This is why I wrote this tutorial to show you how to use rclone with Microsoft OneDrive. Rclone is an extensive command line tool and using it could be confusing with so many options.

You can use it with Google Drive, OneDrive, Nextcloud, Amazon S3 and over 40 such cloud services. With rclone, you can backup files to cloud storage, restore files from cloud storage, mirror cloud data, migrate data between cloud services, use multiple cloud storage as disk. Rclone is an open source command line tool that enables you to synchronize a local Linux directory with various cloud storage services. If you are not afraid of the Linux terminal, let me show you a command line tool rclone that you can use for synchronizing Microsoft OneDrive in Linux. It’s a premium software and not every one want to use it. There is a hassle-free, GUI application Insync that lets you use OneDrive on Linux easily. This means that you’ll have to resort to using web browser for accessing your files in OneDrive which is not very convinient. The one major problem is that unlike Dropbox and Mega, Microsoft does not provide a desktop client for Linux.

Microsoft’s own Cloud storage service, OneDrive gives 5 GB of free storage to any Microsoft account holder.

You can also use Mega where you can get 15 GB of free storage. There is Dropbox that gives 2 GB of free space. There are several cloud storage services available for Linux. Brief: A step-by-step tutorial showing how to use the rclone command line tool to synchronize OneDrive in Linux.

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