# Rclone copy Issue between Onedrive to Dropbox **URL:** \ **Category:** Help and Support\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-copy-issue-between-onedrive-to-dropbox/31406 "2022-06-21T18:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Ole](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/ole/32/9242_2.png) [@Ole](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Ole)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-copy-issue-between-onedrive-to-dropbox/31406/3 "2022-06-21T19:25:52Z")
Hi Jean Paul, You are most likely being throttled by OneDrive. I suggest you read these posts: > [@Rclone v1.55.1 throttling and worse on OneDrive copy to GD](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-55-1-throttling-and-worse-on-onedrive-copy-to-gd/25018/13): > > Hey again @Ole All done. Copied over 1TB to Google Workspace account. Seemed that no matter what i did, OneDrive was sensitive. What i found was: When i left things overnight and started again using clone --ignore-existing --transfesr=4 --checkers=16 copy... , i would get ~80-90GB before seeing exceeded threshold on the OneDrive side of things. Speed was as you said, around 13-20 Mbyte/s. I could then restart after a few hours using the previous flags or also dropping the transfers to … > [@OneDrive: rclone getting throttled and pacer sleep time skyrockets to \>5m](https://forum.rclone.org/t/onedrive-rclone-getting-throttled-and-pacer-sleep-time-skyrockets-to-5m/26815/4): > > Hi Francesco, The sleep times you see are due to rclone respecting the Retry-After time returned in the [HTTP 429 (Too many requests)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/429) responses from OneDrive. There is no way to avoid them for sure, they depend on many parameters including the current load on the OneDrive servers hosting your data. You can see it being received and handled in this line of your log: 2021-10-02 18:56:48 DEBUG : Too many requests. Trying again in 322 seconds. You can however find some tips and experiences to re… > [@Rclone v1.55.1 throttling and worse on OneDrive copy to GD](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-v1-55-1-throttling-and-worse-on-onedrive-copy-to-gd/25018/8): > > I just ran my sync from OneDrive to GoogleDrive and it had the usual speed around 12 Mbyte/s. I use my own client ID on both remotes. The only tuning parameter is --checkers=16, the rest are defaults (that is no --tpslimit, --transfers=4 etc.) I have found that it is best to stay just under the OneDrive throttle limit all the time, and that corresponds to the rclone default settings in most situations. This is especially important with respect to transfers. OneDrive Personal will only do 4 tran… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-copy-issue-between-onedrive-to-dropbox/31406)._