What is the problem you are having with rclone?
the new rclone archive with the -P flag show double the size of the files being added to the archive in the Transfered field
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.72.0-beta.9304.80e6389a5
- os/version: debian 12.12 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.1.0-41-amd64 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.25.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
local file system for both source and destination
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone archive create /tmp/test_rclone/kozemof/fumox /mnt/raid0/small_test_tar.tar -P -vv --log-file /tmp/log
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
No config as I am just using the local file system
A log from the command with the -vv flag
2025/11/17 14:13:08 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.72.0-beta.9304.80e6389a5" starting with parameters ["rclone" "archive" "create" "/tmp/test_rclone/kozemof/fumox" "/mnt/raid0/small_test_tar.tar" "-P" "-vv"]
2025/11/17 14:13:08 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/tmp/test_rclone/kozemof/fumox"
2025/11/17 14:13:08 NOTICE: Config file "/home/user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2025/11/17 14:13:08 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming child cache item "/tmp/test_rclone/kozemof/fumox" to be canonical for parent "/tmp/test_rclone/kozemof"
2025/11/17 14:13:08 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/mnt/raid0/"
2025/11/17 14:13:08 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "/mnt/raid0/" to be canonical "/mnt/raid0"
dst=Local file system at /mnt/raid0, dstFile="small_test_tar.tar", src=Local file system at /tmp/test_rclone/kozemof, format="", prefix=""
2025/11/17 14:13:09 DEBUG : small_test_tar.tar: size = 104859136 OK
2025/11/17 14:13:09 DEBUG : small_test_tar.tar: md5 = b85718baf9f94f339d170b66029ee7ff OK
2025/11/17 14:13:09 DEBUG : small_test_tar.tar: Size and md5 of src and dst objects identical
2025/11/17 14:13:09 INFO : Total files added 1
2025/11/17 14:13:09 INFO : Total bytes read 104857600
2025/11/17 14:13:09 INFO : Compressed file size 104859136
Transferred: 200.001 MiB / 200.001 MiB, 100%, 0 B/s, ETA -
Checks: 0 / 0, -, Listed 1
Transferred: 2 / 2, 100%
Elapsed time: 0.7s
2025/11/17 14:13:09 DEBUG : 3 go routines active
