Restic mit rcloud und Google Drive

Getting Help
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Hi, I’m trying to use Google Drive as a backup server with rclone on Ubuntu 22.04, and it basically works with the following command: ionice -c2 nice -n19 ./restic -r rclone:TestGoogleDrive:mtb backup --files-from includes.txt --exclude-file excludes.txt. To optimize the backup parameters, I found this forum post: [Link to Forum]. Following that, I adjusted my script as follows: ionice -c2 nice -n19 ./restic -r rclone:TestGoogleDrive:mtb backup -o rclone.args="--drive-chunk-size=256M --drive-use-trash=false --fast-list" --files-from includes.txt --exclude-file excludes.txt,
I then tried: ionice -c2 nice -n19 ./restic -r rclone:TestGoogleDrive:mtb -o rclone.args="--drive-chunk-size=256M --drive-use-trash=false --fast-list" backup --files-from includes.txt --exclude-file excludes.txt, and received the following error message:

and received the following error message:
rclone: Error: unknown command “TestGoogleDrive:mtb” for “rclone”
rclone: Run ‘rclone --help’ for usage.
rclone: You could use ‘rclone selfupdate’ to get the latest features.
rclone:
rclone: 2024/11/12 02:29:03 CRITICAL: Fatal error: unknown command “TestGoogleDrive:mtb” for “rclone”
Fatal: unable to open repository at rclone:TestGoogleDrive:mtb: error talking HTTP to rclone: exit status 1

I’m using restic 0.17.3, compiled with go1.23.3 for linux/amd64, and rclone is also installed. Could you give me a bit of help? What am I doing wrong, and how can I get it to work?

Thank you very much in advance for your support!

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That should read -o rclone.args="serve restic --drive-chunk-size=256M --drive-use-trash=false --fast-list".

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Thank you very much for your help, Michael. I have tried many variations, and the one that saves me 30 minutes to back up 15,100 files/directories with 25.462 GiB is the following combination.

RESTIC_FEATURES=“deprecate-s3-legacy-layout=false” ionice -c2 nice -n19 ./restic -o rclone.program=“./rclone” -o rest.connections=6 -o rclone.args=“serve restic --stdio --drive-chunk-size=256M --drive-use-trash=false --fast-list” -r rclone:TestGoogleDrive:mtb backup --read-concurrency 6 --no-scan --verbose --files-from includes.txt --exclude-file excludes.txt

Do you think a different combination would be optimal? If not, I would close the thread.

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These two parameters probably have no effect at all on the backup duration.

Why are you setting this flag? It will be removed in the next restic version.