The Google Drive S3 Round-About: backing up 50 TB to consumer cloud without dying
I had 27 TB on a Synology and a 1 Gbps uplink and no working way to back it up off-site. HyperBackup choked on Google's rate limit. Cloud Sync sat at 400k files "syncing" forever. I tried to build a restic clone in Python, threw 2,000 lines of code away, and ended up shipping an S3-compatible proxy that fans writes across five Google Drive accounts via rclone. This is the whole story.
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