What are you using to get your media onto Amazon Cloud Drive?

General Discussions
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I’ve tried using their official app and acd_cli, and both haven’t been working too well for me. I can handle each episode taking 4-5 hours to upload, but over half the time they fail while at 100%. With acd_cli it just leaves a 0kb file in the cloud drive, and with the official app it reports the error as “File Name Conflict”, but the name is just {show name} - s00e00 - {episode name}.mkv, which should be fine according to their allowed file names. Not only that, but I can retry the failed files and they sometimes go through, making it appear random as to whether or not a file is acceptable. It’s just frustrating waiting 4-5 hours an episode only for it to fail at the very end, what are your experiences with this?

2

I use GoodSync others use rclone. I tried both and found that for me rclone did no offer enough speed advantage to justify the inconvenience of using a command line only utility. Goodsync has a graphical interface and that makes it easier for me to exercise fine control of what is getting uploaded.

I should also say that rclone in its default mode saturates my upload and, since my upload varies in quality if you set a rate and the upload drops to or below that rate rclone again saturates my upload. There may be ways to adjust rclone to us jus a percentage but I found that it just is not enough faster to justify the extra trouble.

3

i’ve used rclone to put my library on the ACD, but now i use Cloud Sync on my Synology NAS to automatically poll specific folders and upload their contents as i update them with media.

4

I’ll give rclone a try, I have it syncing a single folder at the moment to test it out. Fingers crossed that this won’t fail like the other two did :slight_smile: Quick question: Is the only difference between ‘sync’ and ‘copy’ that sync tries to make the destination folder a copy of the source folder, while copy just copies the source to the destination?

5

For me, SyncBack Pro works perfectly and it uses my full upload speed.

I use ACD_CLI to transfer from seedbox to ACD, which again works flawlessly and transfers whole seasons in less then an hour

6

You have sync and copy correct.

I can provide a few use-cases for why I would use sync vs. copy and vice versa.

  1. If I changed some filenames, or cleaned up some outdated meta-data on my storage, I would use rclone sync as it would remove the files I cleaned up on the amazon cloud drive.

  2. I generally use copy, as the PC I run rclone from periodically unmounts the samba share that is my television and movie libraries, if I was to use rclone sync and there was nothing mounted at those locations, the remote directory would be wiped, but rclone copy just copies the contents of my local shares that are not already there.

Hope that helps.

7

So just as an update, rclone got to about 36-48% on each of the files it was uploading and then they all reset back to 0%.
Not sure if this is a problem on Amazon’s end or my end.

8

<Plex hat off>

rclone is solid. I have only 150 KB/sec upload (extreme pain). rclone manages in spite of Amazon (yes, they have issues). If you look at what errors rclone gets back… you’ll probably see the infamous “429” error which PMS gets and there’s nothing that can be done but wait/pray/hope it gets sorted by Amazon.

</Plex hat off>