Quota Exceeded with Google Photos

[Mike_DeAngelo]

I'm running Linux Mint 20.1, attempting to mirror my Google Photos locally.

rclone v1.50.2
 - os/arch: linux/amd64
 - go version: go1.13.6

When I run rclone sync photos:media/by-month/ $HOME/gphotos/media/by-month/ -P I get the following 429 error part way through the run. The run continues with this error coming up over and over again.

I added some newlines for clarity

2021-07-12 08:50:20 ERROR : 2013/2013-04: error reading source directory: couldn't list files:
Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Read requests' and limit 'Read requests per minute per user'
of service 'photoslibrary-dot-googleapis-dot-com' for consumer 'project_number:nnnnnnnnnnnnn'.
(429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED)

It appears that rclone just goes to the next directory and attempts to sync, getting another 429 error. I would expect that either rclone would stop after a 429, or it would throttle back.

I worked around the issue by running the following script...

#!/bin/bash

for y in $(rclone lsf --dirs-only photos:media/by-month/)
do
    echo "Got ${y}"
    for m in $(rclone lsf --dirs-only photos:media/by-month/${y})
    do
	echo "Got ${y}${m}"
	/usr/bin/rclone sync photos:media/by-month/${y}${m} $HOME/gphotos/media/by-month/${y}${m}
    done
done

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hello and welcome to the forum,

before stating that rclone has a bug, please update rclone and test again.
the version you are using is approx 18 months old.....
https://rclone.org/downloads/#script-download-and-install

if you search the forum, it is common to exceed quota with google photos, as the value to hit a quota is much lower then google drive.
one workaround is to use --tpslimit 1

did you create your own client id as that helps.