[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] Win32 port

[Ben Summers]

On 5 Dec 2005, at 16:27, Gary wrote:

> Ben,
>
> As a sidenote:
>
>> 2) Some extra features, for example, the
>> dumping of state to disc.
>
> Yes, those are the changes that I implemented to make boxbackup  
> work in
> my environment. A copy off a clean 0.09 is available at:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~gniemcew/
>
> So it should be easy to create a differential.
>
> 1. StoreObjectInfoFile is just a nice improvement, but it does save a
> lot of backup time when boxbackup is used in a non-server environment
> when a machine is rebooted frequently (a laptop, etc.)
>
> 2. Unlimited MaximumDiffingTime is useful if a user has to absolutely
> minimize upload time (slow upload connections, etc.)
>
> 3. KeepAliveTime is absolutely crucial to complete backups of large
> files (otherwise, the SSL layer times out after 300 seconds of
> diffing). Even though the 0.09-chromi speeds up the diffing time
> substantially, I still run into this problem from time to time, so  
> that
> option still has its merit.
>
> Let me know if you want me to produce a diff, a branch, a marge,
> perhaps rewrite some of the code - I would be happy to see those
> improvements in the next version of boxbackup.


If it's really easy to do, it would make life easier if they were all  
separated out and based on 0.09.

But I'm sure we can work from what we've got.

Ben