From 310db14ed638290891f0bb6cfa1ba3e6391a6f3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:58:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Notes on `--transfers` and B2 --- docs/content/b2.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/b2.md b/docs/content/b2.md index 54629336e..35a0109b3 100644 --- a/docs/content/b2.md +++ b/docs/content/b2.md @@ -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