Notes on --transfers and B2

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Nick Craig-Wood 2016-04-04 17:58:36 +01:00
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@ -120,6 +120,16 @@ Rclone doesn't provide any way of managing old versions (downloading
them or deleting them) at the moment. When you `purge` a bucket, all
the old versions will be deleted.
### Transfers ###
Backblaze recommends that you do lots of transfers simultaneously for
maximum speed. In tests from my SSD equiped laptop the optimum
setting is about `--transfers 32` though higher numbers may be used
for a slight speed improvement. The optimum number for you may vary
depending on your hardware, how big the files are, how much you want
to load your computer, etc. The default of `--transfers 4` is
definitely too low for Backblaze B2 though.
### API ###
Here are [some notes I made on the backblaze