Before this change, bisync needed to build a full listing for Path1, then a
full listing for Path2, then compare them -- and each of those tasks needed to
finish before the next one could start. In addition to being slow and
inefficient, it also caused real problems if a file changed between the time
bisync checked it on Path1 and the time it checked the corresponding file on
Path2.
This change solves these problems by listing both paths concurrently, using
the same March infrastructure that check and sync use to traverse two
directories in lock-step, optimized by Go's robust concurrency support.
Listings should now be much faster, and any given path is now checked
nearly-instantaneously on both sides, minimizing room for error.
Further discussion:
https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=4.%20Listings%20should%20alternate%20between%20paths%20to%20minimize%20errors
Before this change, bisync had no mechanism for "retrying" a file again next
time, in the event of an unexpected and possibly temporary error. After this
change, bisync is now essentially able to mark a file as needing to be
rechecked next time. Bisync does this by keeping one prior listing on hand at
all times. In a low-confidence situation, bisync can revert a given file row
back to its state at the end of the last known successful sync, ensuring that
any subsequent changes will be re-noticed on the next run.
This can potentially be helpful for a dynamically changing file system, where
files may be changing quickly while bisync is working with them.
Before this change, if there were changes to sync, bisync listed each path
twice: once before the sync and once after. The second listing caused quite
a lot of problems, in addition to making each run much slower and more
expensive. A serious side-effect was that file changes could slip through
undetected, if they happened to occur while a sync was running (between the
first and second listing snapshots.)
After this change, the second listing is eliminated by getting the underlying
sync operation to report back a list of what it changed. Not only is this more
efficient, but also much more robust to concurrent modifications. It should no
longer be necessary to avoid make changes while it's running -- bisync will
simply learn about those changes next time and handle them on the next run.
Additionally, this also makes --check-sync usable again.
For further discussion, see:
https://forum.rclone.org/t/bisync-bugs-and-feature-requests/37636#:~:text=5.%20Final%20listings%20should%20be%20created%20from%20initial%20snapshot%20%2B%20deltas%2C%20not%20full%20re%2Dscans%2C%20to%20avoid%20errors%20if%20files%20changed%20during%20sync
Allows rclone sync to accept the same output file flags as rclone check,
for the purpose of writing results to a file.
A new --dest-after option is also supported, which writes a list file using
the same ListFormat flags as lsf (including customizable options for hash,
modtime, etc.) Conceptually it is similar to rsync's --itemize-changes, but
not identical -- it should output an accurate list of what will be on the
destination after the sync.
Note that it has a few limitations, and certain scenarios
are not currently supported:
--max-duration / CutoffModeHard
--compare-dest / --copy-dest (because equal() is called multiple times for the
same file)
server-side moves of an entire dir at once (because we never get the individual
file objects in the dir)
High-level retries, because there would be dupes
Possibly some error scenarios that didn't come up on the tests
Note also that each file is logged during the sync, as opposed to after, so it
is most useful as a predictor of what SHOULD happen to each file
(which may or may not match what actually DID.)
Only rclone sync is currently supported -- support for copy and move may be
added in the future.
Before this change, bisync handled copies and deletes in separate operations.
After this change, they are combined in one sync operation, which is faster
and also allows bisync to support --track-renames and --backup-dir.
Bisync uses a --files-from filter containing only the paths bisync has
determined need to be synced. Just like in sync (but in both directions),
if a path is present on the dst but not the src, it's interpreted as a delete
rather than a copy.
Before this change ListR was unconditionally enabled on onedrive.
This caused performance problems for some uses, so now the
--onedrive-delta flag has to be supplied.
Fixes#7362
- use rclone's http Transport
- fix handling of 0 length files
- combine into one file and remove uneeded abstraction
- make `chunk_size` and `upload_concurrency` settable
- make auth the same as azureblob
- set the Features correctly
- implement `--azurefiles-max-stream-size`
- remove arbitrary sleep on Mkdir
- implement `--header-upload`
- implement read and write MimeType for objects
- implement optional methods
- About
- Copy
- DirMove
- Move
- OpenWriterAt
- PutStream
- finish documentation
- disable build on plan9 and js
Fixes#365Fixes#7378
- Changes
- Rename `--s3-authkey` to `--auth-key` to get it out of the s3 backend namespace
- Enable `Content-MD5` integrity checks
- Remove locking after code audit
- Documentation
- Factor out documentation into seperate file
- Add Quickstart to docs
- Add Bugs section to docs
- Add experimental tag to docs
- Add rclone provider to s3 backend docs
- Fixes
- Correct quirks in s3 backend
- Change fmt.Printlns into fs.Logs
- Make metadata storage per backend not global
- Log on startup if anonymous access is enabled
- Coding style fixes
- rename fs to vfs to save confusion with the rest of rclone code
- rename db to b for *s3Backend
Fixes#7062
Most useful is the addition of the file created timestamp, but also a timestamp for
when the file was uploaded.
Currently supporting a rather minimalistic set of metadata items, see PR #6359 for
some thoughts about possible extensions.
Before this change the concurrency used for an upload was rather
inconsistent.
- if size below `--backend-upload-cutoff` (default 200M) do single part upload.
- if size below `--multi-thread-cutoff` (default 256M) or using streaming
uploads (eg `rclone rcat) do multipart upload using
`--backend-upload-concurrency` to set the concurrency used by the uploader.
- otherwise do multipart upload using `--multi-thread-streams` to set the
concurrency.
This change makes the default for the concurrency used be the
`--backend-upload-concurrency`. If `--multi-thread-streams` is set and larger
than the `--backend-upload-concurrency` then that will be used instead.
This means that if the user sets `--backend-upload-concurrency` then it will be
obeyed for all multipart/multi-thread transfers and the user can override them
all with `--multi-thread-streams`.
See: #7056
I ( @boukendesho ) have volunteered to maintain the snap package so
this adds it back into the installation instructions.
It will set a `snap` tag visible in `rclone version` so we know where
it came from for support queries.
As suddenly many people move to Box - another "unlimited" cloud story migration saga there are frequent questions about crypt files encoding to be used.
Box is base32768 friendly.
It has been tested with:
https://pub.rclone.org/base32768.zip
and:
rclone test info --check-length boxremote:
maxFileLength = 255 // for 1 byte unicode characters
maxFileLength = 255 // for 2 byte unicode characters
maxFileLength = 255 // for 3 byte unicode characters
maxFileLength = -1 // for 4 byte unicode characters
This sentence was written at the time when backend used access token, nowadays, users need to generate and use application password instead, see #6398.
At some point the sharefile API changed to require the size of the
file in the initial transaction which makes the streaming upload fail
with this error:
upload failed: file size does not match (-2)
This was discovered by the integration tests.
when multi-thread downloading is enabled, rclone used
to send a write to disk after every read, resulting in a lot
of small writes to different locations of the file.
depending on the underlying filesystem or device, it can be more
efficient to send bigger writes.
