mergerfs-tools VS homescripts

Once I have the setup corrected to mfs, I plan to use the balancing tool from here.

Nowadays, something like mergerfs and it’s dedup tool might be what you need? mergerfs.dedup

I found mergerfs.consolidate on https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools but I'm not sure of the right syntax or if it's indeed intended to fix this.

mergerfs.consolidate? https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools

If I add new drives, is it just a case of running the balance tool available in https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools?

Technically, mergerfs has some tooling that allows duplication that should preserve data in cases of a drive failure: https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools

Dropbox also has an unlimited plan. There’s a repo created by an rclone mod detailing his setup here https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

I used this as reference and was able to translate it to gdrive: https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

I'd suggest looking at animosity22 github, he is well known in the rclone community, I would also highly recommend going to the rclone forums for more help.

https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts Here is his github page. After it starts there is 0 buffering.

Then you would use a cronjob similar to this one https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

The de facto standard for mounting remote locations via RClone for Plex is Animosity22’s scripts: https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

You can base your setup on this. I use it and it's great https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts the author recently changed gdrive to dropbox, but the setup is going to be the same one, just the rclone backend will change. This assumes that you would need to use a Linux box. Just an extra option if you want to go that route.

With all of that said, take a look at https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts for a good starting point.