Learner Profiles

  • A professor wants to synchronize work on a local drive with an external backup.
  • A researcher needs to move a folder of large datasets from one cloud storage location to another, such as from Google Drive to Box. Rclone can perform the batch transfer and run in the background.
  • A student wants to create a simple backup command to copy their current work to an external drive.
  • A researcher wants to regularly back up a project directory to cloud storage without manually copying each file.
  • A research team needs to transfer thousands of files between a local server and an institutional cloud-storage account.