Rclone v1.46 release

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Rclone 1.46 has been released (after a slightly extended release period to allow for the Holiday season)! Find it here https://rclone.org/downloads/

Highlights:

  • Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) OSS supported via the s3 backend
  • serve dlna: serves a remove via DLNA for the local network
  • Restore --no-traverse flag for copying small numbers of files into a large destination
  • Bash completions will now complete remote names and remote paths
  • Better memory handling including optional --use-mmap flag

Thank you to all the contributors to this release, those who contributed code or doc fixes (29 people!) or made issues or answered questions in the forum - your help is much appreciated!

v1.46 - 2019-02-09

  • New backends
    • Support Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) OSS via the s3 backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • New commands
    • serve dlna: serves a remove via DLNA for the local network (nicolov)
  • New Features
    • copy, move: Restore deprecated --no-traverse flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • This is useful for when transferring a small number of files into a large destination
    • genautocomplete: Add remote path completion for bash completion (Christopher Peterson & Danil Semelenov)
    • Buffer memory handling reworked to return memory to the OS better (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • Buffer recycling library to replace sync.Pool
      • Optionally use memory mapped memory for better memory shrinking
      • Enable with --use-mmap if having memory problems - not default yet
    • Parallelise reading of files specified by --files-from (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • check: Add stats showing total files matched. (Dario Guzik)
    • Allow rename/delete open files under Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • lsjson: Use exactly the correct number of decimal places in the seconds (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add cookie support with cmdline switch --use-cookies for all HTTP based remotes (qip)
    • Warn if --checksum is set but there are no hashes available (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Rework rate limiting (pacer) to be more accurate and allow bursting (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Improve error reporting for too many/few arguments in commands (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • listremotes: Remove -l short flag as it conflicts with the new global flag (weetmuts)
    • Make http serving with auth generate INFO messages on auth fail (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fix layout of stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix --progress crash under Windows Jenkins (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix transfer of google/onedrive docs by calling Rcat in Copy when size is -1 (Cnly)
    • copyurl: Fix checking of --dry-run (Denis Skovpen)
  • Mount
    • Check that mountpoint and local directory to mount don’t overlap (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix mount size under 32 bit Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • VFS
    • Implement renaming of directories for backends without DirMove (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • now all backends except b2 support renaming directories
    • Implement --vfs-cache-max-size to limit the total size of the cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add --dir-perms and --file-perms flags to set default permissions (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix deadlock on concurrent operations on a directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix deadlock between RWFileHandle.close and File.Remove (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix renaming/deleting open files with cache mode “writes” under Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix panic on rename with --dry-run set (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix vfs/refresh with recurse=true needing the --fast-list flag
  • Local
    • Add support for -l/--links (symbolic link translation) (yair@unicorn)
      • this works by showing links as link.rclonelink - see local backend docs for more info
      • this errors if used with -L/--copy-links
    • Fix renaming/deleting open files on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Crypt
    • Check for maximum length before decrypting filename to fix panic (Garry McNulty)
  • Azure Blob
    • Allow building azureblob backend on *BSD (themylogin)
    • Use the rclone HTTP client to support --dump headers, --tpslimit etc (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Use the s3 pacer for 0 delay in non error conditions (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Ignore directory markers (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Stop Mkdir attempting to create existing containers (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • B2
    • cleanup: will remove unfinished large files >24hrs old (Garry McNulty)
    • For a bucket limited application key check the bucket name (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • before this, rclone would use the authorised bucket regardless of what you put on the command line
    • Added --b2-disable-checksum flag (Wojciech Smigielski)
      • this enables large files to be uploaded without a SHA-1 hash for speed reasons
  • Drive
    • Set default pacer to 100ms for 10 tps (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • This fits the Google defaults much better and reduces the 403 errors massively
      • Add --drive-pacer-min-sleep and --drive-pacer-burst to control the pacer
    • Improve ChangeNotify support for items with multiple parents (Fabian Möller)
    • Fix ListR for items with multiple parents - this fixes oddities with vfs/refresh (Fabian Möller)
    • Fix using --drive-impersonate and appfolders (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix google docs in rclone mount for some (not all) applications (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Dropbox
    • Retry-After support for Dropbox backend (Mathieu Carbou)
  • FTP
    • Wait for 60 seconds for a connection to Close then declare it dead (Nick Craig-Wood)
      • helps with indefinite hangs on some FTP servers
  • Google Cloud Storage
    • Update google cloud storage endpoints (weetmuts)
  • HTTP
    • Add an example with username and password which is supported but wasn’t documented (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix backend with --files-from and non-existent files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Hubic
    • Make error message more informative if authentication fails (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Jottacloud
    • Resume and deduplication support (Oliver Heyme)
    • Use token auth for all API requests Don’t store password anymore (Sebastian BĂŒnger)
    • Add support for 2-factor authentification (Sebastian BĂŒnger)
  • Mega
    • Implement v2 account login which fixes logins for newer Mega accounts (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Return error if an unknown length file is attempted to be uploaded (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add new error codes for better error reporting (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Onedrive
    • Fix broken support for “shared with me” folders (Alex Chen)
    • Fix root ID not normalised (Cnly)
    • Return err instead of panic on unknown-sized uploads (Cnly)
  • Qingstor
    • Fix go routine leak on multipart upload errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add upload chunk size/concurrency/cutoff control (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Default --qingstor-upload-concurrency to 1 to work around bug (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • S3
    • Implement --s3-upload-cutoff for single part uploads below this (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Change --s3-upload-concurrency default to 4 to increase perfomance (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add --s3-bucket-acl to control bucket ACL (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Auto detect region for buckets on operation failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Add GLACIER storage class (William Cocker)
    • Add Scaleway to s3 documentation (RĂ©my LĂ©one)
    • Add AWS endpoint eu-north-1 (weetmuts)
  • SFTP
    • Add support for PEM encrypted private keys (Fabian Möller)
    • Add option to force the usage of an ssh-agent (Fabian Möller)
    • Perform environment variable expansion on key-file (Fabian Möller)
    • Fix rmdir on Windows based servers (eg CrushFTP) (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix rmdir deleting directory contents on some SFTP servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix error on dangling symlinks (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Swift
    • Add --swift-no-chunk to disable segmented uploads in rcat/mount (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Introduce application credential auth support (kayrus)
    • Fix memory usage by slimming Object (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix extra requests on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix reauth on big files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • Union
    • Fix poll-interval not working (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • WebDAV
    • Support About which means rclone mount will show the correct disk size (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Support MD5 and SHA1 hashes with Owncloud and Nextcloud (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fail soft on time parsing errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix infinite loop on failed directory creation (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix identification of directories for Bitrix Site Manager (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix upload of 0 length files on some servers (Nick Craig-Wood)
    • Fix if MKCOL fails with 423 Locked assume the directory exists (Nick Craig-Wood)
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To use this I need to use the --use- mmap variable ?

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Memory handling should be a bit better without the --use-mmap and a lot better with --use-mmap.

I’d like to make --use-mmap the default eventually, but I’d like some people to test it first.

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Alright will test it for a week now and give feedback then.

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Thank you - look forward to the results!

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Cheers for the update :slight_smile:

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Didn’t know I need this but I LOVE IT !

Rclone now has so many flags and options it is very good to be highly customizable but also increase the chance of miss-configuration.
I wish there is a tips page or man-page that briefly list and explain each of the flags and give example of useful use-case why and how we should use it.

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:smile:

You should find all the main flags are documented here and all the individual flags are documented in each command, eg mount.

A tricks and tips page would be nice, as would more examples of course! Maybe based around a task people are trying to complete.

If you’d like to contribute to the docs I’d be grateful. There are some hints in the CONTRIBUTING doc on how to do it.

Note rclone help flags will show all the flags with one line help and you can search them with rclone help flags string to find all the flags with string in. rclone help backends will show all the backends and rclone help backend backendname will show lots more info about each of the settings. These are also on the backend pages, eg the box backend.

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I will definitely contribute ! thanks for your hard work <3

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That would be great!

:smile:

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This is awesome

What’s the difference between --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit and --vfs-cache-max-size? I’ve been using --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit to limit the size of the total file that is read

also, does --file-perms work for the log file as well?

will test --use-mmap on android

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read chunk is the size of chunk you request from your remote. Google Drive for example will count this. So setting small value for this is good so that when 5GB file is read for simple file operation such as plex scanning, your remote won’t count it as you requested the whole thing, instead it count only the chunk you requested and downloaded.

Vfs cache max size is the max size of cache saved locally ( I guess)
So for example my vps is only 15GB. When I do rclone move, the file is moved to remote and a copy of it stays local as a rclone cache. It fills my server quickly so my work around at that time was to set Vfs cache max time to be very small such as 1 minute, so that after one minute the local cache is removed.
But this new flag is more elegant solution.

Again thanks ncw!

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With just the vfs backend by default, nothing is cached or stored. Files are ready in memory based on the buffer size and the buffer is dropped when a file is closed.

It works with these 3 options:

--vfs-cache-max-age duration             Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache. (default off)
--vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)

So if it’s ‘off’, nothing is ever stored. The only time things are kept locally is if you have cache-mode set to something other than off, which for streaming would make things very slow as it has to download the whole file first.

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That is 100% true

rclone only does this for --vfs-cache-mode full or if the file was opened R/W in --vfs-cache-mode writes.

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Thanks for the update!

Question for Drive:

Add --drive-pacer-min-sleep and --drive-pacer-burst to control the pacer

Do we need to put this in our command line or is it enabled by default with default values if we don’t choose a different value?

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If you run rclone help flags, it lists the defaults:

      --drive-pacer-burst int                        Number of API calls to allow without sleeping. (default 100)
      --drive-pacer-min-sleep Duration               Minimum time to sleep between API calls. (default 100ms)
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The defaults should be OK but are there to enable experimentation.

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-tps limit is still required right? Or is that the same thing?

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--tpslimitis a more general limiter. I’d probably use that instead of the pacer limits if you want non-standard rate limiting.

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Vfs cache max size is the max size of cache saved locally ( I guess)
So for example my vps is only 15GB. When I do rclone move, the file is moved to remote and a copy of it stays local as a rclone cache. It fills my server quickly so my work around at that time was to set Vfs cache max time to be very small such as 1 minute, so that after one minute the local cache is removed.
But this new flag is more elegant solution.

So if my RAM is only 3G should I set --vfs-cache-max-size to 2G to save 1G for other programs?