Using dedupe on an encrypted folder

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1

Do I need to add a hasher config somewhere so I can use rclone dedupe on an encrypted folder?

Also if the files are uploaded already is it too late to now do this?

If someone could possibly help me out with the order of remotes that would be great such as for example (no idea if this is right)

  • /path/to/local/folder -> hasher:/folder
  • hasher:/folder -> crypt:/folder
  • crypt:/folder -> remote:/folder

when I tried I got

Failed to dedupe: Encrypted drive '****' has no hashes

this is using just

  • /path/to/local/folder -> crypt:/folder
  • crypt:/folder -> remote:/folder
2

the problem with hasher remote, it has been experimental for over 3.5 years.
imo, would not trust it for dedupe or anything else.

  1. rclone mount crypt: ~/mount
  2. use any dedupe tool you choose.
3

Oh I see ok thanks for the information, I did see it was experimental but wasn't aware it had been so for so long.

If do points 1 and 2 I'm assuming the files will be downloaded to be hashed, maybe somewhere temporary.

It's an IDrive remote and they are increasing their prices for the 2nd year, but more than I was told when I signed up so was thinking of ditching them and using local storage instead.

I have a JottaCloud Drive for anything important. The IDrive was just a nice to have storage dump.

4

the files will be downloaded in chunks into memory.
by default, rclone mount does not use a local file cache

i have a summary of two vfs caches

idrive continues to play a game, first year low price, second year price increases by a lot.
at one time, i have 5TiB with idrive, but they kept raising price year after year.

for many years, i push old backups, that i never plan to need, to aws s3 deep glacier at $0.99/TiB/month
and hetzner storagebox, imo, the best overall storage option.