I'm not sure why this bothers me so much but it does not "sync between cloud storage providers".
I don't really know how this misunderstanding is so pervasive, even among the HN crowd, but no, no amount of magical code can make it possible to directly migrate between S3 and Google Drive. It's going to download, and upload to sync.
This is even reflected in the project's description line, which is more accurate than the current HN headline: Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
That having been said, it's of course invaluable software. Mounting 10TB of Google Drive into a Raspberry Pi running Plex is still something that feels like it should be harder to accomplish than it is.
I don't really know how this misunderstanding is so pervasive, even among the HN crowd, but no, no amount of magical code can make it possible to directly migrate between S3 and Google Drive. It's going to download, and upload to sync.
This is even reflected in the project's description line, which is more accurate than the current HN headline: Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
That having been said, it's of course invaluable software. Mounting 10TB of Google Drive into a Raspberry Pi running Plex is still something that feels like it should be harder to accomplish than it is.