Nick Craig-Wood

> in general, you should always have a test that fails before your fix and succeeds with your fix. OK I'll have a look at the tests and see what...

Thanks for the detailed reply and the link to the Vitess cache. I think you are right in that to do the sizing of objects would require the user to...

Doing oauth with google drive is hard - I assume gmail is similar. Setting up the app (client_id/client_secret) and getting it authorized is a real slog. Last time I did...

Your idea for the remote to remote copy is how I would approach it. This has one disdvantage with rclone as it stands today in that it will effectively download...

Interesting idea! I think I'd simplify the logic slightly and make it a new rclone command ``` rclone sync3 /path/to/backup remote:/backups/base remote:/backups/changes.2015-01-19 ``` - for every file in/path/to/backup - if...

Sorry missed your last comment.. Yes, Versions sounds like it would be simpler for people to understand. The renaming scheme needs a bit of thought - windows doesn't deal well...

I'll just note that rclone now has bucket to bucket copy and sync which may be helpful!

rclone now supports [--backup-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#backup-dir-dir) which with a tiny amount of scripting gives all the tools necessary for incremental backups. I keep meaning to wrap this into an `rclone backup` command,...

@navotera --backup-dir does a server side move, (or possibly a server side copy followed by a delete if server side move isn't available).

@guestisp > So, by using something like: rclone sync /path/to/local remote:current --backup-dir remote:$(date) remote:current will hold the latest backup (thus, the "current" version of files) and every changes between the...