Google Drive - Auto Resume when Upload Quota Reached?

[Theprez (JP)]

General Question -

Hey all - I did some reading on the forums and it seems like my best bet for google drive is to use the "--drive-stop-on-upload-limit" switch but how does rClone know to resume in 24 hours when the quota resets? Does it keep attempting eventually until this event occurs?

I have about 5TB of files I need to upload, so I know it won't complete in 24 hours even with 3Gigx3Gig internet speed as it'll hit the daily 750Gig upload limit in under an hour with sustained 250MiB/s speed that I typically get when uploading.

Thanks

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@Theprez

"--drive-stop-on-upload-limit"
Does it keep attempting eventually until this event occurs?

afaik, no, that flag will trigger a fatal error. rclone will exit, stop running, terminate with non-zero exit code.

but there is a workaround, to never hit that quota, to limit the bandwidth used by rclone
--bwlimit=8.5 or --bwlimit 8.5M:off

check out my post at

Using Raspberry Pi for large data transfers

good, that should be easy to do with 1GB. if you have lots of small files, gdrive has lots of limits and throttling, that would be a slow pain. i am not a gdrive expert, but given you can only upload 750GB per 24 hour period, optimizing the command seems pointless. if you upload at full speed, rclone would hit that limit quickly and error out. you might want to use --bwlimit=8.5M, i think that is the correct value, you can search the forum. so i would use the a very simple rclone command, u…