Rclone disable cache 14. The way I do this is this: I mount my local crypt with the mount command and put --vfs-cache-mode full at the end. 69. amd64-1. 18160 windows: 10 1803 sonar: 2. Set to make OneNote files show up in Hey guys, I have a pretty common plex, gsuite and rclone crypt setup running, but my media scanning is usually manual. I checked . I'd like to know if there is a cache setting that I need to modify. I'm on MacOS and since I can't find any setup details for that I am trying to use Docker instead. I'm a programmer, but a noob with Docker and rclone and Debrid and all this stuff. It seems from the audit log, I had plex scanning disabled, until this month I could refresh if the dir-cache-time, which in most examples is set to 1000h for streaming, is too big, s3 content is not refreshed. I have spent hours trying to solve it but whenever I include the vfs statement it will not work. 😉 Im trying to setup rclone connected to Gdrive, with crypt and local cache, to serve our plex server. Been working perfectly. Copy. I first mounted the drive without sudo but there were many errors while copy pasting files and could not get that to work except for if i use sudo which gives me maybe some permissions to read write. This is a cache for nginx cache files, and nginx is caching large files in chunks using the slice module. I see that someone reported this earlier (Rclone fails to upload large files to OpenDrive intermittently (Incorrect chunk offset/Invalid upload file size)) and got "Let's call it a glitch at OpenDrive and move on! These things happen at cloud providers. If you set max_age = off, checksums in cache will never age, unless you fully rewrite or delete the file. epub files What is your rclone What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)? rclone v1. When I inspected Rclone's cache directory, I noticed that these files were no longer Cache supports the new --rc mode in rclone and can be remote controlled through the following end points: By default, the listener is disabled if you do not add the flag. However what you can do is run rclone mount with the --rc flag, then use rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true to fill up the vfs cache with info. I only use the Hi, according to my understanding, when using cache back-end and tmp_upload_path, files are stored in temp path and queued to upload after tmp_wait_time. In an effort to make writing through cache more reliable, the backendnow supports this feature which can be activated by specifying acache-tmp-upload-path. I don't usually find out until the next morning when I look at the logs. exe mount drive: C:\gdrive ^--allow-other ^--cache-db-purge ^--buffer-size=512M ^--dir-cache-time=24h ^--drive-chunk-size=512M ^ No, --fast-list doesn't do anything with rclone mount directly. Is there a clean way to rm this file so I can add it back? What is the problem you are having with rclone? When I use: rclone mount Backblaze: Z: it works fine, the drive is mounted on my Windows 11 PC. During this time files are available in cache and served from local dir. Then I copy the files into it, discmount the folder and use rclone Is using the rclone cache gonna make my Plex contents load faster and less prone to transcoding due to bandwidth shortage? With regards to the load faster, it depends on where the content is stored- if the remote storage is on a supported provider, then it might work better then an http mount (I assume this is some form of WebDAV which isn't going to be great for this usage, I What is the problem you are having with rclone? using rclone mount with the vfs cache on disk, and when it fills, it becomes unusable (isn't clearing space anymore). 65. I do this because I still want to access my files locally which is way faster than mounting the crypt from gdrive. I borrowed your systemd @Animosity022 🙂 so dont dir-cache-time is how long rclone is willing to keep directory entries around before deciding they are too old and discarding them. This will disable the use of MLSD --ftp-host string FTP host to connect to --ftp-idle-timeout Duration Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s) --ftp-no-check-certificate Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server --ftp-no-check-upload Don't check the upload is OK --ftp-pass string FTP password (obscured) --ftp-port int FTP What is the problem you are having with rclone? I can disable MD5 checksum but can't find a way to disable Etag check Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command. Using Mac OS servers here. You can set --vfs-chunk-size-limit off to “disable” the limit which means unlimited growth. The second machine serves content from the rclone mount via Plex. rclone: 1. The main Reason is, some devices like my Fire TV Stick are only connected via wifi, also the Kodi Addon for Gdrive is kinda slow / buggy. The plugin does not get deactivated. For example, i download a file in my pc, rcopy to my google drive and i want that file keep in cache rclone folder. I am running an rclone on a Raspberry Pi, and storing cache on the SD card would be a big ask because of the poor read/write speeds and it Can anyone explain what is the purpose of a cache directory? Does it make uploading faster/slower? rclone. Started running this command rclone --ignore-existing --checkers=16 copy -P with no other flags as you suggested and it's going great Is there a way to disable the cache object age clean up, so that the cache will only delete local files if more space is needed? The files on my remote never change, Maybe being able to pass 0 or -1 to the cache age param? :) What is your rclone version (eg output from rclone Currently I am experimenting with allowing a much larger vfs cache and reading ahead the entire media file, to avoid fluctuations in the remote's transfer rate. that rclone is not designed share a cache, even on the same system. rc cache/expire Purge a remote from the cache backend. I'm currently scanning them from an rclone mount: drive -> cache -> crypt. One of the best features in --vfs Hello. I will do some tests tomorrow, to be sure that this is the issue. Cache downloading is perfect and show the files in /test/rclone but i want that cache work too when i upload a file PC-->GDRIVE. 1766 (x86_64) os/type: windows os/arch: amd64 --nfs-cache-type disk uses an on disk NFS handle cache. Trying to disable caching as it takes too long when first copying 76GB to rclone cache, before First of all I know the scenario I'm about to describe is an edge case but I don't think I'm the only one that could benefit from this proposed change: I run rclone on Unraid NAS. 0-76-generic (x86_64) os/type: linux os/arch: amd64 go/ve Hi, how can i solve this issue? I read that is a bug in rclone? Is that If yes and you're also using Plex, can you disable that feature and see if it does the same thing? It will be enough to just remove the configs from the section and start again. However, once these folder This is going to be hard to articulate, because I can't provide the code I am using, but here goes. add --rc to the mount command; run this on-demand to refresh the vfs cache rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true -vv; tho i have never used it on a mount, to get a deeper look into what rclone is doing, add this to your rclone command As I said, I don't have the experience to say for sure - but based on what I know those settings look reasonable to me at least. 15. Closed Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. So I'm trying to get rclone working on my laptop. What is the problem you are having with rclone? I'm using rclone version 1. From my previous attempt, I use a drive, crypt and cache remote. Hi Nick, thanks for getting back to me. It appears to me, rclone tried to create a cache file and failed. New replies are no longer allowed. I tried to play these files today, but the media player immediately errored out (a generic cannot play file error). What is the problem you are having with rclone? I described cache directot size with 700GB but its only using leass then 100GB, /vplay. When Most helpful, thanks. I cannot stop, disable or restart the service and in the logs there are lots of entries Hi all, I have read many posts that show how can you setup a cache for google drive. Disadvantage is, that Synology cloudsync says "everything synced", but in reality the files (which shall be uploaded) are only in the local cache from the webdav server. 3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS) Properties: What is the problem you are having with rclone? I'm using fix-vfs-empty-dirs branch. 1 What is the problem you are having with rclone? rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true seems to clear the directory cache. The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp) I tried both --cache-db-purge --cache-mode off, but it didn't work Perhaps you are speaking of rclone cache? I'm using rclone vfs, with --vfs-cache-mode writes. An upload is started (usually by copying a file on the cache remote) 2. It’s been there for about 10x longer than my cache-tmp-wait-time. The max cache size is uncapped if you don't set it, which is why it's filling Hello, I'm currently using a lokal crypt which I sync to my gdrive crypt. And I do not know if the time schedule from cloud sync is affecting the upload from local cache. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for When --vfs-cache-max-size or --vfs-cache-min-free-size is exceeded, rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache first. I am currently using the options below in my mount purge will remove all cache entries under the purged path; Note that setting max_age = 0 will disable checksum caching completely. I am running an Azure VM, connecting to azure blob storage standard - 10GBe Azure NICs. config to the same folder as rclone. Then I copy the files into it, discmount the folder and use rclone What is the problem you are having with rclone? I'm not sure if I really need a cache. I have a systemd unit that starts my mount for my remote on startup. 3. This cache flushing strategy is efficient and more relevant files are likely to remain cached. instead of windows explorer, which i have not use in 10+ years, i use double commander. It looks like you have disabled all of the really obvious problems (mostly periodic full metadata scans). This describes the global flags available to every rclone command split into groups. 42 winfsp: 1. Ifyes: Can I disable or make Rclone delete the cache for the files that I upload to the Drive immediately but keep the download cache 48h? I am using Rclone 1. However, even with very aggressive values for both --dir-cache-time and --cache-info-age of over 24 hours, I’m still finding that rclone does a Hi there, if i want to build up the cache-backend from scratch, how can i do that? I saw there is vfs/refresh command via rc, but i guess this is for the vfs-cache only? Also i got timeout errors when using vfs/refresh with recursive=true, even when i just have 500 movies in gdrive atm. I also made a simple cmd script (the actual command is in the next section, just a single cmd command) to Is there a way to disable RCLONE_VFS_CACHE_MAX_AGE ? set it to infinite and respect only RCLONE_VFS_MAX_SIZE ? Animosity022 May 19, 2021, 11:31am 2. Properties: Config: ram_cache_limit; Env Var: RCLONE_COMPRESS_RAM_CACHE_LIMIT It's not what I want, but at the end there is 'Use "rclone help flags" for to see the global flags. What is the problem you are having with rclone? I'm using the following command to connect and mount my target: rclone mount "Veeam Sharepoint": O: --vfs-cache-mode off My targets is mounted just fine in Windows. 3 go/linking: static Assuming only one rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this: kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone) If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache: rclone rc vfs/forget Or individual files or directories: rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir VFS File Buffering What is the problem you are having with rclone? Mounting Azure blob storage via winfsp, and trying to achieve fastest transfer possible for large files - in this case a 76GB zip file. Reading seems ok. Since the files themselves never change, shouldnt my directory cache time be Am I on a safe side if I use --vfs-cache-mode=writes or there are some unknown problems can still happen? Does Rclone has option to backup the file before write like it has in copy command? I would like to have such option while still using This topic was automatically closed 3 days after the last reply. 16. It would be possible to make a new swift flag say --swift-stream-no-chunks which would mean that it would use non chunked uploads. Eg. LE: Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size. Note that your first article uses this soon-to-be-disabled backend. service its working just fine. So I am using this cmd here to map my google drive. 2 :~# docker plugin list ID NAME DESCRIPTION ENABLED ebf402c27f84 The current way to circumvent it is to stop playback, let rclone flush it away using --vfs-cache-poll-interval 1s and playback from the point of stoppage i. What is your rclone version (output from rclone version Lots of things rclone could do with the cache - that is for certain! Some different cache policies would help - like in this issue: VFS Cache: control caching of files by size · Issue #4110 · rclone/rclone · GitHub. When files are uploaded to remote backed they are deleted from tmp_upload_path and not available in cache anymore. conf change C:\data\rclone\scripts\rclone. I am generally downloading 1 GB or The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp) RCLONE_CONFIG_SITE_DISABLE_HASHCHECK=true \ RCLONE_CONFIG_SITE_TYPE=sftp \ RCLONE_CONFIG_SITE_HOST=$(DEPLOY_HOST) \ RCLONE_CONFIG_SITE_USER=deploy \ rclone sync -v dist site:$(DEPLOY_PATH) The I have a file that is in my cache-tmp-upload-path. Detailed explanation with log below What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) Symptoms appear from 1. 1 - os/version: ubuntu 22. I would prefer a much bigger buffer between 512M and 1G. 2-DEV os/ hi, this has been discussed in the forum. I noticed that carefully cached content in RAM is forcibly expunged after the rclone sync completes. It works like a charm rclone mount --vfs-case-insensitive --vfs-cache-mode full --write-back-cache --vfs-write-back 10s --vfs-cache-max-age 300s --vfs-cache-max-size 5000M --vfs-cache-poll-interval 60s --cache-dir c:\\temps crypt: T: I was wondering if I changed the 5000M cache max size to something Config: disable_site_permission; Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DISABLE_SITE_PERMISSION; Type: bool; Default: false--onedrive-expose-onenote-files. My goal is so that when I do Plex full library scan, rclone mount will not use up all my internet speed that in turn slow everything down in I get those every once in a while, even without cache. to the mount command, add --rc --rc-no-auth when i want to refresh the vfs dir cache, run rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true -vv It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility. The easiest thing is just cap the size: --vfs-cache-max-size 50GB or whatever size But what is it you want to do, stop using anchorpoint/rclone entirely or just free up some storage by emptying the cache? Don’t worry too much about the vfs cache, think or it more like RAM There isn't even documentation on the website and it'll stop working soon. exe Folder: N: can be a solution to disable the - If you share your rclone. and how much emulation is required. 19044. So I add some stuff to gsuite through a cron job (rclone copy/move) and later I just ask Plex to scan What is the problem you are having with rclone? Hi guys, I want to setup a Pi4 (2GB RAM) as a local caching Device for my Kodi Players. 26 days. I just want the caching to affect *. This behavior was implemented in the following commit: f396550 . Set it to 999999999999999h. Thats why I want a local cache, for at least 4 Kodi Devices. cache/rclone folder and it is almost empty. 1 Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit) Linux 64bit. Flags for anything which can copy a file. I ended up It does seem to go faster in download and no longer pegs the hard drive on initial testing of the beta version. 3 go/linking: static Rclone cache on my local server works perfectly with 30 - 40 Mbit material. However, I'm opening this as I see this all the time. The command I'm running is 'rclone mount Jottacloud: J: --vfs-cache-mode writes --vfs-cache-max-size 1'. (Thumb nail generation etc. Assignees I’ve been frustrated with file load times and folder listing times. On the advice from someone else, I adapted this mount command. cache/rclone folder and it is Hey! Im using rclone gdrive with this config and work greats but i want one more thing. no other way? is there a tag for month or Rclone still needs the directory cache as it is how objects are made for the VFS layer. It seems that directory caching does not work on my system. I am running some python that downloads a bunch of stuff from one of my VPS instances, and copies it to encrypted google drive storage. but when I want to mount the OneDrive get the following error: ERROR : Failed to create vfs cache - Hello, I'm currently using a lokal crypt which I sync to my gdrive crypt. can I specify months, or even years?) in the past, did testing and --vfs-cache-max-age=0 did not work as you want. So ideally, I want to have all files reads/writes on an rclone mount use bwlimit flag, say --bwlimit=5120k. If your media is remote at the point you need to generate). In this case the compressed file will need to be cached to determine it's size. g. If you have a union of (local, drive) say then the VFS layer sits on top of both of those so in its cache are objects from both - there isn't a separate cache for each one. What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) rclone v1. 0 os/version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 21H2 (64 bit) os/kernel: 10. It is possible? Now when i upload What is the problem you are having with rclone? I'm having what appears to be a disk I/O issue when downloads take place on my server via nzbget and then are processed/uploaded to the vfs-cache. I was hoping since that number is relatively small that Windows would coalesce the writes and write them in What is the problem you are having with rclone? The volume created by the docker plugin just disappears after some time of writing to it. When the copy to the temporary locatio What's your rclone mount line? There are switches to control expiration time and limit the size of the cache. Assuming only one rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this: kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone) If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache: rclone rc vfs/forget Or on disk buffering with --vfs-cache-mode writes. Note also that rclone may open multiple read points in the file so it can (temporarily) exceed the buffer size. This would limit the streamed upload to 5GB which is pretty large - maybe that should be the default mode. I have already running an encrypted google drive with rclone and mounted without cache to serve as Plex media. After restarting my machine I can no longer mount. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for --- rclone will only purge a file in the vfs file cache after --vfs-cache-max-age expires. Apparently it sounds like it's important to have the --vfs-cache-mode full statement, when I add this the drive will not mount. In my scenario (tape replacement kind of thing) if HEAD or LIST is used then my storage on S3 Deep Archive would be around $300/month, head would be $5000/month and LIST would be $58000/month (and therefore no longer a tape replacement candidate). " So basically, which are my alternatives?. I searched and didn't find the command, but assume this is probably available? Can I check what needs to be written and force it manually so that I can complete my server migration? Run the command 'rclone version' and Hi All, First of all, this is the ultimate tool I think for my plex needs. Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive) MinIO. I looked into rclone's --cache-dir that I set for a mount, and found 3 directories for the same remote: From what i understand this is about files in directories that never change. 1 os/type: linux os/arch: amd64 go/version: go1. It works as it has always done when the file is below 250MB. A few days ago I added some 5-6GB files to the mount. 55. I don't want to set the whole mounted remote's cache mode to full though. 0 (32-bit) Disable automatic authentication skipping for unix sockets in http servers - Add remote name to vfs cache log messages Cache: - Fix parent not getting pinned when remote is a file Azure Blob: - Add --azureblob-disable-instance-discovery It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility. jasanson (Jude) April 13, 2018, 1:36pm 43. The backing remote (a Google Drive) is not being written/read to outside of the mount at all. I can see that the status is enabled and 'starting'. 62. I insert files into /local/data (not using the union remote), but rclone caches the local backend, Thanks for your help @Ole!Decided to laeave things alone well past the 1. How to make the directory cache work? I would like to fill my disk cache once and then not to update it, I tried a lof ot mount options with various cache settings. I can see from the log that the plugin had started up, restored its saved state and successfully finished mounting Google Drive at 18:23:01, but docker daemon failed to ping its health at 18:23:13, probably due to unexpected program abort. 04 This is my testing following my previous question What is the problem you are having with rclone? Using B2 via S3 for multipart uploads (testing) is giving ACL issues. as for windows explorer, the internet is full of advice. --- if the total size of all files in the vfs fie cache exceeds --vfs-cache-max-size, then rclone will purge files. The thing is the files themselves will never change and i will never need updated versions of the files themselves but as far as new files within directories those are being uploaded and/or deleted every day. You likely want to set dir-cache-time high, or infinite and the poll time lower (say 1 minute). @daniel-ssdnodes thanks What is the problem you are having with rclone? How do I limit the amount of RAM rclone uses or the objects in the RAM cache? Currently have an issue when I open up my torrent client it checks over 10000 torrents and I end up with over 30GB of RAM usage just on rclone process alone which maxes my available RAM. The mount command lets you connect your cloud storage directly to your local file system, making it Before this change uploading files with rclone to: rclone serve sftp --vfs-cache-mode full Would return the error: command "md5sum XXX" failed with error: unexpected non file This patch detects that the file is still in the VFS cache and reads the MD5SUM from there rather from the remote. is on a SATA mirrored Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_DISABLE_UTF8; Type: bool; Default: false--ftp-writing-mdtm. rclone mount is a powerful feature of rclone, a command-line tool that helps you manage multiple cloud storage services. 58. I realize there is some caching at work here, but even in cases when I’ve waited multiple days, the items still don’t appear. Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk) Properties: Config Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_TLS_CACHE_SIZE; Type: int; Default: 32--ftp-disable-tls13. ". Is there a way to disable writes to a directory until the RCLONE is properly mounted under Linux? My program does not know or care if RCLONE is mounted and will just write into the directory which in this case is the local disc. What you should be doing is rclone mount I tried to perform the mount with no --vfs-cache-mode option, with --vfs-cache-mode off, with --vfs-cache-mode writes and even with --vfs-cache-mode full (just in case), and I get Is there a way to disable the cache object age clean up, so that the cache will only delete local files if more space is needed? The files on my remote never change, so expiring I use a 2w dir-cache-time with the union mount, I only mount the union remote. 68. I have already setup a Gdrive remote with Google Having just read another thread (Move files to crypt folder), I think my cache might be incorrectly configured. What is the problem you are having with rclone? I want to mount my onedrive on my PC, but it doesn't show the remote disk after I run the command Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command. rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true _async=true This will use ListR which is the underlying mechanism behind --fast-list and should fetch all the directory entries It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility. Cached checksums are stored as bolt database files under rclone cache directory, usually (As a side note, I was expecting rclone to slow down the copy instead of reporting that the filesystem is full). File added to S3 on one machine not visible on 2nd machine unless mount is restarted. Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command. Regards z. When it inevitable errors out again at 4GB point of the video, You can send a SIGHUP signal to rclone for it to flush all directory caches, regardless of how old they are. I currently have nzbget download to a dedicated SSD hard drive and everything else, Plex, Sonaar/Radarr, vfs-cache, etc. Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, files larger than this limit will be cached on disk. If you are having peering issues, it would make it much worse. 3-326-g45afe97e-beta. Not sure how this affects anything. What is the problem you are having with rclone? So im using rclone in vfs cache mode full so i can build a cache for my server and all the other things scanning it. And I really doubt you can post screenshots of you writing at 500 MB/sec to a rclone vfs mount, google itself limits upload speeds I don't know the exact commit where this started occuring. Things are not immediately visible from the rclone mount on this machine. 2 - os/arch: linux/amd64 - go version: rclone ls - What is the problem you are having with rclone? I dont know how to speed up the directory listings in mounted folders. If I choose not to What is the problem you are having with rclone? Creating a new folder in a particular path invalidates the directory cache and starts rebuilding the cache, and accessing the path in the meantime freeze the system. . 1 Like. --check-first Do all the checks before starting transfers -c, --checksum Check for changes with size & checksum (if available, or fallback to size only) --compare-dest stringArray Include additional server-side paths during comparison - What is the problem you are having with rclone? I started with rclone just yesterday to mount google drive to my mac. cberni (Cristiano Albiero Berni) May 19, 2021, 1:06pm 3. If not, what is the maximum value that can be specified for it (i. Unraid has a very awesome feature that is, using /dev/shm you are actually writting to a RAM disk, which is much faster and doesn't wear out like SSDs. So if I disable it then VFS might not be as compatible. What is the problem you are having with rclone? I noticed that at some point I lost more disk space than expected. That would overcomplicate I don't use Plex myself, but I gather that assuming you disable some of the worst types of automatic Note that the cache file would potentially need to cache both MD5 and SHA1 checksums, and there should also be a way to disable reading the cache (e. Any uploads to it gets updated immediately and not depend What is if I disable VFS-Cache for these contents, that might work or no? Disabling the cache means you can get latency from the cloud remote -> rclone -> plex as the point of the cache is to remove that from equation. about mount, it depends on what you want to do. What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) rclone For example if i download test 10GB file as a test using Internet Download Manager and select save folder my CloudStorage then Rclone will keep the 10GB cached files in my LocalDrive, But on RaiDrive if Download completed then the cached Files on my local drive will automaticly deleted. Disable TLS 1. Has anyone tested this high buffer size? If you are using the new --vfs-cache-mode full I don't think you'll need to set it that big unless you are really paranoid about dropouts. os/arch: linux/amd64; go version: go1. From what i understand with the cache mode on full it should cache in chunks the most used parts of the files (like for plex and emby scans). 53. 1 to version v1. Already have an account? Sign in to comment. Global Flags. For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and write simultaneously to a file. Specifically, the mount remains usable for read/write but there are rampant md5 checksum errors. log --vfs-read-ahead 1G --transfers 32 --checkers 32 --tpslimit 12 --tpslimit-burst 12 --no-seek --read-only --disable-http2 The rclone config contents with secrets removed. So just going through a few folders it has to pause and wait to load them with thousands of files. I downloaded Docker desktop, started it up, made a new " What is the problem you are having with rclone? In short: rclone automatically writes the config file when running (mount). conf: [gdrive] type = drive scope = drive client_id = X client_secret = X token = X [gcache] type = cache remote = gdrive:/ARCHIVE chunk_size = 512M info_age = 1d chunk_total_size = 50G [gcrypt] type = crypt remote = Second time around configuring Plex Gdrive. 56. You need to disable a number of Plex features also else you’ll likely still have issues, you can google those. You can send a SIGHUP signal to rclone for it to flush all directory caches, regardless of how old they are. 15; What problem are you are trying to solve? I'm using rclone union with a local backend (/local/data) and a google drive remote (mydrive:/) I use a 2w dir-cache-time with the union mount, I only mount the I checked . rclone v1. 3 Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit) macOS What is the problem you are having with rclone? Migrating server and want to manually force whatever is in cache to upload ahead of time. in short, one primary difference is how to handle read-only files writes - files opened for read only are read you should update rclone, as the latest version have a new vfs cache and better performance. For example you'll need to enable VFS caching if you want to read and write simultaneously to a I may try testing the rclone cache wrapper to see if this solves the multiple downloads. It will automatically purge oldest stuff as you fill it. exe; add this to your batch file @set RCLONE_CONFIG=C:\data\rclone\scripts\rclone. I do this via rclone mount crypt: ~/rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes and then downloading to the ~/rclone path. Many folks have large Plex / Emby / etc libraries on rclone. the goal of the vfs cache, is to have rclone emulate traditional local file system. It seems to be doing this but im having a couple performance Unmout the original one, create the cache remote, then mount the cache remote in the same location as the original. What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) Rclone 1. You can point directly from the Cloud Remote -> Crypt Remote and just remove the cache all together. This is my current rclone. 0-022-g50e31c66-beta Which OS you are usi Hello, If I mount a remote for the first time, and this mount has thousands of files and folders, I see that browsing through the mount can be very slow because rclone has to get the directory contents on each folder load while I'm browsing. Yes the cost is important for me. The goal of using --cache-dir with the volume plugin was to be able to move the cache to a USB drive. VBB March 26, Successfully updated rclone from version v1. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for What is the problem you are having with rclone? I trying to convert my current setup to use vfs-cache-full, but when i start up - I can see my files in the mount folder - but plex somehow cant see them? It show the media is not available. , if I believe my filesystem may have been damaged, and want to re-download Is that true? rclone version rclone v1. Hey all! I have about 30 TV Shows on my Google Drive currently that is uploaded through rclone crypt. When downloading the file via SFTP directly (without a mount), I am seeing 15 MB/s or more. 0 os/version: ubuntu 22. When I roll back to my first rclonemount. A files goes through these states when using this feature: 1. I think this is because the new code doesn't write the end of the file first, it only writes blocks within a few multiples of --multi-thread-chunk-size. Assuming only one rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this: kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone) If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache: rclone rc vfs/forget move the rclone. Below log shows I have over a million files in I had granted 777 to the file that at this /tmp location to see if that resolves the issue. ' ok, let's try 'rclone help flags', oh no the website content how can I get that syntax ? Please google help me Documentation content : To see a list of which features can be disabled use: --disable help so ok, let's try 'rclone --disable help' Currently I am experimenting with allowing a much larger vfs cache and reading ahead the entire media file, to avoid fluctuations in the remote's transfer rate. However, setting the cache mode to full makes it work. So I setup a Pi4, directly It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility. 3 and from the beta If the cached chunks exceed this limit, e. 50. When I copy files to the rclone mounted drive J:, it removes them, moves them into the cache, and then when the file is uploaded, puts them back into J:. conf (without keys/passwords), it should be pretty simple. I hope I've put this in the correct category! What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) rclone v1. Let's see what happens if you start the plugin cleanly. Then Can --vfs-cache-max-age be set to zero/a negative value, or otherwise disabled so that items are only removed from the cache due to --vfs-cache-max-size being reached. conf to the location of your config file. 2. So I guess that the space on my root filesystem was occupied by rclone's cache, but I found no way of clearing it. Cache storage. 63. org rclone mount. Does the cache serve for the files being uploaded and downloaded? 2. 52. I'm in the process of completing the changes to the vfs cache This will have these 3 major new features (along with a host of bug fixes!) --vfs-cache-mode full which will only download the parts of the file you need I think I have found the problem, even with cache disabled I get errors, it has to do with the PATH file length of --cache-dir. No luck. As a result, rclone is now behaving as if it is the only user of the data and assumes that the data won't be needed again, which is a mistaken assumption. , rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache first. I have limited disk space and run a vfs cache of about 50 GB in nvme in front of spinning rust. but if you need a cache, read this Does rclone mount work with bwlimit flag ? I want to limit the speed used by rclone mount points to be 50% of my internet speed. Windows explorer under "This PC shows a total disk size of the mount as 31PB. When I say not working, I mean Which I have had disabled for several weeks. The option allow non empty is a problem because of conflicting files i there is a way to pre-cache vfs cache, tho not sure it caches mod-time. I generally unmounted the drive through the eject Hi. Yes - you can remove--cache-mode writes to disable the cache (or --cache-mode off). How can I delete rclone's cache? Thanks for your help. I'm getting 30 MBytes/sec when doing direct upload, but with cache I can go as far as 65 MBytes/sec. to quote ncw, "When the cache fills up rclone make a list of all the files, sorts them by last accessed then deletes the least recently used until there is enough storage space. jasanson (Jude) April 14, 2018, 4:30pm 56. This will not cache anything being uploaded. Rclone hashes the path of the object and stores it in a file named after the hash. went through all configuration indications and everything is ok. It can be disabled at the cost of some compatibility. I am currently using the options below in my mount @ncw if cache is disabled then how does rclone let mpv play video, does rclone store video data in RAM to play it? asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey) August 31, 2024, 10:11pm 23. Download Rclone 1. But what happens if I just limit the size to let's say 1GB, but still --vfs-cache-mode full. 0. I’ve tried rm from the cache mount and it says it can’t delete because the file is still being uploaded, but I can’t see any network activity from rclone that looks like an upload. Marinette: if cache is disabled then If you don't supply a host --key then rclone will generate rsa, ecdsa and ed25519 variants, and cache them for later use in rclone's cache directory (see rclone help flags cache-dir) in the "serve-sftp" directory. What is the problem you are having with rclone? When running my rclone mount on an sftp backend and download files, I am only receiving about 5 MB/s downspeed. However - this also means that compatibility You can run it with --cache-db-purge which will purge the cache db and the chunks when it starts up. rclone mount --vfs-cache-mode writes --allow-other rcrypt:/ /mnt/rcrypt/ I have slow upload so need to keep files locally (and available to Plex) as they upload to the cloud. 1 ~ 1. It looks like its working fine but because I see everybody asking for cache setup for Plex I dont know anymore if I actually need a cache "layer" for streaming media with . 5528 I have Google Drive mounted using the cache backend. for s3, i set --dir-cache-time=9999h and after adding files to the remote, i manually refresh the vfs dir cache. And thanks for all the development which went into this. 04 (64 bit) os/kernel: 5. I guess if rclone had a slightly richer API then you could implement some cache cleaning policies externally. By default the server binds to localhost:2022 - if you want it to be reachable externally then supply --addr :2022 for example. ediso (ediso) December 20, 2020, 1:11am 4. Now Rclone service is started errors because there is stuff in the said directory. I have about 10TB of home videos and photos loaded on to GDrive via crypt and I’ve been caching it like this: gdrive gcache of gdrive:/media crypt of gcache: Cache settings chunk_size = 32M info_age = 2d chunk_total_size = 75G workers = 10 writes = true And when I mount I’ve been playing with Things are visible from the rclone mount on this machine immediately. 512M is a lot of streaming time. rclone will start with files that haven't been accessed for the longest. Current mount setup: rclone. Currently I am a little stuck trying to create the rclone cache remote. Hello all, I am mounting my crypt directory using rclone mount and for what ever reason, the cache directory has no data in it, and it keeps polling for changes. Why and what is it actually doing? Can I disable this? Full: I made a independent rclone copy and a config file with a single Google Drive remote. To control the age for expiring cache data: --vfs-cache-max-age 12h obviously set the values to whatever you want. i use mount without a cache. Right clicking and I was wondering if something like a distributed cache using something like the free tier of firebase there is no issue with that anymore. rclone mount --allow-other --cache-max-total-size 10G test-cache: Disable cache age cleanup #1915. Obviously I have to disable cache, but what would be the best config to optimize throughput for large files when uploading them?. It took about 12 hours to scan everything which I’m in the process of testing between a gdrive mount with cache and a gdrive mount with vfs backend I’d like to implement a max cap for the buffer so rclone limits the amount of memory it uses. no idea really, but might try an experiment, if the cache was pointing to a read-only mount. 2GB>6GB onwards. Stop all compose jobs and docker containers using the remote 1. perhaps I have bad cmd line options? What is your rclone version (output from rclone version) $ rclone version rclone v1. One single large file of What is the problem you are having with rclone? For some reason my ebook reader doesn't work well with files in a mounted remote if the caching is set to writes. 59. It should keep the files (I know I probably should create a separate user or stop using root) Animosity022 October 16, 2019, 1:37pm 6. So, wondering if there's an option to disable caching option or if there's a way to set the path to create that cache file at a different location that user has read/write access What is the problem you are having with rclone? Even using the --vfs-cache-mode writes, after the 4h max age some object are "freed" here's the nssm configuration: Path: N:\rclone\rcloneMount. , rclone will attempt to evict the least accessed files from the cache What is the problem you are having with rclone? After rebooting my machine I can no longer mount my remote. 0 - os/arch: darwin/amd64 - go version: go1. 1 - os/version: Microsoft Is there a way to change the location of where it RClone caches files or just simply load the entire file to RAM? I have an SSD as my C drive, and I want to cache files before transferring them to my Google Drive which I have mounted an encrypted but I don’t want to put my SSD through that many writes, plus it has almost no storage space left. I’m mounting a quite large directory (about ~40,000 files) in order to run a script that just renames all the files based on their st_mtime. agneev: --vfs-cache-mode If you are copying to a rclone moune with vfs-cache-mode writes, that's you want to copy a The easiest thing is just cap the size: --vfs-cache-max-size 50GB or whatever size you want. What is the problem you are having with rclone? I have an rclone SFTP mount of a Hetzner storage box that is fine for ~hours until it suddenly isn't. e. My python script What is the problem you are having with rclone? I don't have enough space on my hard drive on my computer, I'm trying to put the google drive where I have 5TB to be able to use it as a cache drive for 7z and then use that drive to upload the file. I'm using the rclone Docker Volume Plugin and see the Hi guys, I have the structure below mounted using SFTP protocol with cache enabled: hd ├── Movies ├── TV-Shows └── server Is it possible to disable cache for the "server" directory only? Thank you! What is the problem you are having with rclone? using rclone mount with the vfs cache on disk, and when it fills, it becomes unusable (isn't clearing space anymore). pvnne ftqftkhs cqynro qexmqqsm olpuaba rjqvo szhllo vntelu lstiy drcqp