hi,
I’m using a rclone google drive repository for backup my AppData von windows. restoring this is very slow because of many small files. Is there a fast way for restore ? Like to download as zip from the cloud instead of downloading all single files ?
This is one of the rclone backend issues. Small files are slow in general but with rclone it is close to useless.
Before I gave up on rclone/kopia combo I used the following trick which makes restore many times faster.
Mount (as read-only to avoid any accidental changes) your remote with kopia files:
rclone mount rclone_remote:path/to/kopiafiles /path/to/localmountpoint --vfs-cache-mode=full --vfs-refresh --vfs-cache-max-age 9999h --dir-cache-time 9999h --vfs-cache-max-size 100G --read-only
Connect to this “new” kopia local repository located in /path/to/localmountpoint.
Enjoy light speed restore speed.