Optimal DOWNLOAD Parameters for GDrive/Crypt

I am about to undertake downloading about 12TB from my Google Drive Crypt. Could someone recommend the best settings to use for a large download like this? File sizes vary drastically from kb to GB. I'm on a Gigabit connection. Thanks!

I would just use Animosity22 settings here https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

Just curious, what are you going to be doing? converting from crypt to unencrypt? or just getting all your content off of cloud storage?

Just getting backed up content onto local drive. Thanks for the link, but this seems to be mostly geared towards uploading to cloud, not downloading...

I think rclone mount is not the right "tool"
I would prefer rclone copy with 8-16 --transfers. This should max your connection out. :smiling_imp:
The download quota of 10TB per day won't be the limit...

edit: of course use --checksum and all should be fine.

as a test, choose one folder and do a simple rclone copy source dest.
see if that will max out your connection.

for the local flies, will they stay encrypted or do you plan to decrypt them?
https://rclone.org/crypt/#backing-up-a-crypted-remote

I plan to decrypt them. No, default doesn't max it out

sure, i would expect that.

https://rclone.org/drive/#limitations
"limited to transferring about 2 files per second only. Individual files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MBytes/s but lots of small files can take a long time."

hi, i am not a gdrive expert so i am curious given that
gdrive is "limited to transferring about 2 files per second only. Individual files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MBytes/s but lots of small files can take a long time."

how would setting --transfers that high, make a difference?

yes you're right. Lots of small files will make a queue and some --transfers must wait for start transfering. But when you have mixed content or only big files, 2 files per second will not be the limit.
newoski start with --transfers 8 and look at --progress to find your best settings.

just my experiance.

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