9 posts tagged with "S3"

Keep recent restores fast and long-term retention cheap: hot in S3 Standard, warm in Wasabi/R2, and archive in Glacier Deep Archivewith RcloneView schedules and lifecycle-friendly flags.

A single storage class rarely fits every file. Design a tiered pipeline: copy fresh data to S3 Standard for rapid access, mirror to a low-cost warm tier (Wasabi/R2) for geo redundancy, and push monthly snapshots to Glacier Deep Archive for compliance retention. RcloneView layers a GUI over rclone so you can schedule Syncs, verify with Compare, and keep lifecycle rules intactno shell scripts.

Stop worrying about ransomware rollbacks. Combine S3 Object Lock with RcloneView's scheduler to keep backups untouchable.

Immutable storage keeps attackers (or accidents) from deleting or overwriting your backups before you can recover. S3 Object Lock is available on AWS S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, and Cloudflare R2, and rclone exposes it via flags that RcloneView can pass through in a job. This guide shows how to enable Object Lock on the bucket, wire it up in RcloneView, schedule protected jobs, and verify retention without touching the CLI.

Keep a live copy of production data in another region or cloud and switch within minutes when incidents strike.

Warm-standby DR pairs a primary location (e.g., AWS S3 or OneDrive) with a continuously updated standby (e.g., Cloudflare R2 or Wasabi). RcloneView layers a GUI over rclone so you can schedule steady syncs, validate drift with Compare, and mount the standby for rapid failover—without shell scripts.

Reliable backups only matter when they run every day. RcloneView’s scheduler makes it effortless.

Manual cloud backups rarely happen on time—someone forgets, a laptop is asleep, or a cron task silently fails. Meanwhile, ransomware, accidental deletions, or a lost laptop can wipe out weeks of work. Whether you’re protecting family photos on Google Drive, engineering assets on OneDrive, Dropbox collaboration folders, or archives in S3/Wasabi/R2, you need a consistent daily run. RcloneView layers a friendly GUI over rclone’s proven engine, so you can design backup jobs and let the scheduler fire automatically without touching scripts.

One pane, all your clouds. RcloneView turns multi-account chaos into a single dashboard for browsing, syncing, comparing, and scheduling jobs.

Most of us juggle at least two clouds. Personal Google Drive, work OneDrive, a shared Dropbox, maybe S3/Wasabi/R2 for archives. Each has different UIs, quotas, and quirks. Moving folders between them usually means manual downloads, re-uploads, or juggling multiple browser tabs. RcloneView fixes that by layering a modern GUI over rclone’s 70+ backends so every account feels like part of one workspace.

Bring your cloud with you. Use RcloneView to mirror Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or S3 onto an external HDD/SSD that stays updated—ready for planes, trains, or spotty hotel Wi-Fi.

Travel, field shoots, or simply wanting a physical backup often collide with cloud-only workflows. Official sync apps throttle large libraries or demand selective sync. If you need the entire folder tree offline—and a plug-in drive as part of your backup strategy—RcloneView turns rclone’s sync power into a friendly GUI. Connect a remote, pick your external path, and schedule automatic refreshes so your drive is always ready, even if your account gets locked or you lose connectivity.

End the stutter. With the right VFS cache settings, Plex streams cloud media as if it were local—no CLI required.

Cloud streaming with Plex is powerful, but it can stutter: buffering during 4K playback, sluggish seeking, or slow library scans. The cause isn’t always your internet—it’s how Plex reads many tiny ranges and thumbnails while rclone fetches data over higher‑latency cloud connections. Rclone’s Virtual File System (VFS) cache is the fix, and RcloneView gives you a simple GUI to turn the right knobs.

Out of disk? Mount your cloud as a local drive with RcloneView and let Plex stream directly from it—smoothly, reliably, and without command‑line setup.

Plex is fantastic at organizing and streaming your media, but local storage fills up fast. Meanwhile, cloud buckets—Google Drive, Dropbox, Wasabi, Cloudflare R2, S3—offer cheap, virtually unlimited space. The missing piece is a clean way to make Plex “see” those cloud folders like a local path. Rclone’s mount command solves it, and RcloneView wraps that power in a simple GUI: pick a cloud folder, choose a drive letter or mount path, enable caching, and go. No terminal, no flags to memorize.

One clean dashboard for all your clouds—browse, compare, transfer, and automate without the command line.

Cloud storage sprawl is real. Personal Gmail + a work Google account, a OneDrive tied to Microsoft 365, a legacy Dropbox you still share with a vendor, and an S3 bucket for archives. Logging in and out of different portals wastes time and makes it easy to lose track of what lives where. RcloneView solves that by bringing every account into a single, visual explorer powered by rclone—so you can move confidently between providers with previews, dry-runs, and scheduled jobs.