The way the cache works is pretty fantastic

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I love the fact that I can copy things across to folders inside the mount point and it essentially queue's the files in the background using the cache and uploads them as it can. The background process is way less invasive and more reliable than some of the GUI-based backup software I've used, for example, IDrive.

I do have one question. If I shut down my mac, or unmount the remote drive before the cache has finished uploading to the remote, what happens? Does it start again once I've remounted, or are the files not uploaded?

I've been monitoring when the behind the background process has finished uploading through Activity Monitor. Is there a more formal way of doing that?

2

welcome to the fellowship of fellow rcloners :wink:

it depends on --vfs-cache-mode and is documented.

https://rclone.org/rc/#job-status

3

it depends on --vfs-cache-mode and is documented.

I've read the documentation on mount. I couldn't find that information, sorry to be missing something. I'm using write vfs cache mode.

https://rclone.org/rc/#job-status

I couldn't get it to tell me the list of jobs. I may be doing it wrong as the documentation doesn't contain examples.

%rclone rc job/list 
2022/08/19 17:18:05 Failed to rc: connection failed: Post "http://localhost:5572/job/list": dial tcp [::1]:5572: connect: connection refused
4

for each --vfs-cache-mode mode, that info is documented.
for example,
If an upload fails it can't be retried

5

for each --vfs-cache-mode mode, that info is documented.
for example,
If an upload fails it can't be retried

That tells me what happens if the remote drops out. It doesn't tell me what happens if I unmount, kill the process or reboot. Obviously, if I shut my computer down, it won't be retrying while it's turned off, so that line seems to be about something other than what I'm wondering about.

6

each time the mount is re-started, rclone will start to transfer files.

this can be tested,
once a file is in the vfs file cache, then kill the mount, restart the mount.
and see what rclone does.

7

That's fantastic. A really cool feature.