When you’re using the --no-traverse option, are you copying from the root directory or specifying down to a more specific directory? And if you’re copying the root directory, does it just copy everything again?
Just wondering, as I’ve been playing around with some scripts to keep my ACD and GDrive in sync. My ACD is encrypted, so it’s mounted on my VPS and then decrypted in another directory. Usually, I sync that directory to GDrive down to the specific movie/TV series folder (~/acdDecrypted/Movies/TitleA syncs to ~/GDrive/Movies/TitleA) and (~/acdDecrypted/TV/SeriesA/Season1 syncs to ~/GDrive/TV/SeriesA/Season1). Using the copy command will leave duplicates in the GDrive directories, so that’s why I use sync. I used to sync straight from the root directories (~/acdDecrypted syncs to ~/Gdrive) but obviously that’s overkill when I can pass only the changed directories to the sync script.
I’m still getting the 24-hour lock mostly every day, but I also have been downloading/syncing a lot, and each time a sync runs, my Plex server scans the respective library. So perhaps that’s the cause, but the limit still seems arbitrarily low.
The only other alternative I’ve tried is having a script monitor my PMS logs with tail, and anytime it throws a “file cannot be opened” error, it kicks off a script that swaps my media directory from the GDrive mount to the ACD mount, but this isn’t all that graceful because it only triggers when somebody “clicks” a movie/show and Plex says “unavailable” so they have to try again after the script is triggered. I’m wondering if there’s a more graceful way to accomplish this, like having a small text file stored on GDrive that the script can attempt to cat at an interval of something like 10 minutes, and if it’s unsuccessful it will swap mounts. I’m just worried that accessing that text file would just push me over the request limit for GDrive.
EDIT
Well I tried the text file, and I can cat it right now from the VPS even though my GDrive is still banned. In the web console of GDrive, attempting to download a media file still results in “daily quota exceeded” so it must only enforce the “ban” on larger files. Does rClone log access errors on a consistent basis, or only when somebody attempts to play something?