Stopping action when rclone cannot connect to target

[icdef]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

When calling rclone purge target: and the host ip from target is not reachable rclone tries endlessly to connect. I tried with the retries flag, but the try never fails, so this does not fix it. Any ideas what to do? I want it to just fail if the host ip is not reachable

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

clone v1.59.0

• os/version: alpine 3.16.0 (64 bit)
• os/kernel: 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (x86_64)
• os/type: linux
• os/arch: amd64
• go/version: go1.18.3
• go/linking: static
• go/tags: none

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

minio

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

rclone purge --progress --retries 1 target:

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

RCLONE_CONFIG_TARGET_TYPE=s3
RCLONE_CONFIG_TARGET_PROVIDER=Minio
RCLONE_CONFIG_TARGET_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=adminadmin
RCLONE_CONFIG_TARGET_ACCESS_KEY_ID=admin
RCLONE_CONFIG_TARGET_ENDPOINT=http://minio21:9000

A log from the command with the -vv flag

no log cause it just keeps going and I want it to fail

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

The number of times it tries should be controlled by --low-level-retries - did you try that?

[icdef]

I tried
rclone purge --low-level-retries 1 --progress target:
but is the same outcome

[icdef]

thats the error I get, but why does it not stop with that error?
I am working in a docker environment

[icdef]

and sometimes it looks like this

[Animosity022]

Instead of sharing a screen, can you share a full debug log with the backtics around it as text.

like
this

Purge will retry a number of times before failing so seeing the full command/debug log

rclone purge --low-level-retries 1 --progress target: -vv

Is what we want to see.

[icdef]

yeah sorry of course

dump file - Pastebin.com

[icdef]

But reading the dump file myself i realized the 2 retry flags work together
so setting both to 1 reduce the amount of time rclone tries to connect.
So thank you!

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

Yes the low and high level retries multiply.

Normally it doesn't take 20s to see each failure.