Boost upload speeds to OneDrive

[Ole (Ole Frost)]

I have found that you generally get best speeds to OneDrive with the default parameters. You may sometimes get better performance if you have checkers=16 (for a short while). You can see more details in this post:

Rclone v1.55.1 throttling and worse on OneDrive copy to GD

I just ran my sync from OneDrive to GoogleDrive and it had the usual speed around 12 Mbyte/s. I use my own client ID on both remotes. The only tuning parameter is --checkers=16, the rest are defaults (that is no --tpslimit, --transfers=4 etc.) I have found that it is best to stay just under the OneDrive throttle limit all the time, and that corresponds to the rclone default settings in most situations. This is especially important with respect to transfers. OneDrive Personal will only do 4 tran…

You really need to have a special situation to start tweaking the parameters (like the number of transfers).

What are the characteristics of your data? How many folders? How many files in each? Typical file size? Total size? How many of the folders and files are already present in the target (to be checked and then skipped)?