This tutorial will show you how to use rclone to back up your data to Amazon S3. Please note that you will need a valid Amazon / AWS account for this to work. In addition, AWS will charge you based on the amount of storage you use.

Install Rclone on instance

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NOTE: Please make sure you have logged in into your RAC instance. Once logged in follow the steps:

STEP - I :  Install Rclone on instance

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from cloud storage.

Quickstart Installation

• Download the relevant binary.

• Extract the rclone or rclone .exe binary from the archive.

• Run rclone config to set up.

Installation by using a script

Install rclone on Linux/macOS/BSD systems:

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STEP - II :  Create a directory and mount the attached storage.

Create a directory

$ sudo mkdir  directory path

Example: $ sudo mkdir /mnt/rclone_test

Mount a volume

$ sudo mount volume  directory path

Example: $ sudo mount /dev/sdc   /mnt/rclone_test

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

Configure rclone

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After installing Rclone:

1. Type $ rclone config 

2. Type n for a New remote

3. Give a name to your remote (AWS in this example)

4. Select the type of storage to configure

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           before closing the rclone.

STEP- IV : Creating  a

Create a S3 bucket using Rclone

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Run the following command:

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$ rclone mkdir

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Example: $ rclone mkdir  AWS:rclonebucket3

<remote name>:<bucket name>

Note
AWS S3 bucket names must be globally unique. It helps to create a bucket name using a unique name. For example, instead of calling a bucket "mysql_backups", call it "jdoe777_mysql_backups".

Once the Once remote is configured and the bucket is created you can use below commands to list the remotes and buckets:

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$ rclone listremotes

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$ rclone lsd

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<remote name>:

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Synching/Copying using

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Rclone Sync - it makes source and destination identical, modifying destination only.

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Run the Run below command to sync your volume data to your AWS bucket:

$ sudo rclone sync /path/

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to/local/

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Example: $ sudo rclone sync /mnt/rclone_test/ AWS:rclonebucket

NOTE: Switch the source and destinations values if you want to copy data from AWS bucket to RAC volume.

data  <remote name>:<bucket name>

For example:

$ sudo rclone sync /var/lib/mysql  aws:mysql_backups

rclone Copy 

To copy Rclone Copy- Copy files from source to destination , and skipping files that have already been copied.Run below command to sync your volume to AWS bucket::

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 rclone copy

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 /path/

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to/local/

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Example: $ sudo rclone copy /mnt/rclone_test/ AWS:rclonebucket

NOTE: Sync or copy volume to Amazon S3 bucket (requires a write access on bucket).

This tutorial assumes that you have the following already in place:

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An AWS account.

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AWSAccess keys.

A RAC Instance with attached volume.

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data <remote name>:<bucket name>