rclone tool for S3 enables the creation of the buckets, syncing folders, uploading and downloading files, and much more.

Firstly you need to download and unzip the desired rclone version according to the system you operate.

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We need to unzip the rclone archive after download.

unzip rclone-v1.59.1-linux-amd64.zip

Then we need to copy rclone binary file into the pre-prepared bin folder in the user profile/home.

cp ./rclone-v1.59.1-linux-amd64/rclone /home/user/bin/

In the last step, we need to put the path to the rclone binary file into PATH environment variable.

PATH=/home/user/bin:$PATH

echo 'PATH=/home/user/bin:$PATH' >> .bashrc

/usr/local/bin

In the end, we can make a quick check of PATH variable, whether the desired path is present.

echo $PATH

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2022/08/25 11:54:07 NOTICE: Successfully updated rclone from version v1.59.0 to version v1.59.1

Firstly you need to prepare bin directory in your user profile, where we will place rclone.exe file. Please prepare the directory in your user profile. You can just put the following command into the file browser:

%USERPROFILE%

In the displayed directory you can click right mouse button –> New –> Directory/Folder. The directory should be named bin. Then move the rclone.exe file into it. The file rclone.exe is present in the unzipped rclone archive, which you downloaded from the rclone websites.

In the next step click to Start (1) and search for Edit the system environment variables (2).

Then click at Environment variables (1) in the displayed window.

In the section User variables for UserXY (1) you will select the line with variable Path (2) and then you will click on the Edit (3) button.

You can add the new path by clicking on the New (1) button and then you have to insert the path to the pre-prepared “bin” folder (2), see below. The setup is then confirmed by clicking on the OK (3) button.

%USERPROFILE%\bin

In the end, you will click OK and Apply.

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2022/08/25 11:54:07 NOTICE: Successfully updated rclone from version v1.59.0 to version v1.59.1

In this guide you can find general configuration of rclone tool for CESNET S3 protocol. The configuration is described using a graphical user interface as well as the command line.

In this guide you can find basic commands and controls for rclone tool. In this guide, you can find how to create buckets, and manipulate files and directories.

This guide describes configuration and controls of the encrypted buckets. This functionality serves for client-side encrypting.

This guide describes checkusm configuration and its usage for your data stored in CESNET S3.

This guide describes sharing via link for your data stored in CESNET S3.