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title: "rclone copy"
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description: "Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied."
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slug: rclone_copy
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url: /commands/rclone_copy/
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# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/copy/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
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---
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# rclone copy
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Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied.
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## Synopsis
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Copy the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer
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unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or
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MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination.
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Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced,
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not the directory so when source:path is a directory, it's the
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contents of source:path that are copied, not the directory name and
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contents.
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If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents
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go there.
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For example
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rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
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Let's say there are two files in sourcepath
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sourcepath/one.txt
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sourcepath/two.txt
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This copies them to
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destpath/one.txt
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destpath/two.txt
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Not to
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destpath/sourcepath/one.txt
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destpath/sourcepath/two.txt
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If you are familiar with `rsync`, rclone always works as if you had
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written a trailing `/` - meaning "copy the contents of this directory".
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This applies to all commands and whether you are talking about the
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source or destination.
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See the [--no-traverse](/docs/#no-traverse) option for controlling
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whether rclone lists the destination directory or not. Supplying this
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option when copying a small number of files into a large destination
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can speed transfers up greatly.
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For example, if you have many files in /path/to/src but only a few of
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them change every day, you can copy all the files which have changed
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recently very efficiently like this:
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rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse /path/to/src remote:
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**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics.
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**Note**: Use the `--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag to test without copying anything.
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```
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rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]
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```
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## Options
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```
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--create-empty-src-dirs Create empty source dirs on destination after copy
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-h, --help help for copy
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```
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See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
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## SEE ALSO
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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
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