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Final update:

I've given up. I am not able to figure out what exactly is happening, but for certain it is out of my control. At some point, one must cut their losses and focus time and energy on what works. FFS works fine for my SFTP backups, but I have had to transition to another product that ...

I am back to report that I found a very interesting solution to this, for at least one server, and it's not one I would have EVER thought to check. I am still not even convinced that this will fix all my servers.

On one server that has just not surrendered, I changed DNS to use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1 ...

I spoke too soon about a reboot of all the components fixing things. At some point between when I checked the server I've been testing and saw that it was hitting max upload speed and about 2 hours later, the speed had dropped from ~13MB/s to sub 1MB/s speeds. Somehow it actually got worse.

And ...

Possibly the most hilariously appropriate alias ever created! Well played, you legend!

I swear to FSM that trying to navigate all the anomalies, glitches, and numerous random bitflips I have encountered in my IT career has pushed me to the edge of sanity more times than I can count. This has definitely been one of those times.

After numerous server, router, and gateway reboots to ...

Hi,

Zenju can clarify this but my research shows that:

FreeFileSync doesn't directly use the Google Drive API for connectivity etc


You have my attention and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter! 😂

I'd be very interested in finding out more about what you're doing and start digging ...

How should the developer know, if and why Google is applying bandwidth throttling?

Since I know nothing about how the API is utilized with FFS (is it a GCP project with the identifiers that support was asking for?) then I have no idea.

FreeFileSync is 100% subject to Google's good will and ...

Not surprised by support's response. Looking like it's time to try rsync, which is just another level of complication.


Hello,

Thank you for your prompt response.

I understand your concern and want to assist you in any way I can.

However, I would like to clarify that we generally do not offer ...

This sounds like an issue with the VPN host/client at this point am I correct? Something in that is handling the data in an odd way. Do you know if TailScale has had any changes?


I should have more explicitly explained that I was using the Tailscale connection strictly for the purposes of this ...

(screenshot has your .org name in it, if that matters.) therube, 23 Oct 2024, 16:16

I appreciate you bringing that to my attention. I will redact the SFTP details I didn't catch in one of them.

I submitted a support ticket to Google for this...


And their reply...


Hello,

Thank you for your prompt response.

To help me troubleshoot your recent issue, I'll need your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project ID and number.

To answer your queries, think of your GCP project as a container ...

Well this was unexpected. The overhead, inexplicably at 50% of the available bandwidth, is allocated to the VPN service I used for this particular experiment (rather than reopening a port on my router). It is at least running closer to expected speed than yesterday.

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I submitted a support ticket to Google for this, but I am quite confused about a discrepancy between what the FFS client shows as the upload speed vs what perfmon shows when I did a comparative test using SFTP. The FFS client shows 3-4 MB/s but perfmon shows 14-15 MB/s. The perfmon on the NAS being ...

Yes, I was hoping to avoid having to open a support ticket but that seems like the only path to answers. A solution would be awesome. Answers at least provide more direction, even if it's not the one I found the most effective.

All the accounts are indeed under the same domain. I have a couple less ...

Thank you for responding!

Yes, I tried a different account this morning. No difference. All my sites use different accounts to perform the uploads, so I didn't suspect it was any sort of user-based restriction either.

And I agree with you that it's not FFS and not an issue with the network on my ...

Three years later, this still happens.

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It was working fine for months, and then BAM! No responses to request for assistance with this. Very disappointing.

@zenju? Been emailing you about this and haven't gotten a response. And no input here so far that's useful. Starting to wonder if it's time to find another product, which would suck, because FFS is the best option I've found so far.

And just to make sure someone doesn't direct me to information about Google's upload speed cap, I know it's 45MB/s. So please, from here on out, relevant replies only.

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+upload+speed+cap&oq=google+upload+speed+cap&gs_lcrp ...

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Can you please just stop replying? You have now twice ignored the glaringly obvious point I made that ALL OF THIS WAS WORKING FINE UP UNTIL THE LAST WEEK!

You're also disregarding the fact that I am not talking about the syncs failing because I got ...

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I am not sure how this observation is supposed to help me or anyone else experiencing this. I have not had any issues with the FFS connection to Drive until the last week.

One of the tests I tried was using the Google Drive client on a server. I did ...

Forgot to mention this is on Windows Server 2019 hosts

I discovered this weekend (10.12.2024), after months of trouble free backups using FFS from server to Google Drive, that my syncs from several servers to Google Drive using FFS have slowed down to a fraction of what they were. On the server I am testing, it was cut to about 10% of what the previous ...