[Plugin] rclone


Waseh

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On 8/29/2020 at 5:25 AM, mgutt said:

1.) Check the destination documentation of rclone. Every destination has its own special parameters and behaviour like Google Drive has its own, too:

https://rclone.org/drive/

 

2.) Do not copy/sync to the mount of the destination like /mnt/disks/gdrive. Use only the rclone alias like gdrive:subfolder. rclone does not work properly if the target is a local path. Example: If you use the mount path and your destination is a webdav server it does not presere the file modification time.

 

3.) If it does not preserve the file modifcation time it must use checksums to verify that the destination file is the same (or not) before being able to skip (or overwrite it). This means it downloads and calculates the checksums (high cpu usage) and uploads at the same time (rclone uses 8 parallel running --checkers for this).

 

4.) There are minor performance differences between sync and copy as they act a little bit different, but finally this should not influence the transfer speed of files:

sync = deletes already existing files from destination that are not present on source

copy = ignores existing files on destination

 

Conclusion:

Check if your transfer preserves the timestamps. If yes, then disable the checksum check through --ignore-checksum (if you are ok with that) and test different --checkers and --transfers (4 is the default) values until you reach the best performance. For example I use "--checkers 2 --transfers 1" for my Nextcloud destination as there was no benefit uploading multiple files and finally it does not raise the total transfer speed if I have two parallel uploads instead of one.

 

My command as an example:


rclone sync /mnt/user/Software owncube:software --create-empty-src-dirs --ignore-checksum --bwlimit 3M --checkers 2 --transfers 1 -vv --stats 10s

 

Thanks! I lowered the checkers to 2 and transfers to 1. Combined with a chunk-size of 256M, I get the same ~80MBps with half the CPU utilization as before, even without --ignore checksum

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Hi Guys

 

So I’ve finally started using rclone mount again after several years with only doing weekly scripted backups.

This prompted me to give the plugin a bit of an overhaul to fix some of my own long-standing nuisances with the plugin.

 

Gone are the default scripts and the script editor (You should really use UserScripts for all your script needs). The config file can still be edited.

The settings page has been overhauled and i intend to deprecate the beta branch of the plugin for this new unified model.

You are now able to change branch at will in the settings page as well as update rclone if a new version is available. Current version as well as newest version will now be shown in the settings page.

 

If you want to check it out you can install/update the plugin manually by inserting THIS URL in the plugins/install plugin settings menu. It's a drop in replacement for the stable branch.

 

Whenever this version has proven itself without any major bugs i will merge it with the master branch and deprecate the beta branch.

 

@Stupifier @DZMM if you get the chance please test out the new version and see if there's any glaring bugs I’ve missed.

 

Edit: A picture to show the new settings page

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@Waseh
Just did an install.....really basic look over. Everything looks good so far. I did NOT experience your beta version number issue though. First image shows the update to beta rclone popup. The next image shows a version check on stable branch, then another version check once flipped over to beta branch.

All I've done so far is copy over my .rclone.conf file and run a few simple rclone copy and rclone lsd commands and rclone mount commands. Ran into zero issues.

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52 minutes ago, mgutt said:

Does this help? It's related to Google drive and happens because it's possible to have the same filename two times:

https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-mount-google-drive-shows-empty-directory-which-is-not-empty/3838/6

I start to see the error once the mergerfs command finishes mounting i think, I also have been recently moving alot of files around so i will check to see if i have any dupes as per the link you provided. I will report back. thanks

 

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@Waseh I've just updated and spotted a few things.

 

- I'm currently on 1.53.0 and when I tried to update to 1.53.1 it didn't work and asked if rclone was running 

- The config editor seems better as before I couldn't use it as it wouldn't show my whole file.  However, even though it shows my file I can't apply any edits as it says

 

please shorten this text to 4096 characters or less (you are currently using 5648 characters)

 

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I never tried or used the config editor stuff....I dunno....just seemed like it was more straight forward to edit the .rclone.config file directly or as rclone devs intend by using the 'rclone config' command in a terminal.

But yes....I did not attempt to update while rclone processes were active. Verified using htop command. Given that, on Ubuntu, rclone is capable of updating seemlessly while rclone mounts are active. Don't ask me how...but I know for a fact it does. I'm sure the same applies to other modern OS's as well.

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On 9/17/2020 at 11:29 AM, Waseh said:

@DZMM with the risk of sounding like a broken record, is rclone running? (Including a rclone mount 😉)

 

I'll bump up the max chars on the editor 

yes it works fine.  I just did a reboot and the plugin disappeared - I don't know if it was because of my failed upgrade to 1.53.1

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@DZMM
I can't seem to reproduce it.

Oh and my question about rclone running was not a question about if it was working but related to the fact that if the rclone binary probably was busy.

With that being said i have updated the way the binary is replaced so we shouldn't run into the same problem again.

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