Dropbox Cloud Sync Task no longer working

Well, we had a good run :slight_smile:

For years we synced Dropbox via the API and rsync to your TrueNAS.
There we took daily snapshot and got a pretty good versioning system by doing so.
It always took pretty long, because the API performance of Dropbox is pretty poor, but now it is no longer working at all. We run into the error:
Error (504)Something went wrong

I will try to turn some nobs in regards to simultanious transfers, but I guess it is game over.

I can still backup dropbox just fine. I am using a cloudsync task

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how much data and how many files?
I am at roughly 11TB and 1.5 million files.

OK - thats a lot more than me

Could you not seperate the backup job into multiple tasks?

urghhh. It is already taking around 8h to list the files.
I guess is would be a wonky option, but I rather switch to a better cloud drive solution :grinning_face:

I don’t think either rclone or the Dropbox API support sessions of that extended duration, and the API endpoint is closing the session, resulting in the 504 error. You should break your backups into multiple segments.

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Seems like they throttled me, or something broke with rsync.
Either way, I get
2241 / 2241, 187.432 GiB / 187.432 GiB, 0 B/s, ETA -
after 36 hours.

byebye Dropbox