User Rate Limit Exceeded

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

With my personal api I have many quota error. this is overnight:

2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : : error reading destination directory: couldn't list directory: googleapi: Error 403: User Rate Limit Exceeded. Rate of requests for user exceed configured project quota. You may consider re-evaluating expected per-user traffic to the API and adjust project quota limits accordingly. You may monitor aggregate quota usage and adjust limits in the API Console: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com/quotas?project=989441034457, userRateLimitExceeded
2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : Encrypted drive 'Media:00 - Programmi': not deleting directories as there were IO errors
2021/02/21 05:13:04 INFO  : There was nothing to transfer
2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : Attempt 4/5 failed with 1 errors and: couldn't list directory: googleapi: Error 403: User Rate Limit Exceeded. Rate of requests for user exceed configured project quota. You may consider re-evaluating expected per-user traffic to the API and adjust project quota limits accordingly. You may monitor aggregate quota usage and adjust limits in the API Console: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com/quotas?project=989441034457, userRateLimitExceeded
2021/02/21 05:13:11 INFO  : 
Transferred:   	         0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Elapsed time:   2h47m30.9s

Using the --fast-list option I expected none of this errors.
the folder has 240.848 Files, 69.429 Folders. all already backed out
what's causing this errors?

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.53.1

  • os/arch: windows/amd64
  • go version: go1.15

tried also 1.54 (last version).
the overnight logs are from 1.53.
the other log is from 1.54

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Windows 10 professional 64bit

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

Google suite

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

N:\rclone\rclone.exe sync "H:\00 - Programmi" Media:"00 - Programmi" --backup-dir=Media:"00 - Backup/00 - Programmi/%mydate%_%mytime%" --fast-list --delete-during --checksum --verbose --transfers %RCLONE_TRANSFERS% --checkers %RCLONE_CHECKERS% --bwlimit %RCLONE_BWLIMIT% --contimeout 60s --timeout 300s --retries 5 --low-level-retries 10 --rc --stats %RCLONE_STATS% --stats-file-name-length 150 --exclude "desktop.ini" --exclude "*.log" --exclude "*.db-wal" --exclude "programdata/cache/**" --copy-links --log-file "r:\rclone scripts\media_%mydate%_%mytime%.log"

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[gdrive]
type = drive
scope = drive
root_folder_id = 17MzJZqHdsxdkEzWdWl8gxR-o4bfByJd1
token = {"access_token":"xxx","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"xxx","expiry":"2021-02-21T09:41:32.6487738+01:00"}
client_id = xxxxxx
client_secret = xxxxxx

[Media]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:01
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = xxxxxx

A log from the command with the -vv flag

overnight log:
media_20210221_ 20001.log (315.3 KB)
restarted with -vv flag log only for the biggest folder:
media_20210221_ 91642.log (645.9 KB)
additionally here's my daily quota:

100secs usage:

What are the value of these and how many GB new of data is set to sync?

Hi, if you watch the 2 posted logs:
in media_20210221_ 91642.log first line you see the full command..

2021/02/21 09:16:43 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.54.0" starting with parameters ["N:\rclone\rclone.exe" "sync" "H:\00 - Programmi" "Media:00 - Programmi" "--backup-dir=Media:00 - Backup/00 - Programmi/20210221_ 91642" "--fast-list" "--delete-during" "--checksum" "-vv" "--transfers" "16" "--checkers" "16" "--bwlimit" "6000" "--contimeout" "60s" "--timeout" "300s" "--retries" "5" "--low-level-retries" "10" "--rc" "--stats" "10s" "--stats-file-name-length" "150" "--exclude" "desktop.ini" "--exclude" ".log" "--exclude" ".db-wal" "--exclude" "programdata/cache/**" "--copy-links" "--log-file" "r:\rclone scripts\media_20210221_ 91642.log"]

about the amount of data..this night the logs says

2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : : error reading destination directory: couldn't list directory: googleapi: Error 403: User Rate Limit Exceeded. Rate of requests for user exceed configured project quota. You may consider re-evaluating expected per-user traffic to the API and adjust project quota limits accordingly. You may monitor aggregate quota usage and adjust limits in the API Console: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com/quotas?project=989441034457, userRateLimitExceeded
2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : Encrypted drive 'Media:00 - Programmi': not deleting directories as there were IO errors
2021/02/21 05:13:04 INFO : There was nothing to transfer
2021/02/21 05:13:04 ERROR : Attempt 4/5 failed with 1 errors and: couldn't list directory: googleapi: Error 403: User Rate Limit Exceeded. Rate of requests for user exceed configured project quota. You may consider re-evaluating expected per-user traffic to the API and adjust project quota limits accordingly. You may monitor aggregate quota usage and adjust limits in the API Console: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com/quotas?project=989441034457, userRateLimitExceeded

but terorically some files need to be uploaded..
the "there was nothing to transfer" is not true IMHO

the strange things this...
according to a recent job restart here's the currently running log:
media_20210221_ 93814.log (97.9 KB)

only 1 attempt failed after 4 minutes. 2 hour after the errors, the checks (I think) finished and the upload started..

what I don't understand is if the attempts failed are for a file, a folder or the entire folder structure..

The error means you are hitting the API too hard.

You have 16 transfers and 16 checkers, which you only get ~10 API hits per second so those errors are expected.

Best to use the defaults.

thx for your suggestions!

I have lowered down to 8 check and 4 transfers.
I'll check a week how is going (the job runs every 2 nights)

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