Google Drive Mount Problem

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1

Hello,
I am trying to establish a Google Drive connection on my server with the following features. I think I have established it, but I cannot mount it.

Even though I type the Mount command and wait for 5 minutes, nothing happens, it just waits.

root@etc:~# rclone mount gbackup: /mnt/gbackup/

Config :

root@etc:~# rclone config show
[gbackup]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"ya29.a0AeXRPp7eS4A-#######-gXG03-0uQGzThfAM-#######--xAWx-#######-","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"1//09w8ZJm######GAkSNwF-#######-#######-#######-","expiry":"2025-03-25T16:07:28.736825933+03:00"}
team_drive =

Specs;

Debian 12
rclone version
rclone v1.60.1-DEV

Cloud Platform :
Google Driver

I don't know where I went wrong, can you help me? Thank you.

2

welcome to the forum,

nothing wrong. to access the files in the mount, rclone has to continue to run.
use -vv for debug output
open another terminal and ls /mnt/gbackup/

if you want to run rclone in the background, there are many ways including --daemon, cron, systemd and so on.

that is an ancient, unofficial, custom compiled version, from an out-of-date repo.

  1. rclone selfupdate
    or
  2. uninstall and then https://rclone.org/install/#script-installation
3

Hello,
Thanks for your response.

I updated the software to the latest version, and when I try to create a folder I get an error like this.

root@etc:~# rclone mkdir gbackup:Test_Folder_Name -vv
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.69.1" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mkdir" "gbackup:Test_Folder_Name" "-vv"]
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "gbackup:Test_Folder_Name"
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : Using config file from "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/10 (error googleapi: Error 403: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' a                 nd limit 'Queries per minute' of service 'drive.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:#########'.
Details:
[
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
    "domain": "googleapis.com",
    "metadata": {
      "consumer": "projects/#########",
      "quota_limit": "defaultPerMinutePerProject",
      "quota_limit_value": "420000",
      "quota_location": "global",
      "quota_metric": "drive.googleapis.com/default",
      "service": "drive.googleapis.com"
    },
    "reason": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
  },
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
    "links": [
      {
        "description": "Request a higher quota limit.",
        "url": "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
      }
    ]
  }
]
, rateLimitExceeded)
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.189591583s
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 2/10 (error googleapi: Error 403: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' a                 nd limit 'Queries per minute' of service 'drive.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:#########'.
Details:
[
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
    "domain": "googleapis.com",
    "metadata": {
      "consumer": "projects/#########",
      "quota_limit": "defaultPerMinutePerProject",
      "quota_limit_value": "420000",
      "quota_location": "global",
      "quota_metric": "drive.googleapis.com/default",
      "service": "drive.googleapis.com"
    },
    "reason": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
  },
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
    "links": [
      {
        "description": "Request a higher quota limit.",
        "url": "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
      }
    ]
  }
]
, rateLimitExceeded)
2025/03/26 10:48:24 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 2.329494949s
2025/03/26 10:48:26 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 3/10 (error googleapi: Error 403: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' a                 nd limit 'Queries per minute' of service 'drive.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:#########'.
Details:
[
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
    "domain": "googleapis.com",
    "metadata": {
      "consumer": "projects/#########",
      "quota_limit": "defaultPerMinutePerProject",
      "quota_limit_value": "420000",
      "quota_location": "global",
      "quota_metric": "drive.googleapis.com/default",
      "service": "drive.googleapis.com"
    },
    "reason": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
  },
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
    "links": [
      {
        "description": "Request a higher quota limit.",
        "url": "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
      }
    ]
  }
]
, rateLimitExceeded)
2025/03/26 10:48:26 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 4.625554546s
2025/03/26 10:48:28 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 4/10 (error googleapi: Error 403: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' a                 nd limit 'Queries per minute' of service 'drive.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:#########'.
Details:
[
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
    "domain": "googleapis.com",
    "metadata": {
      "consumer": "projects/#########",
      "quota_limit": "defaultPerMinutePerProject",
      "quota_limit_value": "420000",
      "quota_location": "global",
      "quota_metric": "drive.googleapis.com/default",
      "service": "drive.googleapis.com"
    },
    "reason": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
  },
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
    "links": [
      {
        "description": "Request a higher quota limit.",
        "url": "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
      }
    ]
  }
]
, rateLimitExceeded)
2025/03/26 10:48:28 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 8.236363779s
2025/03/26 10:48:33 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"2025/03/26 10:48:41 INFO  : Google drive root 'Test_Folder_Name': Making dire                 ctory
2025/03/26 10:48:42 DEBUG : 5 go routines active
4

When you are making the remote, it pointed out to make your own client id / secret:

Google drive

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5

It started badly, it's going badly.

This effort I made to backup only 4 sites in Cloudpanel was unnecessary. I installed Meganz. Username, password and it worked. That's it.

Google is on its way to becoming a pain in the neck. :slight_smile:

Thanks,

6

Really has nothing to do with Google as other bad humans abuse rclone's project Id for things so it's always throttled. Nothing can be done about it other than the bad humans stopping.

7

as mentioned, the problem is caused by not creating your own client id+secret.
only takes a few minutes to create.

imho, mega is a not a good choice for backups, does not support file transfer verification using hashes.