rclone vs Resilio Connect
rclone
rclone.orgResilio Connect
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| Figure | rclone | Resilio Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File transfer services | 8.9 (#11) | 8.0 (#54) |
| Spec score · File Sync Software | 8.6 (#5) | 7.6 (#12) |
| Integrations | The site lists more than 70 cloud storage products, including Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Backblaze B2. | A Resilio gaming solution guide illustrates a build distribution workflow involving Jenkins and Artifactory, with jobs configurable through the console or API. |
| Platforms | The downloads page lists builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD variants, Plan 9, and Solaris; Android builds are available but are not first-class builds. | The Connect product overview lists Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android agents, with Windows and Linux support for the Management Console and Tracker Server. |
| Support | The project describes a friendly support community and says business sponsorship can include support contracts, advertising deals, and consultancy. | Resilio’s Help Center says enterprise users can submit technical support requests through the Management Console, a web form, or the Resilio End-user Agent v6. |
| Use cases | Rclone supports backing up and restoring files, mirroring data, migrating between storage providers, and mounting cloud storage as a disk. | The product overview describes one-to-many replication for use cases such as distributing software updates to retail locations and VM images to servers. |
| What it does | Rclone is a command-line program for managing files on cloud storage and offers cloud equivalents of commands such as rsync, cp, mv, mount, and ls. | Resilio Connect is a distributed file delivery and synchronization solution for moving large amounts of data to many locations. |
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In their own words
rclone
Rclone is a free command-line program for managing files on cloud storage. It can back up and restore files, mirror or migrate data, mount storage as a disk, and combine file systems. The project lists more than 70 cloud storage products, including Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Backblaze B2. Sync options include copying changed files, one-way sync, and two-way bisync. Rclone checks MD5 and SHA1 hashes, preserves timestamps, and can restart operations. Where supported, it transfers between providers without using local disk. It can mount local, cloud, or virtual file systems and serve files over SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, and DLNA. Rclone is also available through scripts and an API. Its crypt remote encrypts files before upload and decrypts them after download, but leaves file length and modification time unencrypted. The crypt password in the configuration file is only lightly obscured unless configuration encryption is enabled. The web-based GUI is described as experimental, and Android builds are not yet first-class builds.
Resilio Connect
Resilio Connect has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.