Rclone copy command uses more than 3x MB of data for single file, want to know why?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

its regarding amount of data cost per file size. i am sure something wrong on my side. when i copy 5MB file from my pc to my storj account it shows (on my ISP data usage log as well as on my computer usage tracker ) that trasnfered has used almost 2.5X to 3 X amount of data .
so above 5 MB file copy to my storj account using rclone command uses almost 20MB. so is like that.
But when i upload same file using browser . it shows exactly 5MB used.

could anybody give me why such behavior?

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

rclone v1.66.0

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.19045.4170 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.22.1
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount

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

storj

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

rclone copy   -P D:/B.png storj:/test/DELETE/

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[storj]
type = storj
access_grant = XXX

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

Paste  log here
2

Check rclone storj remote documentation. This is expected behaviour when you use native storj API. This is how storj works:) If transfers volumes are your concern use storj S3 gateway instead.

3

as per your intructions ,yes i read docs it says 2.5x or 3x.
thanks for that. storj S3 gateway is something which is free or they charge for using it?

thanks for quick reply. .

4

It is free as I know but the best to check on storj website or their community forum.

5

found how to do via gateway. but transfer speed of upload in too slow just 100kb/s.
any idea why?

6

Can be many reasons. You misconfigured something, your Internet speed to this gateway is slow, gateway itself can be busy from time to time etc.

Do your own testing - try other tools e.g. aws cli etc.

It will be always slower than direct API but should be perfectly usable - your speed is real slow indeed.

7

this could me reason. regarding cofigration anything special. i did as per this video

i am using aws cli command as mentioned in video.

i got 1GBps bandwidth. current transfer running via rclone with native. see speed below
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