S3Drive - Abnormal download data traffic

I only have two buckets set with sync mode as "copy", and both buckets are less than 1G insize, however since this Monday, it has been like this with extreme amounts of downloads, this is a picture of all the downloads done since midnight(now is around 10 here in Germany) I am currently on 1.14.10 on mac OS 15.7, I do remember I upgraded recently but not sure if it is before or after this happens, nor do I remember what version I was originally on. What could lead to such problems? It exist on both my Cloudflare R2 and S3 drive's buckets so I don't believe it is a misconfiguration on the cloud provider side. There is also no strange logs in the logs panel. Thanks. (edited)

Hi @JourinT, Given that you refer to excessive downloads, do I understand correctly that you download data FROM remote buckets, one hosted with S3Drive, the other from Cloudflare R2, each around 1GB (or less) TO local path on your macOS? What's your sync schedule, that is how often it runs?

Tom

Hi @JourinT, Given that you refer to excessive downloads, do I understand correctly that you download data FROM remote buckets, one hosted with S3Drive, the other from Cloudflare R2, each around 1GB (or less) TO local path on your macOS? What's your sync schedule, that is how often it runs?

Yes, but my sync mode is set to „copy“, and the folder I sync is just ~20M, less than 1G is saying all the files on the cloud. My schedule is to copy that folder to cloud every half an hour, the problem here is that since the mode is „copy“, I also didn‘t mount any of the drive, nothing should be downloaded right? even you need to download the active in sync folder, it should still be very small.

Note that this is still happening on 1.15.4, even if no file is ever changed in the local dir and rclone mode is still copy, it will download around 250M data everytime it syncs, I would expect only changed files are uploaded. (edited)

6:45 PM

But I think the downloading behavior from my R2 storage actually improved when upgrading to 1.15.4, now I only get around 800M a day vs 7-8G per day download The 12G storage come with s3drive on the other hand, is still doing 8G download per day even though they are syncing the same folder

6:52 PM

To be fair, this maybe some problem with rclone, not necessarily with your app. Just that maybe because I am using android with a mac, it will not detect that it is syncing on a hotspot, so I always need to remember to quit the app before using hotspot. Maybe in the future we can select under what ssid to sync?