Merging 78 Google drive accounts

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I don't have a problem

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

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So I just have a short question.

I have 78 Google drive accounts because 78 x 15 GB = 1170 GB. Is there a way to merge these accounts so I get one big drive from 1170 GB? Maybe with a way to access it using SFTP?

I want to use these Google drives as a kind of nas. Is rclone the right tool for this?

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Rclone is real Swiss knife of cloud storage.

You can combine multiple sources using union remote and then access it using sftp thx to rclone serve sftp.

Most likely you will have to throw chunker overlay in between (to split large files into small pieces) and crypt to have it secure.

This is theory:)

In practice it will take you many many hours to configure it correctly, test and maintain. My advice is do not go this way.

Also most likely with 78 accounts it will be rather slow (maybe even painfully slow) and there is big chance that Google will stop your adventure at some point as your usage pattern will be flagged as very suspicious. It can happen any moment so your data won’t be ever safe from disappearing without any notice.

You pay peanuts you get monkeys.

If you care about your data much better option is to get some cheap storage. For 1TB it won’t cost a fortune. E.g. with idriveE2 S3 you can get 1TB for $25 for the first year.

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All I care about is just a lot of free cloud storage. I am not planning to upload very sensitive data to here. Also, do you maybe know someone who tried the same as I am willing to do? I am curious about the success rate.

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I’ve heard about such attempts. A lot of work, frustration and lost data was usual outcome.

But feel free to share your story as it goes.

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I think I am going to use telegram as a free unlimited cloud storage. I will be using the following tool: https://teldrive-docs.pages.dev/

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You know that it has 1.5GB transfer limit per day?:slight_smile:

As it is rather off topic I suggest you move your further discussion to this thread:

many people there looking for similar things.