Google drive different upload speed

[JonMikelV]

Hi @zajc, welcome to the forum!

As mentioned in this post, Duplicati is doing a lot more than just uploading files so it’s likely not going to be as fast as a direct upload:

Upload speed very slow, CPU near idle both ends, any ideas?

Keep in mind that Duplicati is doing a bunch of file processing & sqlite commands and potentially chopping, hashing, compression, & temp file creation before any actual file transfer takes place. To compare Duplicati’s speed to a normal file copy you’d have to dig through the logs so you could subtract any time spend doing stuff that’s NOT the actual file copy. You could get closer to what Duplicati does by writing batch file that compresses what you want copied into a temp file, copies that …