What is the problem you are having with rclone?
Not really a problem but rather trying to find an improvement for the way I've currently configured rclone. I'm not really looking to have a new feature developed unless this is asked by other people as well. Just tying to find out if i can use rclone in a better way for my situation.
Currently i use a sync command with --backup-dir to move deleted content to an archive directory.
Sometimes i download content from that backup-dir.
I use --include-from with a file containing all of the filenames (not directories) downloaded that need to be moved back to their previous location where the sync command will pick them again.
I've tried using --copy-dest but it seems not to work for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but i could not find any example implementations for this one. Maybe it did not work because the files match based on path and filename and the downloaded files from backup-dir were no longer in there original folder.
I'm basically looking at two different ways to improve this situation. (see further below for the commands used)
- --include-from is fed from a directory listing instead of the contents of a file. This would save time as i do not have to manually fill a text file with the necessary filenames. This requires me to put the downloaded files from the backup-dir in a specific folder and rclone will restore them from the backup-dir
- A parameter for sync where i can tell it to check whether it can find any files to be uploaded in the previously mentioned backup-dir and move them back if necessary (tried doing this with --copy-dest)
Does anybody have an idea that would help with the above 2 scenarios?
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.57.0
- os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 2009 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.19044.1586 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.17.2
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: cmount
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Drive
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
Base sync command
C:\rclone\rclone.exe sync --bwlimit 3M:off --fast-list --track-renames --track-renames-strategy modtime --check-first --delete-after --delete-excluded --exclude-from "C:/rclone/Configs/Exclusions.txt" --backup-dir cryptGDrive:Archive/Union --progress --log-file "C:\Users\name\Desktop\MirrorD Log\Rclone Mirror_Union.log" --log-level INFO local:E:/Union/ cryptGDrive:Union
Command to restore files from the backup-dir
C:\rclone\rclone.exe move --fast-list --check-first --include-from "C:/rclone/Configs/BackupSync_filelist.txt" --progress --log-file "C:\Users\name\Desktop\MirrorD Log\Rclone BackupSync.log" --log-level INFO cryptGDrive:Archive/Union cryptGDrive:Union
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[local]
type = local
encoding = Slash,InvalidUtf8
copy_links = true
[remoteGDrive]
type = drive
client_id =
client_secret =
scope = drive
root_folder_id =
service_account_file =
token =
encoding = Slash,InvalidUtf8
pacer_min_sleep = 10ms
pacer_burst = 1000
[cryptGDrive]
type = crypt
remote = remoteGDrive:Crypt
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password =
password2 =
A log from the command with the -vv flag
n/a
Sorry don't what log you would want if i'm asking what commands to use to get something done.
If a log would help please let me know of what situation described above (or other situation) you would like me to provide