ACD BAN/Alternatives discussion (error HTTP code 429)

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If someone else needs to migrate to gdrive from acd.

How to migrate 15TB ACD to GSUITE (with only the GSUITE cost)

I am transfering at 55-137MB/s! average: ~120MB/s

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First Step: Get G Suite Account

  1. signed up for G Suite trial.
  2. skipped setup assistant.
  3. added my domain via domain verification.
  4. upgraded to G Suite Business (8$ p month) (still on trial though! :slight_smile: )

Second Step: Get Google Compute Account
You get 300$ to spend for free on signup!+

  1. Register for free 300$ at Google Compute.
  2. Add billing details.
  3. Add a budget and limit it to 1$, just to be sure!
  4. Upgrade Google Compute to subscription (Is still on trial after uprade) (you have to, otherwise you only have 2TB disk space limit) (this will get you a 10TB limit)
  5. Request a additional +10TB contigent at “region” of your choice via Google Compute interface. I have a german ACD account, thererfore I use “eu-west 1” region. It only took 2min to approve! Bravo Google!
  6. Create Custom Instance VM with 2vCPU + 1.8GB RAM + 20 TB persistent HDD
  7. Wait for it to boot up and login via SSH

Third Step: Use odrive to sync to VM instance

  1. Register free odrive account
  2. Get linux odrive sync agent
  3. setup a mount
  4. recursive sync all directories
  5. recursive sync all files (with 3 parallel sync jobs)
    Tip: use ‘screen’. otherwise odrive sync jobs stop on connection abort / ssh session end!
    details see here: ACD BAN/Alternatives discussion (error HTTP code 429)

Fourth Step: Use rclone to sync to google

  1. you should know what todo. :wink:
    Beware: Since you are syncing the already encrypted files, you have to create a PLAIN remote.

Fifth Step: Use rclone with your CRYPT remote
Once finished uploading files files, switch to encrypted remote.

Sixth Step: Get ACD refund

Seventh Step: Unsubscribe Google Compute

  1. Stop VM instance
  2. Delete disk image
  3. unsubcribe (while still in trial period)
  4. remove your billing information

I calculated that the VM instance costs me around 0,07€ p. hour and the 15TB around 1,08€ p. hour once they are filled. Therefore I have about 9 “free” days at Google Compute to finish the migration.

At those average rates I am going to finish download in ~48 hours. I hope upload is similar fast, since it is coming from Google Compute to GDrive. Therefore the 9 days seem enough at this point.

Note: Since traffic to google drive is “free” currently, I may also get an additional “ebay” google drive account and also upload there. Should be possible in 9 days if the transfer speeds hold up.

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