How to append new tasks to an on-going rclone transfer session?

[ylorn]

Working Directory Structure

- copy.list
- firstFolder
| - first.file
- secondFolder
| - second.file

How can I achieve something as follows?

1. add firstFolder to the copy.list

   echo "firstFolder/**" > copy.list
   

2. invoke a copy task via rclone with the copy.list as the --include-from parameter

   rclone copy --progress --include-from copy.list . remote:destination
   

3. the transfer is in progress

   Transferred:        3.568 GiB / 10.251 GiB, 35%, 21.167 MiB/s, ETA 5m23s
   Transferred:            0 / 1, 0%
   Elapsed time:       3m5.3s
   Transferring:
   

4. before the transfer ends, if I add a new entry to the end of the copy.list

   echo "secondFolder/**" >> copy.list
   

What I expected to happen is the new entry gets picked up by the current ongoing transfer session and the new task is transferred by the current session like:

Transferred:        3.568 GiB / 10.251 GiB, 35%, 21.167 MiB/s, ETA 5m23s
-Transferred:            0 / 1, 0%
+Transferred:            0 / 2, 0%
Elapsed time:       3m5.3s
Transferring:

But what happened instead is that the current transfer session stuck to the original tasks without recognizing the updated file.

I understand that this is not the intended way of using the --include-from file, and I am just using it to demonstrate my use case.

And My question is, is there a way to append new task to an on-going transfer session without interrupting it?

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

rclone Version

rclone v1.61.1-cold
- os/version: debian 9.13 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 4.19.123-feral (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.19.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@ylorn

And My question is, is there a way to append new task to an on-going transfer session without interrupting it?

Short answer, no.

Longer answer , you could use the remote control to add things to transfer to an existing session.