429 (Too Many Requests) response from Google when uploading

[shabino]

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Our build process uploads a 6GB tarball to GDrive. Recently and without any changes made, we started to receive this error:

Error: creating/updating file failed with error: googleapi: got HTTP response code 429 with body:

No body was output. The time between the previous log message ("No similar files found. Creating a new file") and the one above was ~7 minutes.

We're a paying GApps customer, so I doubt the size issue is the culprit. I also deleted some previous uploads in the same directory, made by the same API key -- an attempt to ensure that some sort of per-user, etc. limits are causing our problem. Didn't help, but I didn't expect it to either.

I presume the cause is either (1) some change to Google's throttling policies, or (2) an issue with how our account is set-up. I'm posting this to see if others have experienced this issue. No idea if there's a workaround that could be implemented in this action.

[begetan]

Google recommends to apply exponential backoff algorithm https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/limits#exponential