Copy to remote via script or by copying on mount

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I haven't seen this answered, if I missed it kindly link me to it.
Lets say we have a google remote mounted in /gdrive using --vfs-cache-mode full and I have some files in /local.
Now if I want to move some files automatically from /local to the remote I can a) have a script that uses rclone move or b) do mv /local/fileA /gdrive/dirX/. Is there some preference over the two?

Tbh I faintly remember that it was recommended not to move local files by mv, cp on the mount but instead by using the rclone equivalents. I believe the reasoning was that in case of network hiccup rclone move would retry while the mv command would just fail.

I have also seen that @Animosity022 uses option B in his scripts (ergo the tag :stuck_out_tongue: ) and he used to use cron with rclone move iirc? In which case some feedback would be nice!

Thanks

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hi,
you can do a ot b, it is just a matter of your use-case.

imho,
if you have a set of files to copy/move to gdrive, i would choose use rclone copy/move
one main reason is the log file for rclone copy/move is much easier to understand and to parse than a log file for rclone mount

and using --vfs-cache-mode full is really a double file operation
to move /local/fileA to /gdrive/dirX/.

  1. rclone moves /local/fileA into the vfs file cache.
  2. rclone moves that file from the vfs file cache to gdrive.
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Sure, for lots of files and manually rclone move/copy is the better choice.

If you write in the mount (-> vfs cache) and network drops, does rclone retry?

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it depends on the vfs file cache mode and that is documented
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/
search for If an upload fails

tho interesting that when the cache mode is full,
the documentation does not explicitly mention that it retries, but for sure, rclone will retry.

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