So I have a backup of ~700GB on Google Drive (using rclone). But since 2 days ago backup does not work anymore. It now stops at “lock repository” (it permanently retries until it aborts). rclone and restic are both up to date. How can I fix this? $ restic -r rclone:zombie: --verbose --password-fil…

For me Google Drive always returns errors but it always finish. It takes a lot of time, but it is because of Google limitations. Have you tried to unlock the repository to see if that works? You could try restic -r rclone:zombie: unlock and then try again. Here are other posts related to Google Driv…

Hello @Zottelchen , Is the GoogleDrive account you are using an EDU account, or a “normal” business account? Coincidence or not, in the last 2 days I started seeing, on an EDU gsuite account with rclone, a lot of these same Limit Exceeded, rateLimitExceeded errors you are seeing with restic on top…

@durval Yeah, it is a EDU account. Really seems to be a problem right now (I’ve now seen threads on reddit / rclone ), hopefully only temporary. Apparently you can change the user-agent to fix it, so maybe this isn’t an accident. Btw, in the reddit thread is also mentioned that there is now a downloa…

[image] Zottelchen: @durval Yeah, it is a EDU account. Really seems to be a problem right now (I’ve now seen threads on reddit / rclone ), hopefully only temporary. Apparently you can change the user-agent to fix it, so maybe this isn’t an accident. Btw, in the reddit thread is also mentioned tha…

The limit is an upload limit. You can only upload 750GB per day. Download limit is much higher (I believe 10TB).

I would try @alejandor solution posted here . He tried --tpslimit=10 option and it worked. I use Google Drive too for a personal account and always have these errors 400 or something like that, including the lock one but the tasks always finish. I do have much less data than you, so… still take hour…

I posted that in reference to this reddit post . I knew of the 750 gb upload limit, but in that post the google support confirmed an 750gb download limit. Which could be of course human error of the support.

Howdy @Zottelchen , Again thanks for the info. Here, I can confirm that setting rclone’s --user-agent to a random string avoided the issue. Too bad that Google started resorting to these expedients… :-/ Cheers, – Durval

Nice. I don’t have an EDU account but tried it and it seems to reduce a lot the errors. I’m still getting errors but the process took a lot less time! Thanks for sharing the solution!

[image] Dj0k3: Nice. I don’t have an EDU account but tried it and it seems to reduce a lot the errors. I’m still getting errors but the process took a lot less time! Thanks for sharing the solution! Interesting. So it’s not just EDU users that Google is throttling (if indeed throttling it is)…

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