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How to make an ftp remote with rclone


I'm trying to sync an ftp server with a google cloud bucket. I think the easiest way to do this is with rclone.

According to the docs, rclone can link up to ftp easily. However, when running it myself, the output I get is very different:

e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote_ftp
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"

As you can see, there is no option listed for ftp, and when I copy the example I simply get the error:

Failed to find remote: didn't find filing system for "ftp"

I suspect I'm missing something very obvious. How do I add a new remote for an ftp server on rclone?

I'm using rclone v1.36.


Solution

  • The problem was solved by installing the beta version:

    curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta
    

    This lists all the following as possible remotes:

    1 / 1Fichier
       \ "fichier"
     2 / Alias for an existing remote
       \ "alias"
     3 / Amazon Drive
       \ "amazon cloud drive"
     4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider (AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio, etc)
       \ "s3"
     5 / Backblaze B2
       \ "b2"
     6 / Box
       \ "box"
     7 / Cache a remote
       \ "cache"
     8 / Dropbox
       \ "dropbox"
     9 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
       \ "crypt"
    10 / FTP Connection
       \ "ftp"
    11 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
       \ "google cloud storage"
    12 / Google Drive
       \ "drive"
    13 / Google Photos
       \ "google photos"
    14 / Hubic
       \ "hubic"
    15 / JottaCloud
       \ "jottacloud"
    16 / Koofr
       \ "koofr"
    17 / Local Disk
       \ "local"
    18 / Mail.ru Cloud
       \ "mailru"
    19 / Mega
       \ "mega"
    20 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
       \ "azureblob"
    21 / Microsoft OneDrive
       \ "onedrive"
    22 / OpenDrive
       \ "opendrive"
    23 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
       \ "swift"
    24 / Pcloud
       \ "pcloud"
    25 / Put.io
       \ "putio"
    26 / QingCloud Object Storage
       \ "qingstor"
    27 / SSH/SFTP Connection
       \ "sftp"
    28 / Union merges the contents of several remotes
       \ "union"
    29 / Webdav
       \ "webdav"
    30 / Yandex Disk
       \ "yandex"
    31 / http Connection
       \ "http"
    32 / premiumize.me
       \ "premiumizeme"