How does offline uploading work's

[Django]

Hello,

Coming from rclone+plexdrive and moving to full rclone with cache who works nice for me, i have a question with the Offline uploading feature,

how does it works?

i have set this on my rclone mount cache

–cache-tmp-upload-path /home/user/rclone/ready/
–cache-tmp-wait-time 24h \

i have move files into this tmp-upload-path but nothing happens !

i probably miss something, i anyone can help me

Thanks

ps : my mount settings

rclone mount
–allow-other
–allow-non-empty
–dir-cache-time 120h
–drive-chunk-size 32M
–vfs-read-chunk-size 16M
–vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 2G
–timeout 1h
–umask 002
–cache-info-age=128h
–cache-chunk-total-size 250G
–cache-chunk-path /home/user/rclone/
–cache-db-path /home/user/rclone/db/
–cache-tmp-upload-path /home/user/rclone/ready/
–cache-tmp-wait-time 24h
–log-level INFO
–log-file /home/user/log/app-cache.log
–config=/home/user/script/rclone.conf
gdrive-app-cache: /home/user/google/gdrive-app-cache/ &

[Animosity022]

You don’t move things into the tmp-upload-path, you just copy them to the mount.

allow-non-empty is just a bad option and you should remove it as it allows for over mounting.

–vfs-read-chunk-size 16M
–vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 2G can both be removed as you are using the cache backend so that does nothing.

If you are using the cache backend, I’d set --buffer-size 0M as the cache backend uses it’s own buffering so it’s just waste.

[Django]

–vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 2G can both be removed as you are using the cache backend so that does nothing.

nice

so, what’s the use of that settings? “the tmp-upload-path”

[calisro (Rob)]

Just the path to where it moves the files before upload.

[Django]

buffer

hum,

i want to move a files from my local directory “A” to my cloud directory “B”

rclone move do that

A => B

with tmp-upload-path it will add a cache directory to permet access to the file during transfer?

[Animosity022]

Take a second and read this as it explains how the offline uploading works:

https://rclone.org/cache/#offline-uploading

[Django]

allready read this various time

[Animosity022]

So based on the steps and the explanation of how it works, what isn’t clear? I’m asking as I’d like to update / fix if things aren’t clear.

[Django]

for me,

i have understand this : tmp-upload-path is a temp folder who’s file will be automated moved from to rclone cache after a delay set by cache-tmp-wait-time

[Animosity022]

If you have a mount called “/mount”

You could copy /somewhere/file.txt to /mount/file.txt

With the cache backend, behind the scenes, the file actually lands on the local storage at the cache-tmp-upload-path.

After the time expires, it moves that file from local to your cloud remote in the background.