rclone-archive

rclone archive stores and compress a remote path to an archive in another remote path.

By default, the source path is stored only, without any compression. The archive is streamed to destination remote.

npx rclone archive source:path dest:filename.zip

If --compress is set, content is compressed first.

npx rclone archive source:path dest:filename.zip --compress

Note that with compression, the archive file size cannot be determined beforehand, so it cannot be streamed to the destination, but uploaded in chunks.

In either cases, the archive process cannot be retried because the data are not kept around until the archiving succeeds. If you need to transfer a lot of data, you're better off archiving locally and then rclone move the archive to the destination.

Usage

npx rclone archive source:path dest:filename.zip

Flags:

--compress  Deflate the content (compression method 8)
--help      Help for `archive`
--progress  Shows progress.

Installation

Since this is just a custom command, rclone.js needs to be installed first.

npm install rclone.js rclone-archive