How to backup /home directory intelligently?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone? none

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

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rclone version
rclone v1.58.1

  • os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 5.15.0-40-lowlatency (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.17.9
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

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

\\ pCloud

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

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The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

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A log from the command with the -vv flag

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My question is a general question. I'd like to backup my home directory to pCloud using rclone. I'm working through the commands, and am not having any difficulties in the testing that I have done. My home directory contains about 800Gb of data. I know that it will take a long time to back this up at one time. How do you generally backup large amounts of data?

Thanks

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the main limitation is the upload bandwidth, once you hit that hard limit, not much to tweak.

so i would run a test, using the simplest command and check the upload speed.
rclone copy source dest --progress

can tweak --transfers and --checkers

also, might want to use a rclone crypt remote to protect sensitive files.

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I don't think I asked my question clearly. Would you just start the backup of the entire home directory and let it run for days? Or would you backup subdirectories a few at a time?

Thanks for the suggestion about crypt. I've been reading about it on this forum, and have been learning how to use it. You have reinforced my belief that I should use it.

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at this point, why not create a rclone remote to pcloud, create a rclone crypt remote,
as i suggested above, run a few tests, tweak settings,
and figure out what is max upload speed to pcloud.

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Thanks. I'll do that.

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