I am using rclone to attempt to sync the contents of my macos timemachine backup located on a debian NAS. Everything appears to be working and I was able to successfully sync the backup the first time (close to 500gb).
Now on trying to sync the content, I get an error during the sync:
2019-10-07 17:30:51 ERROR : : Couldn't delete: googleapi: Error 404: No such object: 2019-workstation-backup/Mark, notFound
The debugging error log doesn't show any additional detail.
the /mnt/storage/timemachine/ location is a share on my debian NAS that is used by timemachine on my macos to perform nightly backups. The sparsebundle format contains the individual bands that the backup gets split into - probably 10s of thousands of files. It appears that rclone understands the structure, its just this one error.
From my attempts to help earlier in Slack, it seems like 2019-workstation-backup/Mark is the ddestination directory, and most files sync properly - but then this error also occurs and we were not able to nail down (even with debug) what exact object this is referring to. Or at least it is not obvious - why would it be trying to delete the destination directory if that's what it means - and even so why would it not be finding it?
We tried dedupe on a hunch since that can sometimes cause some weird behaviour, but no hits on that scan. Hopefully you can provide some better insights NCW
It is referring to the root I think, - the filename should be within the two colons here ERROR : : Couldn't delete: and an empty file is the root directory.
Can you post the log file generated with these extra flags -vv --dump bodies --retries 1 --log-file timemachine.log - that will at least give a clue as to what rclone is doing! If you feel it has sensitive stuff in you can email it to me nick@craig-wood.com (put a link to this post in the email please).