🚀 Migrate Google Drive to AWS S3 Using Rclone 🚀

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Step 1: Install Rclone

🔗 Download Rclone and install it on your system.


🔧 Step 2: Configure Google Drive in Rclone

Open a terminal and run:

rclone config

1️⃣ Select New Remote
2️⃣ Name it (e.g., gdrive)
3️⃣ Choose Google Drive
4️⃣ Authenticate using your Google Account
5️⃣ Follow the on-screen instructions


🌍 Step 3: Configure AWS S3 in Rclone

Still inside rclone config:
1️⃣ Add a New Remote
2️⃣ Name it (e.g., s3bucket)
3️⃣ Enter your AWS Credentials:

  • Access Key

  • Secret Key

  • Region
    4️⃣ Save and exit


🔄 Step 4: Sync Google Drive to AWS S3

Run the following command:

rclone sync gdrive:/your-folder s3bucket:/your-bucket --progress

📂 Replace your-folder with your Google Drive folder name.
🪣 Replace your-bucket with your AWS S3 bucket name.

This will copy all files from Google Drive to S3 automatically!

✨ Done! You have successfully migrated your files from Google Drive to AWS S3 using Rclone. 🚀

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