Error 403: User rate limit Exceeded trying to copy a empty file

Hello everyone.

I have a problem when copying files to the remote, in my case, a proof of concept against the encrypted remote.

Copying the empty file against the remote is returning an "Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., UserRateLimitExceeded"

How is it possible that I am having quota problems? If I do not have any automated process, I have only created the config file, mounted a remote in Drive and another encrypted remote.

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

"Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., UserRateLimitExceeded"

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.60.1

  • os/version: unknown
  • os/kernel: 4.4.180+ (aarch64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: arm64
  • go/version: go1.19.3
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Team Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

sudo rclone copy test.txt cryptmov: --config /var/services/homes/user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[teamdrive]
type = drive
client_id = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
client_secret = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2022-12-29T17:09:44.088352284+01:00"}
team_drive = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
root_folder_id =

[cryptmov]
type = crypt
remote = teamdrive:/01
directory_name_encryption = false
password = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
password2 = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

A log from the command with the -vv flag

2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.60.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "copy" "test.txt" "cryptmov:" "--config" "/var/services/homes/user/config/rclone/rclone.conf" "-vv"]
2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "test.txt"
2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : Using config file from "/var/services/homes/user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : fs cache: adding new entry for parent of "test.txt", "/volume1/video/zzRClone/logs"
2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "cryptmov:"
2022/12/29 16:37:25 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "teamdrive:/01"
2022/12/29 16:37:26 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "teamdrive:/01" to be canonical "teamdrive:01"
2022/12/29 16:37:26 DEBUG : test.txt: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
2022/12/29 16:37:27 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/1 (error googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded)
2022/12/29 16:37:27 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.859568482s
2022/12/29 16:37:27 DEBUG : test.txt: Received error: googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded - low level retry 1/10
2022/12/29 16:37:27 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
2022/12/29 16:37:29 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/1 (error googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded)
2022/12/29 16:37:29 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.869318824s
2022/12/29 16:37:29 DEBUG : test.txt: Received error: googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded - low level retry 2/10
2022/12/29 16:37:29 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
2022/12/29 16:37:31 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/1 (error googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded)
2022/12/29 16:37:31 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.044581702s
2022/12/29 16:37:31 DEBUG : test.txt: Received error: googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded - low level retry 3/10
2022/12/29 16:37:31 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
2022/12/29 16:37:32 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/1 (error googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded)
2022/12/29 16:37:32 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.06653272s
2022/12/29 16:37:32 DEBUG : test.txt: Received error: googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded., userRateLimitExceeded - low level retry 4/10
2022/12/29 16:37:33 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s

There are quite the number of posts on Google cracking down.

You are:

  • out of upload quota
  • your tenant is full
  • your tenant is capped.

Hit search and read a few as there are too many to list.

I've read quite a few threads on the forum but they always have problems at more advanced points in the configuration, I've never seen problems right after creating the remote and uploading an empty file, so it seems unlikely to me that I'll exceed the quota (internally RClone does a request per minute to do a drive.change.list) or that my tenant is full.

Thank you.

The error is telling you that you are out of quota so not sure what else to offer.

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