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> You can already perform parallel transfers quite trivially by typing "find .. | xargs -P$(nproc) -n 1 rsync ..", carefully managing sync folder sets and just being a Unix god in general.

This solution sucks in a number of different ways, and is downright incorrect. I'm baffled by the frequency at which these hacky parallel commands are recommended when rclone exists, works perfectly fine, and has literally no runtime dependencies.



It's a reference to a classic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224


He was being sarcastic.




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