Looping a rclone transfer to test google drive throughput and errors.

rclone_loop.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

set -x # Be verbose
set -u # Exit if unbound variables

FILE="/home/user/bigfile.iso"
DEST="gdrive_user"
DIR="test"

while true; do
  DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S"`
  FLAGS="-v --stats 0 --log-file rclone-${DATE}.log"
  rclone $FLAGS purge $DEST:$DIR
  rclone $FLAGS mkdir $DEST:$DIR
  rclone        lsd   $DEST:
  rclone $FLAGS copy  $FILE $DEST:$DIR
  rclone $FLAGS purge $DEST:$DIR
done