Advice wanted for 6xxxxx (lot s of ) small files non-continuously upload to g suit? thx

Yes. This phase is particularly slow with google drive compared to other remotes.

You can investigate using the cache backend here as one of the things it does is cache the directory structure.

I think you've probably got the right parameters. There seems to be a rate limit of about 2 transfers per second with google drive.

I recommend you have another go since rclone's ID is somewhat oversubscribed and google refused to give me any more quota :frowning: