The issue I am having with the rclone is that I am trying to copy a folder from my linux backup server to Google Drive, my folder is 1.5TB large and the volume is 1.6TB, however when I run rclone copy with --check-first it shows that 5.3TBs has to be transferred. How is this possible?
I am using tool called UrBackup to make backups of various systems, it creates a ton of symlinks, I was wondering if that somehow affects the projected size. I am using encrypted remote to backup to Google Drive.
not an expert with synlinks but as far as i know:
rclone, by default, does not follow symlinks.
no way to know what is going on without a debug log which would show errors, retries and something like NOTICE: test: Can't follow symlink without -L/--copy-links
Yes, I am running rclone in verbose and getting Can't follow symlink without -L/--copy-links, however, I am not worried about not following the symlinks, my biggest concern is the transfer size of the files that is larger that the hard drive itself.