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backend/rclone: Improve documentation and README

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@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Therefore, restic supports the following backends for storing backups natively:
- `BackBlaze B2 <https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#backblaze-b2>`__
- `Microsoft Azure Blob Storage <https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#microsoft-azure-blob-storage>`__
- `Google Cloud Storage <https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#google-cloud-storage>`__
- And many other services via the `rclone <https://rclone.org>`__ `Backend <https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services-via-rclone>`__
Design Principles
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@ -391,7 +391,9 @@ Other Services via rclone
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The program `rclone`_ can be used to access many other different services and
store data there. First, you need to install and `configure`_ rclone. When you
store data there. First, you need to install and `configure`_ rclone. The
general backend specification format is ``rclone:<remote>:<path>``, the
``<remote>:<path>`` component will be directly passed to rclone. When you
configure a remote named ``foo``, you can then call restic as follows to
initiate a new repository in the path ``bar`` in the repo:
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Listing the files of an empty repository directly with rclone should return a
listing similar to the following:
.. code-block:: console
$ rclone ls b2prod:yggdrasil/foo/bar/baz
155 bar/baz/config
448 bar/baz/keys/4bf9c78049de689d73a56ed0546f83b8416795295cda12ec7fb9465af3900b44
Rclone can be `configured with environment variables`_, so for instance
configuring a bandwidth limit for rclone cat be achieve by setting the
``RCLONE_BWLIMIT`` environment variable:
.. code-block:: console
$ export RCLONE_BWLIMIT=1M
The rclone backend has two additional options:
* ``-o rclone.program`` specifies the path to rclone, the default value is just ``rclone``
@ -475,6 +484,7 @@ repository specification):
.. _rclone: https://rclone.org/
.. _configure: https://rclone.org/docs/
.. _configured with environment variables: https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables
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