Sync - file checks behavior question

rclone version
rclone v1.47.0

  • os/arch: linux/amd64
  • go version: go1.11.5

Source Server - CentOS 7
Destination Object Storage - DigitalOcean Spaces

If I'm counting correctly, the following local folder has approximately 1,960,000 files in it.
[root@hello ~]# find . /local/path/folder -type f|wc -l
1964694
[root@hello ~]# find . /local/path/folder -type f|wc -l
1968031

I stopped the sync job after 29 hours and what appears to be a little over 5.5 million file checks.
I know the digitalocean space was already very close to the same content as the source because I completed similar sync job 5 or 6 days earlier.

Why are there almost 3 times the number of file checks versus the total number of files at both the source and the destination?

[root@hello]# rclone sync /local/path/folder/ remote-name:bucket-name/2020/ -P -vv --bwlimit 1250 --delete-during --stats-log-level INFO --log-file=/var/log/rclone-sync-2020-05-12.txt
Transferred: 7.470G / 7.470 GBytes, 100%, 75.008 kBytes/s, ETA 0s
Errors: 3 (retrying may help)
Checks: 5537859 / 5547873, 100%
Transferred: 6524 / 6524, 100%
Elapsed time: 29h0m26.9s

Retries usually.

Your rclone version is pretty ancient too.

Thanks, I tried grepping the 1.8 GB log for "retry" but nothing found.
I'll take your word for it and possibly see about upgrading my rclone version.
Thanks for your help; still getting sorted using rclone vs s3cmd.

hi,
this will update rclone
https://rclone.org/downloads/#script-download-and-install
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Holy crow that was supremely easy :grinning:

I don't believe you see retries in just an INFO log as they are not errors.

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