Rclone to FTP server

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

• if you post a command, need to see a full debug log, add -vv to the command, just a snippet is not helpful
• does not seem like an issue with the seedbox provider.

as a test, run rclone on the same computer that is running the ftp server.

@t3amz1

--ftp-tls

if that is already in the config file, why add it to the command line?

[t3amz1]

just for try , I delete the line in the conf and add it at the beginning

[t3amz1]

the log output is always the same

rclone copy /private/qBittorrent/data/ mp3m:/MUSIC -vv --ftp-tls
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.56.2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "copy" "/private/qBittorrent/data/" "mp3m:/MUSIC" "-vv" "--ftp-tls"]
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "/private/qBittorrent/data/"
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : Using config file from "/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "mp3m:/MUSIC"
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : mp3m: detected overridden config - adding "{HSnGk}" suffix to name
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : ftps://ipserverftp:port/MUSIC: Connecting to FTP server
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 1/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 20ms
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 2/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 40ms
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 3/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 80ms
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 4/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 160ms
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 5/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:50 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 320ms
2021/10/02 19:02:51 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 6/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:51 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 640ms
2021/10/02 19:02:51 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 7/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:51 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 1.28s
2021/10/02 19:02:52 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 8/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:52 DEBUG : pacer: Rate limited, increasing sleep to 2s
2021/10/02 19:02:53 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 9/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:55 DEBUG : pacer: low level retry 10/10 (error EOF)
2021/10/02 19:02:55 Failed to create file system for "mp3m:/MUSIC": NewFs: failed to make FTP connection to "ipserverftp:port": EOF

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@asdffdsa

as a test, run rclone on the same computer that is running the ftp server.

did you try that, no advantage of running rclone on the seedbox....

and use simplest config file

[MP3-test]
type = ftp
host = ipserver
user = username
port = port
pass = passw

[t3amz1]

ok i'll try tomorrow!

[ivandeex (Ivan Andreev)]

I rechecked the doc and......
The rclone FTP doc states explicitly that

Rclone's FTP implementation is not compatible with 'active' mode.

We have a request for active mode support which is in forever "waiting volunteers" state
Recently it was reiterated in the discussion there that active mode is in fact ancient legacy too insecure to implement it.

Also let me note that we have a few long-standing bugs in the rclone ftp client, notably this one:

ftp: fix I/O timeout after long uploads

I expect to have them fixed in future v1.58. Progress is tracked at ftp · GitHub

Until then I can recommend alternative clients - lftp on Unix, filezilla on Windows or to your taste.

PS I'm gonna unsubscribe from here as it seems to be a RTFM problem.