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ericpauleytoday at 3:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Rclone is a fantastic tool, but my favorite part of it is actually the underyling FS library. I've started baking Rclone FS into internal Go tooling and now everything transparently supports reading/writing to either local or remote storage. Really great for being able to test data analysis code locally and then running as batch jobs elsewhere.


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absoflutelytoday at 5:47 PM

What kind of data analysis do you run with Go and do you use an open source library for it? My experience with stats libraries in Go has been lukewarm so far.

rsynctoday at 7:10 PM

"Rclone is a fantastic tool, but my favorite part of it is actually the underyling FS library."

Related to this is the very useful:

  rclone serve restic ...
.. workflow that allows you to create append-only (immutable) backups.

This howto is not rsync.net-specific - you can follow this recipe at any standard SSH endpoint:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2025-q4-rsync.net_tech...