90GB data migration in google drives

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I am using rclone first time. I am transferring 90GB data from old google drive account's my drive to a new account's shared drive using VPS Hetzner. It ran for 2 weeks (pass 1) and showed 90GB transferred but it was still going on. I mistakenly did Ctrl+C and it stopped. I ran for another pass (pass 2) and stopped it after 23 hours as the ETA was showing 0, thinking that the transfer was done. I am running the final pass now and it shows the below progress. I need to know how long it will take to finish the transfer or is it transferring the same files again. Should I stop it now or how to make it run faster? Please help, I need to report to my client asap.

Transferred:      913.273 MiB / 2.413 GiB, 37%, 606 B/s, ETA 4w3d4h
Errors:                 8 (retrying may help)
Checks:            230848 / 230848, 100%, Listed 562856
Transferred:         1116 / 4818, 23%
Elapsed time:  1d8h3m30.5s
Transferring:
 * 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) …g Änderung Konto .docx:  0% / 15.968 KiB, 0 B/s, -

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.74.2
- os/version: ubuntu 26.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 7.0.0-15-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.26.3
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

```rclone copy "source:" "dest:" \
  --drive-export-formats "docx,xlsx,pptx,pdf" \
  --ignore-size \
  --transfers 2 \
  --tpslimit 3 \
  --drive-pacer-min-sleep 300ms \
  --drive-pacer-burst 2 \
  --retries 10 \
  --retries-sleep 60s \
  --progress \
  --log-file /root/pass3.log \
  --log-level INFO
```

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

``` rclone config redacted
[dest]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
root_folder_id = 

[source]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = 
```

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

```root@migration-server:~# cat /root/pass1.log
2026/06/05 13:17:28 INFO  : Starting transaction limiter: max 3 transactions/s with burst 1
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: General Inbox: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: NEW — Hoffmann GmbH — 2026-05-19: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:29 NOTICE: NEW — Hoffmann GmbH — 2026-05-19: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/20. Notariatsanschreiben : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe  (1): Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/30. Übergabe an RAe : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/Fakih: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/NEUKLIENT:IN (Januar 2022) : Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/Swierzy: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
2026/06/05 13:17:31 NOTICE: 10. SONSTIGES (Umzug) - Zugriff nur GF/Weitere Korrespondenz: Duplicate directory found in source - ignoring
```
2

This is showing that 230848 files have been transferred ok but you've still got 1116 to go.

I expect you are being rate limited by drive.

3

Hi,

Have you gone into the Google console and created your own client ID?

Here are instructions for creating your own client ID and Secret.

If you don't have one you are using a shared resource that will be throttled by Google and is most likely the cause of your distress and copying such an amount of data.

Here are the rclone docs version of creating your own client ID. Take a look at both and see which one is easier for you to follow.