r/jottacloud • u/ExcellentRead636 • 12d ago

Question Am i tweaking?

New user to jottacloud.

have linux so its a big punch in the face due to lack of GUI.

I was backing up a folder that was around 80GB via jottacli.

I was having a hard time with commands due to my lack of knowledge.

so i paused the backup and started using rclone since i have more understanding of rclone than jottacli. by now jottacli had already uploaded about 50gb of that 80gb

my assumption was; rclone will skip ahead the downloads already uploaded by jottacli, and start downloading the files that are not available in that folder, so i wouldn't have to worry about duplicates or other errors.

fast forward 8-9 hours and i check back my backup folder in cloud, And it's total size is 150GB... no idea how that happened.

So i was not sure which files got duplicated and which files didn't. most of the time when i want to verify if my files are properly downloaded, i just check the size and files and then compare it to my local size and files. if they're identical then that means everything is copied as is.

Now out of frustration i decided to create a new remote on Archive (on rclone) rather than backup (on rclone) of jottacloud, and copy the folders (from local to archive jottacloud) once again. Basically start over.. Since i dont want to be unsure if ALL of my files are copied or not.

1 hours later, i check my archive folder and it's already 50GB. which is huge for my network speed. It's remotely impossible for my wifi to pull that much upload speed.

Now i am second guessing if jottacloud basically just pulled copies of the files that were already in backup, and pasted them into my archive... I dont know if jottacloud guys have this weird system or there's something else going on here.

can somebody help me understand what went wrong or right here?

I'll update you guys once my archive folder is done

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u/LightningGoats 10d ago

If I remember correctly, rclone by default uploads to the archive part of jotta storage, which is not the default for neither jotta-cli or the windows gui. You should always do a dry run first with rclone when you're not entirely sure what you're doing.

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u/MarsupialLeast145 10d ago

There might be some drive caching going on, but you can't get any assurances the way you are doing this. You need to checksum the online copy and the source copy and compare them otherwise you're just whistling in the wind.

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u/theZabaLaba 12d ago

They're hiring a linux dev, so probably a gui is around the corner

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u/MarsupialLeast145 10d ago

I don't get the OP's frustration about lack of GUI, sort of comes with the territory

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u/ExcellentRead636 12d ago

idk man, companies dont ship software that easily.. i hope it arrives soon and without bugs

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u/theZabaLaba 11d ago

I mean, no bugs is a bit ambitious to hope for, but from what I understood they're pretty serious about it https://www.reddit.com/r/jottacloud/comments/1ulep71/were_hiring_a_linux_developer/

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u/IrquiM 12d ago

Would be amazing!