Mega: randomly failed to login

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

We are usiong rclone to move db backup from linode vps (around different EU server farms) into a PAID mega.nz account

Randomly, rclone tell me this

Failed to create file system for "Mega_DFS:02_server_name/db": couldn't login: Try again

We asked to linode support and they told that are not limiting / blocking anything.
We asked to mega support and thet told us that our bandwith is only marginally used, and ther are not having any problem.

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.53.1
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.15

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Debian 8/9/10 64bit

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

Mega.nz

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

rclone sync

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

rclone config dump
{
    "Mega_DFS": {
        "hard_delete": "true",
        "pass": "...",
        "type": "mega",
        "user": "info@...."
    }

A log from the command with the -vv flag

Please notice 2 things:

  • we limited outbound bandwidth, just to try
  • the problem happens with and without bandwidth limit
  • the login problem is transient.. from last failed attempt to the very last, where login worked, we didn't do anything at all.

2020/11/10 08:00:18 INFO  : Starting bandwidth limiter at 1MBytes/s
2020/11/10 08:00:20 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/11/10 08:00:20 INFO  :
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Checks:              1139 / 1139, 100%
Elapsed time:         1.4s

Richiesto il dump hourly del db db_name
Elimino i file 'hourly' piu vecchi di 3 giorni
Elimino i file 'daily' piu vecchi di 60  giorni
2020/11/10 09:00:04 INFO  : Starting bandwidth limiter at 1MBytes/s
2020/11/10 09:00:15 Failed to create file system for "Mega_DFS:02_server_name/db": couldn't login: Try again
2020/11/10 09:00:15 INFO  : Starting bandwidth limiter at 1MBytes/s
2020/11/10 09:00:27 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/11/10 09:00:27 INFO  :
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Checks:              1074 / 1074, 100%
Elapsed time:        12.0s

2020/11/10 09:00:27 INFO  : Starting bandwidth limiter at 1MBytes/s
2020/11/10 09:00:29 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2020/11/10 09:00:29 INFO  :
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Checks:              1139 / 1139, 100%
Elapsed time:         1.7s

Question

I kindly ask you for suggestion how to handle login problems and if Mega is already famous for these problems or not, so we can switch to another cloud.

As far I as know, there's no magic here. If the provider is over loaded and not working, you would have to re-run the commands. Mega is just not a great backend unfortunately.

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