Critique my Windows Backup Script?

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Hi All,

New to RClone, and like so many it seems am migrating off CrashPlan. I signed up for Gsuite unlimited and have my remote and encrypted remote setup for Rclone. This is what I'm using with the intention of the remote being a backup rather than a mirror of my local storage. I have a 100/40 Mbps connection, hence the bandwidth limitation.

rclone.exe copy M:\ MyCrypt:/ -P --buffer-size 16M --drive-chunk-size 16M --transfers 20 --checkers 40 --bwlimit 4.5M --exclude-from .\excludes.txt

This is what is in excludes.txt

$RECYCLE.BIN/**
\#recycle/**

Is there anything I should be doing differently for security, speed or efficiency? Is it worth keeping a record of all the encrypted filepaths/names locally for restore purposes? Are there any tools for this, or are people just using text files?

Thanks for any help!

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If you are really thinking about making a backup instead of a synchronization, you must use the --backup-dir parameter.

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You'd want to use rclone sync in that case too.

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Thanks so much for the replies. Initially I had thought I could rely on the versioning functionality in Google Drive, however it seems versions might be auto cleaned up their side unless I go in and explicitly tell Google to keep each version forever. I will have to mix the --backup-dir parameter in there.

EDIT

Seems that I may have not setup my remotes very well. At this moment I have transferred 10TB or so using the command in my first post. Something I didn't think about is that the target is pointing to the root of my crypted remote, and because the --backup-dir parameter target has to be on the same remote I am getting fatal errors because the target for the sync or copy parameter cannot overlap with the target specified in the --backup-dir parameter.

Is there anyway I can move the data in my remote without having to upload everything again?

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Sure...

This is easiest to do with rclone mount... Just mount it up then move the files about. rclone will do server side renames so no re-uploading.

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Thank you! All set now using sync with the --backup-dir command.

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