Crypt with Backblaze B2

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I run rclone in a small VM and mount shares that I want to sync up to a cloud storage so I don’t have much space on the VM itself. When I try to upload content to B2 without crypt everything is fine but when I try to use crypt it doesn’t upload anything and eventually runs out of disk space on the VM. I understand in the docs that crypt with B2 creates copies in order to do its thing but it never uploads. Do I need the same amount of space on the VM so it can upload the data? Or is there another way? I have a couple hundred gigs I would like to sync.

Rclone v 1.36
Example command: rclone sync /mnt/example b2crypt:bucketname

Thanks for any help.

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Are you sure you specified the remote with a colon in it, like this, “b2remote:yourbucket” name when setting up the crypted remote?

See here https://rclone.org/crypt/ for the crypt docs especially this part:

“In normal use, make sure the remote has a : in. If you specify the remote without a : then rclone will use a local directory of that name. So if you use a remote of /path/to/secret/files then rclone will encrypt stuff to that directory. If you use a remote of name then rclone will put files in a directory called name in the current directory.”

In any case, figure out where the data IS being copied to…betcha it’s copying it into your current directory somewhere!

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Oh my, thanks Keith. It has been awhile since I setup a new crypt and misread the directions haha. Everything is working now.

Thanks again!