Nick Craig-Wood

Hi! Can you tell me whether this passes the integration tests or not? Firstly the backend only tests and the full test_all tests? Details in the [CONTRIBUTING guide](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#writing-a-new-backend). According to...

> Thanks for taking a look! I’ve run the tests and they’re all passing. Great. > Regarding the binary size, I’ll check to see if there’s room for reduction. :+1:...

I tried to make this work following the instructions in the zus.md. I got as far as here ``` $ rclone lsf TestZus: -vv 2025/05/02 12:04:11 CRITICAL: Failed to create...

> > Where does this extra config file come from? Rclone backends need to stand alone and not need extra tools to configure them. All the config should live in...

Ping me when you want me to do a review :-)

Hmm, that is working as expected. The high level retries are only for the commands. Maybe API calls should do high level retries? Or maybe the sync ones should. Or...

The RC commands do low-level retries. So if stuff fails when talking to the backend then it will be retried. High level retries (as specified by the `--retries` flag) run...

Compressed tar is a bad format for this as you have to read the entire file to extract anything. You can do this with `rclone cat` rclone cat remote:path/to/tar.gz |...

You are right there is no way of creating a tar in one step. If you look at https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2815 you'll see a go library which can do archiving. https://github.com/mholt/archives I...

> Well, found a solution to write to a destination. Just create an io.Pipe, and call operations.Rcat(). Shocked it worked, seems hackish though. That is the Go way to glue...