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Using Rclone on s3-compliant buckets- # Using Rclone on s3-compliant buckets

December 11, 2025 [hosting](/tags/hosting/)

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S3 is a pretty neat idea. It’s a place to store files for a price. What’s really nice about using S3 is you can store larger static assets or build assets and not have to include them in your build. Or you can use it as a place to store your backups of your databases.

## [How can RClone help?](#how-can-rclone-help)

Rclone is a command line utility that lets you connect to and work with a bunch of storage to store different things including S3. I didn’t know this.

## [Okay, how do I connect Rclone to a bucket?](#okay-how-do-i-connect-rclone-to-a-bucket)

First install [Rclone](https://rclone.org/install/)
- Then you need to configure a connection, do that by running `rclone config`, then choose `n) New remove`
- Give it a name, I named this `vult` as it’s the connect to the Vultr S3 buckets.
- It gives you a big ol’ list. I wanted to use s3, so near the top is one called `Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers`. It was 4 for me, so I put in `4`.
- Then it asks for a Provider, I didn’t see Vultr, so I just picked Amazon Web Services S3 `1`.
- It will ask to either be given the credential or get them from an env var. I chose to give the credentials to it by choosing `1`
- It will then ask for the following;

- `access_key_id` give this to it
- `secret_access_key` give this to it
- `region` for Vultr this didn’t matter, left it blank
- `endpoint` for this its important you give the proper endpoint. Vultrs was `ewr1.vultrobjects.com`, you’ll want to put in your endpoint of your S3 compliant host here.
- `location_constraint`, didn’t matter for Vultr, left blank
- `acl`, didn’t matter for Vultr, left blank
- `server_side_encryption`, didn’t matter for Vultr, left blank
- `sse_kms_key_id`, didn’t matter for Vultr, left blank
- `storage_class`, didn’t matter for Vultr, left blank

- Then it will ask if you want to edit advanced config? Go ahead and say `n) No`
- It’ll show you the settings confirm this `y) Yes this is OK`

Now that it’s set up you can test this by listing the buckets for the connection by typing `rclone lsd vult:` that last `:` is important this should list your buckets.

Cool

## [Now let’s copy that to another bucket](#now-lets-copy-that-to-another-bucket)

You’ll need to set up a second bucket at your destination. Once you get that set up. It’s a command per bucket.

`rclone sync -v vult:bucketname/ newhost:bucketname/`

This runs the `sync` which uploads everything from the first host, to the second and removing anything on new host that wasn’t there. E.g. If you had a file for each of the Simpsons (homer.png, marg.png, bart.png, lisa.png, maggie.png) and wanted to copy them over to an existing bucket that had a photo of me, jace.png, and your ran sync. At the end you’d have the Simpsons, and the jace.png would be gone.

You can instead run a `copy` which just copies the files and doesn’t remove things that don’t exist in the source.

Thanks [Jacob Nollette](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-nollette/) for the assist here! Really appreciate it!

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