What I had to do was delete the region hostname and re-enable it, which created my backup buckets somewhere else and allowed me to proceed without issue. The unfortunate part of this though was that it deletes all the files of course in the prior region, so what I did was first download a few important backups from it to my local disk and reloaded afterwards.

I had the same rate-limiting issue with IDrive E2, but with a twist: my bucket was originally blazing fast in one region. After I deleted and recreated it (like you did), it became painfully slow—the exact opposite of your experience!

I suspect their ‘region reassignment’ doesn’t guarantee consistent performance, maybe due to uneven server loads or hidden throttling.

Moral of the story? With IDrive E2, if your bucket works fine, don’t touch it—even if they tempt you with ‘better regions.’

What I had to do was delete the region hostname and re-enable it, which created my backup buckets somewhere else and allowed me to proceed without issue. The unfortunate part of this though was that it deletes all the files of course in the prior region, so what I did was first download a few important backups from it to my local disk and reloaded afterwards.

IDrive support team had apologized for the issues and provided me with a couple months free service credit, so that was helpful although the cost is so cheap that it didn’t exactly pay for my time at all, haha.

Just an option for those who may run into that rate limiting issue if it persists for a while. I’d recommend opening a support case and if the issue isn’t resolved quickly enough and you’re able to delete the region, delete it (but first download anything critical from it) and start again and tell support about what you did and they should credit your account for the troubles (you may need to request that though if it isn’t automatic).

This is what I did and is less costly considering you have a whole other Cloudron on tap, which just happens to run Minio too.

Both my locations have it and backup to each other.

That being said, it might be better to have one server at SSDNodes and another say at Netcup or Hetzer to have geographic diversity (different data centers)... until I find out that all are using the same one in Northern Virginia any way(:

For those interested, just found this thread on using Minio as a backup location

This (early) morning I experienced another failed backup, so the issue is not getting any better.

@jdaviescoates Appreciate your recommendation about Scaleway. I will definitely check them out and consider the alternative.

@james Question: I just saw the advanced backup features link: more memory and multiparts. Given the problems I have been having, would you suggest any changes to the defaults?
And on a completely differnet note, do you think there is any merit in enhancing the backup portion of Cloudron to allow for a secondary backup location? In case primary failed, secondary would be tried instead? I get concerned that the one time I will really need my Cloudron backup, some object storage issue will prevent the backup from happening and then I am really in trouble. In my experience, even Amazon S3 can have issues. No one is infallible.

Does anyone have a recommendation on affordable, high-quality S3 compatible object storage? It seems that iDrive E2 is becoming less reliable for storing Cloudron backups. For comparison, iDrive E2 charges the equivalent of $.008/GB per month [$99 for 1TB per year], which is roughly one-third the cost of Amazon S3.

I use Scaleway Object Storage to store my Mastodon and Peertube data. Haven't tried using it for backups (as I just use Hetzner Storage Boxes for that) but haven't noticed any issues.

Pricing here https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/ (a bit more expensive that iDrive E2, but perhaps you get what you pay for?

Where exactly are you moving data from/to? Can you share also info's on hardware you're running on?

In one month of use, I had a problem with iDrive e2—a 500 error from their Frankfurt zone. They never responded to my ticket, not even once. (Please read this post).

I tried (expensive) Cloudflare for a bit, but ended up going back to iDrive e2—right now, it’s the sweet spot between quality, speed, and cost.

It all started because I was using a Hetzner Box with an SSHFS mount, but the backup recovery failed due to corruption. Maintaining Hetzner this way felt way too risky.

SlowDown SlowDown: Resource requested is unreadable, please reduce your request rate.

does indicate that the target is not keeping up with the requests send.
Could it be that your target iDrive E2 might be throttling the connection?

There are similar reports out there and also quite recent:

• https://forum.duplicati.com/t/amazons3exception-resource-requested-is-unreadable-please-reduce-your-request-rate
• https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudstorage/comments/1e5hb9g/idrive_e2_error_resource_requested_is_unreadable/