I have a collection of ebooks(8 GB atm) that i want to backup to google drive. It usually takes me 2-3 hrs to upload a 2 GB zip file(containing only the most important documents and files).
Tried to upload my ebooks, left it for 12 hrs and it still hasn’t uploaded. Thought maybe its because i am using Rclone shared client ID(heavily rate limited ), so i set up my own client ID and tried again and its been 3 hrs and still hasn’t upload
I am realizing now that its probably has nothing to do with rclone but rather my internet speed, specifically my upload speed(download 15-30 mps & upload 5-8 mps).
So i am wondering if anyone has solutions for people in countries with abysmal internet speeds.
- uploading from a phone if it stays on all the time
- uploading one at a time
- uploading in smaller batches
- uploading from an internet café, a library or some other place if it has internet faster than yours
- hire a VPS, use some transfer method with a more generous timeout tolerance to transfer the files uncompressed to the VPS, and from there leave the ebooks uploading with your preferred method
- hire a faster service if possible
uploading one at a time, uploading in smaller batches
Yup, that’s where I’d start. Creating a tar and splitting it into parts. Just as an example. Not sure if that guide is good or not. It was just the first thing that popped up in the search engine.
It’s gonna take a long time, just deal with it. 12 hours is expected, right? Get some sleep and check it afterwards.
Where will you be using this upload?
If you’re doing it to make it accessible on your own devices from anywhere, try Syncthing on the various devices instead. If the devices are on the same LAN from time to time, your modem won’t be a bottleneck.
If you still have the sources from which you originally acquired the books, you could use a VPS to re-acquire them, and then push them to the google drive directly from the VPS. They never pass through your modem; your modem can’t be the bottleneck.
Sounds like you need a client that does “multiparty uploads”. Meaning interruptions should continue if there is a break in comms.
All the Cloud endpoints support this, you just need a better client. Do some research I guess.
