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Comment by aidenn0

13 hours ago

rclone is not as good as rsync for doing ad-hoc transfers; for anything not using the filesystem, you need to set up a configuration, which adds friction. It realy is purpose built for recurring transfers rather than "I need to move X to Y just once"

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ruuda  13 hours ago

We wrote https://github.com/chorusone/fastsync for fast ad-hoc transfers over multiple TCP streams.

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