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Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2020–2023
peak thread · 100 comments
448 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-12-03
246 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I'm an occasional contributor for Rclone. Rclone holds a special place for me as the first open source project that I got seriously involved in and made me far more comfortable with working in open source. Rclone is now very prevalent in my infrastructure. Almost all my websites are updated by a CI job that builds the website from a repo and pushes it up to the hosting server. There's an encrypted Rclone config in the repo and the password…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
697

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Total comments
183

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2020-04-06Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providersFirst breakout · Best threadpeter_d_sherman448100
2021-12-03Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providersLatest 20+ point returngilad24683
2023-09-29Rclone – “Rsync for Cloud Storage”pretext30